http://www.pridesource.com Your Michigan LGBT Directory and News Source en Copyright 2009, Pride Source Media Group 16 May 2012 19:16 EST 16 May 2012 19:16 EST webmaster@pridesource.com webmaster@pridesource.com http://www.pridesource.com/img/logo.gif http://pridesource.com http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53371 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1M1_UnityElliot_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>The push to amend the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act is on, and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights needs your help gathering information on instances of discrimination in the state. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53371 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53372 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1M1_UnitySidebarLobbyDay_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>On Thursday, May 24 over 100 people and their allies will meet in Lansing for Lobby Day where they will have a chance to meet with elected officials and talk with them about gay and transgender issues. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53372 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53373 The American Civil Liberties Union received a favorable decision last week from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case on behalf of the plaintiff, Ricky Davis, a gay prisoner at the Florence Crane Correctional Facility in Coldwater. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53373 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53374 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1M3_MotorCityPride_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>After last year's packed turnout at Hart Plaza, Motor City Pride planners are looking for another year to "Educate, Liberate and Celebrate" Detroit's LGBT community with the biggest party of the year. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53374 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53375 Democracy in Oakland County is going to look different in 2013, and likely much more Republican. A series of well-orchestrated political moves changed the rules of the political process. Thanks to what Democrats are calling "the Republican Power Grab," a new state law reduced the number of commissioners from 25 to 21, and handed over authority to draw the districts to the commissioners themselves. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53375 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53376 The law is a complex, ever-changing puzzle, the nitty-gritty details of which intrigue attorney Timothy Cordes. Though he is married to a lovely woman and labels himself a straight guy, Cordes is president of the Stonewall Bar Association. He is both an ally and an advocate. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53376 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53377 Rick and Janet Glasgow bring more than fresh baked cookies and a home cooked meal when they come to the Ruth Ellis Center on Monday evenings. They bring a sense of stability for the LGBTQ teens who use the drop-in center. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53377 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53378 Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer spoke on the Senate floor May 10 to denounce Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney after media reports detailed stories in which Romney bullied and attacked a fellow classmate while a student at Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53378 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53379 The campaign for openly-gay Democratic congressional candidate Trevor Thomas took another step forward when the campaign submitted 2,000 confirmed signatures last week - well above the 1,000 required - for the Michigan Secretary of State to officially secure his spot on the ballot. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53379 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53295 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S2_Columbus_2020_FRONT.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Ohio has this reputation of being flat, cornfield-crazy nothingness: the kind of place people drive through... only to get somewhere else. It was always the longest strip of vacant land on the drive down South, where I'd gone a couple of times as a kid. It's where I'd tucker out just in time for a new state. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53295 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53296 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S3_DH_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>There was that "f-word" scandal, he quit "Grey's Anatomy" and then... whatever happened to T.R. Knight? http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53296 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53285 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/Adam1.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Remember the fuss Adam Lambert caused when he tongued his keyboardist in front of the world? Of course you do. The controversial kiss drew both homophobic outbursts and so-what shrugs, and it's an American Music Awards moment that won't soon be forgotten. Especially by Lambert himself. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53285 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53179 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S2_Jeff_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Dance can take people on many unexpected journeys, whether on the stages of the world in performance or the more personal journey of self-discovery. Jeff Rebudal has done both, and as a professor of dance at Wayne State University and a professional choreographer of modern dance, he leads his students on similar journeys. He began his professional dance career in his home state of Hawaii and went on to be a founding member of two dance companies in New York, the Rebudal Dance and the Sean Curran Company, with which he toured around the world from 1995 to 2003. As a professor, he's taught in Connecticut, Oklahoma, Arizona and Manoa, Hawaii. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53179 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53189 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S2_ButterflyMain_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>WEST BLOOMFIELD - When a fantasy is strong enough, our minds can convince us of just about anything. In "M. Butterfly," a play opening this week at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre that is based on a real event, Gallimard convinces himself for 20 years that he's having sex with a beautiful, submissive Asian woman when "she" is really a male Chinese spy, Song Liling, running a honey pot scheme. Director Arthur Beer said the playwright, David Henry Hwang, spends a good deal of the script talking about self-delusion and how "the mind is capable of flip flopping to defend its fantasies." http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53189 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53044 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2018/S2_LCSharonNeedles_2018.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>In a drag world of pretty feather boas, bedazzled attire, full-face makeup and voluptuous body shapers, Sharon Needles is embracing her scary side as the controversial Queen of Darkness. This earned her the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar" on season four of Logo's crossover hit reality show, RuPaul's Drag Race, hosted by none other than RuPaul Charles. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53044 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53382 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1N2_Romenyas-bully_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Just one day after President Obama's big announcement that he supports the legal right of gay couples to marry, Republican nominee apparent Mitt Romney was scrambling to hurry past an unexpected revelation. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53382 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53381 Gov. Pat Quinn is stepping up his support for allowing gay marriage in Illinois. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53381 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53383 On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-struggling Chevy plant endures. It is a place filled with union halls and blue-collar families for whom the auto bailout meant survival, delivered by a president many here see as their savior. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53383 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53384 One of the co-founders of Facebook and his partner are giving up to $100,000 to supporters of a referendum to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53384 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53385 Will Smith says he supports U.S. President Barack Obama's position on gay marriage. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53385 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53386 At a birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53386 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53399 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1O_SpeakOut_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>The evolution of President Obama is complete. After months of speculation about his position on same-sex marriage, the president announced last Wednesday that he does indeed support the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53399 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53400 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1O_VPBrown_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Are you feeling good about our chances in November? Still sitting on the sidelines because you're just not that into politics? Are you leaving all the heavy lifting to your local and national organizations? Are you still waiting for equality to come to you, instead of grabbing the bull by the horns? Well listen up people. Here's your wake up call. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53400 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53401 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1O_VP_ONLINEONLYMichelleBrown_2018.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Now that we officially "know" who the two candidates will be on this November's presidential ballot, it looks likes the games have officially begun - well, according to the media. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53401 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53277 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S1O_TOL_Dees_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>I'm several days into a five-week bike ride up the Mississippi, from New Orleans up to its source in Minnesota. I'm taking a slow journey through the very middle of Middle America, along with thirty other women from around the country, and beyond. I'm doing this for the physical challenge, sure, but more so, I'm doing it to learn about my own country. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53277 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53145 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2018/S1O_SpeakOut_2018.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>In his three years as president, Barack Obama has taken a number of actions to advance LGBT equality in the United States. Only one other chief executive, Bill Clinton, made any real effort to push for equal rights for our community while in office. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53145 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53146 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2018/S1O_TOL_2018.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>I've often thought I should write a column called, "Weird Things Lawyers Do," to explain to normal people why attorneys, like me, spend so much time arguing about meaningless points. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53146 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53397 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1O_SHESAID_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53397 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53275 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S1O_SHESAID_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53275 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53143 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2018/S1O_SHESAID_2018.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53143 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53020 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2017/S1O_SHESAID_2017.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>"Do I really think that this is the kind of thing that's contagious? I don't know. When I was a teenager and I saw James Dean smoking, it made me want to smoke." http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53020 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52893 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2016/S1O_SHESAID_2016.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52893 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52755 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2015/S1M_SHESAID_2015.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52755 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53391 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1O_Creep_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>As you surely already know, President Obama came out of the closet last week as totally gay - for gay marriage, anyway. Obama's support for marriage equality had been, let's face it, an open secret of sorts. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53391 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53269 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S1O_CREEP_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Pop quiz time: Your son, barely out of diapers, starts acting a little, well, "girly." What do you do? If you answered, "Punch him in the face" you just might be North Carolina pastor Sean Harris or one of his congregants. Because that's what he said to do during an April 29 sermon. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53269 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53137 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2018/S1O_CREEP_2018.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Suicide is one of those things with no positives. I mean, no one kills him or herself because things are going well. Even assisted suicide, intended to have the positive outcome of allowing someone to die with dignity, is proceeded by some of the worst life has to offer. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53137 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53014 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2017/S1O_Creep_2017.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>I've been reading about Kenneth Weishuhn, a 14-year-old who recently took his own life after reportedly enduring death threats after coming out as gay at school. Especially heartbreaking was that, according to the Huffington Post, Weishuhn had a Pinterest page with a "When I get married" section featuring "photos of vintage menswear, candle centerpieces and wedding cake toppers depicting two grooms." In other words, the kid really did think he had a future. And yet, now he doesn't. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53014 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52887 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2016/S1_Creep_-2016.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Have you heard the one about the National Day of Silence? Here's the set up: A teen walks into her high school. A few of her friends are all, "What's up, girl?" And she's all, "..." And they're like, "What's your problem?" And she hands them a card that reads, "Please understand my reasons for not speaking today. I am participating in the Day of Silence, a national youth movement bringing attention to the silence faced by LGBT people and their allies. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52887 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52750 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2015/S1O_Creep_2015.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Oh, Steve King. You are a royal creep, indeed. A longstanding foe of LGBT people and anyone who sees LGBT people as, oh I don't know, human, King has once again opened his joker of a mouth to say something incredibly dumb. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52750 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53290 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S2_BM_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53290 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52777 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2016/S2_BM_2016.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52777 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52514 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2014/S2_BM_2014.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52514 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52261 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2012/S2_BM_2012.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52261 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52010 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2010/S2_BM_2010.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Eminent Outlaws, An Arab Melancholia, Camptown Ladies, Citizen http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52010 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=51740 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2008/S2_BM_2008.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=51740 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53298 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S3_H_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53298 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53181 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S3_H_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>The Sun conjoins Jupiter in Taurus offering a bright spot in the economy, both global and your own. Venus is in close aspect boosting that optimism, but Eris is also in aspect so real gains require hard work. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53181 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53047 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2018/S3_H_2018.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53047 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52923 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2017/S3_H_2017.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52923 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52786 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2016/S3_Horoscopes.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52786 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52658 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2015/S3_H_2015.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/> http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52658 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53300 In analyzing Sacha Baron Cohen and the array of offbeat characters he's created, it's clear that it's become a matter of diminishing returns. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53300 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52507 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2013/my week with marilyn bd.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Some like it hot, and some like it with a little more oomph. &quot;My Week With Marilyn,&quot; starring the ever-fabulous Michelle Williams in the Oscar-nominated role, is remarkably made to appeal to whatever Marilyn you adore. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52507 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52375 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2012/S2_Bully_2014_2.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Lee Hirsch will never forget the brutality of his middle-school years, when he was the victim of what, in recent years, has become a tragic epidemic - bullying. The punches, taunts and name-calling were all wielded his way. And the bullshit justification for all the above: that it's just part of being a kid. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52375 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52254 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2011/21JumpMain.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Using "21 Jump Street," the cinematic reboot loosely based on the guilty-pleasure TV drama, as a progress-meter for the gay community is probably a bit ridiculous, but you have to give it up to the filmmakers for its anti-hateration: no, it's not cool to punch a gay black kid. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52254 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52267 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2012/S2_AAFF50_2012.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Out Night returns to the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival, North America's longest-running independent and experimental film festival, in the Michigan Theater's main auditorium at 9:30 p.m. March 28. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52267 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52145 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2011/S2_KevinReview_2011.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>We need to talk about Kevin. The kid's practically demonic in his pursuit to drive his mother nuts, sickly terrorizing Eva and the family - without giving too much away, he makes a mess of the house and sucks up to his father to spite her - with a smirk that's eerily devilish, like some demon child. Seriously, all that's missing is the corn. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52145 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53306 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S2_CC1_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>In 1904, Enrico Caruso's recording of "Vesti la giubba," the aria from the conclusion of Act One of Ruggero Leoncavallo's 1892 opera " I Pagliacci," became the first million-selling record in history. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53306 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53307 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S2_CC2_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>It takes a particularly wacky sense of humor to appreciate "camp." The genre, through parody and satire, provides fresh insight by skewering cultural conventions. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53307 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53308 Every town has its collection of famous and almost famous residents. In Lansing, these include celebrities from the world of sports, politics, technology and politics. Names such as Magic Johnson, John Smoltz, Malcolm X and Larry Page (co-founder of Google) make residents stop and say, "Yeah, they're from my hometown." http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53308 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53309 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S2_CCO2_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>To sell a play about friendship, the actors ultimately have to - if you'll forgive the cliche - have the right chemistry. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53309 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53189 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S2_ButterflyMain_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>WEST BLOOMFIELD - When a fantasy is strong enough, our minds can convince us of just about anything. In "M. Butterfly," a play opening this week at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre that is based on a real event, Gallimard convinces himself for 20 years that he's having sex with a beautiful, submissive Asian woman when "she" is really a male Chinese spy, Song Liling, running a honey pot scheme. Director Arthur Beer said the playwright, David Henry Hwang, spends a good deal of the script talking about self-delusion and how "the mind is capable of flip flopping to defend its fantasies." http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53189 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53190 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S2_CC1_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>According to the Oxford American Dictionary, an altruist is one who has an "unselfish concern for the needs and well-being of other people." In Nicky Silver's razor-sharp satire "The Altruists," a passionate band of idealistic, young protesters are indeed concerned about the welfare of others; it's the "unselfish" part they have problems with - as seen in Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company's very fine production at The Furniture Factory in Midtown Detroit. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53190 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53395 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2020/S1O_PG_2020.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Two popular Rosemary Clooney hits of the late-1950s were "Come On-a My House" and "Sisters." Both took over the air waves, juke boxes and drag queen lip-synch stage routines. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53395 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53273 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2019/S1O_PG_2019.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>At 19, I went to my first gay bar - the Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. I used borrowed ID, was escorted authoritatively by two regulars, Speedy and Draino. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53273 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53141 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2018/S1O_PG_2018.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>Fifty years ago Detroit's Washington Boulevard was a busy setting for exclusive shops, upscale restaurants, elegant bistros, stretching sedately from Grand Circus Park's popular Statler Hotel to Michigan Avenue's prestigious Sheraton Cadillac. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53141 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53018 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2017/S1O_PG_2017.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>In the Year of the Grand Delusion, during the Reign of Lost War Rumors, a decree went out from the Tetrarch of Theocracy, abiding in the Capitol of Divine Cacophony, that all same-sex couples must register, under penalty of eternal banishment. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=53018 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52891 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2016/S1O_PG_2016.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>There was a time - oh, so long, long. long ago - when I would stand on Hub Grill corner in downtown Detroit and within five flattering and exciting minutes be offered a lift by some accommodating driver cruising by. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52891 http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=52753 <img src='http://www.pridesource.com/btl-db/images/2015/S1O_PG.jpg' style='width:250px'><br/>I was 19 the summer I graduated from Cass Tech. 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