The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 40

DSA2 ns Thursday October 13 2011 nw Conimfclal Appal TAKE TWO Step out and parade pride in fair choice MID-SOUTH MEMORIES Salutations MID-SOUTH PRIDE FEST The 2011 Mid-South Pride Festival is from 10 am to 6 pm Saturday at Robert Church Park at Fourth and Beale Downtown The parade kicks off at 2 pm and will travel down Second Beale and Third streets For more details the schedule of performances and list of vendors go to midsouthprideorg WENDIC THOMAS deticatesinawad over that I speak for the immutability of sexuality but my sexuality is no more changeable if I go to the Pride Festival than my nationality would be if I attend the always popular Italian festival 1 think a lot of people have misconceptions about the Pride said Michelle Bliss who is cochair of Shelby County committee of the Thnnessee Equality Project and a professor at the University of Memphis "A friend of mine used to talk about how the media shows the 20 drag queens in the front and not the 800 lawyers in the Bliss who has a law degree will be in the zombie segment of the parade staggering around in search of "tasty brains to eat she joked For the day TEP organizers will epjoy a brief respite from the work for fairness and equality TEP is still focused on the City Council runoff race between the candidate it endorsed law professor Lee Harris and actress Kemba Fbrd who did not respond to queries When the legislature resumes TEP will work to avoid a repeat of the last session which Bliss called homophobic and She was of mar referring to i WHY SOME WILL undoubtedly ask have a gay pride paraoer Why Td query in response attend the Greek Festival? Or go to India Feat? Or visit the Africa in April festival? We go to these events to briefly step outside our self-proscribed norms Mid-South Pride Festival and Parade unique except that the jpy community still fights for legitimacy very important that we present ourselves to the rest of the dty and let them know not that said Mike Morgan co-chairman of this MfcbSouth Pride events Nearly 50 groups in cars and carriages on floats and on foot will take over Beale Street on Saturday afternoon in a most public recognition of the GLBTIAQ community That's gay lesbian bisexual transgender intersex asexual (or ally depending on who you ask) and questioning community not too much to manage if you consider respecting how others identify themselves an inconvenience definitely an open and inviting environment" Morgan said the exception of some of the flamboyant-ness it's going to look like any other festival you might go And by flamboyant Morgan is referring to the drag queens Yes there will be drag queens in the parade but get your Dave DamellThe Commercial Appeal Mes OUT FOR A WALK DURING RUSH HOUR Retired railroad engineer John Martin and his dog Choo Choo greet morning commuters at the northwest corner of Holmes and Walnut Grove Road on Oct 13 1988 Martin waves at morning and evening commuters daily students in elementary or middle school The funky news of the Say Gay" law wafted all the way to Europe possibly cementing rep as a backward Southern state While the ACLU is taking the lead TEP has also lent its support to the recent case of a high school student in Madisonville who alleges he was physically assaulted by his principal for wearing a homemade T-shirt that read got your in support of a gay-straight student alliance at school "He is a young man who is willing to take on the challenged what he believes and we love our straight allies for that because they don't have anything vested in this except they believe that fair is fair and equal is equal" Bliss said So yes there will be lots of straight people marching in parade And gay people and Christians ami those of other faiths and families like BHss her husband and 7-yearold son "I think a wonderful experience for him to be surrounded by a diverse group of the Say i which forbids mentioning or Jing ilityinany way to Bishop Vander Horst altered the office by his right of succession as bishop coadjutor under the late Bishop Theodore Barth 75 years ago: 1936 Setting a new record and breaking one which had stood since the boom days of the 1920s seven permits for new homes were issued yesterday by Building Commissioner JE Hollingsworth It brought the total for the year to 163 against 62 for the same time last year 100 years ago: 1911 The Memphis Rice Milling Co yesterday started up their machinery in the big new plant in South Memphis and formally opened the Memphis rice market to the world The plant can process 5000 bushels of rice every 24 working hours according to JJ) Marks manager The plant cost about $75000 125 years ago: 1886 The Memphis firms of McTighe have secured the contract to build 1000000 yards of levee in Tunica DeSoto and Coahoma counties in Mississippi This put the Huff City in the enviable position of controlling the labor and supplies needed for the $500000 job OCT 13 25 years ago: 1986 Attendance was up livestock participation was up and the temperature was up at this Mid-South Fair Overshadowing those and other barometers of this year's fair is the question of where it is going to be held in 1987 Same place as this year according to Chuck Pierotti president of Mid-South FairLibertyiand But last November city officials revealed a plan to raze 11 fairgrounds buildings leaving five standing The plan was intended to benefit fairgrounds parking and might have been a prelude to an eventual move of the 130-year-old fair to Agricenter International property 50 years ago: 1961 Light filtered through the stained-glass windows and reflected off the golden metal of the Cross as the procession began its measured cadence down the center aisle Moments later more than 1000 heads turned as the Rt Rev John Vander Horst knocked on the front door of St Episcopal Cathedral awaited briefly the call to enter and began the tide to one of the greatest events of his life This was the setting at 700 Poplar yesterday morning for the installation of the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee DESOTO A Aim UlA CrtAMted 860 353 207 Unit mm JjiliiijilI KITTim PURRFCCTLY pdarablG free It In eat I mmrt1 wks eld Utter-bon trained cm NMflt 1S71 Hnthivn ActMdes A A ggft212 405-425 1001-1999 NE8BIT MB Rain ar SMnM BridgetownSD AaasalFsISals SUMf7sa SDfFsHiH (Off Ptaaaant MW Malone ar GatwM Wlndamara HMwUnw 411 CM NORM TRAILKR Mr sal mtHoI Hvina at MS 1st I StuoiidlidM rlrawood Card FuN Card SlMpkkup SIS jttfJOdSEiUfiL esnvsrfsd la lack alM but can ka ravansd Cad Ml- 901-940 ATVl Qp-Kirt 905 BROWNING ArGoN 7 map Paaa Syalam Italntaao Bar- rwk nnnwnc swui rdp mans Scapa MSI OBa Cal OLIVE BRANCH: Larva muttt-famUy YARO SALE! 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