Internationally known artist-Mike Kelley juries show at DAM DETROIT - The Detroit Artists Market (DAM) will open "Mike Kelley Selects: A Juried Show" on June 11. For this show, Detroit-native, now L.A.-based, artist and author [...]

Review: 'Seven Guitars' Michigan premiere of August Wilson drama gets robust staging by Plowshares Theatre There's some beautiful music coming from the stage of the General Motors Theater at the Charles H. Wright Museum of [...]

MOT's Learning at the Opera House 2004 set to begin July 6 DETROIT - Now in its eighth year, Michigan Opera Theatre's acclaimed Learning at the Opera House (LATOH) returns with exciting new educational opportunities [...]

By Jody Valley Relax and be yourself Q: I came out about a year ago at an older age- checked out the Internet, went to some gay groups, bit the bullet and started asking people [...]

By Romeo San Vicente Carson lands 'The Perfect Man' No, he didn't steal Kyan's boyfriend. Carson Kressley, resident fashionista on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and hawker of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers, has made [...]

Photos by Ray Magdaleno Q Nightclub - Sunday, June 6See who is workin' it every Saturday night afterhours at The Works

Photos by Ray Magdaleno The Works - Saturday, June 5See who is workin' it every Saturday night afterhours at The Works

By Paula Martinac 2004 Ordinary people Many commentators have noted how fitting it was that Massachusetts began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on the same day the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of "Brown [...]

Massachusetts: Springfield will soon no longer offer health benefits to unmarried domestic partners of city employees now that same-sex couples are legally allowed to marry. The mayor notified the city clerk on June 4 that [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Family Rights: Woman challenges order against 'homophobic' comments DENVER, Co. - A court order barring a woman from exposing her adoptive daughter to anything homophobic after the woman left a lesbian [...]

Thursday Pronto hosts "Will & Grace" with $3 pints. Friction with Tom Newman at The Works. Martini Night at the Male Box. Rumors Nightclub hosts College night with DJ Gemini in Grand Rapids. Latino night [...]

Just Out The Day After Tomorrow Climatologist Jack Hall's (Dennis Quaid) dire warnings of a new Ice Age come true as tornados demolish Los Angeles, baseball-size hail rains over Tokyo, and a tsunami swamps Manhattan, [...]

I've attended two weddings in my life: that of my best gay friend Paul to an understanding straight woman, Susan (they celebrate their 30th anniversary this month); and that of my cousin Tom to a [...]

Englishman in New York Across 1 Dorothy, to Em6 Eats without one's dentures10 "Hairspray" composer Shaiman14 Rosie's favorite dolls15 Body of soldiers16 "Little Miss ___ " of 29-Across17 Gay-friendly insurance company18 "Woe ___!" ("Hamlet")19 Gossip [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter I saw a beautiful young lesbian at DC Black Gay Pride wearing a T-shirt bearing a simple, yet stunning, five-word message. "Gay is the new Black!" Gasp! As Janet Jackson says [...]

By Jill Dearman Let it ride, Libra! ARIES (March 21 to April 20): While the Sun transits the most social sector of your chart, perhaps it's time to put aside your "me and me against [...]

By Jill Dearman Let it ride, Libra! ARIES (March 21 to April 20): There's a lighthearted feeling in the air, dear girl. Get in touch with it. If you've been taking yourself or your life [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter DETROIT - When it comes to sounding the alarm about the twin scourges of drugs and AIDS and their impact on the black community, there are few more powerful voices than [...]

By Sharon Gittleman The LGBT community is formally invited to attend the 2004 Clay and Glass Festival in Royal Oak. Event planners hope gay visitors will help the summer festival continue its reputation as one [...]

DETROIT - Cheryl Jacques, who began as president and executive director of the Human Rights Campaign in January of this year, will be the guest of honor at The Engagement Party, a June 18 event [...]

YPSILANTI-Ypsilanti punk band The Submarines, California native Melissa Cox, Flint rocker Deb Seekings and Ann Arbor percussion group Drum Womyn are among the entertainers scheduled to appear at this year's Washtenaw Pride celebration, coming to [...]

Dear BTL, My name is Mike Neubecker and I am the proud father of a gay son. When I think about how my son Lee and my son-in-law David are being used by George W. [...]

By Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE - Where can you find a mom with her 2-year old daughter, a bulldog dressed in leather, a window and siding company owner and a six-foot, two-inch cross dresser wearing a [...]

By Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE - Dawn Still and Dawna Lovely each wore a crown of flowers when they took their vows in front of Ferndale's City Hall last week. They stood on the lawn with [...]

By Bob Roehr David Catania, one of the most prominent openly gay elected Republican officials in the country, will not be going to his party s national convention in New York. The local party chairman [...]

FERNDALE - Affirmations Lesbian & Gay Community Center board member George Westerman may not be a swamp-loving ogre, but he is tall, hardworking, dependable, and unwaveringly sincere. Hence his nickname: Shrek. "Leslie (Thompson, Affirmations Executive [...]

By Sarah Mieras GRAND RAPIDS - The Gay and Lesbian Network of West Michigan is on the move - again. Equipped with a new 3,000 plus square foot center in the heart of Eastown, and [...]

LANSING - Bring your walking shoes, and your dancing shoes, to Lansing on June 12 for the Michigan Pride festival and march in Lansing. This year's theme, "United for Change," sums up our determination to [...]

By Sharon Gittleman LANSING - Dawn Broderick is a patient woman. Broderick, senior co-chair of Michigan Pride, is determined to push for equal rights for the LGBT community - until she achieves her goal. "It [...]

Lily Tomlin is a Detroit success story. A Cass Tech graduate, she attended Wayne State University, first as a pre-med student. However, Tomlin found her true voice not looking through the small end of a [...]

NOVI - The Natural Living, Decor, Art & Fashion Show will be at the Novi Expo Center Aug. 6 - 8. The show will offer a huge selection of products and services in four major [...]

By John Polly How's your partner? Do you love them unconditionally? Is there anything you'd change about your mate? Given the opportunity, aren't there a few qualities about your significant other you'd change? Let famed [...]

There are holidays that one celebrates, and holidays that are more properly observed. Pride is both. Parties are a large part of Pride in part because they have to be. We still need the strength [...]

By Bija Andrew Wright At the Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple last week, our minister, P'arang Geri Larkin, spoke about what we need to remember as Americans on Memorial Day. She said that she's not [...]

Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center195 West Nine Mile, Ferndale, MI 48220Phone: 248-398-7105 Fax: 248-541-1943Email: [email protected] Web: www.GoAffirmations.orgAffirmations is home to nearly150 groups every month!That's a lot of people and a lot of groups.Call our [...]