Rep. Jack Brandenburg (R-Harrison Township) to Saginaw Valley State University: "I'm the boss of the world, and you're not!" Always thinking of his constituents - or, rather, the good people of Saginaw, who aren't actually [...]
I'm sitting in a popular Somerset Mall Chinese restaurant where I'm distracted by two unrelated improbabilities: an astounding free fall record I'm reading about in a paperback I just bought, and a waitress named Susie [...]
What does diversity mean to you? Really, to you, personally not some textbook definition, what you heard some diversity trainer say or what you've seen or read in a newspaper or magazine. What is diversity [...]
By Chris Crain More people want to keep gays out of their neighborhood than they do Muslims, Jews, immigrants and people of another race. Why? Who wouldn't want a homosexual for a neighbor? Our interior [...]
You almost feel sorry for Antonio Salieri in the closing moments of "Amadeus," the exquisitely staged period drama that's running through June 10 at Ann Arbor's Performance Network Theatre. It's not that slowly and gleefully [...]
If there's one motto that defines Tony Moran's music-mixing philosophy it's: At your service. "If I was a waiter, I'd be the best fucking waiter in the restaurant," he insists. It's clear - in just [...]
'Be Real' 10 p.m. May 14 A- Odds are the mainstream press won't have much to say about Logo's "Be Real." That's a shame, considering the soul-stirring stories are told through eyes similar to our [...]
DETROIT - Its colorful history includes tales of Jimmy Hoffa playing cards in the back room and, long before that, a brothel being run out of the upstairs. But today, it's all about the food. [...]
"Broken," a feature film shot in Michigan, was not without its share of production nightmares. The crew faced difficult schedules from cast and crew who, at times, drove more than two hours to get to [...]
May 14, 2007 NEW THIS WEEK: Lucky You Huck (Eric Bana) is professional gambler down on his luck and seemingly gripped by a compulsive need to keep playing, even when it's clear he's losing. Living [...]
By John Hartman Most listeners know Rufus Wainwright as a deeply personal songwriter. His songs are achingly intimate and his devoted following worships his ability to be in touch with how they're feeling through beautiful [...]
Wishing Chair 8 p.m. May 16 The Ark, Ann Arbor http://www.theark.org Don't count on Lover's Lane selling accordions anytime soon. But there's something about that instrument that Miriam Davidson can't refuse. "It kind of vibrates [...]
The photography of Ron Harper will be on display at the Liberal Arts Gallery, located at 3361 Gratiot just north of downtown Detroit. Harper's interest in photography began while in the Air Force, when a [...]
by Jack Fertig May 7, 2007 In mythology, Saturn castrated his father, Uranus, and tossed the genitals into the sea, where they arose as Venus. Saturn in Leo quincunx to Uranus in Pisces continues that [...]
Q: Jody, I've been looking for women to date online because I'm not good at the bar scene. I'm also not a joiner of organizations, so I feel pretty isolated looking for lesbians. The online [...]
by Dan Woog May 14, 2007 This sounds strange: A gay bar in Kansas City is owned by a recovering alcoholic. But this is even queerer: It's a sports bar. "Gay sports bar" is no [...]
May 7, 2007 Across 1 Buck heroine 5 Endora portrayer 10 Neighbor of Mont. 14 Ventimiglia of "Heroes" 15 Gay horror writer John Peyton 16 "Frasier" actress Gilpin 17 Eater of forbidden fruit, and others [...]
Such a sweetheart! Meet Fauna, a one-year-old Coonhound mix pup, on the lookout for her new forever home. This gal is super friendly and is anxious to meet all the members of her new family! [...]
Last week, your story "Community gears up for second paretn adoption lobby day," prompted a lively discussion at our dinner table. My partner and I are raising three teenagers, and my daughter starting asking all [...]
I love your website! Every Thursday I go to your site and am delighted to find the latest issue of Between The Lines. I live in a rural part of Michigan, up by the "middle [...]
By Jessica Carreras Brandon Kneefel is no stranger to discrimination. At age 16, the gay rights activist came out to his parents and was disowned by them. As a gay Christian, he was crushed. But [...]
My mom told me she wanted to be cremated. That was just a few weeks ago, as she and I united for a rare dinner-table supper. But, without the slightest warning, the typical how-was-work chat [...]
I remember when I decided to finally come out to my mom (and dad). I was freaking out because I had heard horror stories from other people whose parents didn't take it so well. So [...]
FERNDALE - Next Tuesday, May 15, Affirmations will 'clock in for equality' and host a town hall meeting aimed at educating the public about the realities of harassment and discrimination faced by LGBT people and [...]
FERNDALE - It was an evening written in the stars - or at least that was the theme of it - as Affirmations presented a Zodiac inspired evening for their eighth annual LGBT youth prom [...]
ST. JOSEPH - Despite threats of attack and violence, the Blossom Day Parade in St. Joseph May 5 went off without a hitch, and the for the first time an openly LGBT group participated with [...]
By Lisa Keen It's official: 2007 is the new banner year for gay civil rights. Three more state legislatures have passed laws to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination and their governors are expected to sign them. [...]
by Rex Wockner The chief executive officer of BP (formerly called British Petroleum) resigned May 1 after London newspapers reported that he had a four-year relationship with a 27-year-old man he met through an escort [...]
by Rex Wockner University of Manchester academic Dr. Hal Gladfelder has discovered pro-gay writings from 1749 in the National Archives in Kew, England. The five-foot-long handwritten scroll is a legal indictment of the printer of [...]
by Rex Wockner The European Parliament passed a resolution April 26 criticizing government-sponsored legislation in Poland that would ban discussion of gay topics in schools and punish teachers and principals who violate the proposed law [...]
by Rex Wockner Gay pride didn't go well in Moldova for the third year in a row. Authorities in the capital, Chisinau, banned all public pride activities again, despite a Supreme Court ruling that last [...]
by Rex Wockner The financially disastrous 1st World Outgames, held last summer in Montreal, will pay its biggest creditors 15 or 20 cents of each dollar owed them. Creditors voted to accept the settlement April [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen on the trail 13-Second lapse With 10 candidates lined up for the first debate, the Republican field was scrambling last Thursday, May 3, to squeeze big answers about big questions into [...]
Capitol Correspondent LANSING - The Ingham County prosecutor has issued a felony warrant for the arrest of Jose Villigrans, says Ingham County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Linda Maloney. Villigrans was arrested April 19 at a speech [...]
Capitol Correspondent LANSING - The profile of a man identifying himself as "reststopcop" on Manhunt.net has police worried. The picture in the profile is that of Detective Sgt. Roy Holliday of the Ingham County Sheriff [...]
Capitol Correspondent LANSING- Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer is calling on a host of well-known Republicans to cut their ties to and condemn Michigan State University's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom because it [...]
By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a telephone press conference Thursday, following passage in the U.S. House of a bill to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the federal hate crimes law, Rep. [...]
These are such All-American things - going to the prom, riding a float in a parade. Yet for LGBT people, these simple rites of passage can pose daunting and sometimes terrifying challenges. Affirmations hosted their [...]
It may or may not surprise you, but I'm not particularly familiar with the television and film work of popular actress Molly Ringwald. Her appearance on "The New Mickey Mouse Club Show" at the tender [...]
By D. A. Blackburn In its most recent late night offering, the Planet Ant reunites the proven creative team of Mikey Brown and Nate DuFort for a riotous one act musical comedy with an LGBT [...]
Capitol Correspondent LANSING-- Spring Arbor University has notified Lansing Community College to tell the third largest community college in Michigan, that the partnership between the two schools is over before it ever got off the [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: The Abduction from the Seraglio To celebrate Mozart's 250th birthday, MOT stages this classic romantic drama for the very first time. Michigan Opera Theatre at the Detroit Opera House, Detroit. May 12, 13, [...]
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 [...]
LYNCHBURG, VA-- Jerry Falwell, the larger than life televangelist who launched the so called moral majority movement, is dead. He was found unconscious in his office at Liberty University, a conservative Christian university in this [...]
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