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7 HARD TRUTHS THE LGBT COMMUNITY MUST 3 ADDRESS IN THE WAKE OF THE ORLANDO MASSACRE LARGE TURN OUT FOR 'WE ARE ORLANDO' VIGILS NATIONAL HIV TESTING DAY JUNE 27: TAKE THE TEST ! 'GIRLS' CREATOR ON RECOGNIZING ‘SEEMINGLY MUNDANE’ LGBT ISSUES & THE INFLUENCE OF HER SISTER’S QUEERNESS WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM JUNE 23, 2016 | VOL. 2425 | FREE COMMUNITY THEATER Slipstream’s ‘Midsummer,’ Set in a Gay Bar, Re-Thinks and Re-Tools after Orlando NEWS 4 New Employer Resource to Help End Transgender Employment Discrimination 5 Goal: 100 for National HIV Testing Day 6 Large Gathering at Affirmations Honors Lives Lost in Orlando 8 Older Adult Summit Looks at Challenges, Affirmations Community Center Vigil Draws Intergenerational Solutions Over 700 people 8 National 2015 Hate Crime Report Shows Significant Disparities See page 6 See page 16 10 Orlando: Michigan responds 13 Aftershocks of Orlando: Is GOP in ‘Solidarity’ with LGBT Community or Squirming Over Trump’s Embrace? TALKING HIV CREEP OF THE WEEK 16 Slipstream’s ‘Midsummer,’ Set in a Gay Bar, Re- Thinks and Re-Tools 17 In Wake of Orlando Massacre, LGBT Venues Ramp Up Security OPINION 10 Parting Glances 10 Viewpoint: On Orlando by David Furnish 11 Positive Thoughts: Good Morning Vietnam 11 Creep of the Week: Donald Trump 12 Frivolist: 7 Hard Truths the LGBT Community Must Address in the Wake of the Orlando LIFE 18 Lena Dunham Man’s Up Please consider making a donation Good Morning Vietnam Trump and the 20 Ann Arbor Art Fair Brings New Dates, Artists of any size to the family and victims. 22 Happenings LGBTs 23 Hear Me Out: The Healing Power of Beyoncé’s Follow links at www.weareorlando.org See page 11 See page 11 ‘Lemonade 24 Classifieds VOL. 2425 • JUNE 23, 2016 EDITORIAL CREATIVE ADVERTISING & SALES ONLINE AT ISSUE 970 Editor in Chief Webmaster & MIS Director Director of Sales Susan Horowitz, 734.293.7200 x 12 Kevin Bryant, [email protected] Jan Stevenson, 734.293.7200 x 22 “Between The Lines Newspaper” PRIDE SOURCE MEDIA GROUP [email protected] [email protected] 20222 Farmington Rd., Livonia, Michigan 48152 Contributing Writers Entertainment Editor Sales Representatives Phone 734.293.7200 Charles Alexander, Michelle E. 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Copyright 2016 Pride Source Media Group www.PrideSource.com June 23, 2016 | BTL 3 NEWS BRIEFS Equality Michigan Gets New Brand DETROIT – As part of LGBTQ Pride increase awareness of EQMI’s victim services Month, Equality Michigan is rolling out work and encourage more survivors to report its new logo and materials to the public, the bias, discrimination, harassment and including an updated brochure, a victim violence they experience, including victims services info/linkage card and new websites of intimate partner violence. for both the Equality Michigan (c3) and As part of its commitment to transparency, Equality Michigan Action Network (c4) EQMI plans to release an overview of its websites. work, both ongoing and achieved, during Some of these items were formally released the first six months of this year and invites at Motor City Pride including the new logo, viewers to share thoughts about what EQMI a brochure and a victims services card. The could be doing better as the organization organization will launch the new website and evolves to serve the community and meet the a new poster campaign later this month. Both political realities faced in the state. were crafted by Change Media, a Michigan- Visit www.equalitymichigan.org for more based design firm, and are designed to information. New Employer Resource to Help End Transgender Employment Discrimination WASHINGTON- On June 6 the National Rights. “Yet many times employers that want LGBTQ Task Force and the District of to create welcoming environments are unsure Columbia Office of Human Rights published of how best to do that. We believe this best a first-of-its-kind resource to help eliminate practices guide will be an important starting workplace discrimination against transgender place for those employers that want to build and gender non-conforming people. The guide, transgender-inclusive workplaces.” titled “Valuing Transgender Applicants and Currently, 19 states and the District Employees,” provides in-depth best practices of Columbia have explicit workplace intended to help employers across the nation nondiscrimination protections based on create a genuinely inclusive and welcoming gender identity and expression. Among the workplace environment for transgender people. most progressive and comprehensive non- “Everyone, including transgender people, discrimination laws that include gender deserve a fair chance at a good paying job identity or expression is D.C.’s Human Rights and the ability to provide for themselves Act (HRA). and their families,” said Victoria Rodriguez- Download or read the entire resource at Roldan, Trans/Gender Nonconforming Justice Project director, National LGBTQ Task www.thetaskforce.org/valuing-transgender- Force. “Transgender people face formidable applicants-employees. discrimination and harassment in the workplace. This new resource provides vital recommendations for employers and human resource specialists looking to ensure that transgender people are treated with dignity and respect in the workplace.” In the U.S., 90 percent of transgender people report experiencing harassment, discrimination and mistreatment in the workplace, according to the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey report. In 2015, the D.C. Office of Human Rights report “Qualified and Transgender” revealed that 48 percent of employers surveyed appeared to prefer at least one less-qualified applicant perceived as cisgender over a more-qualified applicant perceived as transgender. “While many jurisdictions across the nation do not have explicit protections for transgender workers, in the District of Columbia we are fortunate to have a strong law that prohibits employment discrimination against transgender people,” said Monica Palacio, director of the D.C. Office of Human 4 BTL | June 23, 2016 www.PrideSource.com Goal: 100 for National HIV Testing Day BY TODD HEYWOOD to Wert. Riley said his agency has run into roadblocks in locating physicians willing to The CDC estimates that the lifetime risk write prescriptions for the drug. that a black man who has sex with men will “It’s one of the biggest issues,” he said. contract HIV is 1 in 2. Latino men who have “In Ingham county there are not too many sex with men have a lifetime risk of 1 in 4. locations willing to prescribe PrEP.” And recently, a study from Emory University He said one of the biggest issued in the found the men who have sex with men have prescription process is a lack of “culturally a rate of HIV infection 57.5 percent higher competent care to the meet the needs of the than other men in the U.S. Transwomen are LGBT community and people of color.” 49 times more likely than any other group of Brown Clarke is not the only city women in the world to be infected with HIV. councilmember participating in the testing “It’s important to recognize that there is a day events. Jody Washington, whose ward health crisis, and it is a crisis,” said Judi Brown covers the locations of the bars, will be there Clarke, president of Lansing City Council and as well. She declined to comment, other than a featured emcee for a PrEP panel planned on to note that she will be there to “help end the June 25 at Spiral nightclub. “We all have a role stigma.” She sponsored a resolution last week to play in ending this epidemic.” honoring National HIV Testing Day. It passed AIDS Service Organizations and health unanimously by the City Council. departments across the state and the nation are gearing up to offer free and confidential HIV testing this coming week to mark National National HIV Testing Day Event, HIV Testing Day. June 27, In Lansing In Lansing, located in Ingham county, which has the second highest HIV prevalence rate in 4 p.m. to midnight – Free confidential HIV the state, the Lansing Area AIDS Network is testing Diversity Psychological Services gearing up for events on June 25. The official 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. – PrEP Panel Discussion Testing Day is June 27. at Spiral, facilitated by Lansing City Council In Lansing the agency will offer free President Judi Brown Clarke, and featuring and confidential HIV testing at Diversity Dr. Erik Wert, medical director of the Ingham Psychological Services, an office facility County Community Health Centers. located within a block of the city’s two gay 4 p.m. to midnight – various events in bars. Old Town including Spiral and Esquire to “Our goal is to test 100 high risk individuals,” promoting testing and to raise funds for the said Dwayne Riley, prevention manager.

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