ROCHESTER - Avon Players presents the final production of its 2006-2007 season, "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?," with book by John R. Powers and music and lyrics by James Quinn and Alaric [...]
FERNDALE - On April 28 more than a hundred people will gather at Affirmations in downtown Ferndale to take part in their fifth annual Health Fair. "Many LGBT people are fearful of coming out to [...]
DETROIT - It's a bit like a beloved old Abbott and Costello routine. Dr. Carl J. Schmitz, chief medical examiner of Wayne County, ruled the February death of 72-year-old Andrew Anthos was natural based on [...]
FERNDALE - It's the largest annual meeting of lgbt activists in the country, and it's coming to Detroit. Planning for the 2008 Creating Change conference officially kicked off last Thursday with a well-attended meeting at [...]
Q: I am a 52-year-old woman who wants to know how to get into a long term relationship with another woman. I was married for 16 years when my husband died. I have known since [...]
Flash back to 1991. The soundtrack? "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour, a one-hit-wonder dance-pop act. Over a throbbing beat a deep manly voice asks, "Have you noticed that people are still having sex? [...]
I'll say this for Sr. Scatterpin, Renegade Sisters of Mary, she has an immaculate (no pun intended) sense of timing. I was on an Easter egg hunt sponsored by Hell's Archangels Biker's Club when she [...]
Robert Fulghum wrote "All I ever needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten." All I remember about kindergarten was singing, having my very own little mat to sleep on at nap time and what seemed [...]
by John Corvino In my last column I wrote about a Christian couple who invited me to dinner during one of my lecture tours. I first met the husband when he stood up during a [...]
THURSDAY Body Zone Health Club: Free tanning Club Flamingo: Happy Hour, 4-8 p.m. Diamond Jim's Saloon: Karaoke with D.J. Bit T.W.A.T. Diversions: Karaoke. $3.00 16 oz beer. $1.50 Schnapps. $5.00 Jager Bombs The Male Box: [...]
Pick up a Pocket Gay. They're like a babbling Barbie, only better - and queerer. These portable homo peeps offer (gay) style tips, abrasive (lesbian) baseball breaking-in and if they're not fed, well, dig a [...]
Jenny Owen Youngs doesn't need to sit on the reason for her gay fan flock. Sure, the tomboy get-up is a magnetic lesbian force. But there's a more scientific explanation. "It's because my hair is [...]
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 [...]
Detroit Area Adams Apple, Detroit, (313) 240-8482 Amici's Living Room Berkley, (248) 544-4100 Backstreet, Detroit, (313) 838-6699 Body Zone Health Club 1617 E. McNichols Detroit, (313) 366-9663 Como's, Ferndale (248) 548-5005 Detroit Eagle, Detroit, (313) [...]
The Performers Awards of Detroit held their 32nd Annual Awards Ceremony at Gigi's on Sunday. The nominees and recipients of this award are recognized by their peers in the only ceremony of its kind in [...]
Troubled kid Kale (Shia LaBeouf) is under house arrest for the summer. When boredom sets in, he begins to spy on his neighbors, eventually discovering that one of them is a serial killer. What follows [...]
by Jack Fertig April 16, 2007 Venus in Gemini squaring Mars in Pisces makes this a great time for singing and dancing - but beyond that you may get little more than a song and [...]
by Dan Woog "Evan Darling" sounds like the fake name of a gay porn star. But there really is an Evan Darling - and the gearshift knobs he grabs and cockpits he enters are not [...]
April 16, 2007 Across 1 Gay cultural values, e.g. 6 James of "Only When I Laugh" 10 Sherman Hemsley religious sitcom 14 Cups and such 15 "Pandora's Box" heroine 16 Note to Matt Foreman's staff [...]
She's terrific gal, looking for a little love! Meet Kisses, a three-year-old Husky mix, waiting to give you all the love she has! Kisses has lots of energy and would love lots of walks and [...]
FERNDALE - On April 28 more than a hundred people will gather at Affirmations in downtown Ferndale to take part in their fifth annual Health Fair. "Many LGBT people are fearful of coming out to [...]
The comments of Mr. Bill Ballenger, Inside Michigan Politics Editor, regarding Matt's Safe Schools bill (HB 4162) and categorical enumeration, are shortsighted ("Safe Schools Coalition Fractured..." - April 5, 2007). It seems Mr. Ballenger is [...]
In your editorial piece "Michigan, Detroit should do more" regarding contributions to the Ruth Ellis center, I took particular issue with calling out the City of Detroit for not contributing to the Ruth Ellis center, [...]
Dear Chris Azzopardi, Lets see here, your "talent" is ... what exactly? It's certainly not journalism. You'd be a better writer for The National Enquirer, maybe. Even a true journalist, Liz Smith for example, knows [...]
Hmmmm? Well, I guess Mr. Azzopardi hasn't read the reviews of each of the stops thus far on La Ross mini-tour. Furthermore, he obviously hasnt been in one of the smaller venues with The Lady...letting [...]
Hi Chris: I'm a long time Diana Ross fan and I thought your initial review of "I Love You" as well as your response to the loads of e-mails you received in response to your [...]
FERNDALE - On April 28 more than a hundred people will gather at Affirmations in downtown Ferndale to take part in their fifth annual Health Fair. "Many LGBT people are fearful of coming out to [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. "travel ban" on HIV-positive foreign visitors and immigrants is a vestige of the darkest days of the epidemic. It may be drastically modified or even eliminated completely [...]
DETROIT - It's a bit like a beloved old Abbott and Costello routine. Dr. Carl J. Schmitz, chief medical examiner of Wayne County, ruled the February death of 72-year-old Andrew Anthos was natural based on [...]
FERNDALE - Antique hunters will find vintage furniture, china, built-in architectural features at an auction being held this Saturday at Detroit's historic El Moore building. The building is being renovated by El Moore condominiums which [...]
Family Pride, the national non-profit organization committed to securing equality for all families, is partnering with the Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality to offer two free "OUTSpoken Families" trainings to Michigan. Participants will receive a [...]
LANSING - "What's next for LGBT Michigan?" That question will be addressed and answered in Lansing on April 20 during a Regional Reception hosted by the Board of Trustees and staff of the Triangle Foundation. [...]
DETROIT - More than 300 teenagers and other religious fundamentalists gathered downtown in Grand Circus Park to kick off Battle Cry's Detroit rally. An evangelical youth movement created by presidential advisor and religious extremist Ron [...]
Dirt on my face. Weapon in hand. The Battle's raging. We're waging war. There's no time for apathy. No time for laziness. I can't stand by and watch my comrades be taken down. We have [...]
Dr. Julie Nemecek is worried about Battle Cry and Ron Luce's militaristic movement. As an ordained Baptist minister, Luce,Aeos message twists what she sees as the Christian message. "Jesus didn't dwell on metaphors," she says. [...]
FERNDALE - It's the largest annual meeting of lgbt activists in the country, and it's coming to Detroit. Planning for the 2008 Creating Change conference officially kicked off last Thursday with a well-attended meeting at [...]
Cult: a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing, and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control designed to advance the goals of the [...]
Capitol Correspondent DETROIT- Something happened to Jesus. Tolerance? A.W.O.L. Loving thy neighbor as thyself? A.W.O.L Turning the other cheek? A.W.O.L. In their place, a militant brand of ask no questions, take no prisoners Christianity preached [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate version of hate crimes legislation will be called the "Matthew Shepard Act" in honor of the young man whose death in Laramie, Wyoming gripped the nation over [...]
by Bob Roehr ATLANTA - The spread of drug-resistant gonorrhea has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change the nationwide guidelines for treating that infection. The announcement came in an April [...]
The Creating Change conference will be coming to Detroit in February 2008 and it is a tremendous opportunity for all of us in the region. The first meeting for those interested in working on the [...]
FERNDALE - We'll never know whether it was Divine Providence or the intercession of St. Genesius - the patron saint of actors - that caused Joe Bailey to stop at a red light near the [...]
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 [...]
In playwriting class, students are often instructed to write about what they know. Whether or not Brian Letscher has ever studied the craft of scriptwriting I haven't a clue, but the former Division I football [...]
By D. A. Blackburn When we think of the 1950s, it's easy to get caught up in nostalgic notions. It was, after all, a decade entrenched in the "American Dream" - a period marked by [...]
It's good to be king. It's even better to be king in an old-fashioned musical about a land where pretty much nothing bad ever happens - except for the overly virtuous best friend who's caught [...]
By Robert W. Bethune Irish plays like Brian Friel's "Translations" have great characters. Hugh O'Donnell runs a tiny school, devoting himself to giving backwoods 19th century Irish people the gift of Homer and Virgil. His [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: Amadeus Salieri wants only one thing - but the musical talent resides within rival Mozart. Performance Network Theatre, Ann Arbor. Previews April 26-29 & May 3 ($20-$28); runs Thu.-Sun., May 4-June 10. $25-$37. [...]
Capitol Correspondent DETROIT- Something happened to Jesus. Tolerance? A.W.O.L. Loving thy neighbor as thyself? A.W.O.L Turning the other cheek? A.W.O.L. In their place, a militant brand of ask no questions, take no prisoners Christianity preached [...]
CCO1 [no art ] ANN ARBOR - A web-based service that provides performing arts producers and performing artists with a central location where they can find out about productions currently looking for artists across a [...]
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