Creep of the Week: David Vitter
From the "Do As I Say Not As I Do Department (that's DAISNAIDD for short) I bring you U.S. Senator David Vitter. The Louisiana Republican has been M.I.A. ever since it was revealed that he [...]
From the "Do As I Say Not As I Do Department (that's DAISNAIDD for short) I bring you U.S. Senator David Vitter. The Louisiana Republican has been M.I.A. ever since it was revealed that he [...]
SR. SERENA SCATTERPIN: Yes, I just got the cellphone pixs from Sunshine Partners Saugatuck confab. May I make a suggestion? Don't you think it's time you got a tummy tuck? And: a few cucumber isometrics [...]
By R.J. Beaumia The "C" word, here on out in this piece to be referred to as "c***," is perhaps one of the most despised and politically charged words in American English usage. Eve Ensler [...]
By Imani Williams Voices from an Urban Bush Sista Hey beautiful Nubian folk. It's that time of year again already. This is where we come together for our annual slg family reunion. Whether you're brand [...]
My paternal grandfather was one of sixteen. All but four of his siblings were preachers, teachers or both. My dad grew up in a home atmosphere strongly laced with a good dose of hellfire and [...]
Aug. 3-5 Orchard Lake St. Mary's Schools http://www.hotworks.org ORCHARD LAKE - The Fifth Annual Orchard Lake Fine Art Show will bring 120 of the highest quality juried artists from around the country to sell their [...]
By Peter Galvin Cary Brothers 8 p.m. July 28 Shelter at St. Andrews, Detroit Cary Brothers was born and raised in Nashville but he never really liked the country music that surrounded him there. "I [...]
By Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic As you've probably guessed from the TV commercials, or even just the billboards, "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry" is a one-joke movie - and that joke might [...]
Remember when summertime meant that pretty much every theater in town locked its doors and turned out the lights for the season? Well, thank St. Genesius those days are over! Now, shows are popping up [...]
Onyx's hypnotic eye-to-eye link seems to say something he wouldn't: "I want you to suck this." He's gliding over The Tap's stage - playing the lit-up platform like a pick to a guitar - and [...]
by Jack Fertig July 23, 2007 Venus is retrograde until Sept. 8. Real creative work may be bottled up. In the meantime, re-evaluate aesthetic projects and relationships with men, and count calories! ARIES (March 20 [...]
Woman wants mother's approval of abusive girlfriend Q: I can't believe my mother. I thought that she was on my side in life, but apparently NOT! And now I'm really confused. You see, my mom [...]
July 30, 2007 NEW THIS WEEK: Sunshine Astronauts fly toward the dying sun aiming to re-ignite the solar furnace with a nuclear device before a perpetual winter extinguishes all life on Earth. A complicated quest [...]
by Dan Woog July 23, 2007 Summer's here - in fact, it's in full swing - so, according to Martha and the Vandellas, the time is right for dancin' in the street. That sounds so-o-o [...]
Across 1 Day, to Caligula 5 "___ homo!" 9 Billy Crudup's " ___ Beauty" 14 Letters over Mary's son 15 Male actor named Julia 16 Mary Tyler Moore's co-star Ed 17 Long, narrow opening 18 [...]
SUMMER ARTS FESTIVALS: 4th Fridays With Ford A summer festival of music, dance, film, artists market and food specials that celebrates and embraces downtown Detroit the fourth Friday of every month through September. Coming next: [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: Barefoot in the Park The Neil Simon classic comedy about a young couple's headlong dive into matrimonial craziness and a walk-up apartment in 1960s Manhattan. Water Works Theatre Company at Starr Jaycee Park, [...]
Barbara Hammer 7 p.m. Aug. 1 Kahn Jewish Community Center, West Bloomfield www.jgnmi.org Veteran lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer ("Nitrate Kisses") will speak about her documentary, "Lover Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore," [...]
by Rex Wockner Budapest Mayor Demszky Gabor on July 9 denounced the hundreds of neo-Nazis and skinheads who violently attacked the city's gay pride march on July 7. "Physical violence and murderous threats were meted [...]
Capitol Correspondent FLINT- The campaign of openly gay mayoral candidate Dale Weighill has hired Tyler Whitney to run the campaign's field operations. Whitney has been trained by the Leadership Institute in Virginia. He is also [...]
by Sharon Gittleman MILFORD - Carnival games, a giant inflatable obstacle course and a concert by the Chenille Sisters are just part of the fun planned for the second annual FamilyPalooza. The celebration, held from [...]
by Bob Roehr Health What makes you fat? Add your friends to a growing list of causes that includes genes, the microbes living in your gut, stress, the food that you put in your mouth, [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, DC - The legislative gay agenda has stalled in Congress, with growing frustration among both the LGBT community and its politicos. Democratic control of both chambers has not resulted in passage [...]
By Lisa Keen Nationally, gay voters seem to overwhelmingly support Democrats in the 2008 presidential campaign, with Hillary Clinton holding onto a clear lead - and Michigan is providing a good illustration. Fifty-four percent of [...]
DETROIT - About 100 people took to the streets in Palmer Park for the Ruth Ellis Pride March, the official kick-off of Hotter Than July, on Saturday, July 21. While this is the 12th year [...]
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission on July 18 condemned Iran for its continuing executions of teens and men accused of engaging in sodomy. In many, but not all, of the instances that [...]
by Rex Wockner Ireland's government will pass a law to extend marriage-like rights to same-sex couples, Taoiseach (prime minister) Bertie Ahern said July 16. Speaking at the reopening of the refurbished Outhouse LGBT community center, [...]
by Rex Wockner Police in Kathmandu, Nepal, have admitted that they target effeminate males and transgendered people (both known as metis) for the apparent crime of carrying condoms. On July 14, city police allegedly beat, [...]
HIGHLAND PARK - It may be cliched to say that the Ruth Ellis Center is growing by leaps and bounds. But it's certainly not inaccurate. One June 25, the center opened its new, 5,000-square-foot drop-in [...]
Carlos Rivera, 26, a bartender at The Tap in Windsor, was murdered July 19. His body was found by police in the apartment of Jesse Norman Imeson, 22, on Erie Street. Police said Imeson is [...]
July 27 - Windsor Pride Presents A Night at the Armouries - A Movie & Music Spectacular. Presented in partnership with the Windsor International Film Festival - Features the screening of The Bubble, an LGBT [...]
Event kicks off Pride events WINDSOR, ONT - Smiles, tears and cheers greeted two newly wed same-sex couples as they were legally married in a civil ceremony July 20. The Michigan couples won the all-expense-paid [...]
Windsor Pride 2007 kicked off a full week of events and activities with a real live dual wedding ceremony, on stage at the University of Windsor theater. Two Michigan couples, Marjorie Rogers and Roberta Davis [...]
SUMMER ARTS FESTIVALS: 4th Fridays With Ford A summer festival of music, dance, film, artists market and food specials that celebrates and embraces downtown Detroit the fourth Friday of every month through September. Coming next: [...]
Could it be the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, as prophesized by the last book of the Bible, Revelation? Or was the mass nighttime disappearance of 144,000 people from around the world some sort of [...]
By Robert W. Bethune The whole can be less than the sum of the parts. So it is with "Macbeth" at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival. There's plenty of blood, a little very tame sex, and [...]
By Robert W. Bethune Shakespeare's "Henry V" rests squarely on the actor who plays Henry. In the Michigan Shakespeare Festival's production, Paul Molnar does a good job. One's first impression is of a person who [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: Barefoot in the Park The Neil Simon classic comedy about a young couple's headlong dive into matrimonial craziness and a walk-up apartment in 1960s Manhattan. Water Works Theatre Company at Starr Jaycee Park, [...]
FLINT - Dale Weighill, an openly gay candidate running for mayor of Flint, said in an interview with BTL this week that conservative activist Tyler Whitney is not an employee of his campaign, and has [...]
WATERFORD - A handicap parking sign belonging to residents in a federally subsidized housing unit was vandalized over the weekend with homophobic and ethic slurs. Anthony Williams, who lives in the Whispering Woods housing complex, [...]
by Sean Kosofsky No, this column is not about Wal-Mart and I certainly haven't chosen, as Prince did, to use a symbol to express myself. Actually, this column is about appreciation...and expressing it. Last week [...]