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Ask The Debt Free Diva
By Dee Dee Sung Under water Q. I need advice on my credit card debt. Currently I have eight cards, most of them maxed out. I believe the total owing is just under $16,000. Even [...]
Parting Glances: BMW: And away we go!
FRIDAY: It's mid-60s warm; 6:30 p.m. -- inky dark outside -- more like midnight than dusk. The air is electric with ions of ozone (invigorating!). I'm buffeted by a gentle breeze. Suddenly I feel mentally [...]
All Politics is Loco: Fundi’s want you dead!
By Sean Kosofsky It is time to condemn right-wing conservative Christian activists for actively working to compromise public health. Each day, right-wing activists toil away at policies whose intent or effect is to harm or [...]
Art & Around for the period Dec. 1-10
Architecture/Gardens/Tours: Holiday Magic at the Ford House Explore and enjoy the interior beauty of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House as it offers the sights, sounds and tastes of the holiday season. Edsel & Eleanor [...]
Concert Connections
This Week: Sinead O'Connor Thurs. 12/1/05 State Theatre, Detroit Tony Orlando Thurs. 12/1/05 Stranahan Theatre, Toledo, OH Cyndi Lauper, Sandra Bernhardt and Jill Sobule Fri. 12/2/05 Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor Over the Rhine Fri. 12/2/05 [...]
Theater Events for the period Dec. 1-10
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. Free admission/donations welcomed! 313-378-5404. http://www.theabreact.com. Broadway's Spirit [...]
Straight press ignores trans vigil
Dear BTL, I would like to show my gratitude for your article "Candles lit; tears shed for victims of violence" in the Nov. 24 issue of BTL. The article hit the essence of the of [...]
LGBT people are already equal
Dear BTL, I am glad that Jennifer Granholm is the Governor of Michigan. She seems at least friendly to the gay community. But how could she get away with saying what you attributed to her [...]
Don’t ignore the right
Dear BTL, In your "Creep of the Week" article published on Nov. 17, 2005, you falsely state that the Log Cabin Republicans believe that being gay is a non-issue. This is nonsense. If being gay [...]
Curtain Calls
Preview: 'Wassailfest' The Queen commands: Eat, drink, make merry The familiar cry of "All hail and wassail" will be heard once again this holiday season as The Players and the Renaissance Dance Company of Detroit [...]
Curtain Calls ONLINE
TIDBITS: Professional Theater News from Around Town BoarsHead offers holiday cheer to youths at St. Vincent Home LANSING - The BoarsHead Theater is collecting new toys and gifts for the children at the St. Vincent [...]
Now Playing
Just Out Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) spreads evil in wizard-in-training Harry Potter's (Daniel Radcliffe) nightmares, dreams that may be prophetic. The 14-year-old has little time to consider the [...]
Meet Buffy the BTL pet of the week
Buffy is a sweet one-year-old Border Collie mix. She is friendly and very affectionate. Buffy has plenty of energy so she will need a family who will give her lots of daily exercise. She will [...]
Q Puzzle Clues
Beam Me Out, Scotty Across 1 Sucker or suckee? 5 Is capable, like a horse in "Guys and Dolls" 10 Put in stitches, like Margaret Cho 14 In the year, to Nero 15 It arouses [...]
Fantasy and reality collide in moo-ving comedy at BoarsHead Theater
LANSING - It all begins and ends with cows. That's true not only for the residents of County Kerry, Ireland who find themselves cast as extras in an American movie being filmed in their tiny [...]
Higher Ground turns up the heat for third annual blanket drive
By BTL Staff ROYAL OAK - Higher Ground, an HIV/AIDS support group based in Royal Oak, is warming up the community again this year with its Blankets for AIDS Drive. Now in its third year, [...]
Holiday events in Royal Oak
Celebrate the holidays Royal Oak style at these city events. Dec. 1: "Tree Lighting Ceremony." Royal Oak's 24th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony is Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005 at City Hall Plaza. This tree lighting starts [...]
Goldenrod celebrates 30 years
LANSING - Goldenrod Music will be hosting its annual Open House on Saturday, Dec. 3, from noon to 5 p.m. This is also the final event in Goldenrod's 30th anniversary celebration year. Open House guests [...]
Mr. Detroit Eagle 2006 chosen
A panel of five judges chose Mr. Detroit Eagle 2006 in a contest held at the bar Nov. 19. The winner will represent the Detroit Eagle in the International Mr. Leather competition in Chicago next [...]
LGBT travelers are welcome guests in Las Vegas
By Sharon Gittleman LAS VEGAS - What goes on there may stay there, but the word has gotten out to LGBT travelers about Las Vegas - and the entertainment Mecca has gotten the message. Erika [...]
Detroit Concert for a Cure sings ‘Snowtunes’ at Baldwin Theatre
ROYAL OAK - There will be no business like "snow" business Dec. 12 when national and local thespians come together to present "Snowtunes," a holiday-themed fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The event will be [...]
With a little help from her friends
Jill Sobule Jill Sobule may be best known for her lesbian tongue-in-cheek tribute "I Kissed A Girl" in the mid-90s. Or perhaps you remember her witty contribution to the "Clueless" soundtrack, "Supermodel." Sobule, however, is [...]
A dulcimer changes everything
by Gregg Shapiro She's still unusual, but that's what has earned Cyndi Lauper a special and enduring place in our hearts. On her new album, the spellbinding "The Body Acoustic" (Daylight/Epic), Lauper revisits some of [...]
Creep of the Week: Freeholders of Ocean County New Jersey
Freeholders of Ocean County New Jersey Ocean County officials to dying lesbian: bite us. Not wanting to send the wrong moral message, the freeholders (that's what they call elected county officials in New Jersey) of [...]
SHe Said Dec. 1, 2005
"We don't need a Martin Luther King to lead us to the Promised Land. Instead, we need thousands of people like Rosa Parks to stand up and be leaders in their own communities. No one [...]
2005 World AIDS Day pool tournament announced
DETROIT - The Detroit Billiards League has announced the details for the 2005 World Aids Day Billiards Tournament to benefit Southeastern Michigan HIV/AIDS Charities. The defending bar, The Rainbow Room, will be hosting the event [...]
Recyle your ‘e-waste’ and raise funds for MAPP
FERNDALE - The Midwest AIDS Prevention Project, Recycling for Charities, and The City of Ferndale are teaming up to collect unwanted cellular phones, Palm Pilots and digital cameras to benefit MAPP's ongoing AIDS prevention efforts. [...]
Vatican bans gay priests
By Bob Roehr The Vatican issued its policy to cast out gay priests and those who support "gay culture" unless they have overcome their homosexual tendencies for at least three years, in a document released [...]
IGLHRC calls for investigation of executions in Iran
NEW YORK - With new reports from Iran that two young men who were hung in public this week may have been executed by the government because of their sexual orientation, the International Gay and [...]
Jackson Human Relations Commission endorses second-parent adoption bill
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman JACKSON - During their October meeting, the Jackson Human Relations Commission approved a resolution in favor of House Bill 5399, State Representative Paul Condino's bill that would legalize second-parent adoption in [...]
Going beyond inclusion
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman ANN ARBOR - On Nov. 21 Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, addressed roughly forty students and community members in an appearance sponsored by The [...]
Marriage battles jeopardizing partners nationwide
By Lisa Keen BOSTON - The well-known mantra of anti-gay activists in their efforts to ban same-sex marriage is that gay couples must be prohibited from marrying in order to "protect the institution of marriage." [...]
Police release sketch of suspect in Pontiac beatings
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman PONTIAC - Pontiac police have released a sketch of the suspect involved in the October beating of two trans women in Pontiac outside of The Liberty Bar. Police say the suspect [...]
Ruth Ellis Center to expand
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - When homeless LGBTQ youth need help the Ruth Ellis Center is there for them. Now, the center is involved in several expansion projects, a winter outerwear drive, and a [...]
Triangle receives state victim-assistance grant
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - The Triangle Foundation will soon receive its first grant from the State of Michigan. The $40,000 grant, awarded by the state's Crime Victim Services Commission under the Victims of [...]
Forecast is grim for World AIDS Day 2005
By Bob Roehr WASHINGTON - The worldwide forecast for HIV/AIDS continues to be grim, with intermittent reasons for hope, according to an update on the epidemic released by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization. The [...]
Who is expendable? AIDS policies point to black women, gays
The theme for World AIDS Day 2005 is "Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise." On Dec. 1, this seventeenth World AIDS Day, we are in the grip of a rapidly changing virus with the social impact [...]