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Professor John Corvino to present anniversary talk of ‘What’s Morally Wrong With Homosexuality?’
By BTL Staff DETROIT - John Corvino doesn't look like someone who's been speaking on college campuses for 15 years. "I started when I was 12," jokes Corvino, who is actually a youthful 38. But [...]
HTJ! 2007 to commemorate the life of Ruth Ellis
Event will also celebrate Anthony Anthos DETROIT - Black Gay Pride Society announced Tuesday it will kick-off its annual pride celebration early this year with its 8th annual Ruth Ellis Pride March and Birthday Celebration [...]
KKK rally brings in most ‘violent white’ supremacists
KALAMAZOO - The Ku Klux Klan has announced plans to hold a rally on Aug. 4 in Kalamazoo. The group says its rally will begin at 1 p.m. but declined to identify the place. Hal [...]
National NOW conference comes to Detroit
By Sharon Gittleman DETROIT - A conference held in Detroit next weekend has two big goals. "We really educate and provoke," said Jacqueline Steingold, chairwoman of the event's local organizing committee and president of the [...]
Creep of the Week: North Carolina Family Policy Council
The gig is up when it comes to the war against comprehensive sex-education. Not only does abstinence-only education ignore the existence of LGBT people, it doesn't work despite the billions of taxpayer dollars funneled into [...]
O’Reilly’s lesbian hordes
by Leslie Robinson General Gayety Silly me. Here I had the idea that I'd heard every wild claim people could make about gays. I've got to stop selling people short. On June 21 the Fox [...]
The Pious Publishers Are Already In Heaven
by Wayne Besen Anything But Straight Charlene Cothran (Venus magazine) and Michael Glatze (Young Gay America magazine editor) were gay niche publishers who discovered that peddling fiction is much juicer (and potentially more profitable) than [...]
And then there’s Maud!
by Joe Kort Have you ever heard of a dog that gives you the middle finger, snubs you when you call, believes that you exist to please her and that she doesn't have to please [...]
Gay guitar guy still thrivin’
DEARBORN - When Henry Ford Museum kicks off its summer concert series July 12, alternative rock icon Bob Mould will take the stage to strike the first chord on his 1980 Fender Stratocaster. The concert [...]
Enrique Iglesias gets G-A-Y
By B. Voss Why did you name your new album "Insomniac"? I've had problems sleeping since I was a kid because I was always hyperactive. But I made this album mostly at night, and I [...]
Artist displays self portraits at Ferndale gallery
FERNDALE - Through July 28, Craig Paul Nowak will have a Solo Show of new work at Nextstep Studio & Gallery. Only one year out of The College for Creative Studies (Detroit), Craig Paul Nowak [...]
Gay ‘Matters’
Win a free DVD Don't believe that "Gray Matters" should've stayed in the closet? You can see for yourself. Ten Between The Lines readers can get a copy of the cliched comedy for F-R-E-E. So, [...]
Another whiff of ‘Hairspray’
By Christopher Cappiello When John Waters makes a quick cameo as a flasher during "Good Morning Baltimore," the joyful opening number of "Hairspray" - the film version of the 2002 Broadway musical adaptation of Waters' [...]
Never again, indeed
The reports that Clive Davis, the big kahuna of Kelly Clarkson's RCA label, didn't dig his "AI" prodigy's raucous disc didn't deter my sentiment for the sweet songbird's third album. At first. Though spiteful first-single [...]
EDITOR’S PICK: Kinetic Affect
Two West Michigan performers will power up their artistry, voice and vision July 12-14 when they bring a multi-sensory performance to the Wellspring Theater stage at the Epic Center in Kalamazoo. This inaugural performance, called [...]
EDITOR’S PICK: Red Hot Mamas
The 14th season of Broadway Onstage and the 27th season of Dennis Wickline Productions, Inc. get under way Friday, July 20 when the delightful comedy "Red Hot Mamas" opens at the Eastpointe Theatre. "Red Hot [...]
Q Scopes: Be selfish, Pisces
by Jack Fertig July 9, 2007 The lunar nodes indicate an axis between easy, habitual behavior and more productive growth. Mars in Taurus is harmonizing with them, helping to apply energy productively toward the more [...]
Dear Jody – Man shows lover the door
Q: I am so enraged I can hardly write this but I want to see if you think I am right to be so pissed. Here's what happened: I went to Pride March with my [...]
Now Playing: License to Wed, Transformers …
July 16, 2007 NEW THIS WEEK: License to Wed Sadie (Mandy Moore) loves Ben (John Krasinski), and they want to get married. So they enroll in a pre-nuptial course at their church with Reverend Frank [...]
Q Puzzle: The Life of …
July 9, 2007 Across 1 Take advantage of International Male 5 Soc. Security fund source 9 Sergei of "The Opposite of Sex" 13 Fruit center 14 "Tearoom Trade" author Humphries 15 Type of New York [...]
Welcome to Detroit: NBJC gets warm reception
FERNDALE - The Detroit Welcome Reception and Spiritual Strengthening Event for the National Black Justice Coalition had over 150 people Sunday night. Held at MCC Detroit, libations were offered by Atiba Seitu, Dr. Renee McCoy [...]
California Supreme Court delve into marriage case
by Rex Wockner A series of questions sent by the California Supreme Court to the lawyers in the pending same-sex marriage case reveals that the court is seriously dissecting the details of the case. "I [...]
Professor John Corvino to present anniversary talk of ‘What’s Morally Wrong With Homosexuality?’
By BTL Staff DETROIT - John Corvino doesn't look like someone who's been speaking on college campuses for 15 years. "I started when I was 12," jokes Corvino, who is actually a youthful 38. But [...]
HTJ! 2007 to commemorate the life of Ruth Ellis
Event will also celebrate Anthony Anthos DETROIT - Black Gay Pride Society announced Tuesday it will kick-off its annual pride celebration early this year with its 8th annual Ruth Ellis Pride March and Birthday Celebration [...]
Hate Crimes heads for possible Senate vote
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, DC - Hate crimes legislation bearing the name of Matthew Shepard is likely to come to a vote later this week in the U.S. Senate. The difficulty of getting a separate [...]
International Briefs
by Rex Wockner Gays to be protected in new Thai Constitution The Thai government's Constitutional Drafting Assembly reportedly has agreed to include GLBT people in the new constitution, adding a clause protecting "those of other [...]
KKK rally brings in most ‘violent white’ supremacists
KALAMAZOO - The Ku Klux Klan has announced plans to hold a rally on Aug. 4 in Kalamazoo. The group says its rally will begin at 1 p.m. but declined to identify the place. Hal [...]
Life experience makes Bernero more than an ally mayor
Capitol Correspondent LANSING - The tenacious, aggressive mayor of Lansing freely admits he is a politician to his core. "I'm a politician," the fast-talking Virg Bernero said in a sit-down interview this week. "I naturally [...]
National NOW conference comes to Detroit
By Sharon Gittleman DETROIT - A conference held in Detroit next weekend has two big goals. "We really educate and provoke," said Jacqueline Steingold, chairwoman of the event's local organizing committee and president of the [...]
Pride celebrated worldwide
by Rex Wockner More than 1 million at Europride The annual Europride parade, held this year in Madrid, saw a turnout of more than 1 million people June 30. A four-day festival that started June [...]
Surgeon General nominee to face tough questioning at hearing
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, DC - Surgeon General nominee James Holsinger goes before the Senate health committee in a confirmation hearing scheduled for Thursday, July 12. Gay and AIDS advocates are stepping up their opposition [...]
National gatherings for full equality offer tools, hope
There are obvious connections between the LGBT movement for civil rights, the struggle for racial equality, women's rights, immigration rights, the peace movement, and calls for fair treatment of the poor. In order for us [...]
Art & Around for the period July 12-21
SUMMER ARTS FESTIVALS: Art on the Grand A juried interactive art fair with entertainment and family fun presented as part of the 33-year-old Farmington Founders Festival at Farmington Road and Grand River. July 20-22. Farmington [...]
Summer comedy uncorked at Planet Ant
Metro Detroit's improv community is blessed with an abundance of talent, but only two women are known as "The First Ladies of Detroit Improv": Margaret Edwartowski and Nancy Hayden. Longtime veterans of both the main [...]
Some more of this, and a little of that
It was only a month ago that I sat down with guest critics D.A. Blackburn and Robert W. Bethune and wished them well for the summer, because with such a light theater schedule over the [...]
Theater Events for the period July 12-21
 PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: The Best of the Golden Years Local seniors take to the stage for the 18th annual afternoon of singing, dancing, magic and comedy. Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, Clinton Twp. Fri.-Sat., [...]
EDITOR’S PICK: Kinetic Affect
Two West Michigan performers will power up their artistry, voice and vision July 12-14 when they bring a multi-sensory performance to the Wellspring Theater stage at the Epic Center in Kalamazoo. This inaugural performance, called [...]
EDITOR’S PICK: Red Hot Mamas
The 14th season of Broadway Onstage and the 27th season of Dennis Wickline Productions, Inc. get under way Friday, July 20 when the delightful comedy "Red Hot Mamas" opens at the Eastpointe Theatre. "Red Hot [...]
New day dawns at Full Truth
DETROIT - Pastor Darlene C.A. Franklin does not court popularity. Having helmed Full Truth Fellowship of Christ Church for the past seven years now, she has steered the ministry toward a more Bible-based (read: stricter) [...]
Saugatuck Township bans discrimination on basis of sexual orientation
Capitol Correspondent SAUGATUCK TWP. - The five-person Saugatuck Township Board of Commissioners voted unanimously July 11 to adopt a new ordinance prohibiting discrimination. The new ordinance, called the non-discrimination ordinance, has been under consideration by [...]