Get connected! Non-profit organizations are encouraged to send listings of ongoing events to Community Connections via email at [email protected], fax at 248-615-7018 or postal mail: 20793 Farmington Rd., Ste. 25, Farmington, MI 48336. FORTY WORD [...]
By Dr. Kevin Wang My New Year's resolution Another year has passed and with that comes the almost-requisite resolutions that seem to crop up. These range from weight loss, more exercise, quitting a bad habit [...]
Maxine is a three-year-old Maine Coone mix cat. She and her kittens were rescued by the Michigan Humane Society Cruelty Investigation Department and placed in foster care. Since Maxine's kittens have found new homes, it [...]
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith This is the time of year when newspaper columnists want to just phone their column in. It's the holiday season, and you might rather have just one more amaretto sour than [...]
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Kansas: Supporters and opponents of adding a ban on equal marriage rights to the Kansas Constitution expect hundreds of people to converge on the Statehouse for rival rallies Jan. 10 as [...]
WASHINGTON, DC - The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute, a nonpartisan educational organization, announced the launch of the Gay & Lesbian Leadership SmartBrief on Jan. 10. This free resource pools thousands of news articles, research [...]
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Law Supreme Court refuses to hear Florida adoption ban case WASHINGTON - The United States Supreme Court's refused to hear a case challenging Florida's ban on adoption by gays and lesbians [...]
By Rex Wockner The latest information from the Sri Lankan gay organization Companions on a Journey is that 36 of its members were killed in the Dec. 26 tsunami, another nine remain unaccounted for, and [...]
Claude Allen, Bush's newly appointed Domestic Policy Advisor If you can't get a right-wing appeals court nominee confirmed, just make him one of your advisors. That's just what George W. Bush did when he named [...]
Anti-diversity amendment divisive and dangerous LANSING - The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, and anti-Affirmative Action group, turned in more than 500,000 signatures to state elections officials Jan. 6. They need 317,757 signatures to put a [...]
YPSILANTI - The following people received awards for their work to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and STDs during the 2004 STD & HIV conference sponsored by the Michigan Department of Community Health: Anthony Harris was [...]
By Dawn Wolfe DETROIT - Barbara Murray knows a good idea when she sees one. After noticing how popular rubber bracelets have become in the fundraising world since they were popularized by the Lance Armstrong [...]
DETROIT - On Jan. 13, Oakland University professor Shea Howell will moderate From Anger to Action, a panel discussion by LGBT community leaders on how to expand support for our community among the community at [...]
By Dawn Wolfe FERNDALE - During the month of January, Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit in Ferndale is taking a special collection for tsunami relief during Sunday services at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Donations [...]
DETROIT - The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan announced two grants totaling $30,000 from the Foundation's HOPE Fund to nonprofit organizations serving southeast Michigan's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. The grants will help support [...]
BTL Interview by Dawn Wolfe Between The Lines: This is your second term in the House. What are you hoping to accomplish? Kolb: *Laughs* There's a lot I'm working on. I sit on [the House] [...]
If you've made a New Year's resolution to exercise more, Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center has just made it easier for you to keep your word to yourself. Beginning on Jan. 24, the Ferndale [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Following a successful open house on Dec. 11, Detroit NOISE, the reformed Detroit chapter of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, is getting ready for business. GLSEN is a nationwide organization that [...]
By Tim Retzloff CLIO - Deborah Anne LeVoir, a founder of the pioneering lesbian organization Moonrise in the late 1970s and a community producer for the long-running radio program "Face the Music," died Dec. 30, [...]
By Sarah Mieras GRAND RAPIDS - Following two decades of weekly meetings in the basement of Fountain Street Church, the LGBT youth group Windfire disbanded on Dec. 23, 2004. Although there are plans for a [...]
There are many things that can be said about 2004 - and not all of them in polite company. It was definitely a year for the LGBT history books. We won't rehash it here. Instead [...]
If you're going to stay home alone on New Year's Eve it's best to have a plan (or pretend to). That way if someone asks you (smugly), "What did you do New Year's Eve?" you [...]
Dear BTL, While the headline and article "The Methodist Church in Michigan - not the best place for gays" in the Dec. 23 BTL was accurate, it left a few crucial things unsaid. And that [...]
Dear BTL, As we all know, George Bush was elected President in the 2004 elections. Whether he won fairly or not, he is going to be inaugurated on January 20. This is an occasion for [...]
Dear BTL, People within a society must be given the dignity to have freedom of personal beliefs. For only through this freedom of personal belief can a society be allowed to call itself just and [...]
By Jasmyne Cannick The legacy and dream of Martin Luther King Jr. lives on today but for so many African-American same-gender loving people that dream has been deferred. However, it's a new year and it's [...]
Tour d'Art offers free admission to Detroit's coolest culture DETROIT - Tour d'Art, a first-ever event of its kind in Detroit, will offer the coolest culture in the city as 13 of the finest Detroit [...]
By Richard Labonte "The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln," by C.A. Tripp. Free Press, 380 pages, $27 hardcover.Despite screeches of outrage flying around the conservative corners of the Internet, Tripp's pedantic speculation on the man-loving [...]
This Week: Jason StuartThurs. 1/12 through Sat. 1/15Joey's Comedy Club, Livonia B.B. KingSat. 1/15/05 8 p.m.Fox Theatre, Detroit Eddie From OhioSun. 1/16/05 and Mon. 1/17/05The Ark, Ann Arbor Scissor SistersTues. 1/18/05Majestic Theatre, Detroit Bright EyesTues. [...]
Review: 'Driving Miss Daisy' Excellent performances drive fine drama at Meadow Brook It's probably safe to assume that more people have seen the movie "Driving Miss Daisy" than will ever attend the play from which [...]
By John Quinn Review: 'Death of a Salesman' The American Dream unravels: Arthur Miller's classic drama opens at the Hilberry If any of you claim you've never heard at least the title of this play, [...]
Professional Theater: Boston Marriage Two Victorian women walk into a relationship: Are they sparring partners or each others' true love? Presented Thursday through Sunday at Performance Network Theatre, Ann Arbor, Jan. 13 - Feb. 20. [...]
WHISTLER, B.C. - The largest international gay and lesbian ski and snowboard festival, Altitude 2005, will begin in Vancouver Jan. 29, 2005 with an expanded line-up of activities, special events and festivities from Jan. 30 [...]
Friends North, a social and support organization for LGBT people in northwestern lower Michigan, will be holding its annual sledding party on Jan. 30 in Suttons Bay at the Bahle Warming House. Participants can enjoy [...]
By Sharon Gittleman This season, lesbian intrigues, out-of-the-closet baseball stars and plays written by gay authors will pack the playbill at the Performance Network, Ann Arbor's only professional theater company. In fact, two out of [...]
By BTL Staff Ever since the success of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," more than a few straight girls have been waiting for their turn to have their lives changed by a group of [...]
Contrary to popular belief, 2004 was not the year of the monkey, it was the year of the Scissor Sisters. And if their current success is any indication, the year of the rooster doesn't have [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Cher and Bette are 'In the Pink' If any movie sounds like it's following a "how-to" guide for making something a whole lot of gay men will line up to see, [...]
Just Out A Love Song for Bobby Long Her mother's death brings teenager Pursy Will (Scarlett Johansson) back to New Orleans to reclaim the family home, but when she arrives she finds it occupied by [...]
By Any Other Name Across1 Ulrich of a landmark gay rights case5 Ballsy10 "I ___ Andy Warhol"14 Pleasured in bed15 Slow, to Saint-Saens16 "Maude" producer17 Cruise-drill need19 Wilde country20 Sex researcher Kinsey21 They provide cover [...]
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