The links between polyamorous marriage and same-sex marriage are a lot clearer than Mr. Corvino seems to think. The essential question is not whether one is more socially acceptable or more essential or expensive or [...]

Whap! Thud! Kick! Kill! Shazam! Hey, mom, what's for dessert? A U of M study of juvenile couch-potato-derangement-in-the-making blames adult violence on TV programs that feature heroes who are admired for bravery but imitated for [...]

I must respectfully disagree with the suggestiveness of the "State of the State" article and editorial that appeared in this week's "Between The Lines." In her State of the State speech, Governor Granholm emphasized that [...]

"My devotion to non-violence and social change formed long before I picked up a ukulele and will go on until I fall in the grave." - Joan Baez The All Music Guide calls her the [...]

The DIA brings magnificent treasures of Renaissance Italy to Detroit DETROIT - "Magnificenza! The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," an exhibition showcasing masterpieces from the Italian Renaissance in Italy, will be [...]

Margaret Cho is not to be missed when she comes to the State Theatre in Detroit on April 3. Tickets begin at $30. Katryna & Nerissa Nields will be at the Ark on April 2 [...]

Performance Network scores direct hit with intellectual drama It is an historical fact that a private meeting took place in Nazi-occupied Demark between two of the 20th century's greatest nuclear scientists. The men - Werner [...]

There's no debate: Second City Detroit's 24th comedy revue is great fun I knew they could do it! "Woodward to Your Mutha" is the third Second City Detroit mainstage production I've reviewed since Curtain Calls [...]

Sorrows and Rejoicings In post-apartheid South Africa, two women - one black and one white - who seem to have little in common except their love for the same man strive to reconcile secrets of [...]

Project Healthy Living's 24th annual community health screening program will run March 26 - May 10, and many sites will be hosting these important events - including, for the first time, Affirmations. Tri-county churches, schools, [...]

DETROIT - These are the shows you have been waiting for! The Fisher Theatre has announced its 2003 - 2004 Playgoer Subscription Series - and what a blockbuster season it'll be! Headlining the 42nd season [...]

By Romeo San Vicente Maupin tells more 'Tales' Get ready for another trip down Barbary Lane - plans are underway for the next filmed installment in Armistead Maupin's critically acclaimed "Tales of the City" series. [...]

Thursday Affinity at Large the new gay club on the West Side. Entertainment and doors open at 9 p.m., 1403 S. Commerce Road. Friction with Tom Newman at The Works Latino Night comes to the [...]

Agent Cody Banks Frankie Muniz is CIA agent Cody Banks, part of a specially trained group of covert kids recruited to go places where adults can't. Banks' mission? Woo the daughter (Hilary Duff) of a [...]

Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center 195 West Nine Mile, Ferndale, MI 48220 Phone: (248) 398-7105 Fax: (248)541-1943 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.GoAffirmations.org NEWS AT THE CENTER HEALTH: Kick Butts - a Queer-friendly program offering smoking [...]

Q: I am an avid fan of your column, and now I have something to write to you about. I will try to be brief, but as with any problem, I also want to make [...]

By Andrew Yee Our lgbt community is nothing if not diverse. Contrary to the chiseled, waxed and beautiful - yet homogenized - images that gay magazines, TV shows and advertisers use to portray us, we [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter I love the movies. Doesn't matter what kind, as long as they are good, entertaining and don't insult my intelligence. Of course, these days, that doesn't leave a whole helluva lot [...]

By Jill Dearman ARIES (March 21 to April 20): Kick some butt and take a more aggressive approach to life, darling. You know what you need to do, so why are you hesitating? Stop waiting [...]

By Jill Dearman ARIES (March 21 to April 20): Life is full of fun little surprises this week. Accept all challenges that are thrown your way. It's fine for you to act like a damned [...]

ANN ARBOR - Paula Ettelbrick, who will assume the helm of the International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission in May, was a featured speaker last week at a "Women and Girls: the Law and [...]

By Kelly Peters YPSILANTI - More than a hundred high schoolers, college students and allies from statewide organizations attended a Michigan Safe Schools Summit at Eastern Michigan University Saturday. The Safe School summit was sponsored [...]

By Cheryl Zupan and Kelly Peters ANN ARBOR - More than 1,500 people drummed, chanted and marched through downtown Ann Arbor Thursday evening in a "peace march" and student rally. The protests came on the [...]

By Sarah Mieras KALAMAZOO - Once a week students from high schools and colleges throughout southwest Michigan file into a small room on the campus of Western Michigan University. Sprawled out on the floor, they [...]

Ford donates $7,500 to historical project LANSING - Ford Motor Company Fund announced it will fund a groundbreaking and statewide lgbt historical project called "Pride Through the Years," which will chronicle the lgbt community's 15-year-old [...]

By Kelly Peters JACKSON - The Hamptons' journey from being the parents of a gay son to active parents of gay son was not without its obstacles. According to Lorraine Hampton, she suffered a period [...]

LONDON - The London bureau of 365Gay.com Newscenter reports that the British military will award pensions and other benefits to partners of any gay and lesbian service members killed during the war in Iraq. The [...]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - When the love of his life prepared to leave home for deployment to the Middle East, J.R. packed a Bible, a rosary and the St. Michael's medal, symbol of the patron [...]

WASHINGTON, DC - According to Pentagon statistics, the armed services are discharging fewer service members under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, but anti-gay harassment continues at serious levels among officers and troops. "Conduct Unbecoming," [...]

HOUSTON - John Lawrence and Tyron Garner could be called accidental activists. More than four years ago, police burst into Lawrence's apartment sent there by a bogus report of an armed intruder to find the [...]

By Rex Wockner Half of EU recognizes gay couples More than half of the European Union's 15 nations now legally recognize same-sex couples. Two countries - Belgium and the Netherlands - let same-sex couples marry [...]

Detroit is struggling to rebuild itself, and the city needs all the help it can get. One large - and largely overlooked - resource is the city's bustling lgbt community. The city's leadership has missed [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter DETROIT - A broad coalition of gay and lesbian organizations has formed to improve the environment for lgbt students in Detroit public schools. The N.O.I.S.E. (Neighborhood Organization Initiating Safe Education) coalition [...]