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Bookmarking services are sites that allow you to bookmark any other site across the internet, and have that bookmark list that you create be available to you wherever you go. All of them require you [...]
Hate crimes, anti-bullying: Will they pass the legislature this year?
LANSING - With the recent and highly publicized savage anti-gay murder of 72-year-old Andrew Anthos, BTL decided to find out where anti-bullying and hate crimes legislation stood in the legislative process and what their potential [...]
Euro mayors stand up to Luzhkov
By Rex Wockner LONDON - Homophobic Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov was criticized by the mayors of London, Berlin and Paris as the four men gathered in London, along with the mayor of Beijing, for their [...]
Dad’s girlfriend doesn’t like gays
Q: I don't even know how to start this, so I'll just jump in and hope you understand and can help. My mom died when I was 5, and my dad raised me. My dad [...]
The Gay Moralist: Money for Gays
by John Corvino Suze Orman is a lesbian. For those of you who don't know her, Orman is a finance guru, bestselling author and television personality. I've always thought of her as the Dr. Laura [...]
Coulter a bully
Come, take an imaginary, but very real, walk with me. Imagine you are a 13 or 14-year-old boy. You are a little overweight, you get into science more than you enjoy sports, you even sing [...]
Creep of the Week: Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter is class in a glass - and only because both words contain the word "ass." Okay, lame joke, but it doesn't hold a candle (or, as she might quip, a flaming "faggot rag-head [...]
General Gayety: Their loss, our gain
by Leslie Robinson Civil-rights movements are messy and perverse. The LGBT movement will progress in part because of the recent sufferings of individuals. That makes me feel a little like a cannibal. Take the ghastly [...]
Hesitant to support Orman
I too was initially excited to see that Suze Orman had come out. Finally, someone to shed light on the bottom line logistics as to why the legalization of gay marriage is so imperative. My [...]
Parting Glances: Mel Gibson, pinch thyself
Parting Glances I haven't read "The DaVinci Code." I haven't seen the popular movie. I don't plan to beg, borrow or steal either controversial blockbuster item. I'm content to accept the little-known "fact" that one [...]
She/He Said week of March 8
"Or maybe I'm trying too hard. Anyone who would beat to death a 72-year-old because he's gay is not a homophobe -- he's a monster." Desiree Cooper, Detroit Free Press, Feb. 27 discussing the hatred [...]
Viewpoint: NAACP denounces Eng column hating blacks, still says nothing about Hardaway hating gays
By Jasmyne A. Cannick Last week after Kenneth Eng's Asian Week column "Why I Hate Blacks" was criticized, guess who issued a statement denouncing the article? If you said the NAACP, then you guessed correctly. [...]
Editorial: Coulter proves anti-bullying law needed
Ann Coulter is a bully. She enjoys causing pain, and then is amused by it. The author of "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," Coulter has built her career and persona by intentionally hurting other people. [...]
BTL Worhsip Guide: A wildly inclusive love
by Rev. Deb Dysert Years ago, I went to a Worship Service during Gay Pride celebration in Indianapolis, Indiana. Rev. Howard Warren was the de-frocked Presbyterian Minister who was preaching at the service of celebration. [...]
Horoscopes week of March 8
The Saturn-Neptune opposition, which inflates everyone's sense of doom and despair, is getting a break as Jupiter offers liberating insights. ARIES (March 20 - April 19): Stuck in the same old routine with your friends? [...]
The OutField: Hoops and Hollers
by Dan Woog So many gay sports stories, so little time. What's a queer sports columnist to do? The news in early February seemed like a flood, but a better analogy was a foxtrot: one [...]
Pet of the Week: Cotton
Cotton is a gorgeous gal! This three-year-old tiger kitty has a magnificent coat and stunning green eyes! Cotton was found wondering around in the chill of winter and is looking for her true love to [...]
Q Puzzle: Marked Interest
March 5, 2007 Across 1 "Cabaret" mister 5 Eleanor's pooch 9 Easy, like Nick Malgieri? 14 Aida solo 15 By mouth 16 Lammy, for one 17 Symbol of gay men in mid-20th century 19 Symbol [...]
Grammy-award winning pianist to play locally
Grammy award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax, renowned for his unsurpassed virtuosity and the exceptional breadth of his worldwide performing activities, will appear in recital on March 17 on the Chamber Music Society of Detroit's (CMSD) Opus [...]
Bitchin’ freedom
Bitch doesn't want to look at her ass. So, when "Shortbus" director John Cameron Mitchell asked the former metro-Detroit musician to shed clothes for his racy film focused on 21st-century New York, she politely passed. [...]
ComedyFest comics reach out to Britney
Comedians everywhere should be thanking Britney Shears. Her hairless-head and crotch shots have become zesty jokes that won't soon wither. The comedians performing at Michigan's Lesbian and Gay ComedyFest on March 10 have some advice, [...]
Swift-ly sailing under single sky
Call Ember Swift queer. Any other label would defeat the purpose of her role as a single soul among several who are basking under the same sky. "To me, queer is more of an umbrella [...]
Pink’s commercial color fades
Pink won't shut up. And for that we're indebted to her. Radio continues to play past singles from her latest album, "I'm Not Dead," her second consecutive one to flop. The badass kiss-off "U & [...]
London-native explores United States on ‘Rent’ tour
Declan Bennett needs another suitcase. The London-native, who's currently touring the United States in "Rent," packed according to the abrupt changes in traveling temperatures, but every gay man knows that enough clothes are, well, never [...]
Show proves laughter IS the best medicine
I'll be honest: I wasn't thrilled to be at the opening night performance of The Second City's 29th revue this past Wednesday. It was nothing against The Second City, mind you. Or the show. Rather, [...]
A pint, a shot, a drama at The Abreact
Anyone who's ever had the unfortunate experience of loving an alcoholic spouse, partner, parent, relative or close friend knows all-too well how "unfunny" alcoholism is - despite the many funny things the alcoholic says and [...]
Art & Around for the period March 8-17
ARCHITECTURE/GARDEN TOURS: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Discover the Ford House with all-new tours that go behind the scenes, examine special subjects and provide a new perspective on the family that left an indelible mark [...]
Theater Events for the period March 8-17
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: Between Men and Cattle The president of a conservative, white university arranges a meeting with the black man he interviewed 30 years later to find out, in part, what went wrong during their [...]
Kalamazoo to launch pride event
Adam Martin has only been to a couple of Gay Pride Events, and he's never fully participated in one. Until now. "I really just kind of fell into my role here (at Kalamazoo Pride), but [...]
Lansing mourns the loss of ‘The Mayor of Old Town’
LANSING -- Those who knew Robert Busby tell of a man who would ride his bike through Lansing's Old Town 30 years ago. While others would see boarded up buildings, violent bars and a porno [...]
Coulter calls John Edwards ‘faggot’
By Lisa Keen There were a number of crass remarks made about Democrats at last weekend's conservative confab in Washington, D.C. For instance, one conservative commentator quipped that U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton had "thrown her [...]
Repeal of DADT reintroduced
by Bob Roehr A bill to repeal the anti-gay military policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 28. The lead sponsor is Rep. Marty Meehan [...]
Gay/AIDS advocate Bob Hattoy dies
by Bob Roehr Bob Hattoy, 56, died in his sleep on March 3 at his home in Sacramento, apparently of a heart attack. The environmental-political-gay-AIDS activist became perhaps the most widely know openly gay member [...]
Gays sue Moscow mayor for libel
by Rex Wockner Photos available if space PHOTOS http://public.fotki.com/MANOaMANO/rex_wockner_news_photos/ TO DOWNLOAD FULL-SIZED PHOTOS 1) At the photos site, click on INTERNATIONAL NEWS #671. 2) Click on a thumbnail. 3) Underneath the computer-screen-sized version of a [...]
Spring Arbor professor’s journey to womanhood
SPRING ARBOR - Julie Marie Nemecek always knew there was something different about her growing up. Something she could not quite put a finger on. That was before Julie, though. That was when she was [...]
Mediation for transgender professor with Spring Arbor University
DETROIT -- Julie Marie Nemecek, 55, a transgender woman suing her employer the conservative Christian university Spring Arbor University met with Spring Arbor officials and a federal mediator for over 7 hours Tuesday, says Nemecek [...]
New era of HIV/AIDS treatment on the horizon
by Bob Roehr LOS ANGELES - Two new classes of drugs treating HIV are likely to be approved later this year by the FDA. Many consider it to be a milestone second only to the [...]
Proposed club for cross-dressers causes stir in Wyandotte
WYANDOTTE - It's been three years since Janet Law opened a boutique for cross-dressers, Janet's Closet, in back of her successful speed shop on Fort Street. Since that time, the store has attracted a small [...]
Transitioning city manager fired in Largo, Fla.
LARGO, Fla. - Steve Stanton didn't think it would be easy. But he also didn't believe that his decision to transition into Susan and have gender reassignment surgery would manage to overshadow his 14 years [...]
Arrest at Notre Dame as Equality Ride pays visit
South Bend, IN - Six young adults were arrested today for walking onto the Notre Dame campus in a show of support for gay and lesbian equality. The arrestees are members of the Soulforce Equality [...]
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Professional Theater News from Around Town: American Ballet Theatre presents 'Swan Lake' at Detroit Opera House DETROIT - American Ballet Theatre brings the spell-binding "Swan Lake" to the Detroit Opera House for a limited five-performance [...]
Fired Spring Arbor University Transgender Prof reaches settlement
Online update from Between The Lines Newspaper DETROIT-- Julie Marie Nemecek has reached an agreement with the conservative Christian University that fired her last month. The federal mediation resulted in a "mutually satisifactory" resolution. Exact [...]