Capitol Correspondent LANSING- The Michigan Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in a case court watchers said will have national implications. The case, Pride at Work v. Granholm explores whether an amendment voters added to [...]
by Sean Kososfsky All Politics is Loco Leadership means taking the lead and it also means taking risks. Whenever leaders announce their personal political endorsements it spurs discussion, debate and disagreement, and I have decided [...]
Viewpoint Being an African American, gay, woman activist can certainly have its ups and downs. When it comes to politics it can be almost schizophrenic. The African American Michelle wanted to feel good about the [...]
Just when you thought it was safe for anti-gays to get gussied up and go trolling dirty bookstores for some man on man action, some unscrupulous prostitute has to go and ruin it for everyone. [...]
Viewpoint Ian Benson was lucky; or at least about as lucky as any teenager realizing that the gender of her body does not match the gender of his soul can be. He had far more [...]
Parting Glances I was once chided by a friend (who was then, I'll freely now admit - he lives in Hawaii - a little more anal retentive than I) for reading several books at a [...]
by Dan Vojir Viewpoint Found in the classifieds today under Jobs Wanted: {ITAL Supposedly God-fearing Bible thumper seeks lucrative media coverage. Has experience in picketing for God and has trained subordinates (family) in art of [...]
EAST LANSING Women in the Arts Festival/Circe is an annual festival filled with arts, crafts, workshops, food, comedy, and music created by women. Join us Nov. 9-10 at Edgewood United Church located at 469 N. [...]
{ITAL "Let's not kid ourselves - this business is about being good-looking. Look, Brad Pitt is an incredible actor, but do you think he'd be a famous movie star if he didn't look like that? [...]
by Richard Labonte November 5, 2007 "Biting the Apple," by Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Carroll & Graf, 272 pages, $14.99 paper. One-time track phenomenon Eve Glass, an Olympic contender in her teens, has lived an inauthentic [...]
By Anthony Paull I get it. I understand that after you've suffered the wrath of your first, second, or third heartbreak, you're sick of the bullshit and want to sit home alone with your lube [...]
FALL/HOLIDAY ARTS FESTIVALS: Christmas through Lowell Kick off your holiday shopping with a three-day extravaganza featuring over 200 artists and crafters, and more than 40 homes, churches and businesses. Nov. 16-18. Lowell: 616-897-9161. http://www.christmasthroughlowell.org Goodwill [...]
The Peppermint Creek Theatre Company will present its second show of their 2007-08 Season, "I Am My Own Wife" by Doug Wright. Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright [...]
The Peace Education Center has expanded its annual "Alternative Holiday Sale" to two days this year. The sale will take place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 16 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. [...]
By Sharon Gittleman ROYAL OAK - Visitors to Changez Salon & Merle Norman Cosmetics can talk to their hairdresser and their therapist at the same time. You'll often catch psychologist Stephen Fleck at the reception [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: As Bees in Honey Drown A comic satire on the lure of success in contemporary culture. Breathe Art Theatre Project at the Furniture Factory, Detroit. Fri.-Sat., through Nov. 17. $20. 313-831-1939. http://www.breathearttheatre.com Back [...]
Nov. 8 - 15 FLINT - The Out 'N About Arts Collaborative is a year long initiative celebrating the arts of the LGBTQ communities and its allies. This coming week ONA will present the following [...]
UofM campus For information on any of the events below visit: For more information, visit the following web site http://www.gender.org/remember/day/ ANN AROBR- The UofM Office of LGBT Affairs invites the public to join them in [...]
I am somewhat disappointed in this article, "Lansing Community College cancels DP benefits for non-bargaining unit employees, BTL, Nov.1". If I wanted to read the State Journal then I would have picked it up. Where's [...]
Thanks for an excellent article with advice that is appropriate for the LGBT community, the single/divorced community, as well as the heterosexual community. The American public must be educated about the need to plan for [...]
Letter The House Democratic leadership has already made clear that it will not allow a vote on an amendment from Rep. Tammy Baldwin to add gender identity back into the bill. And in a stinging [...]
You have been given highly inaccurate misquotations from me at MSU.("Bigoted free speech supported with Griffin lecture", BTL Nov. 1, 2007).I did not say and do not believe for one minute that homosexuals should be [...]
AP Wire Service Source: Michigan Supreme Court http://courts.michigan.gov/supremecourt Lawyers have filed 726 pages of legal briefs with the Michigan Supreme Court in the case involving whether health care insurance can be provided to the same-sex [...]
Capitol Correspondent HOLLAND - The October 29 suicide of 16-year-old transgender Ian Benson has the LBGT community asking hard questions. "As parents, this is one of our worst fears," said Collette Beighley, Triangle Foundations West [...]
Capitol Correspondent JACKSON - Marc Adams was allowed to watch only one television program as a child, Jerry Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour. And even then, he said, he was allowed only to watch the [...]
Capitol Correspondent LANSING- The Michigan Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in a case court watchers said will have national implications. The case, Pride at Work v. Granholm explores whether an amendment voters added to [...]
by Daniel K Majewski Obituary DETROIT - In the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, Oct. 22 Daniel K Majewski, 45, died of a massive heart attack. He had been tending bar at The [...]
Viewpoint Ian Benson was lucky; or at least about as lucky as any teenager realizing that the gender of her body does not match the gender of his soul can be. He had far more [...]
A pioneer steps down DETROIT - Heroine, friend, healer, confidante, mentor, advocate, teacher, champion, visionary. These are some of the adjectives to describe Dr. Kathryn Wright, an adolescent pediatrician who has devoted the last 15 [...]
By Heather Hollingsworth Associated Press Writer Three advertisers are pulling their business from a Warrensburg newspaper and several readers are threatening to cancel their subscriptions after the publication of a same-sex engagement announcement. For John [...]
by Rex Wockner Cambodian prime minister disowns lesbian daughter Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Oct. 30 that he has disowned his adopted daughter because she is [...]
Next week the LGBT community will commemorate the National Transgender Day of Remembrance to honor the "T" people who have lost their lives. Unfortunately, one more soul was added to that list last week when [...]
By D. A. Blackburn New York's Roundabout Theatre Company rolled into Detroit last week and sequestered in the Fisher Theatre, delivering a production full of reasonable doubt. Reginald Rose's "Twelve Angry Men" is, by any [...]
Is it ever permissible to wage a one-person war against another when there's little - if any - proof that your actions are justified? Is it enough to go with your gut instinct - just [...]
It's no secret that Americans are obsessed with celebrities. Countless magazines and television series share their every move or thought with us, and the rise of YouTube confirms that people will do anything to claim [...]
DETROIT - When co-founders Bruce Millan, Barbara Busby, Dee Andrus and three others first raised the curtain on the Detroit Repertory Theatre, the year was 1957 - and the troupe was known as the Millan [...]
By Laura Laing A novel about conjoined twins who share a body but have two heads could easily become a macabre look at what were once called "human freaks." But Andrew W.M. Beierle's "First Person [...]
The Peppermint Creek Theatre Company will present its second show of their 2007-08 Season, "I Am My Own Wife" by Doug Wright. Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright [...]
The Peace Education Center has expanded its annual "Alternative Holiday Sale" to two days this year. The sale will take place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Nov. 16 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. [...]
Sara Celina's in recovery. From drugs? Nah. Booze? Hardly. Her issue: Trying to transition from working solo into mind-mingling with three others. "I actually hated doing group projects in elementary school; I hated it! I [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: As Bees in Honey Drown A comic satire on the lure of success in contemporary culture. Breathe Art Theatre Project at the Furniture Factory, Detroit. Fri.-Sat., through Nov. 17. $20. 313-831-1939. http://www.breathearttheatre.com Back [...]
Capitol Correspondent HOLLAND - The October 29 suicide of 16-year-old transgender Ian Benson has the LBGT community asking hard questions. "As parents, this is one of our worst fears," said Collette Beighley, Triangle Foundations West [...]
By Anthony Paull I get it. I understand that after youÕve suffered the wrath of your first, second, or third heartbreak, youÕre sick of the bullshit and want to sit home alone with your lube [...]
By Anthony Paull I get it. I understand that after you've suffered the wrath of your first, second, or third heartbreak, you're sick of the bullshit and want to sit home alone with your lube [...]
Sara Celina's in recovery. From drugs? Nah. Booze? Hardly. Her issue: Trying to transition from working solo into mind-mingling with three others. "I actually hated doing group projects in elementary school; I hated it! I [...]
