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PLAN YOUR VOTE FOR EQUALITY Visit MiVoterGuide.com Plus 16 Page Guide Inside PRIDESOURCE.COM WE ENDORSE JOE BIDEN The Next President of the U.S. Fall Pet Issue, p. 36 OCTOBER 1, 2020 | VOL. 2840 | FREE NEWS PET ISSUE 6 Ginsburg’s Death Leaves LGBTQ 36 From COVID-19 to Black Lives VOL. 2840 • OCTOBER 1, 2020 Rights on Supreme Court Vulnerable to Matter, How Bingo Pet Salon is ISSUE 1164/65 Religious Claims Navigating 2020 PRIDE SOURCE MEDIA GROUP 8 Activists Believe Ginsburg 39 Pet Reiki Service can Provide Stress 06 Phone 734.293.7200 Replacement Barrett Could Hinder Relief and Relaxation for Dogs LGBTQ Rights PUBLISHERS Susan Horowitz & Jan Stevenson 10 Michigan Secretary of State, ACLU, ENTERTAINMENT MichiganVoting.Org Coalition Host 40- 42 Reba, Still Fancy EDITORIAL Day Early Voting Campaign Kickoff Editor in Chief Susan Horowitz, 734.293.7200 46 Peppermint Talks New R&B Album, [email protected] 10 LGBT Detroit Co-Hosts Voting Authenticity and the ‘Dirty Game’ That Event with Lt. 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(Washing- continuing COVID-19 coverage. materials provided by advertisers or their agents. ton Blade file photo by Daniel Truitt) Copyright 2020 www.PrideSource.com BTL | October 1, 2020 3 For Joe Biden, Push Relentlessly Until Nov. 3 NATIONAL LGBT NEWSPAPER GUILD, BTL MEMBER in their schools and battled to take away the Trump’s governing has been much like his Since Hillary Clinton lost the presidency in right of student athletes to compete in sports. court appointments — where he is not cruel, 2016 even while winning almost three million And against the trans community as well as he is merely incompetent. Mexican and other more votes than Trump, the Democratic Party mong the many compelling reasons lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans, Trump’s Latin American immigrants have been slurred has undergone an internal battle of sorts for its to make sure that Donald Trump administration fought tooth and nail to prevent in overtly racist terms and their children have soul, pitting insurgent, left-leaning candidates, Aand Mike Pence are not reelected on the pivotal advance we won at the Supreme been caged. Muslim newcomers to America many of them young newcomers, against Nov. 3, perhaps the 26 most compelling are Court in June — the recognition that we enjoy have also been stigmatized where they have more moderate establishment figures — on the transgender Americans — most of them employment nondiscrimination protections not been blocked outright. The damage is not issues from racial justice to health care policy, trans women of color — known to have been thanks to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Still, Trump limited to the newcomers. Latinx- and Muslim- economic inequality and climate change action. murdered this year. and his see-no-evil GOP Senate allies refuse to American citizens have faced increasing levels Those are all areas on which debate is legitimate, We needn’t be simple-minded in making move the Equality Act, which would extend of hostility and hate crimes. and indeed needed. this argument. Trump and Pence did not pull those nondiscrimination protections across Trump saw “very fine people, on both But here’s the thing: with four more years of the trigger, and those who did must, of course, the board in areas like housing and public sides” during the 2017 neo-Nazi invasion of Trump, there is no real consequential venue for bear the consequences for their horrific acts. accommodations. For them, the nation’s most Charlottesville, but he’s been snide in reacting having those debates. Trump and his enablers But the all-too-toxic environment that too embattled minority are bigots who want to to the Black Lives Matter movement, telling are draining the oxygen out of our democracy. many of our transgender siblings have endured enshrine their right to discriminate under the Bob Woodward in response to a question about Debating between left and center in the House in their lives has gotten immeasurably worse cloak of “religious liberty.” why he can’t bring himself to empathize with of Representatives is no substitute for regaining over the past four years. As in every other aspect of this endorsement, African-American citizens, “You, you really the White House and the Senate. Only then can For this reason and many more, in a historic Joe Biden and Kamala Harris offer a stark and drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you?” we have our debates, lick our wounds and set move, the 12 newspapers of the National LGBT redemptive alternative. The novel coronavirus’ most recent surge a course for a better tomorrow. Media Association, which represents the After Senate Majority Leader Mitch — in the Midwest — and the wild fires raging This election will decided in a small number nation’s oldest and most established LGBTQ McConnell denied President Barack Obama through wide swaths of the West are only the of states — perhaps as many as a dozen, more publications with a combined circulation of federal judicial appointments in his last year most calamitous indicators of Trump’s refusal likely just a handful. In all of the battleground more than 1 million readers, are issuing this in office, he and his colleagues have rubber- to accept the basic facts of science, a posture at states, LGBTQ activists and our progressive joint endorsement of the Joe Biden/Kamala stamped an unprecedented number of judges one with his hostility to fact-based discourse on allies are on the ground working to elect Joe Harris ticket this week. — many of them viciously right-wing, others almost any public policy issue. It’s no surprise Biden and Kamala Harris. Especially in a year From the start, Donald Trump has used the lacking in even the most elementary judicial that the nation’s free press and the unfettered when much of the campaign will be carried out trans community as a punching bag to prove qualifications — whose influence will last for right of Americans to vote — the twin jewels on the air and online rather than in person, all his toughness to his socially conservative base decades to come. The cornerstone decision of American democracy — are, in his mind, of us — everywhere across the nation — can hungry for a strongman willing to turn back in protecting reproductive freedom — Roe v. enemies of the people. pitch in to help in those states where a boost for the clock. He has denied trans folks the ability Wade — may already be doomed by the Trump Meanwhile, Trump is most at ease with Biden is most needed. Grab a bucket, adopt a to serve openly in the military, sought to strip court’s configuration. Give him another chance fellow authoritarian figures around the globe, state and dive in to the battle. None of us should them of nondiscrimination protections in or two to name a member to the high court, whether it’s Russia’s Putin, North Korea’s Jong- wake up Nov. 4 wishing we had done more. health care, worked to rob trans youth of dignity and the ball game will definitely be over. Un, Turkey’s Erdoğan, or Brazil’s Bolsonaro. See pages 19 -35 , compiled by Congressional District, to learn how your candidate is endorsed A Project of Pride Source Media Group MiVoterGuide.com Michigan’s 2020 Progressive Voter Guide YOUR PRO-LGBT, WOMAN, ENVIRONMENT, GUN SENSE & LABOR GUIDE TO THE ELECTION 4 BTL | October 1, 2020 www.PrideSource.com The National LGBT Media Association unanimously WE BACK endorses Democratic ticket.