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News 4 Survey calls for LGBT allies 6 Clinton promises, Biden beckons Theater october is lgbt history month Creep of the week 10 Equality Michigan Appoints Jim Murray to its board of directors 11 Vatican upends Davis affair with news of audience with gays 12 Book teaches LGBT history to kids

Viewpoints 8 Parting Glances 8 Transmissions 13 Creep of the Week - Franklin Graham Theatre Nova’s Time-Jumping Tale New Book Tackles Teaching LGBT Franklin Graham is all of Love History To Children about sin Life See page 17 See page 12 See page 13 16 Cool Cities - Ann Arbor 17 Theatre Nova’s time-jumping tale of love happenings online: Our fall home guide 18 Patti Smith Coming To Ann Arbor 21 Classic Madonna moments from A Look At Urban Ashes her latest tour Moving Forward To Home Sweet Home 22 Happenings 24 Deep Inside Hollywood Metro LGBT realtors 25 Puzzle Six things to consider when moving in together 25 A Couple of guys Architectural Digest ‘outs’ gay celebs 26 Classifieds See page 22 http://gaybe.am/home

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and doctoral candidate researcher at Michigan Receives Funds To the Michigan School of Professional Assist Providers, Increase Psychology, is calling for LGBT allies to participate in an extended interview in the Awareness Of PrEP hope that increased understanding will lead to growing and strengthening the ally base in Michigan has received funds to expand current and social justice movements. awareness of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. All participantes must be 25 years or A new $475,000 grant from the Centers older, be a visible active member of the for Disease Control and Prevention was LGBT ally community for a period of no given to help increase PrEP awareness in less than three years and be able to reflect Wayne County over the next three years upon and articulate the lived experience of where populations most at risk for HIV being an out LGBT ally. is highest, particularly among men who The interview could last up to two hours. have with men and the transgender In the past, Caddy has worked as a community. psychotherapist for Affirmations and Ruth As of January 2014, there were 7,041 Ellis Center. She is a certified addictions persons living with HIV and approximately counselor and received her masters in 380 new HIV infections each year in Wayne clinical psychology from the Michigan County. School of Professional Psychology. “A single pill taken consistently every day is highly effective in reducing the risk To qualify for the survey, contact Caddy at of acquiring HIV when taken as prescribed,” [email protected]. said Dr. Eden Wells, chief medical executive for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. “This has been approved Community Education And by the Food and Drug Administration and Training On Services For shown to be effective in preventing the transmission of HIV in adults.” Transgender Youth PrEP is a prevention tool in the effort to reduce the number of new HIV cases and BY AJ TRAGER improve the health of Michigan residents. The CDC dedicated funding will allow ANN ARBOR – In collaboration with the MDHHS to develop the necessary tools Washtenaw Community Medical Society, and educational campaigns to reach those Corner Health Center of Ann Arbor will persons who will benefit from PrEP. Prior present a two-hour seminar Oct. 15 on to this funding, MDHHS supported PrEP how to better provide care for the growing by sharing CDC guidance to providers number of trans youth and young adults in and publishing a list of physicians who Washtenaw County. prescribed PrEP in Michigan. The seminar will discuss current statistics Awareness and educational efforts will and the state of trans care in Michigan and focus on reaching residents at risk as well will look at how healthcare providers can as HIV test counselors, disease intervention provide better services for trans men and specialists, health department staff and women. Director of the Corner Health providers. The tools, including a risk Center, Dr. Kathryn Fessler, will give assessment and readiness assessment, the keynote address. Discussion will be will look at factors to ensure followed by a Q&A. that PrEP is successful in preventing new Corner Health Center requested a HIV infections in Wayne County. The partnership with WCMS earlier in the year educational campaign focuses on persons to discuss trans-related care in Washtenaw who are at a higher risk for HIV and will County. The center is committed to helping provide education and information about young people make healthy choices now PrEP and resources in the community. and in the future by providing high-quality primary health care, education and support For more information about PrEP or to view for adolescents and their children with the statewide directory of PrEP providers, visit regard to income level. The Corner serves www.michigan.gov/hivstd. youth and young adults ages 12-25 and their children and has physicians working across Survey Calls For Allies Washtenaw County at St. Joseph Mercy or the University of Michigan Health System. Of LGBT Community The seminar will be held at Ann Arbor City Club and is free and open to the public. A new study is calling for allies of the Doors open at 8 a.m. A continental breakfast LGBT community to shed light on their will be provided. Ann Arbor City Club is experience in the current fight for LGBT located at 1830 Washtenaw Ave. equality. Kate Caddy, PsyS, M.A., TLLP

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newS Clinton Promises, Biden Beckons By Lisa Keen

WASHINGTON – Just 10 days before the first televised debate among the 2016 Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden elicited enthusiastic cheers Saturday as they addressed two Judith K. Butler separate Human Rights Campaign events in Washington, D.C. It was an important Lecture Examines Ethics, opportunity for both to lay out their credentials and proposals to the national LGBT Politics Of Non-violence community, and the speeches illustrated some The philosophy of non-violence is the important contrasts between them. focus of Oakland University’s fall 2015 Vice President Biden has not yet announced Richard J. Burke Lecture in Philosophy, whether he intends to enter the race for the Religion and Society. Featured speaker Democratic nomination for president in Judith K. Butler will present her talk, “The 2016, and his speech to the HRC National Ethics and Politics of Nonviolence,” at Dinner Saturday night gave no indication 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 in Oakland he’s revving up for such a run. The address University Banquet Rooms A and B. The consisted mostly of anecdotes that he’s shared lecture addresses the question of whether at many previous HRC events and – except individuals can agree on a clear distinction for a clear endorsement of the recently between violence and non-violence and, if introduced Equality Act – was more a look not, what accounts for this disagreement? back at accomplishments than forward to Dr. Butler is Maxine Elliott Professor future intentions. in the Department of Comparative Former Secretary of State Clinton focused Literature and the program of Critical on specific things she would do for LGBT Theory at the University of California- Americans “as president,” making a number Berkley. Her many books include “Gender of important promises and carefully couching Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of others. She also eschewed her usual quick Identity,” considered a landmark work in departure following her speech and waded into gender theory, “Frames of War: When is the friendly fray, shaking hands and posing for Life Grievable?” and “Notes Toward a photos with the large crowd gathered from Performative Theory of Assembly.” various HRC boards and major HRC donors. A recipient of many fellowships When a lone audience member at HRC’s and honorary degrees, Dr. Butler has cavernous black tie sit-down banquet yelled earned the Andrew Mellon Award for out “Run, Joe, Run” as Biden was about to Distinguished Academic Achievement explain what “a number of you have said to in the Humanities; the Adorno Prize me over the last three to four years,” Biden from the City of Frankfurt in honor of quickly replied, “No, didn’t say that,” then her contributions to feminist and moral looked down at the podium and grinned as philosophy; and the Brudner Prize from the crowd sat mostly quiet. “Oh, anyway ... Yale University for lifetime achievement what was I saying?” The audience then erupted in gay and lesbian studies. In 2014, she into applause. was awarded the diploma of Chevalier Clinton’s appearance, at 10 a.m. Saturday, of the Order of Arts and Letters from the drew more of a rousing campaign-like French Cultural Ministry. response from an already standing assembly of Biden said he believes the remaining work prolonged and thunderous applause to that line Richard J. Burke, Ph.D., was the first HRC organizational stalwarts, chanting “Hill- for the LGBT movement “will come much and one that quickly followed: “I’m running faculty member hired at Oakland and a-ry, Hill-a-ry.” Out of the jam-packed room, more quickly and more surely.” And while he for president to stand up for the fundamental taught at the university for 46 years. Clinton found and pointed to Supreme Court said he “strongly supports” the Equality Act, rights of LGBT Americans and all Americans. He established an endowment for the plaintiffs Jim Obergefell and Edie Windsor. he did not promise he would push for it but That’s a promise, from one HRC to another.” annual Richard J. Burke Lecture Series And, in subtle ways, she addressed what rather that “it will pass.” “Congress must pass the federal Equality in Philosophy, Religion and Society, are likely to be her weaknesses in soliciting Acknowledging that there are still young Act,” said Clinton, later. “As president, I will which has brought prominent social LGBT support for her campaign if she finds LGBT people “terrified of being rejected by fight for it and I hope many of you will be with philosophers to campus, including Daniel herself in a tough contest with Biden or with the world” around them, Clinton said she me when I sign it into law.” Dennett, Peter Singer and Richard Falk. the popular progressive candidate, U.S. Sen. knows “we still have work to do.” Regarding the service of transgender people For more information on the Richard J. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. “Our work isn’t finished until every single in the military, Biden stated that “transgender Burke Lecture series, visit oakland.edu/ “You’ve helped change a lot of minds, person is treated with equal rights and dignity people are able to serve,” thanks to a directive phil/burkelecture. including mine,” said Clinton, “and I’m they deserve,” said Clinton. “...I want you to from Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Clinton personally very grateful for that.” It was a know that I get it. I see the injustices and the more accurately noted that transgender people Admission is free, but reservations are reference to the oft-cited criticism that Clinton dangers that you and your families still face. “are still banned from serving” unless they requested. To reserve a space, contact Ann did not support marriage equality until after a And I’m running for president to end them remain closeted, and she stated her support Zimmerman at 248-370-3390 or zimmerm2@ majority of the American public was already once and for all.” for “the policy review” Carter directed, adding oakland.edu. polling its support for it. The HRC gathering responded with that she “hopes” transgender people will be

6 BTL | Oct. 8, 2015 www.PrideSource.com allowed to serve openly. point, beat all four Republican frontrunners There were similarities in both speeches. (Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina Both emphasized the role of all individual and Jeb Bush). Clinton and Sanders would LGBT Americans in reaching today’s greater beat only Trump. acceptance of marriage equality and non- Biden is not likely to jump into the Oct. 13 discrimination. Both acknowledged that, even Democratic presidential debate unprepared, though the law now enables same-sex couples and he still has until November to meet to be married in any state, it is still legal in deadlines to participate in the key first most states to discriminate based on sexual caucuses and primaries. orientation or gender identity in employment, While debate participants may, like housing and public accommodations. Both their Republican counterparts, be asked one or two LGBT-related questions, Clinton’s speech was an especially important Our work isn’t finished until every single opportunity for her to lay person is treated with equal rights and dignity out positions on a wide “ range of issues of specific they deserve ... I want you to know that I get it. concern to LGBT voters. Candidates have the luxury I see the injustices and the dangers that you in the primary season to play to the party’s base – and your families still face. And I’m running for which, for Democrats, is a president to end them once and for all. progressive and liberal one. But they must also be careful not to promise so much that - Hillary Clinton they hobble their campaign ” to a more moderate general electorate, should they win the nomination. For the most part, Clinton seemed urged that LGBT Americans stand up for unabashed about putting herself on record, the rights of LGBT people around the world. even ahead of the nationally televised debate, And both took swipes at the current field of in support of LGBT Americans on most Republican presidential hopefuls. Biden got issues. But she did seem to be choosing her one of the biggest applause lines of the day words very carefully with regard to allowing when he said, “There are homophobes still gays to adopt. left – most of them are running for president.” Calling discrimination against LGBT Referring to the “ridiculousness” of the GOP people in adoption “one of the cruelest candidates, Clinton noted that Ben Carson vestiges of anti-gay bigotry,” Clinton said said marriage equality “was the cause of the that, “as president, I would push to cut off fall of the Roman Empire.” federal funding for any public child welfare “If any one of them, heaven forbid, were agency that discriminates against LGBT ever to be elected president, they will do people.” their best to enact policies that will threaten Most discrimination against allowing you and your families,” said Clinton. “Every LGBT people to adopt is being conducted single Republican candidate for president is not by “public agencies” but, by Catholic against marriage equality – every one of them. Charities and other private, religious-based Many of them are against anti-discrimination organizations. On another matter where laws. Many are against same-sex couples religious-based discrimination has played adopting ... If you are ever in a forum with out, however, Clinton has made clear that she them, see if you can get them to even say the believes Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis word ‘transgender.’” has a legal duty to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples even though Davis claims an “authority from God” prevents her from Clinton Ahead In Polls doing so. And Clinton promised, in her speech Most recent national polls show Clinton has Saturday, that she would not be the sort of a clear advantage over other Democrats to win politician who is “courting your support at the nomination. The latest poll, conducted by election time, and then disappearing as if USA Today, found 41 percent of 430 “likely” your lives and your rights are just a political Democratic primary and caucus voters said bargaining chip.” they would vote for Clinton, 23 percent for “Those who know me know that’s not me,” Sanders, 20 percent for Biden. A similar poll said Clinton. “I’ve been fighting alongside by the Pew Research Center found Clinton you and others for equal rights and I’m just with even stronger support from “potential getting warmed up.” Democratic primary voters nationwide.” “Your families matter to me and you matter (Clinton 45, Sanders 24, Biden 8.) to me,” said Clinton, closing her 25-minute But the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal polls speech. “I’m going to keep, as I have testing individual Democratic-Republican throughout my life, fighting for you, your match-ups show only Biden would, at this rights, your children, your futures ... And I am proud to be fighting right alongside you.” www.PrideSource.com Oct. 8, 2015 | BTL 7 Not Our Hillary, Too! Parting Glances OPINION BY CHARLES ALEXANDER

h, the forbidden, secret pleasure of enjoying the sudden – or, the prolonged – misfortune or misery of others. A The Germans – some of whom were experts at creating both intolerable conditions on a worldwide scale – invented a word for it. Schadenfreude. “Harm Pleasure.” Kim Davis pregnant with mixed-media quintuplets? Wow! Serves the – you fill in the blank – right! The pope’s return flight delayed for 16 hours because of toilet clogs? Where’s God when you need him? Drop into any drugstore, supermarket, megachurch, and you’ll discover to your secret pleasure, your addictive fascination, your pretended temporary alarm – or, your all three – an array of tabloids profiting, five- bucks-a-copy, from American induced Schadenfreude. October kicks off with headlines from these carved tabloid-toxic pumpkins: National Enquirer (“Cosby Had Son Murdered”); and the National Examiner (“Secrets of the Brady Bunch! Sex, drugs and on-set romps”). Source references for what’s suggestive of her same-sex orientation date back to when she was a student at Wellesley, a women’s liberal arts college, late 1960s. Blame those damned top-secret emails while she was Secretary of State to out Hillary. Transmissions

Globe – Gentle PG reader, brace yourself – “World Exclusive: Hillary Stonewalled Confesses: I’m A Lesbian.” Oh, God, is nothing sacred? Fame is indeed fleeting. How many under age 35 know about, or care to schadenfreude over, snoopy details: “Mickey Rooney’s Shocking Affair with Liz Taylor” (Mickey, who?); “Natalie Wood: Drugged Before She BY Gwendolyn Ann Smith Went Overboard” (Wasn’t she married to Robert somebody-or-other?) Privately I draw the dotted line about my own queenly touch of schadenfreude. It’s too close for comfort when stepping on to the down I’m not saying that you need a Roman emperor to film a story about Nero, escalator to think about geriatric pictures of Gene Wilder (“Months to Live”); Doris Day (“Plans Her Funeral”); Liam Neeson (“Cancer Fears”); but if you cannot see a story to tell without having to impose your gender Robert Conrad (“Fading Fast’); Sean Connery (“6 Months to Live!”) or race on it, perhaps you are not the right person to tell this story. But enough of the schaden. Let’s cut to the freude. (The reason you’ve all read this far in my Great Tabloid Pulp Pumpkin PG column.) Globe’s World Exclusive take on Hillary. Sub-headlined: “Secret emails reveal her lover ... PLUS: Midnight calls to Ellen!” irector Roland Emmerich has released his latest a debate as to who in the community “owns” what The cover story explodes, “After 40 years in a sham marriage, Hillary disaster movie. This time, though, rather than happened at that bar in Greenwich Village. The Clinton has confessed, ‘I am a lesbian.’” Dspace aliens blowing up American landmarks, Stonewall rebellion became a pivotal moment of the Source references for what’s suggestive of her same-sex orientation or a freak ice age freezing American landmarks, or even Gay Liberation movement of the 1970s, which included date back to when she was a student at Wellesley, a women’s liberal arts Godzilla entangling hirself in American landmarks, it’s the whitewashing of transwomen of color – amongst college, late 1960s. Blame those damned top-secret emails while she was the movie itself that ends up the disaster. others – from the narrative. Secretary of State to out Hillary. Emmerich’s stab at making a film about the Stonewall Over the last decade, the history of Stonewall According to an unnamed source who talked to one of Hillary’s rebellion will be long remembered on every web- has become much more inclusive, recognizing the unnamed senior advisors, more than 600 of those electronic messages are based listicle as one of the worst attempts at making importance of people such as Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia to an unnamed woman who goes by the pseudonym of “Alice.” a historical re-creation, up there with Lifetime’s “Liz Rivera, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stormé DeLarverie, The Globe expose claims the emails are very sexual, very intimate & Dick” biopic or Oliver Stone’s horrid “Alexander.” and others who were a part of the riot. and make it abundantly clear that both Hillary and ‘Alice’ are, well, you The film was panned practically from the day it Enter Roland Emmerich. Seemingly unsatisfied to know, lesbians. was announced, as people wondered why a man best tell a story centering on the heroes who were there, he Hillary allegedly will uncloset herself soon on Ellen’s TV show, known for blockbuster disaster porn would be doing feels the need to cut an imaginary protagonist out of preventing Donald Trump “itching to expose her” from jumping the gun a film about Stonewall. It wasn’t until the first trailer whole cloth. His stonewall hero is a young, attractive, with the news and blowing his cool with it. came out, however, that people could really see how Caucasian man who is intentionally in contrast to the bad things could be. For nearly as long as the riot itself, there has been See Transmissions, next page [email protected]

8 BTL | Oct. 8, 2015 www.PrideSource.com ® Transmissions: Stonewalled you are not the right person to tell this story. Continued from p. 8 If you have to whitewash a story in order to try and fit it into a demographic that will likely not be interested in a story unless you do so, others he has cast. then there’s a very good chance they won’t Danny Winters – who appears to have come at all regardless. walked off the set of a “Rebel Without A For decades, movies about transgender Cause” remake only to find himself in a people have featured actors and actresses casting call for an off-Broadway production chosen from a heteronormative viewpoint. of “Hair” – is the typical “farm boy from John Hansen portrayed Christine Jorgensen Indiana who hopped a bus to the big city.” in 1970, Hilary Swank very nicely played It’s a trope large enough that another character Brandon Teena in “Boys Don’t Cry,” and later alludes to it. That character is “Ray/Ramona,” this year we’ll get to see Eddie Redmayne as a character who is credited second on the bill Lili Elbe. These and many others give us a and yet still doesn’t manage to have a last mixed bag of good and not-so-good portrayals, name. but where are the transgender actors and The film is little more than a coming of age actresses? Why must transgender people so tale for Danny Winters, set against a backdrop often be portrayed by members of their birth of the riot, with the character even being genders, rather than by those of their own handed the first brick to throw. The films itself hard-won ones? is awkward and does little to actually provide Not only this, but where are the movies a real sense of the importance of that moment. about transgender people of color? Why isn’t Emmerich defended his film from critics of there a film about Marsha P. Johnson being the trailer. In an interview by Shannon Keating released by a major studio, or a big budget of BuzzFeed, Emmerich seemed surprised by biopic on Miss Major Griffin-Gracy? There the reaction. “When (criticism) happened it are some great community-funded ones wasn’t about the film, it was about the trailer,” on both in the works, but in the era where he said. “And I thought, ‘That’s not right.’” “Straight Outta Compton” can break the box But the trailer really was a good example of office, why must we endure the Stonewall what the movie would be, with the oh-so-white mess? and heteronormative Danny Winters serving Oh, and let’s speak about the box office for as some sort of savior for the trans, queer, a moment. Emmerich’s film isn’t a “disaster people of color surrounding him on a set that flick” simply for bad story telling, but for its resembles Christopher Street. first week’s receipts. The film cost an estimated In response to the critics, Emmerich has this $17 million to create, yet it’s first weekend to say: “You have to understand one thing: I brought in an embarrassing $122,414. Even didn’t make this movie only for gay people, “Ishtar,” a film that is practically synonymous I made it also for straight people,” he said. with bad movie making, made $4.2 million “I kind of found out, in the testing process, and opened at #1. that actually, for straight people, (Danny So perhaps this film can help us turn a Winters) is a very easy in. Danny’s very corner. Much like Emmerich attempted, let straight-acting.” me say that this has united both straight, He also said, “As a director you have to white males and trans people of color. It’s not put yourself in your movies, and I’m white “straight enough” nor is it “queer enough.” and gay.” Now, let’s see a real story about Stonewall, And there’s the big problem. and send Danny Winters packing. I’m not saying that you need a Roman emperor to film a story about Nero, but if Gwen Smith will now be waiting for Michael Bay’s you cannot see a story to tell without having “Compton’s Cafeteria” movie. You’ll find her on to impose your gender or race on it, perhaps Twitter at @gwenners.

www.PrideSource.com Oct. 8, 2015 | BTL 9 newS Equality Michigan Appoints Local Org Calls For LGBT Focus On Michigan Education Survey New Board Members Jim Murray Seen As Controversial Appointment As BY AJ Trager only engaged in opposite-sex behavior. These students are at high risk for The Michigan Organization On being targets of violence and bullying Announcement Of New Executive Director Expected Adolescent Sexual Health is calling for and have disproportionately high rates Michigan residents to fill out a recent of unintended pregnancies, sexually Michigan Department of Education transmitted infections, depression and survey with LGBTQ youth in mind. substance abuse. BY TODD HEYWOOD Jim Murray quit working with the Legislature and The State Superintendent and the “It is abundantly clear that by making State Board of Education say they are all curricula more LGBT inclusive, Equality Michigan, the the workforce group last fall, condemning the committed to making Michigan a “Top all students benefit. Inclusive school statewide LGBT organization, “abuse” he endured. Equality Michigan launched Ten” education performing state over the environments create a safer, affirming has announced four new next 10 years and are asking residents to and more supportive climate. For the board members. But one of a campaign targeting him called dropthecall.com. complete a quick comment-based survey same reasons that greater acceptance of those appointments is raising by Nov. 1 on how Michigan can amend all kinds of diversity benefits all students, eyebrows. He now has a seat on the board of directors. its policies to reach that goal. faculty and the greater school community, Jim Murray, president In response to this outreach initiative, LGBTQ inclusive curricula has been of AT&T Michigan, was at MOASH circulated an online mailing shown to foster a culture of acceptance the center of a firestorm of calling for survey participants to bring where all students, many with intersecting controversy last year as the GOP dominated Legislature awareness to the statewide need for LGBT identities, are healthier and more able to fully inclusive measure and Tuesday by phone. “I was tried to move on amending inclusive school curricula, implementation learn,” Gal said. the trans-exclusive measure – told he was one of the people the state’s civil rights law, of enumerated statewide anti-bullying and The average LGBT youth hears 26 anti- failed to come up for vote in I needed to meet because of his Elliott-Larsen. Advocates, anti-discrimination policies pertaining to LGBT slurs per day, with a third of them the state House during the lame knowledge of the workings of including Equality Michigan, LGBT youth, and doing away with zero originating from an administrative staff duck session last November. Lansing.” ACLU of Michigan and HRC, tolerance policies. member. What can Michigan do to prevent Murray quit working with the Those conversations were all pushing for passage “We felt it was critical to address the further harm of its LGBT youth? Legislature and the workforce ultimately led to the board of a fully inclusive amendment LGBT students in this mailing because, MOASH would like to see all schools group, condemning the “abuse” inviting Murray to join. Greene that would encompass both as we have been delving more into this include relevant LGBT content to all he endured. Equality Michigan said he was unclear what the sexual orientation and gender issue with recent projects, it has become subjects about contributions LGBT launched a campaign targeting conversations with the board identity. However, working overwhelmingly apparent that this is a people have made to history and culture; him called dropthecall.com. looked like. hand in hand with the GOP, population of students that often times have Michigan implement enumerated Murray’s cohort in pushing But MIRS interviewed Murray supported jettisoning face additional barriers to education due statewide anti-bullying and anti- the “half a pizza” measure Equality Michigan Board gender identity for a partial to school climate (e.g., victimization discrimination policies pertaining to was Speaker Jase Bolger, a Member Chuck Otis last week. compromise bill. and harassment) and, because of these LGBT students; and to do away with Marshall Republican. Bolger Otis told the newsletter there At the time, Murray was barriers, are significantly more likely to zero tolerance policies in the state which was term limited out of office were “mixed thoughts” about co-chair of the Competitive not attend school or engage in behaviors are often used to set the “stage for in January 2015. But he told appointing Murray, but that his Workforce Coalition. That that would affect their health and, thereby, student disenfranchisement, academic MIRS, a subscription based talents shouldn’t be lost. group was a project of the their ability to learn (e.g., risky sexual failure, dropout and the potential for newsletter covering the state “We’re not always going ACLU and included leaders behaviors, substance use, consider or criminalization,” which LGBT youth are capitol, that he supported to agree on tactics, and it’s from major corporations attempt suicide),” Outreach Coordinator disproportionately affected by. Murray’s appointment to foolish to lose somebody with throughout the state. Murray for MOASH Taryn Gal wrote to BTL in MOASH is currently working with Equality Michigan. Jim’s skill because somebody supported the non-inclusive an email. Ann Arbor Public Schools’ Sexual Bolger said Murray would disagreed with an approach bill, drawing the ire of activists The MDE survey asks about specific Health Education Advisory Committee, bring a “common sense somebody took,” Otis said. and a rebuke from AT&T areas of improvement including what Ann Arbor’s Sex Ed Advisory Board approach” to the board that Others appointed to the national which released a goals Michigan should focus on, what are and the Michigan Department of also “brings respect to treat Equality Michigan board statement that it would only the current policies that get in the way of Education’s Sexual Health Initiative for all people fairly. I hope include Mira Krishnan, support a fully inclusive that goal and what polices are needed to Transformation AAPS District Leadership they’ll listen. Human rights director of the Center for amendment to Elliott-Larsen. expedite the progress towards the goal. Team to develop a toolkit similar to and constitutional protections Autism at Hope Network; At the time, Murray made According to a Michigan Department of the LGBTQ Youth Inclusivity Toolkit should not be about pitting S. Kerene Moore, a lawyer an analogy to MLive that those Education 2013 study, “Sexual Minority for Michigan Health Teachers that is one group against another. It with Legal Services of South who were working for the Youth More Likely To Experience applicable to all lessons and courses, not should be about respecting and Central Michigan; and Michael law were similar to a hungry Multiple Risks,” 6 percent of Michigan just sexual health education. protecting the rights of all.” Rowady, the managing person. high school students have engaged in The LGBTQ Youth Inclusivity Toolkit Bill Greene, interim attorney of a Southfield law “If I’m hungry, a half a same-sex behavior. That 6 percent of for Michigan Health Teachers provides executive director of firm. pizza still looks pretty good,” youth are two and half times more likely strategies and resources recommended for the agency, said Murray’s An announcement is he said. “I’m going to fight for to have been bullied, five times more making sexual health education lessons appointment came about after expected shortly about a new whatever I can get, whatever likely to attempt suicide and nearly more inclusive to LGBT youth. he met with Murray. executive director. five times more likely to use injection that means.” Fill out the survey at http://1.usa.gov/1PVVvz4 “I approached him. I drugs in comparison to youth who have The legislation – both the contacted him,” Greene said

10 BTL | Oct. 8, 2015 www.PrideSource.com Vatican Upends Davis Affair With News Of Audience With Gays VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican turned the tables The Vatican statement made clear the pope intended no Friday on the pope’s meeting with Kim Davis: Not only did such validation. it distance the pontiff from her claims that he endorsed her However, Davis’ lawyer, Mat Staver, told The Associated stand on same-sex marriage, it said the only “real audience” Press that the Vatican arranged the meeting as an affirmation I don’t think it’s a matter of being Francis had in Washington was with a small group that included of her right to be conscientious objector. tricked as of being fully aware of the a gay couple. “We wouldn’t expect the pope to weigh in on the particulars “ The revelations, doled out during the course of the day, put of any case,” Staver said Friday. “Rather, the meeting was situation and its complexities. a new twist on Pope Francis’ encounter with Davis after she a pastoral meeting to encourage Kim Davis in which Pope and her lawyers insisted that her invitation to meet the pope Francis thanked her for her courage and told her to ‘Stay on Sept. 24 amounted to an affirmation of her cause. strong,”’ Staver said in a statement. “His words and actions - Rev. Thomas Rosica, an assistant to Vatican The Davis case has sharply divided the United States, and support the universal human right to conscientious objection.” spokesman, the Rev. Federico” Lombardi. Rosica said news of Francis’ meeting with the Kentucky clerk, who went He said an unnamed Vatican official initiated the meeting Davis’ supporters had “overblown” the encounter. to jail after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had on Sept. 14, the day Davis returned to work after being jailed, upended his six-day U.S. tour. During the visit, Francis had saying the pope wanted to meet her. He said Vatican security the U.S. bishops’ conference. tried to steer clear of such hot-button issues, only to see the picked up Davis and her husband from their hotel and told her Davis’ lawyers confirmed late Friday that the Vatican nuncio Davis affair dominate the post-trip news cycle. to change her hairdo so she wouldn’t be recognized. in Washington, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, had a hand in The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, sought Staver disputed a Vatican spokesman’s assertion that the arranging the invitation. to give the Vatican’s take of events in a statement early Friday, pope only met Davis in a receiving line. He said the couple While the pope sought during his U.S. visit to avoid hot- saying Francis had met with “several dozen” people at the was in a separate room with Francis and Vatican security button culture war issues, an openly gay TV personality, Mo Vatican’s embassy before leaving Washington for New York. and personnel and that no member of the general public was Rocca, was a lector at the pope’s Mass at Madison Square Davis was among them and had a “brief meeting,” he said. present. He said the Vatican official who arranged the meeting Garden, a decision that would have been made by the New Lombardi said such meetings are common during papal trips insisted that it not be made public until after Francis had left York Archdiocese. and are due to the pope’s “kindness and availability.” the U.S. As for the Davis meeting, an assistant to Lombardi, the Rev. “The pope did not enter into the details of the situation of News of the meeting sent shockwaves through the U.S. Thomas Rosica, said the pope would have been given a list of Mrs. Davis, and his meeting with her should not be considered church, with Davis’ supporters saying it showed the pope people who were invited to bid him farewell as he departed a form of support of her position in all of its particular and backed her cause and opponents questioning whether the pope Washington, but was unaware of the details of the Kentucky complex aspects,” Lombardi said. had been duped into meeting with her. clerk’s case or any possible implications of the meeting. “The only real audience granted by the pope at the nunciature Lombardi declined to say who invited Davis or what the “I don’t think it’s a matter of being tricked as of being fully was with one of his former students and his family,” Lombardi pope knew of her case. Such encounters are arranged by the aware of the situation and its complexities,” he said. He said added. Vatican ambassador and his staff, not the pope’s delegation or Davis’ supporters had “overblown” the encounter. The man, Yayo Grassi, was later identified by and CNN as an openly gay Argentine caterer who lives in Washington. In a video posted online, Grassi is shown entering the Vatican’s embassy, embracing his former teacher and introducing Francis to his longtime partner, whom Francis recognized from a previous meeting, as well as an elderly Argentine woman and a few friends from Asia. Lombardi later confirmed that Grassi had “asked to present his mother and several friends to the pope during the pope’s stay in Washington.” “As noted in the past, the pope as pastor has maintained many personal relationships with people in a spirit of kindness, welcome and dialogue,” Lombardi said. It wasn’t immediately clear if Grassi’s mother was in the audience: Grassi introduced the elderly woman named Salome as “an Argentine friend.” The Vatican couldn’t immediately explain the discrepancy. Grassi declined to be interviewed Friday, citing a dinner he was catering. The disclosures completely changed the narrative of Davis’ encounter, making clear that Francis wanted another, more significant “audience” to come to light: that of his former student, who happens to be gay, and his longtime partner. An audience is different from a meeting, in that it is a planned, somewhat formal affair. Popes have audiences with heads of state; they have meetings and greeting sessions with benefactors or other VIPs. So the fact that Lombardi stressed Grassi’s encounter as the only “real audience” in Washington made clear that Francis wanted to emphasize it over Davis’ “brief meeting” along with several dozen other people. Earlier this week, Davis said the pope met with her and her husband and thanked her for her courage and encouraged her to “stay strong.” “Just knowing that the pope is on track with what we’re doing and agreeing, you know, it kind of validates everything,” she told ABC. www.PrideSource.com Oct. 8, 2015 | BTL 11 newS New Book Tackles Teaching LGBT History To Children Bakery Owners Refuse To Pay BY SHELBY CLARK PETKUS Damages In Gay Wedding Cake Case In celebration of LGBT History Month, author and former elementary PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The owners of a Portland- school teacher Jerome Pohlen has area bakery are refusing to pay $135,000 in state-ordered written, “Gay & Lesbian History For damages to a same-sex couple who were denied service. Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for Melissa and Aaron Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by LGBT Rights with 21 Activities.” The Melissa, cited religious beliefs when they refused to bake 180 page book is rife with photos, a wedding cake for Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer activities ranging from coloring to more than two years ago. discussion, and historical information Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian awarded the presented for children ages 9 and up. damages in July for emotional suffering, saying the owners The book begins with a handy timeline had violated the women’s civil rights by discriminating on which highlights significant events by the basis of their sexual orientation. year (much like Between The Line’s The Kleins have filed an appeal of the ruling and are own smaller version in the Pride Source defying the order to pay. They’re claiming financial Yellow Pages.) From referencing the hardship although crowdfunding efforts have brought in Greek poet Sappho to the very current over $500,000 on their behalf, The Oregonian reported Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, the timeline (http://goo.gl/HiZdYF). manages to hit on key points in LGBT The couple closed the Gresham store in 2013 and operate history beyond even the United States. the business from home. The last 130 or so years of the timeline “It’s difficult to understand the Kleins’ unwillingness to is then analyzed chapter by chapter, pay the debt when they have, very publicly, raised nearly starting with an entry for July 22, 1893, a half million dollars,” labor bureau spokesman Charlie though LGBT historical figures and Burr told The Oregonian in an email Sept. 30. “They are events are still referenced in such times Sally Ride, Maurice Sendak and Ellen but leaves out further details that could entitled to a full and fair review of the case, but do not have as ancient China and ancient Greece. Degeneres are highlighted and most leave younger children uncomfortable or the right to disregard a legally binding order.” “Gay & Lesbian History For Kids” likely familiar to modern day children confused. Adults should also take note A lawyer for the Kleins, Anna Harmon, told The often has the difficult task of presenting and adolescents. More historical LGBT that “fag” is used throughout the book Oregonian she couldn’t comment about her clients’ actions, history that at times can be considered heroes like Oscar Wilde, Bayard Rustin, in historical quotes. citing the ongoing litigation. speculative – for example, whether Marlene Dietrich and Alan Turing are References to sex are inevitable in A 2007 Oregon law protects the rights of gays, Katharine Lee Bates (who wrote the also featured. the book, particularly in light of the lesbians, bisexual and transgender people in employment, poem “America,” which would later be The “T” is not left out in the history AIDS crisis; however, Pohlen manages housing and public accommodations. It provides an set to music as “America the Beautiful”) book, including particularly good to spend an entire chapter on the crisis exemption for religious organizations, but the agency was a lesbian. Other figures discussed coverage of Christine Jorgensen -- one with no more graphic a statement than, ruled that exemption does not allow private businesses to in the book that fall under the “Were of the most famous transwomen in U.S. “HIV, which causes AIDS, is spread discriminate against potential customers. they gay?” designation include William history. The section on Jorgensen is mainly through sexual contact.” Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Henry particularly well written, highlighting For children or adolescents who David Thoreau and even President James Jorgensen’s ability to achieve positive may find the book, despite its rich Alabama Judges Use Segregation-Era Buchanan. popular reception at the time. The photographs and clean graphic layout, The book does navigate this issue segment also describes how she difficult to read, the chapters are kept Law To Avoid Gay Marriage well at the beginning, explaining to navigated dealing with her parents while at reasonable lengths to keep even the transitioning. Young children wrestling youngest of readers on track. Activity MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Some Alabama counties young readers that, “The further back in with their gender identity will hopefully sections throughout invite readers to are using a segregation-era law to avoid issuing marriage history you look, the more difficult it is to find other segments, like the “two spirit” go above and beyond simply reading or licenses for same-sex couples. know who was and wasn’t lesbian, gay, concept in many Native American note-taking. One such activity invites In 1961, a time when the all-white Legislature was trying bisexual or transgender. The issue wasn’t cultures, to be similarly informative and readers to come up with their own to preserve racial segregation, lawmakers rewrote state law discussed often, and if it was discussed, uplifting. symbol after learning about LGBT to make it optional for counties to issue marriage licenses. it was usually in a negative way.” Parents and guardians concerned symbols such as the HRC “equal sign” Now, some judges who oppose same-sex marriage are Throughout the book, positive about the potential adult nature of and the Greek letter “lambda.” Another using the provision to get out of the marriage business glimpses of LGBT history do interweave content in the book will be able to scan activity guides students to draw a quilt altogether rather than risk issuing even one wedding in the often turbulent years of navigating the easy-to-read book rather quickly. The panel for someone they would want to license to gays or lesbians. LGBT rights. Adult readers may even violence and brutality of LGBT history remember, deftly taking the difficult In at least nine of Alabama’s 67 counties, judges have be surprised to learn that laws against is deftly handled. There are no violent concept of death – particularly when quit issuing any marriage licenses since the U.S. Supreme same-sex relationships were repealed photographs, either, as often found in learning about it during the AIDS crisis Court legalized same-sex unions in June. during the French Revolution, or that history books for older adolescents. The – and turning it into an art endeavor more The precise reason lawmakers gave for making the , referred to as “Gay Paree,” is far death of Matthew Shepard, for example, palatable for younger “artists.” 1961 change isn’t known. But judges opposed to gay truer to the LGBT turn of the phrase than is introduced with the phrase, “Aaron marriage say it gives them the right to quit issuing any they thought. Passages such as these Kreifels was riding his bike along Snowy marriage licenses. widen the reader base of the book from “Gay & Lesbian History For Kids: The children to adults who may pass it over Mountain View Road on the outskirts Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights” as simply a kid’s book. of Laramie, Wyoming, when he spotted There are multiple confirmed what he thought was a scarecrow tied to a by Jerome Pohlen was published by gay, lesbian and bisexual figures fence. Looking closer, he realized it was Review Press and is available at Common Extended briefs are available online at: acknowledged in the book in addition the body of an unconscious young man, Language Books in Ann Arbor or through >> www.PrideSource.com to the murkier subjects. Dubbed “LGBT his face coated in blood.” The imagery is the website http://glbtbooks.com. Heroes,” people like Sir Ian McKellen, gruesome, as was the attack on Shepard,

12 BTL | Oct. 8, 2015 www.PrideSource.com Franklin Graham BY D’ANNE Witkowski And what evidence does Graham offer for n a recent interview evangelist Franklin this declaration of “defiance against God”? Graham used the “s” word. And he used Penises and vaginas, of course. Iit a lot. “God made us male and female,” he said. That word is, of course, “sin,” as in, “(T)he “And then to say that marriage is between two Obama administration is celebrating sin and men or two women, this is sin.” they are pushing sin.” Now, I don’t care what Graham or anybody else says about my marriage making God vomit because I don’t believe in God (Santa Claus, on the other hand, I believe in since I’ve seen him at the mall). But there are a lot of LGBT people of faith who would beg to differ that declaring their love for each other before their friends and family and God is a “sin.” But don’t worry, gays, Graham’s just trying to help you. “Now, for a gay person, I don’t want to bash them,” he said, “but I want them to know the Franklin Graham truth, that the lifestyle that they are living, God will one day judge that. And they’ll stand before God and God will condemn that and That’s right. Obama pushes sin just like a they will spend an eternity separated from dealer pushes dope. And how does Graham him.” know this? Because Obama doesn’t hate Thanks for the truth bomb, Graham. Will the gays. In fact, Obama downright acts like be sure to put that in the Where the Sun Don’t LGBT people are, like, human or something Shine file. It’s pretty shitty to try to use God to and worthy of living. scare LGBT people of faith into thinking they Franklin is not to be confused with his father can pray the gay away instead of accepting Billy Graham, the evangelical celebrity who is people as they are like some guy named Jesus still alive, by the way (I had to look it up, but supposedly did. I can’t really be blamed since his new book And now for some offensive comparisons! is titled “Where I Am: Heaven, Eternity, and “Whether it be murdering people, or Our Life Beyond.” I mean, that title basically whether it be stealing, or whether it be screams “written from beyond the grave”). committing adultery, cheating on your wife But it was the younger Graham who was or your husband,” Graham said, “you have to interviewed recently by the Church Boys, a turn from those sins. And so for a gay person, podcast by two guys who, as far as I can tell, or anyone else, you have to be willing to turn are kind of like the shock-jocks of right-wing and leave those sins. And can you be forgiven? radio. Yes. And you can have that assurance knowing When asked what concerns him most about that your sins are forgiven and that one day, “where we are now,” Graham replies, “Well, when you do stand before God, he’s going to our country has changed so much, and we’ve accept you and welcome you.” seen the moral decline, and that moral decline Aww, isn’t that sweet? God’s gonna being led by the Obama administration, and welcome you just like he would a murderer so championing things like same-sex marriage, long as you ask for forgiveness for the terrible which is really defiance against God. Same-sex thing you’ve done, whether it be killing people marriage is a sin against God.” or loving someone with the same genitalia.

www.PrideSource.com Oct. 8, 2015 | BTL 13 Gina Yashere Goes Global

Lesbian Comedian Talks Trump, Travel & Telling Stories

BY SHELBY CLARK PETKUS she’s recovering from jet lag after her stop she’s acquired a diverse following. “It (the Culture differences don’t seem to affect the in prior to continuing her tour reception) is great over there,” she says. reception to her comedy, either. “My comedy’s ritish comedienne Gina Yashere is at outside of the city, hoping to dodge all bad “I’ve been over there at least five times. the same everywhere,” she adds. “I make a home in New York as the impending weather. “Luckily I plan my foreign travel I’ve developed a little bit of a following. couple of local references and then talk about BHurricane Joaquin makes its way around winter, so I won’t be here for the The crowd is usually a mixture of ex-pats myself for an hour.” toward her. Fortunately, she’s only there whole thing,” she says, laughing. – Australians, Brits, Canadians, Americans Yashere has found success in such a variety temporarily. When she speaks with BTL, Yashere is no stranger to Asia, where – and locals.” of places primarily because she doesn’t see

14 BTL | Oct. 8, 2015 www.PrideSource.com many differences in humor from place to it’s far flung.” place. “My style really isn’t British,” she says. With that wide array of experiences, “Americans think the British humor is all the Yashere’s stand-up generally consists of same. But it depends on what background storytelling, which doesn’t always include you come from. My family are immigrants more personal details. Yashere, who is a (Nigerian) to England, so I don’t have that lesbian, doesn’t feel the need to bring it quick, dry sense of humor. My stuff is a lot up in her comedy acts. “I don’t really talk more elevated, a lot more storytelling. So my about LGBT issues – it’s one factor of who I stuff travels quite well.” am,” she notes. “Yeah, I talk about it, as one She also hasn’t had an issue with a language routine, but then I move on because there’s barrier yet. Malaysia, in particular, surprised a lot more interesting stuff about me. I don’t her. “In Malaysia, they’re not ex-pats,” she really talk about it at all; I’m not political. says. “They’re Malaysians, they’re locals. Same with: I don’t want to spend all my set So I was thinking, ‘Uh, how is this going to talking about that I’m black; there’s more work?’ But their English is fantastic and they to me than that ... I talk about everything.” love comedy. So I came on and did my thing Though she admits she’s not very political in English, and it killed. They loved it. I’ve in her acts, it’s hard to avoid the current been to Holland and done shows, where I’ve presidential race. “I have thoughts; I don’t been the headliner, and every other comedian talk about them that much,” she admits. “But has come out in front of me and done their sets I think Trump is a big fucking idiot. And I completely in Dutch. And I come on, and then would not be surprised if he did make it all

I don’t really talk about LGBT issues – it’s one factor of who“ I am. Yeah, I talk about it, as one routine, but then I move on because there’s a lot more interesting stuff about me. I don’t really talk about it at all; I’m not political. Same with: I don’t want to spend all my set talking about that I’m black; there’s more to me than that ... I talk about everything.” I do my stuff in English, and it still seems to the way to presidency. That’s the American work, funny enough.” voting public. You voted an actor into Despite having seen much of the world, presidency before, so I put nothing past Yashere still has a few to tick off her bucket America!” list. “I’d love to perform in Brazil, only Another way Yashere keeps her stand-up because I haven’t been there yet, and Cuba. unique? She's reluctant to watch any other Other than that, there aren’t many places I comedy. “I don’t want to be influenced by haven’t performed before!” anybody else,” she says. “When you see Yashere’s favorite tour stop was off the comedians, you can see who they’re influenced coast of Indonesia. “It was so weird,” she by. I tend to stay away from watching too reflects. “I happened to do a show in Bali much comedy ... I am not one of those and met a guy, and he’s like, ‘There’s no comedians with an extensive DVD collection entertainment on this one island. Would you of comedians. That’s not my thing at all.” come and do the first comedy show ever on Though she is a fan of “Modern Family”: the island? And as payment I’ll give you a “I think that’s probably the best sitcom ever week of accommodation.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, made.” let’s do it!’ So I called my best friend up, The well-traveled comedian will visit Metro they flew out from England, and I did this Detroit for the first time on Friday, Oct. 9 show for 70 divers. I was standing literally when she performs at Kola Restaurant & Ultra 30 feet away from the ocean. Then I spent Lounge in Farmington Hills. Is she expecting the rest of the week eating fresh fish. It was anything from the area? “I’m hoping to bump amazing!” into Eminem at the show!” Not many comedians have traveled quite so extensively, which Yashere is well aware Gina Yashere will perform at 8 p.m. at Kola of. “Most American comics, when they say they’re going on the road, they usually mean Restaurant & Ultra Lounge, 32523 Northwestern Minneapolis, you know? Whereas me,” she Highway, Farmington Hills. Visit www.kolalounge. laughs, “when I say I’m going on the road, com for more information. www.PrideSource.com Oct. 8, 2015 | BTL 15 13

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16 BTL | Oct. 8, 2015 www.PrideSource.com Theatre Nova’s Time-Jumping Tale of Love By Amy J. Parrent

“Relationships are the story you tell each other about yourself,” said Dan Walker, producing director at Theatre Nova. And “Bright Half Life” is the innovative story about relationships that the theater is telling to audiences this month. The new play by Tanya Barfield is having its Michigan premiere, following a February debut at the Women’s Project Theater in New York. The play leaps rapidly around time, intercutting snippets of scenes as it covers decades of the complicated relationship between Erica, played by Alysia Kolascz, and Vicky, portrayed by Breon Canady. “The play is a textbook example of your memory of your life, the way you fill it in,” said Walker. “Life is not clean Breon Canady and Alysia Kolascz in “Bright Half Life.” Photo: Theatre Nova and linear; it’s a mess.” audience as well, with the instantaneous Walker, who is the play’s director and leaps in time coming in the “middle” of production designer, has been juggling a scene. involvement in three plays and a new “We call them flashes,” said Canady. college teaching appointment. I need plays that tell “If we’re changing time periods, a “But I didn’t want to give this play the truth but leave you with movement leads us into the next one. up,” he said. “I fell in love with the “ We’ll be arguing face to face, then jump script. It’s the single best play about hope. It’s the perfect play for to a moment where we’re in love.” relationships I’ve ever seen. We got Or vice versa. (the rights) within a month of it being me and for what I want to do “The actors will be in a clinch that available.” with this theater. turns violent,” said Walker. “It’s a A divorced father, Walker found striking style that asks a lot of the actors strong echoes in the show. He even has and audience. I’ve seen other plays that a daughter the same name as the fictional - Dan Walker, producing jump around in time, but haven’t seen couple’s child. He said if you described director” at Theatre Nova one that’s this hard, this fast. the play briefly, you’d say it’s about “The play is super theatrical,” he an interracial gay couple. “But that’s relationship. added. “There’s not time to use props. completely incidental,” he added. For instance, at a rehearsal when one The actors are transformed instantly. Actor Canady said, “It’s about actor didn’t feel like going full-throttle Usually when I start a play’s design, I intimacy and what happens behind the yelling, Walker told her, “You don’t preset the computer to do three to five- scenes (in a relationship). I’m pulling understand. You’re 15 years into this second fades between scenes. Every fade from my relationship with my own thing. It’s the nuclear option. You have to in this show is one-tenth of a second.” girlfriend.” understand the intensity of the negativity “The play itself is designed to not have Canady said both actors are onstage and still have love.” a rational experience,” said Walker. “If for the entire 70 minutes of the show. “It takes (the characters) a long time, it tracks right, it will rip your heart out. “It’s strenuous, emotionally difficult. it takes them 50-some-odd years until For all the fighting, they really loved The fights are not pretty, they’re playing they’re in sync,” said Canady, who each other. I need plays that tell the truth hardball.” compares the characters to Maureen and but leave you with hope. It’s the perfect Recently Canady found herself Joanne in “Rent” – “If it kept going on.” play for me and for what I want to do overwhelmed by preparations for the Canady said, “Vicky (her character) with this theater.” challenging role. “I said to my mother, is a control freak, snarky. When she ‘Mommy, I don’t know what to do.’” allows fear of the unknown, she’s more So her mom did the mom thing, and likeable. She becomes a person you PERFORMING ran through lines with her like a drill want to talk to. She still has a heart, sergeant, making her repeat each chunk and when she shows it, it’s 100 percent. Bright Half Life of dialogue multiple times. Erica – we’ve been calling her a puppy. But still, Canady said, “Doing a new She doesn’t make a lot of decisions. I’m Theatre Nova play is the greatest feeling in the world naturally more Erica. I do the exact thing 416 W. Huron, Ann Arbor 734-635-8450 for an actor. I don’t have to compare in my life. I go with what I feel, not the www.theatrenova.org myself to anyone. It’s all us. (Walker) logical.” All shows pay-what-you-can; suggested let us find it on our own.” The play is filled with symbolism of donation $20 Walker, older than his two the highs and lows of a relationship, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, 15, 22 20-something actors, did bring additional as the characters go skydiving, fly a 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, 16, 23 life experience to helping them span the kite, board a Ferris wheel. The show’s 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, 17, 24 half-century in the characters’ lives and experience will be a roller coaster for the 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, 18, 25 www.PrideSource.com Oct. 8, 2015 | BTL 17 Nicola’s Books Brings Patti Cool Cities Smith To Michigan Theater ANN ARBOR – Nicola’s Books has teamed up with the Michigan Theater to present An Evening with Patti Smith at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12. The legendary multi-platform artist will read excerpts from her new memoir, “M Train,” lead an audience Q&A and sign books in her only Michigan stop on the book tour. Smith has said of “M Train,” “It’s a roadmap to my life.” The book’s odyssey begins in a tiny Greenwich Village café, where Smith goes every morning, and takes readers on a journey through mind, memory and spirit. Travel from ’s Casa Azul in Mexico to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in , and to Smith’s favorite cafés and haunts around the world. With prose that shifts between dreams and reality, and across a landscape of creative inspiration, “M Train” YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD • YOUR MARKET illustrates Smith’s deepest literary obsessions, augmented Pinpoint your ad dollars where by her own stunning black-and- white Polaroids. begins, and where Smith went every morning they will do the most good . . . Woven throughout are reflections on for a breakfast of black coffee and brown the writer’s craft and on artistic creation, bread. On the last day before Cafe ‘Ino closed, Advertise in the next Cool Cities alongside signature memories including her a passing photographer took the picture. life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Nicola’s Books features adult novels, kids’ TO PLACE AN AD CALL 734.293.7200 Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was books, out-of-print searches and everything an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well in-between. Nicola’s Books has been Ann as the consolation we might salvage from Arbor’s premier independent bookstore for it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely more than 20 years. Visit Nicola’s in the meditation on endings and on beginnings. Westgate Shopping Center at 2513 Jackson Smith is the author of “Just Kids,” which Ave. or at nicolasbooks.com. won the National Book Award in 2010, and Now celebrating its 88th year, the Michigan of five collections of poetry. Her seminal Theater is Ann Arbor’s award-winning album “Horses” has been hailed as one of nonprofit historic center for fine film and the top 100 albums of all time. In 2005, the performing arts. The Michigan Theater French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith welcomes more than 300,000 visitors each the title of Commandeur des Arts et des year to its art house films, concerts, lectures, Lettres and she was inducted into the Rock live theater, and special programs such as and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. New York Film Critics Series and Cinetopia Tickets are available at Nicola’s Books International Film Festival. The Michigan and all Ticketmaster outlets, including Theater also owns and operates the historic ticketmaster.com. Tickets are $24.50 and State Theater located just up the street at 233 $35. All tickets include a hard cover copy of State St. The Michigan Theater is located “M Train.” Books will be available for pick- in downtown Ann Arbor at 603 E. Liberty up the night of the show at the Michigan St. Visit michtheater.org or call the 24- Theater. hour information line at 734-668-TIME for The photo on the book’s jacket is a sacred schedule and ticket information. memento for Smith: It shows her at Cafe ‘Ino in Greenwich Village, where “M Train”

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She stop at Joe Louis could only swapped set-list staple “Ghost be described as the stuff of dreams, Town” for “Frozen,” her a delicious fusion of old and new, stunning “”-era writhing nuns and blissed-out fun. trip to the dark side, stripped “Rebel Heart” was all sweet… not to merely the rawness of sticky. And nostalgic. Photo: Kevin Mazur acoustic guitar and a vocal Gays, we have so much to be for WireImage/Getty that left everyone, well, you thankful for. guessed it: frozen. Like a Virgin True Blue Bitch, she’s Madonna. Owning the stage “Baby, I love you,” Madonna gushed, like a boss during a solo hip-hop take Raise your hand if you wet yourself dipping into her back catalog for this on “Like a Virgin,” Madonna bounced during this one. Beyond the obvious adorable 1985 relic. Stripped of its pop her booty during a ravishing display of fact that “Material Girl” sits atop sheen, “True Blue” became a finger- agelessness – proof that Pilates and full- Madonna’s smoldering hit heap, the snappin’, hand-clappin’ campfire sing- powered Beyoncé-type fans are a girl’s way she folded it into “Rebel Heart” – along, with Madonna plucking away at a best friends. simple, chic, “Great Gatsby”-inspired – ukulele. Yes, baby, we love you too. was pure blast-from-the-past pleasure. Love Don’t Live Here Toro, toro! No, there wasn’t a bull, and In 2004, for the “Re-Invention World this wasn’t “Take a Bow” (sigh). Hand Anymore Tour,” she took her great disco rave from to pelvis, Madonna moved to the Spanish After shoving a faux lover down a spiral 1992’s “Erotica” to the cabaret, quieting vibes of “La Isla Bonita,” showing off her staircase at the end of “Heartbreak City,” it down for a lounge-style slowie. Not slow mo gyrations amidst her festively- Madonna caused a ruckus when she this time. For “Rebel Heart,” “Deeper attired stage gang who came together for launched into her showstopping ballad and Deeper” retained its original pulse, a performance that was muy bien. dizzying the crowd of queers with its dance “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore,” spins as Madge and her crew worked the from 1984’s “Like a Virgin.” It was just heart-capped catwalk with a voguish Medley a snippet, a tease – because, you know, she’s Madonna. hustle. If Madonna wants to spoil us, who are we to argue? Not only did “Dress You Up” (in Burning Up full!) make the cut, but the diva went deep Holiday into the ’80s for “” and It didn’t take this, the encore, to know Flame bursts boomed from behind “Lucky Star,” essentially giving life to all that Madonna had let her hair down Madonna on a towering backdrop, but basking in her presence. #Humanitarian the diva herself was the one bringing the again, ditching brooding theatrics for heat. As she punched her electric guitar, the essence of early Madonna: frilly fun. transforming this 1983 fan favorite into a Who’s that Girl “Rebel Heart Tour” was a two-hour-plus celebration of Madonna’s career, and it rockin’ rush, someone probably should’ve Dusting off the title song from her 1987 called 911. all came to a boisterous, confetti-filled film, “Who’s that Girl,” Madonna gave head with “Holiday.” this ditty a guitar-guided makeover www.PrideSource.com Oct. 8, 2015 | BTL 21 Outings Thursday, Oct. 8 Trivia with Terry and Thirsty Thursday Half off beer and well drinks with student ID. \aut\BAR, 315 Braun Ct., Ann Arbor. Affirmations will host its Fall Fling 2015 this 734-994-3677. Autbar.com October as a celebration of Metro Detroit’s LGBT MAC Health 2 p.m. Mondays community and its allies. More than 250 guests by appointment only. Michigan will enjoy the “creative, chic affair” held inside AIDS Coalition (MAC), Ferndale. Michiganaidscoalition.org Affirmations’ 17,000 square foot, state of the Connections 6 p.m. Open to all LGBTQ art Allan Gilmour and Eric Jirgens Community and Ally youth from 13-18.Join us to Center. meet other LGBTQ and Ally teens and socialize in a safe space. Kalamazoo The event will feature live entertainment, guided Gay and Lesbian Resource Center, 629 center tours, open bar, delicious hors d’oeuvres Pioneer St., Kalamazoo. 269-349-4234. Kglrc.org and decadent desserts. Dollars raised from Fall Fling 2015 will support implementation of Laverne Cox 7 p.m. Oakland University, Affirmations’ life-transforming programs and services. Individual tickets are $75 per ticket. 2200 N. Squirrel Road, Rochester. 248-370-2030. Fall Fling 2015 begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. For more information, contact Charlotte The Ethics and Politics of Nonviolence Myers at [email protected] or 248-398-7105. Tickets can be purchased at http:// 7:30 p.m. Featured speaker Judith K. bit.ly/1EzqYWR. Butler. 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Free Pool and $1 Off Beer \aut\BAR, are warmly invited to join us for our [email protected] identity. Kalamazoo Gay and Lesbian Friday evening Shabbat service on 315 Braun Ct., Ann Arbor. 734-994- Resource Center, 2208 Winchell Ave., October 9, 2015. as we also celebrate Pride NA 6:30 p.m. Confidential and 3677. Autbar.com Kalamazoo. Kglrc.org National Coming Out Day and the anonymous. Open to all individuals Senior Koffee Klatch 1 p.m. A historic Supreme Court ruling on impacted by addiction. Kalamazoo Gay Healthy People & Planet Wellness discussion and networking group for Festival 4 p.m. The event offers exhibits, marriage equality. We will also have and Lesbian Resource Center, 629 people 45 and older. 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The Michigan Coalition for Human Rights is presenting their “Fall Film Series” every Tuesday this month. As part of the presentation of films, experienced facilitators will guide and lead discussion following the movies. Films to be shown will include issues on clean and affordable water, growing up transgender, Selma and voting rights and the fight for Yemen. Episcopal Bishop Coleman McGehee, Rabbi Richard Hertz and Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton launched MCHR in December 1980 amid a growing conservative climate in religion and politics. Today MCHR is still strong and its membership continues to focus on MCHR’s mission to educate, organize and advocate on behalf of human rights. After 27 years, MCHR is still on the Detroit scene, educating and mobilizing with others to build a freer and more peaceful world for our children and the world’s children. Films begin at 7 p.m. every Tuesday in October. The film series will be shown at St. John’s Episcopal Church, located at 11 Mile and Woodward in Royal Oak. There is a $5 donation at the door. For more information, visit www.mchr.org.

www.PrideSource.com Oct. 8, 2015 | BTL 23 of 2016. Your mom is going to want Deep Inside Hollywood Mother’s Day for lesbian to see this one. By Romeo San Vicente her own? Who dares? We have no stand-up Cameron Esposito idea. But she’d better be that perfect Look, we’re not going to lie and tell ‘Hart to Hart,’ but ‘Mary Poppins 2: The combination of stern disciplinarian you we’re overly excited for Garry and bright, song-filled enthusiasm, or Marshall’s upcoming mega-ensemble with gay dudes Possibly Very Bad Idea’ it’s all going to be like a pot of room- comedy, “Mother’s Day.” That’s A “by the book” lawyer named temperature tea. Oh, wait, we’ve got because we saw his earlier movies, Jonathan Hart and his free-spirited We’ve reached a point in film it: Emily Blunt. It’s Emily Blunt. “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s partner in life and crime-solving, Dan history – and more specifically, You hear that, Hollywood? It’s Emily Eve” (fool me twice, and all that). Hartman, are about to pick up where in the history of the business of Blunt. You have your instructions. But these films are big hits with big Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers Hollywood – where remakes and swaths of the population, in the same left off. Who are Robert Wagner and reboots are just How Things Are, way that Olive Garden is a popular Stephanie Powers, you ask, oh young like it or not (we side mostly with Sexy queer disability Italian restaurant; “somebody” out person? They were the backbone of the “not,” just fyi). So it’ll come as zero begins to ‘Oscillate Wildly’ there is lining up for it. But let’s talk breezy, silly, glamorous “Hart to Hart,” shock that Walt Disney Studios has about love for a moment. We love that ABC TV staple of the 1980s. And big plans to revisit its most beloved Setting aside the trendy lesbian stand-up Cameron Esposito now that show is getting the queer and acclaimed live-action film of appropriation of a Smiths song title for Emily Blunt. Photo: Debby Wong and “Mother’s Day” will have a reboot it needs, thanks to producer all time: “Mary Poppins.” It isn’t his latest feature, “Oscillate Wildly,” lesbian storyline featuring the comic. Carol Mendelsohn and Sony TV. We going to be a proper sequel, nor will filmmaker Travis Mathews doesn’t “Oscillate,” which is shooting now. She’ll play a young mother raising a love this idea, and we want something it be a remake. It will be set about much like to go where others have The film revolves around a subject son with her female partner, and she’ll more than two pretty, bland, white guys 20 years after the original film, in already tread. His narrative feature, usually ignored by queer cinema: the be joined on screen by the usual Garry as leads, OK? Go outside the box, with 1930s , and will draw its “I Want Your Love,” featured explicit lives of physically challenged gay Marshall cast of dozens: Julia Roberts, us, remakers, and give us Guillermo plot from stories in P.L. Travers eight real sex as it told the story of a going- men, specifically one working-class Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Diaz and Alec Mapa; or alt-comics “Poppins” books. Disney has chosen away party and gay male longing. guy with CP and his search for love Jason Sudeikis, “Tomorrowland”’s Hannibal Buress and Kyle Kinane; or a director – Rob Marshall – and “Life His next, “Interior. Leather Bar.,” during a scorching Austin, Texas, Britt Robertson, Timothy Olyphant, Empire’s Jussie Smollett and Damon of Pi”’s David Magee as screenwriter imagined an alternate life for the summer. The goal is simple: matter- “The Daily Show”’s Aasif Mandvi, Wayons, Jr. Whatever it takes, really. for the project. They’ve also chosen controversial film “Cruising.” And of-fact representation and moving and “Pretty Little Liars” star Shay Just don’t be boring and we’ll watch. now he’s teamed with executive drama not based on triumphant acclaimed songwriters Marc Shaiman Mitchell, to name but eight. And producer James Franco and some gay “overcoming,” and a reminder that and Scott Wittman (“Hairspray”). after the ludicrously timid gay male Romeo San Vicente is the king of Smiths men with disabilities – such as queer stories for everyone often come But what they haven’t chosen yet is storyline of “Valentine’s Day,” there’s song karaoke and will dominate all blogger Andrew Morrison Gurza, from highly specific, and singular, the big catch: Mary Poppins herself. only one way for Marshall’s brand of competitors. He can be reached care of this who lives with cerebral palsy and circumstances. Who steps into the shoes of the sometimes clueless inclusiveness to publication or at DeepInsideHollywood@ served as a production consultant – for legendary Julie Andrews and holds go, and that’s up. Get ready for April qsyndicate.com.

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