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Families Find Legal Hurdles a Challenge Mich. Supreme Court I have lived 59 of my years as a member of Detroit’s rainbow community. Upholds Partner Benefits “I suspect I shall do so for the remainder of life, so please mark your desk ‘Captain Buffalo’ Tackles calendars accordingly. Homophobia On The Force – Charles” Alexander Michigan Mommy Issues Families Find Legal Hurdles A Challenge WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM MAY 9, 2013 | VOL. 2119 | FREE COLOR 2 BTL | May 9, 2013 www.PrideSource.com COVER Story 4 Michigan mommy issues Cover photo: Julia Music and her son, Quinn. This vote shows that marriage doesn’t belong to a particular party or ideology, Rhode IslandMarriage Equality’s I have lived 59 of my years as a 10th State Mich. Supreme Court member of Detroit’s rainbow community. “I suspect I shall do so for the remainder of Upholds Partner Benefits life, so please mark your desk and increasingly, the public and politicians calendars accordingly. ‘Captain Buffalo’ Tackles – Charles ”Alexander Homophobia On The Force alike realize that only marriage provides loving couples and families with the “protection they need and deserve. Michigan Mommy – Chad Griffin, HRC, pg. 12 Issues Families Find Legal Hurdles A ChallengeMAY 9, 2013 | VOL. 2119 | FREE WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM News Join The Conversation @ PrideSource.comCool Cities 6 Michigan Supreme Court upholds Royal Oak benefits for unmarried partners HELP WANTED ” CoolCOOL CITIES CitiesPRIDE SEASON 6 Annual women’s golf outing June 1 Lansing 10 Quick Michigan Pride Preview 12 Illinois GOP Chair resigns, cites support for same-sex marriage as a reason 12 RI now 10th state to allow same- sex marriage OPINION 8 How special my ‘nothing special’ 9 Parting Glances 11 Creep of the Week LIFE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD • YOUR MARKET Unity Michigan Coalition Pride Season Volunteers PinpointThis Week’s your ad Cooldollars Cities: where Pride Across The State 14 Homophobia on the force they will do the most good . 15 ‘Captain Buffalo’ loses power to The Unity Michigan Coalition and BTL are seeking volunteers to assist Lansing And Royal Oak June Pride season is just around AdvertiseYOUR NEIGHBORHOOD in the next Cool Cities • YOUR MARKET unnecessary complexity in a community outreach project throughout the June Pride season. 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Between The Lines is supported by many Andrew Potter fine advertisers, but we cannot accept responsibility for claims Providing Content and Community to LGBT Media Calendar Editor made by our advertisers, nor can we accept responsibility for Sign up online to receive our E–Digest Copyright 2013 Pride Source Media Group, LLC Shelby Clark, [email protected] materials provided by advertisers or their agents. 3 BTL | May 9, 2013 www.PrideSource.com BRIEFS Dignity Event Draws Michigan Mommy Issues Protests From American Family Families Find Legal Hurdles A Challenge Association BY Crystal A. PROXMIRE DETROIT (AP) - Gay Catholics celebrated Mass at Marygrove College in the In a state like Michigan, which fails to face of appeals from a conservative Christian treat families fairly, Mothers’ Day can be group that the Archdiocese of Detroit block a hard reminder that some mothers are the plans. considered legal strangers to the children Dignity Detroit held Mass on Sunday at they love and are raising. The push to the Roman Catholic-sponsored school. legalize second-parent adoption continues Members of Dignity Detroit were met by in Michigan, with a pending court case roughly 30 protesters. A smaller group held recently taking center stage nationally. signs in support of Dignity Detroit members. Hazel Park couple Jayne Rowse and American Family Association Michigan April DeBoer have sued Oakland County President Gary Glenn said May 2 that he and the State of Michigan to allow them had asked Archbishop Allen Vigneron to to adopt each other’s children. On March enforce Vatican policies on homosexuality 7, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman and intervene. put his decision on hold until after the The 1.3 million-member archdiocese U.S. Supreme Court rules on two same- has said church institutions are subject to sex marriage cases that are before it. Catholic beliefs. Those decisions are expected to happen Dignity Detroit, which regularly meets at the end of June and then Friedman is at Marygrove College, celebrated its 39th expected to issue his ruling. Friedman anniversary on Sunday. It has held previous succeeded in having the couple expand their original adoption-centric lawsuit to Masses in the school chapel. Shawanda and Janet Nichols were legally married in California five years ago. They moved from Arizona to One of the keynotes for this year’s include a challenge to the anti-gay marriage Michigan four years ago to live in Saline, and they now have two children; four year old Jack and nine month gathering was retired auxillary Bishop amendment currently in the state constitution, old Finn. Photo courtesy of Nichols family. Thomas J. Gumbleton. The event was well after Proposal 2 passed in 2004. “Children in same-sex households parent with no legal tie to their child. This two million children being raised by LGBT attended, with the chapel filled to near is problematic in many situations including people who do not have legal parental rights. capacity. are harmed because they don’t have the protections afforded other families,” said the custody if something were to happen to the Despite the risks of being an unrecognized Hazel Park family’s lawyer Carole Stanyar to legal parent; the ability to make medical parent in Michigan, many continue to forge Obama Dares Judge Friedman. “A mother is a legal stranger decisions for the child; the ability to provide ahead creating their own families. Fortunately to her children.” insurance for the child and relationships with there are support groups that can help lesbian Graduates To Reject Currently in same-gender couples, only the child’s school. mothers and other foster/adoptive parents one parent may adopt, leaving the other In at least 20 states children can be adopted find their way through challenges. Two of by two parents, regardless of the parents’ these groups include the Ferndale Adoption Cynical Voices gender. Yet across Network and the Lesbian Moms Network in the country there are Ann Arbor. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - President still approximately Barack Obama is telling college graduates that only their generation can break the cycle of a political system consumed by “small things” that work for the benefit of a few. Obama gave his first commencement Children in same-sex households address of the year at Ohio State University on Sunday. are harmed because they don’t have the The president told students that if they “ engage in democracy, they can make sure protections afforded other families. A mother they inherit a country that has lived up to is a legal stranger to her children. its potential. Obama mentioned that young people in earlier generations helped secure equal rights - Hazel Park family’s lawyer Carole Stanyar for women, workers and gays. ” He asked them to reject cynics who say government is the root of all problems. Obama is to give two other commencement speeches later this month - at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and Morehouse College in Atlanta. Julia Music is one of the founders and organizers of the Ferndale Adoption Network She is seen here and on the cover with her son Quinn.
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