Creep of the Week
Attorney General Mike Cox On Nov. 9, Attorney General Mike Cox held a press conference to announce that he had cheated on his wife. He said, in essence, that it was stupid, all his fault, [...]
Attorney General Mike Cox On Nov. 9, Attorney General Mike Cox held a press conference to announce that he had cheated on his wife. He said, in essence, that it was stupid, all his fault, [...]
"I don't want to be part of some club that doesn't include everybody." - Comedian Sarah Silverman on why she doesn't want to get married as quoted in the Nov. 17, 2005 issue of Rolling [...]
FLINT - The Flint Faith Action Network has rescheduled its Nov. 5 Non-Violent Dialogue Training for Saturday, Nov. 19. The training will be held at Woodside Church, 1509 E. Court St. in Flint from 1-5 [...]
YPSILANTI - LGBT community members will come together on Sunday, Nov. 20 to congratulate and thank Michael Gibson-Faith, former head of the American Friends Service Committee's LGBT Issues Program, for his service. As reported by [...]
ANN ARBOR - The following events have been added to planned University of Michigan events in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20. For more information about these events visit http://www.umich.edu/~lgbta, or contact [...]
FERNDALE - On Oct. 22, 150 members and friends of Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit ordained and installed Rev. Kevin Kinsel as their Associate Pastor of Congregational Life. Kinsel, an openly gay minister, just completed [...]
GRAND RAPIDS - Reconciliation Metropolitan Community Church will hold a weekend-long 25th anniversary celebration Dec. 2-4. The weekend's events will begin with a concert by Christian artists Judy Cassidy and Danny Riddle on Dec. 2 [...]
OAKLAND, Calif. - Over 60 LGBT activists from Michigan joined more than 2,300 other radical, elderly, young, black, Asian Pacific, button-downed, outrageous, experienced, newly exposed and otherwise diverse activists at the 18th Annual Creating Change [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - On Nov. 4, two local experts on domestic partner benefits addressed the afternoon session of "Gender and Corporate Citizenship," a forum sponsored by Wayne State University's Center for the [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - Despite the passage of the anti-gay family ban on equal marriage rights in Texas, 2005 also held bright news for LGBT voters. Twenty-four out of thirty-eight candidates endorsed by [...]
By the Associated Press WASHINGTON - A push by extremists to ban equal marriage rights through a constitutional amendment gained renewed momentum Nov. 9 after a Senate panel led by Kansas Republican Sam Brownback narrowly [...]
By Cornelius A. Fortune WARREN - The Michigan Human Rights Campaign 2005 Gala Dinner Evening of the Stars was held Saturday, Nov. 12 at Andiamos Celebrity Showroom in Warren. A crowd of about 400 gathered [...]
By Lisa Keen After 28 years of trying, Maine civil rights supporters finally won statewide protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Activists have won passage of the law through the legislature four times only [...]
By Cornelius A. Fortune DETROIT - As the cold wind crept across the street and ruffled the clothes of the well-bundled gatherers, signs of protest held high, a woman leaned out of her car to [...]
By Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE - Last March, Christine Hughes finally told her parents and siblings what she had discovered about herself. "He invited me out to breakfast," said Hughes' mother, Lois Hughes. "I said, 'Are [...]
By RJ Beaumia ANN ARBOR - Last Friday night the Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project paid tribute to those whose outstanding public service to the greater community has included a commitment to the cause of LGBT [...]
Thank goodness the Iraq war is over. And New Orleans is completely rebuilt. And there are no more hurricane survivors living in makeshift communities. And racial inequality no longer exists. And no family is going [...]
By Dr. Kevin Wang Before I start my column, I'd like to remind everyone of a survey I'm conducting. I'm starting a research project in my program to increase awareness of the LGBT community in [...]
By Sean Kosofsky I love it when Geoffrey Fieger plays hardball. Republicans are far better at the game, but occasionally we see some muscle and some courage coming from Democrats. I don't support blackmail as [...]
There were lots of kids in the apartment complex I grew up in at 444 Peterboro, ZIPPER code 48202. And, although -- through the careless grace of God --I was born an only child, I [...]
By Libby Post With both my parents gone, we've started our own Thanksgiving tradition - either my partner, Lynn, and I gather with our son, Alex, his dad and stepmom, and a few assorted others, [...]
Dear BTL, One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not commit adultery" (Exodus 20:14). When Mike Cox was sworn in as Michigan's Attorney General on Jan. 1, 2003, he made a commitment to protect [...]
Dear BTL, In last week's BTL, a reader named Magic wrote a letter decrying that pastor Beth Stroud was defrocked for being a lesbian and calling the leadership of the United Methodist Church a group [...]
Dear BTL, I have no tears for Michigan's Attorney General Mike Cox. His announcement of an adulterous affair was to prevent an "outing" by the media. The same man who believes lesbians and gay men [...]
Dear BTL, The KKK did not get its start in Texas. It was first formed in Smyrna, Tennessee, which even today has some of the same values that existed in the 1870s. The KKK was [...]
By Richard Labonte Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star By Tab Hunter with Eddie Muller. Algonquin Books, 378 pages, $24.95 hardcover More than once in the course of this otherwise illuminating and [...]
Art Exhibits/Galleries/Museums: Actual Size Biennial, Vol. 2 A multimedia exhibit that includes sculpture, painting, photo, assemblage and more. Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit in the Woodbridge Historic District, Detroit. Through Dec. 18. Open one hour [...]
Announcing: A New Era for Curtain Calls The most complete theater coverage in town gets even better By Donald V. Calamia, Theater and Arts Editor Welcome to the inaugural edition of Curtain Calls ONLINE. It's [...]
This Week: Four Bitchin' Babes Thurs. 11/17/05 8 p.m. The Ark, Ann Arbor Bon Jovi Fri. 11/18 & Sat. 11/19/05 Palace of Auburn Hills Upcoming: Rogue Wave Sat. 11/26/05 Blind Pig,ÊAnn Arbor Adult. Sat. 11/26/05 [...]
Review: 'Nickel and Dimed' Writer walks in working poor's shoes Those of us who have always lived a solid middle class existence have never had to juggle multiple low-paying jobs in order to pay the [...]
Just Out Chicken Little Chicken Little (Zach Braff) becomes the town joke and an embarrassment to his father, Buck Cluck (Garry Marshall), when he erroneously announces the sky is falling. So no one takes him [...]
Tasha is an adorable German Shepherd mix. She is looking for a new home because her previous guardian moved and could not take her along. Tasha has a short tan coat and is compatible with [...]
Professional Theater/Opera: Action Four people, trapped in a cold cabin, struggle to celebrate a holiday meal in a post-apocalyptic America. The Abreact, Greektown Detroit. Fri.-Sat., through Dec. 3, plus Sun., Nov. 27. Free admission/donations welcomed! [...]
The Body Acoustic Cyndi Lauper (Sony - Copy Protected) The last time we got a new release from Cyndi Lauper was 2003's "At Last," a collection of standards. Lauper's latest is another covers collection, of [...]
By Cornelius A. Fortune NOVI - Alan Alda once said in a Woody Allen film that comedy is tragedy plus time. In a bizarre way, he had it right. It often takes the passage of [...]
By BTL Staff ATLANTA - Team Detroit Aquatics swim club announced that it has twenty members signed up for Gay Games VII in Chicago. The Gay Games will be held July 15-22, 2006. In August, [...]
It's 1995. You're a struggling screenwriter. A big Hollywood studio is interested in your script, which is based on your lover's painful, and recent, death from AIDS. They offer you a million dollars. The catch: [...]
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Politics Equality foes turn focus to marriage ban AUGUSTA, Maine - A day after Maine voters decided to keep the state's gay rights law on the books, the losing side [...]