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Women Walk The Walk

The Michigan Breast Cancer 3-day, 60-mile walk for breast cancer funding was
held July 15-17. Shown are some of the local participants: back row, Cindy
Schwartz of Farmington Hills, Cindy Kandel ofWest Bloomfield, Diane Lebovic,
Lynne Warshaw, Sue Michlin, all of Farmington Hills, Sheila Hymes of Highland
Township, Laura Jaffa and Emily Jaffe, both of Farmington Hills,. front row, Sharon
Lebovic ofWest Bloomfield, Saree Hantler of Farmington Hills, Susan Noon of
Milford and Kim Kaplan of Farmington Hills.

director of American United for the
Separation of Church and State, also
will address the conference. His talk is
tided "Religious Right: More Intrusive
Now Than Ever," and will focus on the
religious right's involvement with gov-
ernment and policy.
Many, like Jonathan David "Yoni"
Makepeace of Windsor, will be attend-
ing the conference for social reasons. "I
am attending to meet new people and
perhaps gain insights into bisexual, gay,
lesbian and transgender religiousity or
spirituality," said Makepeace, who
learned about the conference from the
Jewish Gay Network of Michigan.
Kevin Werner of West Bloomfield,
president of Gaygle, EMU's Jewish
LGBT and ally student group, who
volunteered at last year's conference,
will be distributing literature at the
Gaygle table this year.
"When I went last year it was so
enlightening," he said. "It is such an
informative and helpful conference to
learn about various different faiths
dealing with LGBT people's spiritual
side."
With concerns that there is an inac-
curate stereotype of LGBT culture in
the media as being non-spiritual, he
said, "I feel it is helpful to people who
need the support of the religious corn-
munity where so many LGBT people
have been shut out."

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The conference is hosted by the
Faith Action Network, a project of the
Michigan office of the American
Friends Service Committee Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues
Program. Its purpose is to bring
together LGBT individuals and allies
of all ages, races and spiritual back-
grounds to promote education and
offer new information, skills, tools and
networks toward the creation of
LGBT-affirming faith communities. ❑

To register or for information on
the Friday, Aug. 5-Sunday, Aug.
7, "Together in Faith"
conference, to be held at the
McKenny Union at Eastern
Michigan University, contact
Amanda Sharrai at (734) 761-
8283, ext. 3; e-mail at:
conference@afsc-fan.org ; or
access the Web site at:
www.togetherinfaith.com .
Cost: 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5,
reception: no charge; Saturday,
Aug. 6, daylong presentations
and workshops, $75; Sunday,
Aug. 7, daylong presentation and
workshops, $75. Rabbi Michael
Lerner will speak at 1 p.m. Aug.
7. Registration deadline: Aug. 1.

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