Gayle and Page brighten the holidays at Macomb Center CLINTON TWP - Celebrate the holidays at The Macomb Center for the Performing Arts with two of the country's most beloved songstresses. First of the holiday [...]

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: www.GoAffirmations.org Affirmations is home to nearly 150 groups every month! That's a lot of people [...]

LANSING - In a Nov. 21 Gongwer New Service piece, state Senator Alan Cropsey (R-Dewitt), indicated he would push for a vote on his proposed anti-gay marriage amendment in the spring. An earlier Gongwer article [...]

No group escapes unscathed in Mel Brooks' spectacular musical comedy Ah, that Mel Brooks! Who else in this politically correct world would conceive a show - a musical yet! - with sieg-heiling pigeons, a booty-shaking [...]

By John Quinn Plowshares makes a joyful noise in holiday premiere My favorite story about Christmas music concerns 18-year-old Isaac Watts. In 1692 he went to his father, an Anglican deacon, and complained about the [...]

By Jody Valley Readers: Thank you to all of you that wrote in to give resource information to the deaf writer who wanted to find a therapist. I sent it all on to him, along [...]

By Romeo San Vicente 'Cowpoke' takes on new meaning It looks like Ang Lee will be revisiting his "Wedding Banquet" days. The acclaimed director, whose last brush with anything resembling homoeroticism involved keeping Eric Bana [...]

This past Saturday members of the community did a "mitzvah," a blessing, by honoring the work of Stephen D. Pollock whom we write about in this edition (p. 8.) While faced with a difficult health [...]

Photos by Danielle Clean towels and warm smiles greeted me as I visited the BodyZone to celebrate their forth anniversary. A buffet with a carved ice sculpture as the centerpiece brought out many of the [...]

Photos by Danielle Club Gold Coast with a new cafe and handsome men to thrill you, is a great place to visit on the weekends. Don't miss the showers though.

Photos by Matthew Barton Red was the color of the night at the Works as part of the aptly named Red Party presented by the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation. Boys and girls from all over [...]

Thursday Friction with Tom Newman at The Works. Rumors Nightclub hosts College night with DJ Gemini in Grand Rapids. Latino Night comes to the R&R Saloon with $1 cover. Get Thirsty with X-Cel at Thirsty [...]

Just Out Bad Santa Director Terry Zwigoff delivers a cinematic lump of coal with this lame Yuletide satire. Foul-mouthed, drunken safecracker Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) and diminutive partner Marcus (Tony Cox) pose as a department-store [...]

Between travel flights New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison was in the habit of taking a few moments off to sit undisturbed in pay toilets. When he entered his latest airport "isolation booth" all stalls [...]

By Jill Dearman Press the flesh, Taurus! ARIES (March 21 to April 20): The Sun and Pluto are conjunct in your house of travel this week, so take a little time to get out of [...]

By Jill Dearman Press the flesh, Taurus! ARIES (March 21 to April 20): Mercury, the planet of communication, will be traveling with Venus, planet of love and art, across the powerful top of your chart. [...]

Professional Theater: A Christmas Carol Meadow Brook's management may have changed, but their annual holiday classic hasn't! Presented Wednesday through Sunday at Meadow Brook Theatre, Rochester, through Dec. 21. Tickets: $28 - $38. 248-377-3300. www.mbtheatre.com. [...]

By BTL Staff Art pieces by community artist and BTL columnist Charles Alexander are currently featured in two separate art exhibits in Detroit's Cultural Center. His "Avatars," a mixed media work, took a third place [...]

By Robert Nesti "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches," by Tony Kushner, on HBO, Sunday, December 7 and 14, at 8 p.m. "Very Steven Spielberg," says Prior Walter as the heavens crash down around him at [...]

Compiled by BTL Staff Going to be in Ann Arbor this holiday season? Ann Arbor offers a wide variety of activities and events for young and old and for a variety of budgets. Looking for [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter DETROIT - Town hall meetings and various other forums to debate the merits of same-sex marriage are springing up around metro Detroit like mushrooms, a sure sign that the inflammatory subject [...]

Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality (CARE), a second parent adoption advocacy group in Michigan, has been endorsed by the National Association of Social Workers Michigan Chapter (NASW-MI) after a year long lobbying effort. The NASW-MI [...]

KALAMAZOO - Following the departure of long time Director Cyril Colonius, CARES of Southwest Michigan has appointed interim executive director, David O. Kirby. Kirby is doing the interim director job 3 days per week. He [...]

Hedy Nuriel, President and CEO of HAVEN, Oakland County's center for the prevention and treatment of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse, is leaving. Nuriel was hired in 1992 and lead the agency for [...]

Dean for America, Governor Howard Dean's Presidential campaign organization, has expanded its Michigan operation. With the grand opening of its Lansing office, there are now three branch offices of Dean for America in Michigan, staffed [...]

A problem for the nation's transgender and genderqueer community has been the lack of reliable statistical data. In an effort to help change that, a study has been created to address the community and the [...]

Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency (OLHSA) is holding its annual Adopt-A-Family or Senior for Christmas. The objective of this project is to provide food or gifts to low-income families or seniors, living in Oakland or [...]

The Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA) will march to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, on Saturday, May 1, 2004. Organizers hope to draw a significant group of supporters from the Transgender community to [...]

Lesbian icons join in the tribute She's such a larger than life personality that it's easy to forget she grew up a simple country girl. Yet under the big blonde wigs, heavy makeup and flashy [...]

ANN ARBOR - The Ann Arbor-based improvisational theater company, Empatheatre, announced last week that it was immediately suspending operations for the remainder of its 2003-04 season. The troupe, which was scheduled to perform Dec. 12 [...]

By Leslie Robinson It has happened. Gay marriage is now almost legal in one state. The threshold has been crossed--and soon, in Boston, Peter will be carrying Bruce over that very threshold, provided Bruce drops [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter ROYAL OAK - "What we give out comes back to us multiplied." The concept of giving back is central to the mission of Higher Ground, an HIV/AIDS support group in Royal [...]

By Sharon Gittleman Lillian Faderman has lived an extraordinary life. From her birth in the 1940's to an unmarried Jewish immigrant working in New York's garment industry, Faderman traveled a strange road, that took her [...]

Dear BTL, While I appreciate Bretton Barber's thought provoking viewpoint article in the Dec. 4 BTL and agree with him on curfew laws, I do not agree with him on the rest of his column. [...]

Dear BTL, Thank you for Don Calamia's article on Syphilis in the last issue. It shows what a community can accomplish when it works together. The decrease in Syphilis cases you cited, and this continuing [...]

Politics Republicans file suit over special election BOSTON - The state Republican Party filed suit in the state's highest court seeking to change the date of a state Senate special election that was scheduled for [...]

By Pamela Benetti Oh My God is a trio from Chicago comprised of Billy O' Neil on vocals and bass, someone named Bish on drums and Iguana on piano, organ and back-up vocals. Their second [...]

Board members, staff, and executive directors from Project YES, Ruth Ellis Center, Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center, Triangle Foundation, and the American Friends Service Committee LGBT Project came together Dec. 6 for an intensive [...]

YPSILANTI - Stephen D. Pollock, former executive director of Michigan Network for Youth and Families in Lansing, was given a Project YES Role Model and Mentor Award Dec. 6 for his work helping LGBT youth [...]

By Imani Williams 'Tis the time of year when even those who shun the ritual of shopping get hit with a case of the guilts for lack of participation. Over the next couple of weeks [...]

FERNDALE - A frequent New Year's resolution is to eat better and lose some weight. Many people make such a pledge and find that they often don't have the support system needed to stick to [...]