In case you missed it, the Detroit News ran an excellent piece June 6 on the second parent adoption bill pending in Michigan's legislature. The bill would allow unmarried adults, including gays, to adopt children [...]
I don't know how in hades she does it; but just at the exact, psychological, aerodynamically precise moment that an airplane with a banner reading, "Jesus Christ: hope for homeosexuals" is circulating above Motor City [...]
by John Corvino When I heard that someone was suing eHarmony for its refusal to provide dating services for same-sex couples, I winced. It's not that I approve of their policy (I don't). It's not [...]
by Craig Covey Viewpoint Last month 81 leaders and activists from 35 area and state LGBT organizations gathered for a two day retreat organized by the Peninsula Group. This was the largest and broadest such [...]
"Curl Girls" knows its audience. And it's not me. Though rippling waves, sand and sun tickle me like some heat-deprived Alaskan, the Logo six-part series, which premieres at 10 p.m. June 18, is like picking [...]
By Laura Laing Dave Koz has built his career on following his gut and taking chances - characteristics more akin to the punk movement than smooth jazz. When he was 13, he wanted to be [...]
Deborah Cox's first go at jazz doesn't fall into the fated karaoke-sounding rut. And with a voice as smooth as a twink and as elastic as a rubberband, the R'n'B crooner couldn't possibly have had [...]
The Lawrence Street Gallery will be exhibiting the works of Donna J. Engstrom and Mary Macey until June 30. "Intimate Views" is a joint mother-daughter exhibit featuring mixed media pieces by Donna J Engstrom and [...]
Rachel Sandler's story will resonate: Girl gets knocked up, guy doesn't use a rubber, girl crumbles when his HIV-positive status leaks. The 17-year-old's frantic first-time spirals into a hellish nightmare that's chronicled on Lifetime's docu-style [...]
Happenings June 15: Pride Night @ UICA, 7 p.m. Featuring wine and Hors d'oeuvres and the movie "Puccini for Beginners." The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts is located at 41 Sheldon Ave. Tickets are $10 [...]
Happenings 400 Culver Street. For more information, visit www.sc4a.org or call (269) 857-2399. 8-2 p.m., Fridays through Oct. 12. Saugatuck-Douglas Greenmarket. The Greenmarket opens with fresh local produce and goods for your table. June 14-July [...]
By Albert Paris Every Thursday, Menjo's hosts college night. It's the one night out of the week where hundreds of 20-somethings come together to dance and blow off the steam of the collegiate life. It's [...]
by Jack Fertig June 11, 2007 The Sun in Gemini already has tongues a-wagging. Trine to Neptune, it opens up sensitivity, poetry, and sympathy. Logic is a bit weak, but you can win arguments with [...]
Dear Jody I really don't have anyone to talk about this, so I'd appreciate some guidance, please. (I am changing the names of each person to protect their privacy.) I have a friend, "Dee," whom [...]
June 18, 2007 NEW THIS WEEK: Hostel: Part I In the first installment of this series of relentlessly gory films, backpacking college boys met increasingly sickening ends in a Slovakian youth hostel that fed its [...]
June 11, 2007 Across 1 Treats for Rizzo at the Frosty Palace 6 Very top 10 Prick 14 Carpet layer's calculations 15 Billy of "Cleopatra" (1999) 16 Crack the whip at, e.g. 17 Having a [...]
I am deeply saddened by the article in your paper regarding pride (BTL,June 7, 2007, "Michigan Pride in trouble.") I am a volunteer this year and am very excited about Lansing Pride. It is the [...]
by Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE- Tom Hitchman never planned to be a community activist. Then came Proposal 2's limitation of marriage to one man and one woman. "It wrote discrimination into the state Constitution," said Hitchman, [...]
Capitol Correspondent LANSING- Last week, the announcement from the City of Kalamazoo that it would end its non-union domestic partner benefits program, cracked open the flood gates. Soon after, Ann Arbor Public Schools and Farmington [...]
by Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE- Two things have kept Mark Campau singing with the Detroit Together Men's Chorus for 23 years. "The camaraderie and the joy," he said. "It helped me through a lot of troubled [...]
By Lisa Keen The United States and Sweden are the only countries in the world that collect data on gay-related hate crimes on a national basis. That is one finding of the first comprehensive study [...]
by Rex Wockner Western European officials denounce Russia Western European officials have denounced Russia over the May 27 gay pride rally in which hundreds of police officers watched anti-gay thugs violently beat gay activists, visiting [...]
By Lisa Keen Between The Lines Online BOSTON - When Massachusetts Senate Press Therese Murray gaveled the joint session to order and then moved immediately to a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, gay marriage [...]
Capitol Correspondent EAST LANSING- The website for an ex-gay ministry is under scrutiny by officials at Michigan State University. The site, msu.edu/user/~cstone, came to the attention of Between The Lines when staffers visited the ex-gay [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - There is growing political concern over the nomination of James R. Holsinger to be U.S. Surgeon General, because of his views on gays and lesbians. That in turn has [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - Peter W. Pace, the Marine Corp General who has served a two-year term as the Pentagon's top soldier, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will not be renominated [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House subcommittee that handles health and education appropriations has increased funding for abstinence-only education programs by 25 percent, despite a heavy lobbying effort by AIDS and reproductive health [...]
Capitol Correspondent Lisa Keen has created an important, vibrant book that will serve as both a guide for LBGT youth looking to make sure they know their legal rights, and as an historical document for [...]
Second parent adoption: Capitol Correspondent LANSING-- Marie Wolfe prefers a quiet, private life. She never imagined herself as an advocate for LBGT issues. But circumstances have a way of changing one's life perspective, and Wolfe's [...]
With the recent decisions by several public employers in Michigan to take steps to rescind benefits for employees' domestic partners, many in our community are wondering what we can do to fight back against the [...]
A basic tenant of the LGBT community is one of cooperation and community building. In many ways the LGBT community achieves these goals as it works together in our fight for full equality. However, when [...]
SUMMER ARTS FESTIVALS: Ann Arbor Summer Festival A three-week celebration of performing arts, outdoor entertainment and community spirit that offers dozens of legendary artists, pop icons, international superstars and emerging newcomers in and around the [...]
Michigan's state legislators might want to visit the Boll Family YMCA in downtown Detroit this weekend where 10 of the state's professional theaters will toss aside their differences and collaborate on a three-day festival to [...]
By Robert W. Bethune L A father's will blights a woman's love. A man risks everything on desperately chancy business. A moneylender schemes to take bloody revenge for racist abuse. A daughter abandons her people [...]
What I've come to expect from Ann Arbor's gutsy, little Blackbird Theatre is the unexpected - and that certainly describes its current production, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: The All Night Strut! The Wilde Award-nominated musical returns to celebrate one of the greatest eras of American music, the era of Swing. BoarsHead Theater, Lansing. Previews June 21 ($25); runs Wed.-Sun., June [...]
by Bob Roehr DALLAS- Hopes for electing the first openly gay, big city mayor, were dashed on June 16 when Ed Oakley lost a nonpartisan run-off election in Dallas. Advance polling had shown the race [...]
