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COVER STORY 8 West Michigan Community Choir promotes OPINION 23 Hilberry Theatre announces ‘Out & About’ acceptance and inclusion through music series 16 Rebel rising 10 I Am 61 Photo: Universal 9 Solidarity party for Recall Janice Daniels 24 Happenings effort Oct. 7 11 Parting Glances NEWS 12 EMU and MI-GOAL seeking LGBT law 12 Creep Of The Week REAR VIEW 5 Five-person assault on lesbian enforcement for new study 26 Puzzle LIFE 6 A sacred conversation: Should religious 12 California first to ban gay teen 27 Horoscopes Detroiters accept homosexuality? ‘conversion’ therapy 18 Screen Queen 28 Classifieds 8 The numbers are in for AIDS Walk Michigan 13 Hungry4Equality: Week 9 21 Cool Cities: Birmingham 30 Deep Inside Hollywood www.PrideSource.com October 4, 2012 | BTL 3 Save the Date: October 11 Come Celebrate the Young LGBT Leaders of Color Visibility Project Over the past year-and-a-half, The HOPE Fund of the Community 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Foundation for Southeast Michigan in coordination with Between The Affirmations Lines newspaper and Model D, has profiled a number of amazing LGBT Community Center individuals who live and work in southeastern Michigan. 290 West Nine Mile On Oct. 11, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., please come meet some of these Ferndale extraordinary, young leaders of color and learn about their activities, plans, dreams and expectations for the future of the LGBT community. 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PROXMIRE DETROIT - A lesbian couple is recovering from injuries sustained in an assault Sept. 23 that happened at Livernois and Davidson in Detroit following a car accident. The couple was riding home from a Coney Island with one of the women’s sisters in the back seat. They were stopped at a light when their vehicle was hit by a white Cadillac Escalade. The accident totaled the lesbian’s car. The Kenyetta, who lives in Westland with her partner, after the Sept. 23 assault. Photo courtesy of family. passenger, a 22-year-old Canton woman named Kenyetta, described the terrifying “I got hit maybe four or five times Victim’s Advocacy program designed events that followed. is all I can remember. Then I lost to help people who have been targets “It started off as a normal car accident. consciousness. My girlfriend said she of violence because gender and sexual We got hit and it was their fault. My looked over and they kept kicking me orientation perceptions. She said the girlfriend was talking to my sister. I went and stomping me while I was on the group sent a representative with them to see if they were okay. They got out and ground. When they left my girlfriend to help reach police, and that finally she they hit her first. When I went to break tried to wake me up. I had just regained was told the case was assigned to an up the fight, Courtney got in a hit and consciousness when the police got there.” officer to investigate. She also learned the girl said it was me and saying ‘That She said it had taken police 45 minutes that the initial police report did not have dude hit me.’ I said I wasn’t a dude and to respond and that the five men and two the category of “bias” checked, meaning that I didn’t hit her. Then she said ‘If you women had jumped in the Impala and that police on the scene did not take into gonna hit me like a man, I got something left the scene. account the potential for a hate crimes for you,’” Kenyetta said. Both women experienced bruising charge, even though the victim reported She said that the woman backed off from the hits, and Kenyetta was beaten that she was repeatedly characterized by and called her boyfriend. Police had and bloody when police arrived. At the her assailants as a “dyke” and a “dude.” already been called about the accident, hospital she was given a CAT scan and “I hope they investigate and I hope but the boyfriend and four of his friends was released with referrals for follow up they find them,” Kenyetta said. She also arrived first. Kenyetta said that five men care. She said she still has trouble eating said that when her sister ran to get help, pulled up in a Chevy Impala and that and that she gets dizzy spells, and is still onlookers only laughed and took videos the woman’s boyfriend walked up to receiving medical care. with their cell phones rather than helping Courtney and punched her in the face, What she says she is not receiving, or calling the police. saying “You hit my bitch so I’m gonna however, is satisfactory follow up from If anyone has information about this hit yours.” The two women got into the police. attack, including video of the beating, the Impala, and five men then jumped Over a week passed and Kenyetta was they are encouraged to contact Equality Kenyetta while her sister ran to a nearby unable to reach anyone in the Detroit Michigan, who is helping the women Coney Island to get help. She said they Police Department for information through this difficult situation. Email kept calling her a dude and a dyke, and about the case. She contacted Equality info to [email protected] or call telling her to fight like a dude. Michigan, which runs a state-wide 866-962-1147. www.PrideSource.com October 4, 2012 | BTL 5 A Sacred Conversation: Should Religious Detroiters Accept Homosexuality? BY CRYSTAL A. PROXMIRE I was at the National Board meeting Flunder said she approaches her spousal abuse. Theological abuse to say, ‘go in peace. God bless you, that Saturday when they made that ministry in the spirit of “The Book,” once or twice a year is still abuse,” and go.’” DETROIT - When President decision to support marriage equality. but not with the literal words that Flunder said. Wiley said, “Christians are not Barack Obama spoke in support of This has been an issue in the NAACP were written by man and have been Brooks defended those who monolithic,” noting that there are same-gender marriage, it sent a bolt for some time…The NAACP is a used throughout history to oppress teach the literal Word. “Preaching many denominations and many of lightening down the rift between civil rights organization. It’s not a disenfranchised groups. “The book against any sin like homosexuality, interpretations of the Bible. Flunder those on both sides of the debate religious organization, it is a civil is not kind to slavery.