Billy Masters
"Oh, my God, I looked like a fat pig! I looked like a fat pig!" - Britney Spears screaming after watching her MTV Video Music Awards performance on a backstage monitor, as reported by US [...]
"Oh, my God, I looked like a fat pig! I looked like a fat pig!" - Britney Spears screaming after watching her MTV Video Music Awards performance on a backstage monitor, as reported by US [...]
Looks like Fred is going after that coveted fag-bashing constituency. Let the games begin. If you thought that when Fred Thompson threw his hat in the ring as a presidential candidate the GOP had found [...]
Woody Allen - who takes religion, God, get-saved theology - with a grain of salt (no doubt Epsom) once quipped, "I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear." (He [...]
And although society wants to define us, the LGBT community, by our sexual activities, our relationships have all the complexity, depth and emotion of any other human relationship. Viewpoint Just when I thought I had [...]
by John Corvino Beyond these concerns, I'm tempted to respond to Blankenhorn's point about "the equal dignity of homosexual love" with an exasperated "Duh!" Yes, we love our partners! We rejoice with them in times [...]
By Jessica Carreras When Carl Demeulenaere got the call to participate in Artworks for Life, he was thinking of friends he lost to AIDS throughout the '90s. Like many others donating to help AIDS prevention, [...]
FARMINGTON HILLS - The Chamber Music Society of Detroit has announced its concert series for the 2007-2008 season. Two series are offered: the nine-concert Opus 9 Series and the three-concert Opus 3 Piano Series. Continuing [...]
By Ed Woody Tough Stuff These are real men, not boys, enjoying some real sex where they really mean it, and not just some mechanical in-and-out. These butch fellas are doing construction work on a [...]
An Evening with Martin Short 8 p.m. Sept. 22 The Whiting, Flint 810-237-7333 Who wouldn't peg Franck, the flamboyant wedding planner in "Father of the Bride," as a queeny queer? The guy who played him: [...]
Rev. Deb Dysert Viewpoint I believe this question is a struggle that many people have. We struggle with how we can live as a model of faith in a world that seems to be growing [...]
September 24, 2007 NEW THIS WEEK: The Brave One New Yorker Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) finds herself on the wrong side of a mugging when three vicious thugs attack her and her boyfriend (Naveen Andrews). [...]
by Dan Woog September 17, 2007 When Mike Penner told a fellow sportswriter and former soccer teammate that he'd be transitioning from male to female, the friend said, "Could you have picked a worse profession [...]
EDITOR'S PICK: The Detroit Symphony Orchestra continues its 2007-08 season with music that recognizes a global tragedy, and offers a moving tribute to it victims. DSO Resident Conductor Thomas Wilkins will lead the Orchestra in [...]
EDITOR'S PICK: The Festival Playhouse of Kalamazoo College Diversity Guest Artist Series presents a visually engaging and politically charged live art documentary about one man's escape from hurricane Katrina, at 8 p.m., Sept. 29 in [...]
by Rex Wockner There are a lot more gay Canadians than there used to be. Or maybe not. Perhaps the census has gotten better at counting them, and gays are getting better about coming out [...]
by Rex Wockner Ugandan tabloid outs gay citizens The Ugandan tabloid newspaper Red Pepper on Sept. 9 again outed several citizens as gay. Under the headline "HOMO TERROR! We Name And Shame Top Gays In [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, DC - Methamphetamine, mental health, and HIV in gay and bisexual men were the subjects of a congressional briefing by the National Coalition for LGBT Health on Sept.10. The goal was [...]
By Lisa Keen The supreme court of Maryland reversed a lower court decision Tuesday which had found a constitutional right for gay couples to marry, making Maryland the fifth state where the high court upheld [...]
As a gay man, its easy to stand on the side and shake a shameful finger at the hypocrit who I think he (Larry Craig) probably is. But, I think we are missing an important [...]
And Michigan State University LGBTQA groups are going to do what exactly? Of course they could protest this speaker with much effort. Would it just get the MSU YAF group mad and sputter this more [...]
ANN ARBOR - The Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project's board of directors addressed the future of the organization, which is struggling from limited income and a loss of board members, on Sept. 11 at the Kerry [...]
The Michigan AIDS Fund reports that each year, 1,000 Michigan citizens discover that they are HIV-positive. The cumulative estimated numbers of diagnosis of AIDS through 2005 in the United States and dependent areas were 984,155 [...]
By Cathy Markes ROYAL OAK - A record number of participants and sponsors brought their optimism and hopes to last Sunday's 17th annual AIDS Walk in Royal Oak. While the final tally of money raised [...]
Friday Sept. 14, 2007 Our reporter Todd Heywood reports first hand on the receipt of written threat to him and second Lansing LGBT leader also receives same letter. "Dear Sodomite," the letter began. It arrived [...]
Event to put our Creating Change organizing in gear for Fall and Winter projects Tonight! - Thursday, Sept. 20, 7 p.m. Affirmations Community Center, Nine Mile west of Woodward in Ferndale All welcome. FERNDALE - [...]
DETROIT - While entries continue to pour in, anyone interested in entering Detroit's Design SuperStar Challenge will have to do so soon. The entry deadline is fast approaching, with all submissions due on Friday, Sept. [...]
Capitol Correspondent LANSING -- For the second time in the last month, the Ingham County Health Department has changed the procedures of post-test counseling for persons testing positive for HIV. Previously, the ICHD had required [...]
Eight months before the Stonewall Riots - our LGBT call to freedom from police, political and religious oppression - Rev. Troy Perry invited 12 friends on the quiet Sunday morning of Oct. 6, 1968, to [...]
by Tana Michaels SAGINAW - "It went from smoke coming out of the second and third story windows to an instant ball of fire in a flash," said key witness Jeffery DeGuise a tenant of [...]
Triangle Foundation hires new staff DETROIT--Triangle Foundation has added two new staff members to their team. Joining the organization are Georgia Carpenter and Chene Koppitz. Carpenter, who has a Master's degree in Psychology, joins the [...]
EAST LANSING - BTL has learned Ryan Sorba,Aeos speaking engagement at MSU has been moved to Sept. 25 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. according the MSU Student Life Office. No room has been announced [...]
Capitol Correspondent DETROIT- Angela Potter was having a good day Sept. 8. She was in East Tawas for an annual softball tournament. A trip she has made for at least five years. "I play the [...]
A key role for the LGBT press is to frame the issues of the day, and help create a dialogue about the controversies that face us all. Here at BTL, we take that role seriously, [...]
Elsewhere in BTL this week: 'Seven Passages: The Story of Gay Christians' in Grand Rapids. With pretty much every play that's ever produced, the audience is expected to "suspend its disbelief" - that is, to [...]
One of the great religious debates since the Reformation has centered on the Catholic and Protestant positions regarding free will and predestination. Playwright Craig Wright modernizes the discussion by placing it squarely in the aftermath [...]
By Jessica Carreras GRAND RAPIDS - For local director Stephanie Sandberg, the relationship between homosexuality and Christianity is more than a question asked by some of her students at Christian school Calvin College. "It's an [...]