By John Corvino In a few weeks I'll be doing a "Michigan tour" debating same-sex marriage with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family. People sometimes ask me whether I ever encounter hostile audience members [...]
By Ari Lev In my work in the transgender community, I often have the experience of people cozying up to me at social events and, in hushed voices, asking questions or disclosing information about themselves [...]
30 right; 32 left; 14 right. Click! After 50-plus years I can still recall my combination for my locker at Harry Burns Hutchins Intermediate school on Detroit's west side. I can also rattle off the [...]
Inevitably at every celebration across the country of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday his historic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is referenced, dissected, and rehashed. Reflecting on the advances of the African-American community since [...]
Dear BTL, Your quote from John Yoo in the Jan. 12, 2006 SHe Said column may lead some readers to believe that he is an ally of gay people. Everyone should know that Yoo was [...]
Dear BTL, Allow me to add some thoughts and information that will complement Sean Kosofsky's Jan. 19, 2006 column regarding the upcoming Super Bowl. In addition to sports fans, athletes, groupies and jocks coming to [...]
Dear BTL, I think in this day and age the idea of a gay ghetto similar to the likes of Boys Town in Chicago or different areas around the country is outdated, especially when we [...]
Dear BTL, In their respective editorials on the "Brokeback Mountain" movie, John Corvino ("The 'Brokeback Buzz," Dec. 21) and Charles Alexander (Jan. 12's "Seven Golden Gropes!") seem a little flummoxed by its success. As Corvino [...]
AA1 Renunciation.jpg: "Renunciation" by Misha Gordin is part of "The Robinson Committee Collects" exhibition at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center. Photo: BBAC AA2 Louis Lortie New 2.jpg: Pianist Louis Lortie plays an all-Chopin concert at Hill [...]
This Week: Ann Arbor Folk Festival The Robert Cray Band, Iris Dement, Catie Curtis, more Fri. 1/27/06 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Folk Festival Lyle Lovett Trio, Cheryl Wheeler, Jonatha Brooke, more Sat. 1/28/06 [...]
Preview: 'Guest Artist' Jeff Daniels' tenth play is a challenge "It's one of those that I just had to write." If there's one thing that theatergoers expect from a new Jeff Daniels' play, it's the [...]
Review: 'Uncoupled' Romance ads generate laughs at Improv Inferno It's such a simple concept, really: A short while before "Uncoupled" hits the Sunday evening stage at Ann Arbor's Improv Inferno, two audience members are each [...]
Just Out Glory Road Hired to coach the basketball squad at El Paso's Texas Western, Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) aggressively recruits African-American players. The new policy scandalizes the alumni, but the Cinderella team goes all [...]
Rocky is an adorable three-year-old Bichon Frise mix. He is looking for a new home because his previous family no longer had time for him. This fun-loving guy enjoys playing with toys and will need [...]
Professional Theater/Opera: Bad Dates How one woman copes with that bizarre social ritual between men and women. BoarsHead Theatre, Lansing. Thu.-Sun., Jan. 26-Feb. 12. $21-$33. 517-484-7805. http://www.boarshead.org. Blast A celebration of movement and musicborn on [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - Out lesbian rocker Barbara Payton will be one of the headliners of Ferndale's Metro Blues Festival V, which is scheduled to take place from Jan. 27 - Feb. 4. [...]
DETROIT - Historian and author Howard Zinn will be featured in an upcoming theatre benefit for Peace Action of Michigan. On Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. the film "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral [...]
DETROIT- Woodbridge Estates, one of Detroit's newest neighborhoods of single-family houses and townhomes located right in the heart of the city, is expanding with a new townhouse model, the Diana. Two and three bedroom floor [...]
DETROIT - The Detroit Artists Market have announced the opening of Stylize, an exhibition featuring custom motorcycles, fashion, furniture, jewelry, and functional, sculptural and ornamental objects. In addition, there will be a "gas tank" boutique [...]
ANN ARBOR - The 29th Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival presents the rare opportunity to hear many artists that are undiscovered, and there's always at least one breakout that leaves Ann Arbor, and the whole [...]
By Gregg Shapiro Out actor Chad Allen grew up on television. Beginning in 1983, when he was eight years old, Allen portrayed Tommy, the autistic son of one of the doctors on the acclaimed TV [...]
By John Polly As "Brokeback Mountain," director Ang Lee's heartbreaking film tracking the ill-fated relationship of two ranch-roaming cowboys in rural Wyoming, continues to stack up awards and nominations for its powerful love story and [...]
UofM hosts Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw - Split Britches LONDON - They were born in America, met in Amsterdam and became lovers in Berlin. They've performed and taught together in Rio de Janeiro, Hong [...]
Somewhere between getting three children off to school and ruining a frozen pizza, Paula Poundstone finds time to give us "The Big Picture." When asked, though, Poundstone isn't so optimistic about her place in it. [...]
While discussing the "Brokeback Mountain" buzz on CNN's Larry King Live on Jan. 17, guest Janet Parshall, host of the radio program Janet Parshall's America, took the opportunity to bash gay and lesbian families. Once [...]
"In 2004, the religious right was concerned about re-electing George W. Bush. They couldn't come to black churches to talk about the war, about health care, about poverty. So they did what they always do [...]
SAGINAW - Thanks to a donation from PFLAG Tri-Cities, Saginaw Valley State University's Gay-Straight alliance is bringing Judy Shepard to SVSU Feb. 1. Shepard, an advocate of LGBT equality and a national speaker against hate [...]
LANSING - With the local chess group playing dozens of games around the space, about 25 people, plus staff and board members of Michigan Equality, spent two hours in an ally training at Gone Wired [...]
LANSING - TransGender Michigan is in the process of creating a scholarship fund for college and university students in Michigan who are actively working to counter transgender oppression. Donations are needed to help fund the [...]
By Melinda Haus LYONS Mich. - Twenty activists, representing the LGBT and disability rights communities, gathered in December at the Leaven Center, in Lyons Michigan, to participate in a weekend dialogue that focused on becoming [...]
FERNDALE - Crystal Meth Anonymous, a support group to help people deal with addiction to the drug, meets at Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center on Monday nights. The group has been in existence since [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WASHINGTON - Crystal meth is having a negative impact on the budgets of county-run hospitals. That was the conclusion of a report released Jan. 16 by the National Association of Counties. [...]
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman National Black AIDS Awareness month is Feb. 1 - March 12, and agencies around the state are urging African-American men who have sex with men to "Show yourself some love!" [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT -- Newly obtained documents reveal that Michigan state officials are concerned that federal legislation called the Real ID Act will require extensive changes to existing practices at the Secretary of [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - On Jan. 13, the State News reported that Melissa Sue Robinson, a candidate for the special election to fill Virg Bernero's 23rd district state Senate seat, has filed suit [...]
By The Associated Press BALTIMORE - A Baltimore judge struck down a 33-year-old state law against marriage for gays and lesbians Jan. 20, declaring it violates the Maryland Constitution's guarantee of equal rights. Circuit Judge [...]
By The Associated Press TOMS RIVER, N.J. - In a reversal in the face of months of protests by gay-rights advocates, Ocean County freeholders are poised to extend death benefits to the partner of a [...]
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Politics Gay civil rights bill passed OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Washington House on Jan. 20 passed a bill banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, sending the measure to the Senate, [...]
Last week in Maryland, Baltimore Circuit Judge M. Brooke Murdock struck down a 33-year-old state law against marriage for gays and lesbians, and in so doing she rejected the argument that the "traditional family" is [...]
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 The Associated Press ATLANTA, Jan. 21 - Churches have an obligation to help end the "poisoned atmosphere" surrounding the acceptance of gay men and lesbians, the Rev. Al Sharpton said at a weekend summit [...]
by The Associated Press SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. - A former John Brown University student said he was expelled from the school where his parents work after the administration raised questions about his homosexuality and imposed [...]
