The OutField: Gay sports scholarship seeks recipients
by Dan Woog John Kiley and Gene Silbert could be poster children for gay men of a certain age. They met in a Greenwich Village bar in 1953, and have been a couple ever since. [...]
Creep of the Week
Bill O'Reilly "Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd..." Unless that crowd is full of queers. Then you'd best keep the kiddies at home. That's what Bill O'Reilly thinks about [...]
The Gay Moralist: Fifteen years of the same damn lecture
by John Corvino The year was 1992, and I was a philosophy graduate student at the University of Texas. I had just completed high school, college, and my first semester of grad school at Catholic [...]
Keen on the trail
By Lisa Keen Gay-related news from the presidential campaign trail... HRC-LOGO COUP: It's a political and historic coup for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Teamed with MTV Network's gay cable channel LOGO, the national gay [...]
Parting Glances: Sister Absentia speaks!
Beloved Readers: My friend Charles who writes this column and has done so faithfully for eight memorable years -- with uplifting insights tempered with unrepentant sarcasms -- is taking time off. (He'll be unofficial Lotion [...]
Viewpoint: Bill Richardson’s ‘maricon’ moment
by Chris Crain {ITAL The Democratic hopeful slammed Ann Coulter's use of an 'ignorant epithet' but pleaded ignorance for saying the same word himself in Spanish.} Language can be a tricky business. Just ask Bill [...]
All Politics is Loco: Hating Hindus is Hip
by Sean Kosofsky I can't take it any longer. Just when you think the American Family Association can't do anything more vile, more un-American, more hypocritical, or more morally bankrupt, they DO. On July 12, [...]
Billy Masters
"You should have seen everyone on the set. Every woman and every man was feeling my breasts and squeezing my ass. And I was 'C'mon, feel me, touch me!' I didn't care. I was a [...]
Book Marks
by Richard Labonte July 16, 2007 , 302 pages, $24.95 hardcover. More ably than most any contemporary queer writer, Jay Quinn is crafting novels that neatly integrate gay lives with straight lives. In last year's [...]
Shakespeare out, Simon in at Water Works
Shakespeare has left the building. Or to be more precise, he's been evicted from Royal Oak's Starr Jaycee Park to make way for that OTHER world famous author, Neil Simon, whose early comedy "Barefoot in [...]
Step out of the heat and into the ‘Rain’
By D. A. Blackburn Three days of rain. Without context these words, strung together, elicit images of dreary, uneasy days spent indoors in gray-hued misery. But in the hands of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Richard [...]
Hip, hip, hooray for ‘Hairspray’
'Hairspray' In theaters July 20 A Never been high? Just take a whiff of "Hairspray." From the sunny opening number, where chubby teen Tracy Turnblad sings "Good Morning Baltimore" perched on top of a garbage [...]
Lusty lesbians kick off Fantasy Fridays at Ice
Fantasy Friday Third Friday of every month 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Begins July 20 Ages: 18+ Cover: Free before 11 p.m., $7 after ICE Nightclub 11425 Jos. Campau, Hamtramck (313) 365-1446 http://www.icedetroit.net http://www.myspace.com/fantasyfriday The lesbian community [...]
Women vs. beast: World premiere comedy delights in Williamston
She's frustrated. She's feeling trapped. And she lashes out at anything she encounters. Little did an about-to-be-divorced mother of two realize how much she had in common with the flying mammal that's taken up residence [...]
Detroit Derby madness
By William J. Emerson III Detroit Derby League http://www.detroitrollerderby.com When the Detroit Derby League launched, Bettie Page bangs and tattoos were a virtual prerequisite for playing. These days, far more incoming players are sports-oriented, with [...]
Hi, ho! Robin Hood gets a musical makeover in Royal Oak
'Robin Hood - The Musical' July 19-22 $6 youth/$9 adult (248) 541-6430 ROYAL OAK - The Baldwin Theatre has been transformed into the lush Sherwood Forest for Stagecrafters Youth Theatre's production of "Robin Hood - [...]
Dear Jody: Partner’s past sex life, breakup and friend’s frustration
Stuck in partner's past sex life Q: When I first started seeing my girlfriend we did a very stupid thing, we talked about past relationships and number of partners. We were not planning on anything [...]
Art & Around for the period July 19-28
EDITOR'S PICK: On Wednesday, July 25, the Liberal Arts Gallery will sponsor the opening reception of the Black Gay Pride Society's Hotter Than July celebration with an evening of art, music, networking and fun at [...]
Theater Events for the period July 19-28
EDITOR'S PICK: The Baldwin Theatre has been transformed into the lush Sherwood Forest for Stagecrafters Youth Theatre production of "Robin Hood - The Musical." This musical for all ages is performed by youths ages 8 [...]
Art to savor at Affirmations
by Cathy Markes If you've sipped and canape-ed your way through some less than stellar art exhibits, tilted your head quizically at some, stood back and squinted at others and then wondered why you even [...]
Gay Men’s Chorus sings at Padres game
The Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego sang The Star-Spangled Banner at the July 8 San Diego Padres game at Petco Park. Christians from the blue-collar suburb of El Cajon had raised a stink before [...]
Hotter Than July burns up Detroit’s Palmer Park
Overview: The 12th annual Hotter Than July celebration kicks off July 21 and runs through July 29. This year's theme is "Color Me Black," which celebrates LGBT contributions to black culture in America. A few [...]
YouTube modernizes presidential campaigning
By Lisa Keen You may be among the more than 2 million people who have tuned into YouTube to watch the now infamous "Obamagirl" tribute to presidential candidate Barack Obama, but you're probably not among [...]
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 [...]
Book Review: ‘Transparent’ look inside transgender teens
By Imani Williams Author and self described lesbian Cris Beam does a 'keep it real' job in her book "Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers". Beam lets readers in on her [...]
International News by Rex Wockner
Anti-gays attack Budapest, Zagreb pride parades Budapest Pride got fag-bashed July 7. Hundreds of skinheads, neo-Nazis and other thugs threw eggs, bottles, smoke bombs, Molotov cocktails and plastic bags of sand at the 2,000 marchers. [...]
Politics Rampant in Surgeon General Office
By Bob Roehr The Bush administration manipulated numbers and suppressed reports from the office of the US Surgeon General, according to testimony by the former head of that office Richard Carmona. His revelations came in [...]
Surgeon General Nomination in Limbo
By Bob Roehr The nomination of James Holsinger to be Surgeon General of the United States appears to be in limbo after his July 12 appearance before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor [...]
Pivotal event for our rights
For the first time in the 98 year history of the NAACP annual convention last week, the black LGBT community had a visible and openly welcomed presence - and it happened here in Detroit. The [...]