PRIDESOURCE.COM MICHIGAN’S WEEKLY NEWS FOR LESBIANS, GAYS, BISEXUALS, TRANSGENDERS AND FRIENDS 1831 08.05.10 A Delicate Balance Area artisans to create masterpieces, combat AIDS for Detroit’s first Dining by Design event DANGEROUS ART QUEEN OF THE NIGHT TARGET GETS HIT Photos tackle gay Kelis on her gay Gays boycott chain parenting myths fans, new album due to GOP donation 2 Between The Lines • August 5, 2010 August 5, 2010 Vol. 1831 • Issue 673 Publishers Susan Horowitz Jan Stevenson EDITORIAL Editor in Chief Susan Horowitz Entertainment Editor Chris Azzopardi Associate News Editor Jessica Carreras Arts & Theater Editor 12 19 21 34 Donald V. 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Why should Why did you the Latino decide to get in- 4 community 1 volved with De- care about LGBT troit Latin@z? and HIV issues? I have been organiz- Besides the fact ing in the LGBT com- that we are over-rep- munity since the early to resented in terms of mid-1990s. Latinos/as in infection rates (we southeastern Michigan represent more of need a place to go and those infected than a “family” of support- we do the general ers with whom to meet, population), we also mingle and organize that have challenges sim- understands their sensi- ilar to other commu- bilities and unique needs. nities of color. Many Detroit Latin@z provides men who have sex just such a resource. Fam- with men in the La- ily is everything for us, tino community are and without providing a very secretive about second “family,” the true it. This leads to higher coming out process will Many men who have sex with risk factors such as no not happen. barrier usage, slower men in the Latino community access to medical care What has the group and shame and guilt been up to recently? are very secretive about it. This issues. 2 Most recently, leads to higher risk factors we were at Hotter Than How do La- July, Detroit’s black gay such as no barrier usage, tino gays and Pride celebration, where slower access to medical care, 5 lesbians hope we had a table at the Palmer to become a more Park Festival and mingled and shame and guilt issues. prominent part of with event participants. We the LGBT commu- were also at Motor City nity? Pride in Ferndale. Detroit Latin@z has to ride a tightrope of We had a nice big group of folks at Dia- sorts in that we need to be sensitive to the needs blos Cantina and Club 9 in Ferndale for Cinco of those coming out, but at the same time try to de Mayo this year as well. We also provide a be as visible as possible. Providing ongoing sup- monthly educational forum from fall to spring, port for the coming out process is the only way usually held at The Loft, home of MPowerment to create a larger, more prominent community. Detroit, downtown. We need to be at the table for all major LGBT events and decisions, but also provide a How did you get involved with HIV/ space where members can feel safe, secure and AIDS advocacy work? supported relative to family and faith concerns. 3 I started as a volunteer with the HIV/ For those members and leaders who are ready to AIDS Resource Center of Washtenaw County in be visible, though, we need to be front and center, late 1991. Back then, I attended vigils and visited not just in southwest Detroit or Ferndale, but at patients in nursing homes, who were always dy- every possible opportunity where LGBT people ing. My then boyfriend got me involved, and I and Latino/a folks are gathering. have loved the work ever since! To learn more about Detroit Latin@z, visit www. detlatz.com. Between Ourselves is a weekly feature that highlights members of Michigan’s LGBT and allied community. To recommend someone for Between Ourselves, e-mail Jessica at jessica@ pridesource.com It’s easy to win Find the Just find the ad in this issue and fake ad enter online. See & win p.25 for details. Hit ‘Click to Win’ on our home page @ PrideSource.com Between The Lines • August 5, 2010 5 News MICHIGAN A Delicate Balance Beauty of art meets darkness of disease at Detroit’s first Dining by Design HIV/AIDS fundraiser BY JESSICA CARRERAS Messages about the AIDS orman Silk is feeling a little bipolar. It’s easy to understand why: On any given epidemic at Dining by Design Nday, the co-owner of the Birmingham- events have ranged from simple based floral design shop Blossoms deals with deaths and births, sympathy and love. inclusion of red ribbons to, in one The same goes for his feelings about the extreme case at a New York City AIDS epidemic. His late ’80s to early ’90s – when a positive diagnosis “was a death sen- dinner, a bound-and-gagged live tence,” says Silk – were often spent providing person hanging over the table, arrangements for funerals. Now Silk and his partner Dale Morgan focus their 25-year-old representing the silence in which company’s philanthropic floral forays on high- HIV-positive people are forced end fundraisers attended by the best-of. And on Aug. 14, the king of all AIDS gala events will to live. It’s all up to the artists. showcase Blossoms’ work like never before when Dining by Design comes to Detroit. Begun in Kansas City, the Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS has since held their state-of-the-art event in design- and fashion- focused cities across the nation – New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas. But never Detroit. Norman Silk and his team at the Birmingham floral company Blossoms are hard at work preparing their Frank “But I had already lost a couple of friends to The Michigan AIDS Coalition changed all Lloyd Wright-themed table for Dining by Design, coming to Detroit Aug. 12-14. BTL photo by Andrew Potter. AIDS and I wanted to become active using my that when, earlier this year, representatives from artistic abilities.” the statewide HIV/AIDS nonprofit approached Along with a choice few others, Demeulen- DIFFA with a proposition: bring Dining by aere has donated his work to ArtWorks for Life other upscale events.