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CMU: A CAMPUS IN TRANSITION CHATTING WITH POP PIXIE OH LAND ‘QUEER & CAREER’ CONFERENCE AT MSU MORGAN ACTRESS TALKS GAY LOVE STORY’S DETROIT PREMIERE FAIRCHILD ONLINE AT PRIDESOURCE.COM MARCH 10, 2011 | VOL. 1910 | FREE Roving Cajun Dinner Live Music Fun Silent Auction Dancing Door Prizes Prizes for Best Masks The Mardi Gras Event of the Season Friday • April 1 • The Roostertail • Detroit • 7 p.m. With Performances by Detroit Fly House To purchase tickets visit PrideSource.com or 734.293.7200 x 10 $ 75 per person in advance $ 90 at door Vol. 1910 • Issue 703 Publishers 3.10.2011 Susan Horowitz Jan Stevenson EDITORIAL Editor in Chief Susan Horowitz News Editor Tara Cavanaugh Entertainment Editor 6 13 21 34 Chris Azzopardi Arts & Theater Editor Donald V. Calamia 14 | Republicans hold up gay nominee News Life Calendar Editor confirmation Benjamin Jenkins Ed DuMont is Obama’s only openly gay 5 | Between Ourselves 17 | Morgan Fairchild: Her Gay Love Story CREATIVE Mike Wallace nominee to a federal appeals bench Actress on new film, Meryl stealing movies and her latest role – as fairy Art Director David Ano 6 | BTL University Project: A campus in 16 | Open gays elected to Irish Dail godmother Webmaster & MIS Director transition Kevin Bryant Progressive, conservative views clash at 16 | Honduras special unit to investigate 21 | Oh Land is Our Land CMU LGBT hate crimes Danish import talks gay fans, sex in pop Contributing Writers music and her no-rules world Charles Alexander, D.A. Blackburn, Michelle E. 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Between The Lines is supported by many fine advertisers, but we cannot accept responsibility for claims made by our Visit our website! advertisers, nor can we accept responsibility for materials Cover provided by advertisers or their agents. http://www.pridesource.com “eCupid” makes its Copyright 2011 Pride Source Media Group, LLC worldwide premiere during the Detroit Independent Add our fan page! Film Festival on. March 11 Search: “Between The Lines Newspaper” at the Burton Theatre. Follow us! 17 @YourBTL 4 Between The Lines • March 10, 2011 News BETWEEN OURSELVES by Tara Cavanaugh Mike Wallace is a member of the AmeriCorps / AIDS United Team Detroit. As part of his AmeriCorps service, he works at the HIV/AIDS Resource Center in Ypsilanti as a prevention specialist. What do you do as a prevention 1 specialist at HARC? I do counseling, testing, referrals, one-on- one consultations, health fairs, and I’m on the social media team. How do you use social media to get your 2 message out? For the Team Detroit Facebook page, I’ll post news articles on HIV updates or if there are any health fairs happening in the area. At HARC in Ypsilanti we have a Facebook, Twitter and YouTube account. It’s a lot of networking. So if there’s an agency in the area that we work with that’s having an event we’ll go ahead and post that to our page as well, to spread the word. What advice would you give to another agency that’s thinking about using 3 social media? You have to get a team together and you have to have a strategy. What do you want to let the public know? What information do You have to look at ways you want to put in their hands? You have to focus on that. You can’t try to do everything to change the way you’re at once. Social media is one of those things that is changing constantly. You have to look giving information to the at ways to change the way you’re giving information to the public. You can’t keep public. You can’t keep saying, “come to our health fair.” You have to go into the public’s homes and put information saying, “come to our in their hands. health fair.” You have to What’s one of the biggest benefits of go into the public’s homes 4 using social media? and put information in It’s a great opportunity because a lot of it is free. All we needed to pay for at HARC was a Flip video camera. And there’s no better way their hands. to raise awareness and prevent a whole epidemic from expanding than to do it free. Do you think you’ll keep doing work The whole team, and everyone in this field 5 like this in the future? really, they put their heart into it. You kind of I pretty much fell in love with this kind have to in this field if you’re working with HIV/ of work in the first couple of months I got AIDS. You have to stay involved. You have to involved. What really helps is my teammates. It love what you do even though you hate what shouldn’t just be me in this interview, because you’re battling. all of us put in the same amount of effort. Between Ourselves is a bi-weekly feature that highlights members of Michigan’s LGBT and allied community. To recommend someone for Between Ourselves, e-mail our news editor Tara Cavanaugh at [email protected]. Just find the ad in this issue and enter online. See p. 28 for details. Between The Lines • March 10, 2011 5 UNIVERSITY PROJECT Analyzing Michigan Universities’ Resources and Environment A campus in transition for the Queer Student Members of the Gay and Lesbian Program Office make CMU’s campus more welcoming. Photo supplied by Shannon Joliff Progressive, conservative views clash at CMU BY BENJAMIN JENKINS Overall, Winchester argues that Central is “Campus has changed in my doing well and the student body is supportive, LGBT students at Central Michigan despite the conservative influence of Mt. University walk a fine line between acceptance four years here. I didn’t feel Pleasant and the state of Michigan (which and rejection. While they know they can take supplies very little protection to LGBT solace in supportive student organizations, comfortable four years ago.” Michigander). they’re also wary of a vocal opposition that “Campus has changed in my four years sometimes lashes out against progressive groups. here. I didn’t feel comfortable four years ago,” Last year, CMU’s lesbian and gay student Winchester said. “I’ve seen many freshmen organization Spectrum put together a unique come out to their roommates this year. I’ve event for its Coming Out Week in October. – Sarah Winchester seen those roommates then turn around and say “Many statistics estimated that ten percent of the ‘Yeah, my roommate is gay, I don’t really care.’ I American population identified as LGBT,” said think that is so exciting to see. I am really happy “When we first started the group, none of discrimination. Sarah Winchester, political chair of Spectrum. for incoming students that will be coming to a us were in hormone therapy, none of us had Joliff’s office also supports Spectrum “So we determined how many students would be campus much better off than the one I came to been fully dressing as the identity we wanted and Transcend, and the three organizations LGBT on campus, and put a flag out in front of four years ago.” to present ourselves,” Meade said. “Four of us sometimes band together around a cause. In the CMU library for every one of those students.” BTL Rating: 3.8 have started the physical process now, which 2010, a few housing staff members proposed a The flags caused some students to speak is a huge breakthrough. For me, it wasn’t until gender-neutral housing option. Now, Transcend, out against them, some even expressing their I got the support from Transcend that I started Spectrum, and the Office of Gay and Lesbian opinions with chalk on campus sidewalks.