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By R.J. Beaumia "Holiday... Celebrate... One day to come together, to release the pressure... We need a holiday!" To paraphrase Paddy Chayefsky, "That Madonna - she sure can write." Apparently our friends at Focus on [...]
The Gay Moralist: The Vatican ban
By John Corvino It's official: no more gay priests. Well, sort of. The Vatican has released its long-anticipated instruction on gay candidates for the priesthood. It states that "those who practice homosexuality, show profoundly deep-rooted [...]
Parting Glances: This little pinkey went . . .
I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oscar-polishing performance "Capote" at the Royal Oak Main Theater. [Special BTL thanks to the management for showing LGBT-themed films and hosting Triangle Foundation's Reel Pride stellar, week-long events.] Given that [...]
Art & Around for the period Dec. 8-17
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: Healthy White Baby Fri. 12/9/05 The Belmont, Hamtramck Trans-Siberian Orchestra Fri. 12/9/05 Palace of Auburn Hills Brian Setzer Orchestra Fri. 12/9/05 State Theatre, Detroit Dianne Reeves Sat. 12/10/05 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor Martin [...]
Theater Events for the period Dec. 8-17
Professional Theater/Opera: A Christmas Carol Mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by three ghosts in this annual Holiday classic. Meadow Brook Theatre, Rochester. Various dates and times, through Dec. 24. $30-$38. 248-377-3300. www.mbttheatre.com. Downhearted Blues A [...]
Perceptions to hold holiday party and charity auction
SAGINAW - Perceptions will hold its fourth annual holiday party and charity auction Friday, Dec. 16 at the Montague Inn at 1581 South Washington in Saginaw. Silent and live auctions will feature items and services [...]
Book Marks
By Richard Labonte Branwell: A Novel of the Bronte Brother By Douglas A. Martin. Soft Skull Press, 256 pages, $13.95 paper Branwell, the overshadowed Bronte brother of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily, was an immensely troubled [...]
Curtain Calls
Review: 'The Christma-Hana-Kwanzaa Holiday Spectacular' Inferno roasts the holidays - all of them There was something sacrilegious last Friday night about sitting in front of a stage painted to look like Hell and waiting for [...]
Curtain Calls ONLINE
Review: 'Dear Santa' Christmas farce provides a hearty "ho-ho-ho" in Fraser dinner theater By John Quinn It's December, and you've probably been running on "holiday overload" since Halloween, and no, Virginia, you're not Santa Claus. [...]
Now Playing
Just Out The Ice Harvest Wichita lawyer Charlie (John Cusack) and porn merchant Vic (Billy Bob Thornton) embezzle over $2 million from their mobster employer, Bill (Randy Quaid). They plan to flee the next day, [...]
Meet Fanny the BTL pet of the week
Fanny is an adorable seven-month-old black and white shorthair cat. This cute kitty was found as a stray and brought to the shelter to find a loving home. She is very sweet and social and [...]
Q Puzzle Clues
Girl Crush Across 1 "West Side Story" faction 5 "Twelfth Night" quintet 9 Ballet bends 14 Protected, to seamen 15 Go down 16 Bea Arthur's TV maid Esther 17 Turner, Hailey 20 Result of a [...]
Transmissions: Getting down to business
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Many years ago, at the beginning of my transition from male to female, I started to distribute copies of my resume, looking for a job to replace the one I lost [...]
It wouldn’t be the holidays without Holiday Brass
BIRMINGHAM - Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings returns to usher in the season with the annual sell-out Holiday Brass concert on Sunday, Dec. 18 at First Presbyterian Church - Birmingham at 7:30 p.m. For those [...]
Perceptions to hold holiday party and charity auction
SAGINAW - Perceptions will hold its fourth annual holiday party and charity auction Friday, Dec. 16 at the Montague Inn at 1581 South Washington in Saginaw. Silent and live auctions will feature items and services [...]
Detroit native portrays LGBTs ‘Just As We Are’
NEW YORK - "This all started as a possibility," New York City photographer Charzette Torrence said about "Just As We Are," her exhibit of 25 black and white portraits of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered [...]
Truth and Musings
I predict Al Franken will be president in 2016. First, in 2008, the same year the Democrats take back the White House, he'll run for - and win - the Minnesota's Senate seat. Then he'll [...]
Hear Me OUT
The Collection Alanis Morissette (Maverick) If you listen to Top 40 radio you've heard some lady singing Seal's "Crazy" in the last month or two. That lady is Alanis Morissette and her version of "Crazy" [...]
Creep of the Week
Ohio Rep. Tom Brinkman Equal work for equal pay - but heavens, no, not if you're gay. That's what Ohio Representative Tom Brinkman, Jr. (R-Hamilton County) would write if he were a college student scrawling [...]
SHe Said Dec. 8, 2005
"America still sees an estimated 40,000 new infections each year. This is not inevitable - and it's not acceptable. HIV/AIDS remains a special concern in the gay community, which has effectively fought this disease for [...]
AIDS Walk funds comfort people with HIV
By Sharon Gittleman ROYAL OAK - Royal Oak's streets were packed this fall for the Steppin' Out AIDS Walk Detroit fund-raiser - collecting $200,000 for more than a dozen HIV-AIDS support agencies. Last week, the [...]
Vatican: gays not fit to preach or teach
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - Two recent documents released by the Vatican appears to ban gay men not only from attending, but also from teaching at seminaries. Last month the Vatican released the "Instruction [...]
Built Ford Tough?
DEARBORN - The perception that Ford Motor Company acquiesced to anti-gay demands from the American Family Association has ignited a firestorm from LGBT people both within the auto industry and across the country. On Nov. [...]
‘Support products from companies that support equality’
By Lisa Keen Put down that Coca Cola. Flush the Haagen-Dazs down the sink with the Perrier. And pick up a box of Scott tissue. This may hurt a little. The Human Rights Campaign has [...]
Rabbi supports LGBT equality
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman He is living proof that not all religious leaders are anti-gay bigots. Rabbi David Horowitz, a national PFLAG board member, was in Michigan during the week of Nov. 14 to speak [...]
IRS asked to investigate Focus on the Family
By Bob Roehr "Focus on the Family has engaged in prohibited electioneering by openly endorsing candidates for public office," in violation of its IRS tax status, a liberal group charged in a Nov. 28 letter [...]
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 [...]
Ohio schools watch Miami University suit
The Associated Press COLUMBUS - A year ago, the attorney who wrote Ohio's ban on civil unions and marriage for same-sex couples said it wouldn't affect the few public universities already offering health insurance to [...]
Ford: Do the right thing
This past week Ford Motor Company has had a taste of what it is like to "do business" with the likes of the extremist American Family Association. When a right-wing Dallas, Texas Ford dealer, Jerry [...]
LGBT leaders left flat by meeting with Ford
WASHINGTON - LGBT leaders met with Ford Motor Company officials Monday to ask them to reverse a decision to stop advertising in the LGBT media and to distance themselves from the extremist, anti-gay American Family [...]
Ford will again advertise in gay publications
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Advertisements featuring Ford Motor Co.'s eight vehicle brands will run in gay publications, the automaker said Wednesday, acting after gay rights groups complained when Jaguar and Land Rover pulled [...]