Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Arizona: The president of the Navajo Nation vetoed a measure May 1 that would have banned equal marriage rights on the reservation. "Same-sex marriage is a non-issue on Navajoland," he [...]

Pro Musica Society of Detroit celebrates spring with eclectic evening of operatic classics, American classics and off 'beat' poetry DETROIT - Pro Musica Society of Detroit presents Valerian Ruminski, operatic bass, in an eclectic program [...]

Weezer & Ringside Thurs. 5/5/05 State Theatre, Detroit Electric Six Sat. 5/7/05 9:30 p.m. Blind Pig, Ann Arbor Electric Six Sun. 5/8/05 The Temple Club, Lansing Stereophonics Tues. 5/10/05 Magic Stick, Detroit Utah Phillips Wed. [...]

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Bill Pryor Former Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor is one of the seven Bush nominees for lifetime appointments to the federal bench that is currently causing all the ruckus over judicial appointments and the filibuster [...]

Review: 'Summer and Smoke' 'They're all a bit peculiar' in sizzling rendition of lesser-known Tennessee Williams classic Playwright Tennessee Williams had mommy issues. And sister issues. And mother-daughter issues. Hell, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author [...]

Preview: 'Now That I Can Dance - Motown 1962' The original Motown sound comes alive in world premiere production by Mosaic Youth Theatre The "once-forgotten" girl-group of the early 1960s that gave Motown Records its [...]

By Jody Valley Blooming late in the sun Q: I have never had a relationship with a woman, but have realized for the last 10 years that I am lesbian. I am a 45-year-old woman. [...]

By Romeo San Vicente Jodie Foster who starred in "Panic Room" has signed on to star in a new Spke Lee film "Inside Man." " Jodie Foster goes 'Inside' Jodie Foster fans, get ready for [...]

By Dr. Kevin Wang Hepatitis 101: Part Three {ITAL Dr. Wang, Congratulations on your recent graduation and current residency in Family Medicine. I have a topic for your column that you could perhaps address in [...]

Some days it can be hard to keep going. These are the days when April showers bring May snow storms, it feels like most of the news is bad, and it seems like Bill Frist [...]

If you ask the average GLBT person where "the movement" is really happening and where most of our progress is being made, they might instinctively say that is somewhere on the coasts. And to some [...]

Just Out A Lot Like Love Oliver (Ashton Kutcher) and Emily (Amanda Peet) have anonymous sex in an airplane restroom, exchange names, then spend a day together bickering and probably imagining how cute they look [...]

I've a friend, Wardell, who shamelessly flatters new acquaintances in oddball ways. "You've got exciting toes," he'll tell a guy wearing sandals. "Your earlobes indicate you're well endowed," he'll remark to a party guest. "I'd [...]

You Are What You Eat Across 1 Madonna's "___ Don't Preach" 5 Beau chaser 10 DeGeneres' "Finding ___ " 14 Ed. range of many of Rosie's and Elmo's fans 15 Lover of Henry and June [...]

Take Positive Action for Responsible Television The Media Project's Take PART invites you to applaud "8 Simple Rules" and "The Bernie Mac Show" for their honest and accurate depictions of adolescent sexual health on TV. [...]

By Jack Fertig See foreign films, Leo! Saturn is quincunx to Pluto for a month, which presents irritating challenges to making deep adjustments. Mercury is briefly aspecting both, offering ideas and messages on how to [...]

"'Activist judges' is a code word for gay. The judges being verbally tarred and feathered are those who have decriminalized gay sex, as they once did abortion, and who countenance marriage rights for same-sex couples. [...]

Professional Theater: Brighton Beach Memoirs Part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy is a portrait of the writer as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937. Staged Wednesday through Sunday (excluding Friday) by the Jewish Ensemble Theatre [...]

FERNDALE - On Saturday, June 4 at 2 p.m., Detroit Metropolitan Community Church pastor Reverend Mark Bidwell and Ferndale Mayor Robert Porter will officiate at a group wedding of same-sex couples. The act of civil [...]

The first Royal Oak "Fat Tuesday" pub crawl was a financial success, according to event organizers Craig Covey and Monica Mills of Midwest AIDS Prevention Project. Forty volunteers were organized between 16 venues and over [...]

PLYMOUTH - On May 14 women who golf will gather for the annual outing to benefit Human Rights Campaign and Triangle Foundation, organizations that work on the national and the local front to protect the [...]

By Sharon Gittleman Getting fit isn't easy - especially when it involves intimidating visits to fitness centers where you feel like you're the only one with bulges and too-generous curves among hordes of Arnold-like bodybuilders. [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - On April 20, the Michigan Citizen reported that Darrell Dawsey was fired as host of WTVS Channel 56's "American Black Journal." According to the article, Dawsey claims he was [...]

ANN ARBOR - Howard Dean, the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, rallied the party faithful to Washington D.C. last week with a clarion call for Democrats to win in the 2006 mid-term elections. [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - LGBT activists and allies will work to protect the children of same-gender couples during the second annual Family Lobby Day in Lansing on Tuesday, May 10. The timing of [...]

Don't let the bee-hive hairdos scare you: The long-awaited musical is pure fun! Teenager Tracy Turnblad doesn't set out to change the world in the hit musical "Hairspray," now playing at Detroit's Masonic Temple Theatre. [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman RUN WITH 1318/artwork/process/HARC Graffiti - any of the pictures that aren't in the "Bad" folder. ARTWORK IN PROCESS HARC workers found threatening graffiti on their office building on April 29. Photos [...]

New Zealand liberalizes immigration laws New Zealand's new Civil Union Act, which took effect April 26, treats married and partnered couples, gay and straight, the same for immigration purposes. The laws are liberal enough to [...]

To mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's concentration camps, BTL's Charles Alexander offers this historical reflection. World War ll ended on May 8th - Victory Europe Day - 60 years ago, [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman The Reverend Elder Diane Fisher of Metropolitan Community Church's Region Five, which includes Michigan, was in town on April 28 to discuss the selection of a new moderator with church members. [...]

DETROIT - Hate crimes are up four percent both nationally and in Michigan, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs report for the year 2004. The report was released last week at a press [...]

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back to you, it was meant to be. But if you want to break up with someone, take them to see "Palindromes," the newest film [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman RUN WITH 1318/artwork/process/Liszewski mom, Kolb, group LANSING - On the chilly Wednesday morning of April 27, a small but determined group of straight and gay citizens demonstrated outside the Michigan Capitol [...]

Spain's Congress of Deputies voteed to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption April 21. The vote was 183 to 136 with six abstentions. The bill now moves to the Senate where it should pass as well, [...]

LINTHICUM, Md. - The United Methodist Church reversed itself April 29, deciding to reinstate a lesbian minister who had been defrocked after revealing that she was in a committed relationship with another woman. A church [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman At first glance, Deborah Rudacille would seem like an unlikely candidate to write a book about transgenderism. A straight, white, natal woman and author of "The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The [...]

By Paul Varnell The May issue of Harper's Magazine has a fascinating article by reporter Chris Hedges about the most recent convention of the National Religious Broadcasters, an organization of some 1,600 Christian radio and [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Politics Governor promotes gay rights at luncheon PORTLAND, Ore. - Gov. Ted Kulongoski spoke at the annual fund-raiser lunch for Basic Rights Oregon, a non-profit group that works for gay [...]