In A Family Way: Passings
By Ari Lev It is a season of passings. When controversial radical feminist writer Andrea Dworkin died last year, a friend said she "didn't recognize Dworkin's name." I guess that's every writer's dream: for your [...]
By Ari Lev It is a season of passings. When controversial radical feminist writer Andrea Dworkin died last year, a friend said she "didn't recognize Dworkin's name." I guess that's every writer's dream: for your [...]
By John Corvino In a March 17th Washington Post column Charles Krauthammer uses the HBO series "Big Love" (about a modern-day polygamist family in Utah) as a springboard to telling gay-rights advocates "I told you [...]
Detroit's ancient, seven-story Cass Technical High School has been replaced with a new $127 million structure; and an era of excellence in education has ended. A new era -- 21st Century post modern -- begins. [...]
By Mubarak Dahir No one likes a nelly homo. Least of all these days, other homos. That fact is blatantly obvious in our own culture of desire, and I got a jolting reminder of it [...]
Architecture/Garden Tours: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Events include "Grounds for Gardening" lecture series, March 29, $9; plus Ford House Explorer series for children: "Kids Perspective Tour," March 25, $14; and "Detecting Details," April 1, [...]
This Week: Cloud Room & The National Thurs. 3/23/06 The Intersection, Grand Rapids Eddie From Ohio Thurs. 3/23/06 The Ark, Ann Arbor Queen and Paul Rogers Fri. 3/24/06 Palace of Auburn Hills James Blunt and [...]
Professional Theater/Opera: Adult Entertainment A Yale graduate helps a group of second rate porn stars set out to make artistic and profitable adult movies. Icarus Falling at Creole Gallery, Lansing. Fri.-Sat., March 24-April 1. $10. [...]
Dear BTL, Finally someone coming into their own from Michigan. Joe Fitrzyk obviously is indirectly helping many younger gays hopefully find their own truth and be proud, yet humbled to be free. From what I [...]
FERNDALE - On Saturday, March 25 families and avid bowlers will head over to Royal Oak Lanes in Royal Oak, Michigan to compete in Affirmations' Rainbow Bowl. The event is part of SHINDIGZ!, a new [...]
DETROIT - The LGBT Association of Middle Eastern Americans is hosting its 9th Arabian Nights party at the Malebox Saturday, March 25. The evening will feature Arabic dance music, Arabic female illusionist performances, and a [...]
LANSING - On March 23 at 9:30 p.m. the second "Kiss My Gender" event will take place at the Temple Club as a benefit for TransGender Michigan's TJ Jourian Scholarship Fund. The show is produced [...]
By Peter Galvin While many gay people around the country were disappointed that "Brokeback Mountain" lost out to "Crash" for the Best Picture Oscar this year, the ceremony did provide the introduction of singer/songwriter Bird [...]
Review: 'Devour the Snow' Truth wins out at Meadow Brook By Donald V. Calamia Self-preservation. In theory, we humans will do just about anything to stay alive. After all, it IS one of the basic [...]
DETROIT - Currently the most critically acclaimed music festival in the U.S., The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California unites groundbreaking recording artists from all genres of music in one of the West [...]
FERNDALE - Affirmations, the Ferndale-based LGBT community center, will host a performance of "Sordid Lives" on Thursday, April 6, as part of the organization's ongoing series of social gatherings called Shindigz! According to Kathleen LaTosch, [...]
Professional Theater News from Around Town: Mason Street Warehouse announces 2006 season SAUGATUCK - Mason Street Warehouse, an uptown theatre in downtown Saugatuck, is pleased to announce its 2006 season. MSW continues the tradition of [...]
Just Out Failure to Launch Tripp (Matthew McConaughey) lives at home and lets his parents (Kathy Bates, Terry Bradshaw) cook, clean, and do his laundry while he dates a series of women he has no [...]
ANN ARBOR - For her newest collection of ditties, "I'm a Mountain," Canadian singer/songwriter Sarah Harmer leaves behind the programmed synthesizers and electric guitar and treads down-home territory Dolly-style. For the bluegrass/folk collection - Harmer's [...]
By Cornelius A. Fortune "V for Vendetta" must truly rank as one of the best "protest" films that isn't a protest film ever made. This one has a real story to tell, not to mention [...]
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Politics Romney will fly to Rome NASHUA, N.H. - Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who recently filed a bill that would allow a Catholic social service agency to deny adoptions to [...]
John Dunleavy Top o' the mornin' to you - unless, of course, you're gay. Once again, New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade was kept free of homosexuals mucking things up with their light-in-the-loafers mincing. [...]
"I guess you'd love for me to say that it was difficult, that I wanted to vomit. But the straight fact is, it was just another person. Now, by no means do I wanna f--k [...]
FERNDALE - Lesbian A-Sisters is a program that assists differently-abled lesbian and bisexual women in Metro Detroit with daily tasks, light home chores, gardening, transportation and errands. The group is looking for additional volunteers to [...]
FERNDALE - On March 1, several Detroit-area activists formed Transgender Detroit to serve the needs of transgender individuals living in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Michelle Fox-Phillips and Jamie Phillips-Fox are the organization's founders and [...]
DETROIT - The Triangle Foundation has announced the addition of two new staff members. Greg Varnum and Sean Moore have been named as executive assistant and sponsorship coordinator, respectively. Varnum's role as executive assistant will [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - On March 8 the Michigan Women's Commission, a bi-partisan commission within the state's Department of Civil Rights, voted to support Representative Paul Condino's bill that would allow second parent [...]
By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON - President Bush announced last week the creation of a new office within the Department of Homeland Security - this one is charged with making it easier for "faith-based and other [...]
By Imani Williams DETROIT - Following the first HTJ! Community Planning Meeting for 2006 emails containing messages like, "It was nice meeting everyone and I'm excited about being involved," are flowing back and forth on [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman BLOOMFIELD HILLS - The Jewish Gay Network, a two-year-old organization serving Michigan's Jewish LGBTs, has been accepted into the Jewish Community Council. As a member organization, JGN will join JCC's 200-plus [...]
By Sharon Gittleman ROYAL OAK - Jill Polisano hopes to achieve a goal that has eluded her for six years - to be ignored. "The big question I have is how does my being in [...]
By Cornelius A. Fortune DETROIT - A benefit for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force was held March 17 at Detroit's Scarab Club. The benefit honored U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), whose work has [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WASHINGTON - In the United States there is one allegiance that transcends sexual orientation or the choice to follow any particular religion. That shared allegiance is "American," and the First Amendment [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - On Tuesday, March 28, parents, students, teachers and LGBT advocates will descend on Lansing with one request of their state Representatives and Senators: "Make Michigan's schools safe for all [...]
BTL Staff WASHINGTON - The Bush administration last year quietly rewrote the rules for allowing gays and lesbians to receive national-security clearances, drawing complaints from civil rights activists. Rules approved by President Clinton in 1997 [...]
"School days, school days, good old Golden Rule days..." Unless you're seen as too fat. Or too thin. Or you wear the wrong clothing or like the wrong musical artists or... ...unless you are, or [...]
Walk & Squawk returns with the 'Walking Project' DETROIT - Walking. It's a simple, everyday activity that no one really thinks much about; we just do it. Detroiters walk; South Africans walk. Is there a [...]