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FREE a newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com June 15-21, 2016 City Pulse's Summer of Art: "Universal Fog" by Juanita Baldwin. See page 14 for story. 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 15, 2016 City Pulse • June 15, 2016 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 LANSING JUNETEENTH Celebration CAPITOL CITY KICK-OFF JUNETEENTH OPENING PROGRAM The 12th Annual State of Michigan Juneteenth Freedom Day recognition! Thurs., June 16, 5:30pm-7:30pm, Lansing City Hall Lobby, 124 W. Mich. Ave., Lansing 2016 JUNETEENTH FREEDOM FESTIVAL featuring the African-American Parade Fri., June 17 & Sat., June 18, St. Joseph Park, Lansing, MI The park opens Friday at 3pm. Events include vendors, family activities, a ballgame commemorating the Negro League, community recognitions and special live stage performances. Our keynote speaker On Saturday, we open with the African-American is the distinguished Parade at 10am. Staging begins at the Letts Dr. Sephira Bailey Community Center and ends at St. Joseph Park. Shuttlesworth. At 12pm, the Festival opens with the Peace Walk and Main Stage Performances. Activities include food and merchandise vendors, children’s activities, a health fair, educational exhibits, and more. FEATURED ENTERTAINERS: Dee Hibbert Jeff Stanley 496 & Company Canady Johnson West THROWING THE FIRST PITCH St. Joseph Park in Lansing opens Friday at 3pm. EVERYBODY Events include vendors, family activities, a ballgame starting at 6 p.m. commemorating the Negro League featuring the ERNIE BOONE 2016 GRAND MARSHALL WELCOME LADY MARGARET GROVES HELP WANTED 2016 LANSING JUNETEENTH SPONSORS: (517) 749-8389 2470 Cedar St, Holt, MI (517) 694-2698 www.lansingjuneteenthcelebration.org 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • June 15, 2016 VOL. 15 Introducing The LGBT News ISSUE 44 It is just a coincidence but a very ap- new means of conveyance. (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com propriate one that this week City Pulse We decided to undertake this project begins publishing the monthly LAHR not just to assist LAHR but also to spread ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-6704 newsletter, The LGBT News, in our pages. its message to a much bigger audience. As PAGE or email [email protected] LAHR is the Lansing Association for the newspaper tycoon E.W. Scripps said, 8 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz Human Rights, which for 40 years has “Give light and the people will find their [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 helped lead the effort to expand gay rights own way.” As the massacre in Orlando ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER • Mickey Hirten [email protected] in our community. In that time, much has shows us, such light is still badly needed. Hirten: The Outfield delivers a perfect strike ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Ty Forquer changed for the better for lesbian, gay, [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 transgender and bi people — but as Sun- — Berl Schwartz PAGE PRODUCTION MANAGER • Allison Hammerly day’s tragedy in Orlando clearly shows, [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 much hasn’t. (If your business or organization 10 STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino The LAHR newsletter was threatened would like to help support City Pulse [email protected] with extinction after Bill Beachler, a long- in publishing The LGBT News, please Todd Heywood [email protected] time leader of the local gay community, contact Shelly Olson at (517) 999-6705 Summer Solstice Jazz Festival celebrates 20th anniversary died last year. Month after month, year or [email protected].) ADVERTISING • Shelly Olson, Suzi Smith, Prince Spann, Liza Sayre after year, because of Bill, the newsletter PAGE [email protected]:30 a.m. Saturdays arrived via the mail at hundreds of homes [email protected] in the Lansing area. In a world of media [email protected] Have something to say about a local issue 12 often devoid of information about gay [email protected] issues, it connected us. It celebrated our or an item that appeared in our pages? Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Now you have two ways to sound off: City Pulse rocks Adado Riverfront Park Daniel E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill victories and reported on our troubles. Castanier, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle As anyone knows who is involved in Lawrence Johnson, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, 1.) Write a letter to the editor. $ $ a small volunteer organization, produc- • E-mail: [email protected] PAGE Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie • Snail mail: City Pulse, 1905 E. 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CITY PULSE Editor & Publisher on the Berl Schwartz AIR Now airing on 10:30 a.m. Saturdays 89 FM THIS WEEK SOUTH LANSING’S ECONOMY BOB TREZISE Lansing Economic Area Partnership ADAM HUSSAIN Lansing City Councilman City Pulse • June 15, 2016 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION implied otherwise we will call that what it is, opportunism and ignorance, and it has Gestures of solidarity no place in our mourning and does noth- ing to help a nation heal.” From Lansing and Orlando, shock, sadness and unity This was just one of many gestures of C solidarity — large and small — Sunday OF THE WEEK As the cast of Riverwalk Theater’s another group of people quietly walked night as the greater Lansing community production of “Rent” slowly merged back up. They stood at the back of the gath- mourned and processed the apparent ter- into the crowd of people — some wearing ering of politicians and members of the ror attack in a gay nightclub in Orlando “Love Wins” t-shirts, and others wrapped LGBT community. There were men and that left 49 club-goers dead and 53 in the in rainbow flags — standing before the children and women wearing hijabs. hospital. The attacker, Omar Mateen, was steps of the state Capitol Sunday evening, They were members of the Islamic an American citizen and pledged his alle- Center of Greater Lansing, present to giance to the terror network ISIS during a stand with the community. phone call with 911 during the attack. He “For us, we mourn along with the na- was killed by police. tion the loss of life,” Thasin Sardar said President Barack Obama called it an after the candlelight vigil. Sardar is the example of “homegrown extremism,” but former president of the Islamic Center he noted the killer’s motive was unknown. of Greater Lansing in East Lansing. He “Although it’s still early in the investi- also serves on the advisory board for the gation, we know enough to say that this Council on American and Islamic Rela- was an act of terror and an act of hate,” tions of Michigan. “We are here not as Obama said in a statement Sunday after- Muslims, but as Americans. We wanted noon. “And as Americans, we are united to join the community here.” in grief, in outrage, and in resolve to de- Property: 131 and 137 Leslie St. Before the vigil, the Lansing Associa- fend our people.” Lansing tion for Human Rights, a gay rights or- That resolve was on full display at the ganization, issued a statement rejecting Capitol Sunday night. attempts to use the Orlando shootings as “We refuse to be silenced, refuse to al- This building and its mirror image seen a reason to single out Muslims. low fear to overcome love,” the Rev. Nico- at the right edge of the photo form bookends “We want to make clear, this can be an lette Siragusa, pastor of the First Congre- that will eventually frame an entrance to act of hate and an act of terror, and not gational United Church of Christ in Grand this long-term development on the east side something that implicates all Muslims — Ledge, said. “It is in this spirit that we un- of Lansing. Designer-builder Dave Muylle’s Todd Heywood/City Pulse simultaneously. LAHR cannot support abashedly gather here — in public, on the hands-on approach allows him to make minor Michigan State University staff the use of this tragedy, our lost LGBTQ steps of our state's Capitol. We refuse to but important changes during construction. member Amber Cordell is comforted lives, to fuel anti-Muslim agendas and the hide in fear, we refuse to shrivel up and die. The foundations of two new homes seen in by Lisa Laughman of MSU during a vigil irrational fears of those who are differ- “In fierce opposition, we boldly declare the middle background were adjusted a few for those murdered in Orlando Sunday ent from us,” wrote Emily Dievendorf, a June to be our month of Pride. The Pride feet — following a variance — to preserve site night. The two were participating in an board member of LAHR. “Terrorism has movement was birthed in a nightclub, lines for the subject buildings.

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