Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers Talks Fresh Sound, Pride & Relationship With
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Motor City Pride Wrap Up Michigan Responds To Caitlyn Jenner Supreme Court: Why Abercrombie Decision Matters Lost & Found Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers Talks Fresh Sound, Pride & Relationship With Amy Ray WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM JUNE 11, 2015 | VOL. 2324 | FREE COVER If we continue the momentum to use this as a real conversation starter 16 Lost & Found: Indigo Girls Perform about the hurdles that your ordinary every day trans woman, or the At Ann Arbor Summer Festival trans woman of color, face. If we are using this as an opportunity to talk about how we can bring their quality of life and access to healthcare and their ability to feel safe to new levels, then I think this is a great thing. – Amy Hunter on the Vanity Fair cover shot of Caitlyn Jenner, pg. 6 Cool Cities Lansing NEWS SAVEPRIDE THE SOURCE DATE MAGAZINE COOL CITIES HEARD ON FACEBOOK 4 In Anticipation Of Marriage Equality, MCP Brings Community Together 4 Fiat Hosts Discussion With LGBT Community Leaders 6 Michigan Trans Activists Respond To The Debut of Caitlyn Jenner 6 Grand Rapids Pride Preview 8 Anti-Gay Mechanic Hosts Townhall In Jenison Public School 14 Supreme Court: Why The Abercrombie Decision Matters 15 Fed Agencies Release Guide On LGBT Discrimination OPINION Pick Up The New Pride Source Magazine YOUR NEIGHBORHOODLearn More About •This YOUR MARKETJoin The Conversation With Week’s Cool City: Lansing 10 Editorial Cartoon: Mike Huckabee Pinpoint your ad dollars where Between The Lines, 24/7 10 Parting Glances Pick up your copy of the new Pride Source Magazine, filled with theyAccess will dothe the online most Coolgood City. Join over 7,500 others and tap 10 Transmissions: Cover To Cover full-length feature stories, hundreds of LGBT-friendly business into national news, breaking 14 Creep of the Week: Mike Huckabee listings, an annual calendar of the community’s greatest events and Advertisepages inat thePridesource.com next Cool Cities to learn about upcoming stories and riveting discussion much more – available at BTL distribution sites. The publicationTO PLACE AN AD CALL 734.293.7200 on the “Between The Lines LIFE is also available online at www.pridesource.com/directory.html. events, featured advertisers and community news. Newspaper” Facebook! 19 The Frivolist: Summer Gadgets 20 Lansing Cool CIties 22 Happenings 26 Crossword Puzzle 26 A Couple of Guys Comic VOL. 2324 • JUNE 11, 2015 • ISSUE 919 EDITORIAL CREATIVE ADVERTISING & SALES ONLINE AT Editor in Chief Art Director Director of Sales PRIDE SOURCE MEDIA GROUP Susan Horowitz, 734.293.7200 x 12 Benjamin Jenkins, [email protected] Jan Stevenson, 734.293.7200 x 22 “Between The Lines Newspaper” 20222 Farmington Rd., Livonia, Michigan 48152 [email protected] [email protected] Phone 734.293.7200 Webmaster & MIS Director Entertainment Editor Kevin Bryant, [email protected] Sales Representatives Follow us @YourBTL PUBLISHERS Chris Azzopardi, 734.293.7200 x 24 Ed Bohach, 734.293.7200 x 15 Contributing Writers Susan Horowitz & Jan Stevenson [email protected] [email protected] Charles Alexander, Michelle E. Brown, Email your op–eds to MEMBER OF Assistant Editor ED English, Todd Heywood, Jason Michael, Ann Cox, 734.293.7200 x 13 [email protected] Michigan Press Assoication Shelby Clark Petkus, [email protected] Jerome Stuart Nichols, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, [email protected] National Gay Media Association Christopher J. Treacy National Advertising Representative Sign up online to receive our E–Digest Q Syndicate Calendar Editor Shelby Clark Petkus, [email protected] Cartoonists Rivendell Media, 212.242.6863 Paul Berg, Dave Brousseau Staff Writers Our rate cards are available online. All material appearing in Between The Lines is protected by federal copyright law and AJ Trager, [email protected] Contributing Photographers may not be reproduced in whole or part without the permission Andrew Potter of the publishers. Between The Lines is supported by many Tony Lowe fine advertisers, but we cannot accept responsibility for claims Copyright 2015 Pride Source Media Group, LLC made by our advertisers, nor can we accept responsibility for materials provided by advertisers or their agents. www.PrideSource.com June 11, 2015 | BTL 3 In Anticipation Of Marriage Fiat, Major Sponsor Of Motor City Pride, Hosts Equality, Motor City Pride Discussion With LGBT Community Leaders Brings Community Together BY JASON A. MICHAEL BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT – Representatives of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the DETROIT – Michigan is a very divided state. But with less than a Fiat brand joined Detroit-area LGBT month before the U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision on nationwide leaders Sunday morning to discuss marriage equality, thousands spent their weekend downtown in Hart the growth of Motor City Pride and Plaza for Motor City Pride, the largest LGBT celebration in the state. the challenges and opportunities that The two day festival included local and nationally acclaimed lie ahead for the LGBT community performances; access to over 100 vendors, local non-profit groups, in the state of Michigan. About 60 community groups and food trucks; dance parties; and the Pride Parade. people came out for the discussion, Unlike previous years, no protestors came out to stand at the front which took place just before the start gates and added security at both entrances, as well as inside MCP, of the Pride parade in the Great Lakes worked as a preventative measure to maintain that MCP was safe from Business Center of the Chrysler anti-LGBT hate crimes. House building in downtown Detroit. Eastern Michigan University students Crystal and Bri came to MCP “This is a very special day for us,” to celebrate equality and the LGBT community. They’ve been together said Michael Palese, manager of for six months but have both attended MCP separately for many years. corporate communication for FCA, “A lot of people can’t get to Ferndale Pride,” Crystal said. “This one who moderated the event. “The first is a good mid section.” weekend of June is all about Motor City Pride and we’ve had it marked Gregory Hawkins, chair of FCA’s Gay and Lesbian Alliance, speaks at the Fiat media Michigan held its first Pride march 43 years ago which evolved into discussion Sunday while fellow panelists Darrious Hilmon, executive director of Affirmations, the annual Motor City Pride festival. Ferndale hosted MCP for many on our calendars each year. We put and Dave Wait, chair of Motor City Pride, look on. BTL photo: Jason A. Michael years but Equality Michigan, organizer of MCP, decided to return the a lot of time and attention working festival to Detroit three years ago. Since that decision, Metro Detroit has with our employees and our leaders in trying to put forward the best become home to two Pride festivals, the other remaining in Ferndale. The fabric of Detroit’s resurgence includes “I feel like it’s good to see the younger LGBT around the older sense of our commitment to the LGBT, they can see that there is still that opportunity to have a family LGBT community and to all diverse the contributions of a growing LGBT community and and go on with their regular life because the older LGBT are people communities throughout southeast “ with stabilized jobs and younger LGBT don’t often see that,” Bri said. Michigan. And, really, Motor City we are very pleased to be a part of it. The SCOTUS decision will determine if LGBT families will have Pride represents the best of that.” the right to co-adopt their children. April DeBoer and Jayne DeBoer- This year marks the fourth year Rowse, Michigan plaintiffs in one of several same-sex marriage cases in a row that FCA has been a part - Jason Stoicevich, vice president of the Fiat brand of Motor City Pride. This year the ” brought before SCOTUS, began their journey seeking out second-parent adoption rights and were declined since the state does not currently company expanded their sponsorship for Equality Michigan; Georgette are hurt.” recognize same-sex marriage. The family model has drastically changed with an entertainment stage at the Borrego Dulworth, director of Borrego Dulworth said that FCA since the institution of marriage was written into law and it’s now festival in Hart Plaza and by being talent acquisition and diversity for still has trouble attracting LGBT extremely common to have single-parent households, as well as youth the lead sponsor of the Pride parade. FCA; Gregory Hawkins, chair of talent from outside of the state with raised by grandparents, other family members or raised by lesbian and “For all intents and purposes, FCA’s Gay and Lesbian Alliance; Michigan’s reputation for intolerance gay parents. as much work as this is, I can tell Darrious Hilmon, executive director being well known. Bonnie and Heidi Jean got together at Ferndale Pride, but have known you being involved in this is a of Affirmations; and Dave Wait, chair “While we as a company are doing one another since high school. They married in Windsor in 2007 and labor of love,” said Palese. “This is of Motor City Pride. everything that’s right, I think we came to MCP to celebrate not only their nine year anniversary but also something that the company really After talking about the present need the state behind us to be able cares about and has cared about for See MCP Pride, page 12 and the success of Motor City Pride, to support and provide an inclusive a long time.” Palese changed the topic to the future. environment for these potential Following Palese’s remarks, a The moderator asked whether, with employees that will continue to build video message from Jason Stoicevich, the possibility of marriage equality our city and our state and make it a vice president of the Fiat brand, was being granted by the Supreme Court great place to live, work and play,” shown.