My meatloaf brings all the boys to the yard
By Anthony Paull The Dating Diet Pardon me. I've been misguided. I was under the impression that the fastest way to a gay man's heart is through his butt-hole. But now, lo and behold, I've [...]
Creep of the Week: Mike Huckabee
As the race to the White House heats up, it's inevitable that candidates will have their pasts drudged up and held up for scrutiny. Take former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, for example. At the outset [...]
Parting Glances: Good question, PP!
Padre Pio, the notorious Italian monk, is back in the news. He was canonized on June 16, 2002. (How could you forget?) For 50 years his body was said to bear the crucifixion wounds of [...]
Who ‘counts’ in the LGBT community?
BY Chris Crain ViewPoint A new poll showing Hillary Clinton with a big lead among LGBT voters raises fundamental questions about who 'we' are and whose voice matters. With the scars still fresh from the [...]
She/He Said
compiled by Howard Israel "Congressional leaders, who have disappointed frequently this year, have done it again. This time, the House leadership has failed to find a way to get a bipartisan law against hate crimes [...]
Hate Crimes Humbug
by Sean Kosofsky All Politics is Loco Of course it was too good to be true - actual inclusion in federal hate crime laws. But as certain as snowfall in Detroit in December, Congressional Democrats [...]
Cranbrook Art Museum to present the U.S. premiere of ‘Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future’
Bloomfield Hills - From the sweeping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport in New York to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the iconic designs of Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) captured the [...]
Martina McBride ‘wakes up laughing’ in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS - Country music superstar Martina McBride will begin 2008 by continuing the success of "Waking Up Laughing," her nationwide arena tour, which stops on Jan. 20 at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids. [...]
Homo for the Holidays
Hollywood may be on strike. But the holidays aren't. So - as our gift to you - here's a list of a few festive faves and new classics to make your season merry and bright. [...]
Divine Intervention
"Oh, God!": It's about to mean something different. Consider going deeper than those trite inquiries - stats? penis size? top or bottom? - by exploring the spiritual side (and not the middle-front one!) with those [...]
Billy Masters
"I must thank my beautiful Cyndey, who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss." - Jodie Foster inches her closet door ajar by publicly thanking her spousal-equivalent, Cydney Bernard, while accepting the [...]
“Pull up the drawbridge, Capricorn!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun sextile Neptune this week promotes sympathy and inspiration. Take time for artistic pleasures or deep personal conversations. With both planets aspecting "new planet" Eris, these arts and conversations [...]
Happy Holidays from The OutField
Dan Woog The OutField A new year is right around the corner. Pausing to look back and consider our blessings is a time-honored tradition, as much a part of the holidays as re-gifting fruitcakes and [...]
Don’t screw with the flu
by Bob Roehr "Don't screw with the flu" could become a new slogan for HIV prevention. That's because up to 80 percent of persons newly infected with HIV experience flu-like symptoms. Viral load is sky [...]
March for HIV prevention in Atlanta
by Bob Roehr ATLANTA - Hundreds of demonstrators took to Atlanta's main drag, Peachtree Street, in the twilight of December 4 in an HIV prevention rally and march. The event coincided with the 2007 Nation [...]
MDOCR announces Hate Crimes 101 training
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights, in partnership with the Department of Community Health, Crime Victim Services Commission, announced additional Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) sponsored Building Cultural Competence and Hate Crime 101 training sessions [...]
200 rally asking for justice in CMU noose case
MT. PLEASANT-- About 200 people from Detroit, Benton Harbor, Grand Rapids and Mt. Pleasant rallied outside the Isabella County Building Friday, hoping to pressure County Prosecutor Larry Burdick to file felony ethnic intimidation charges against [...]
Hate Crimes bill pulled in Congress
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - The move to expand federal hate crimes laws to include protection for sexual orientation was set back when Senate Democratic leaders decided to remove it from the Department of [...]
Deck the walls with Art for the Holidays . . .
Just in time for last minute creative shopping, the Affirmations Art Gallery is brimful with large Santa stocking stuffers: oils, collages, line drawings, photos, digital paintings -- all reasonably priced from $50 to $250, with [...]
Huckabee comments scrutinized
By Lisa Keen Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's been saying a lot about gays lately, and much of it is not very nice. This week the attention has focused on his written comment in 1992 [...]
LGBT Mental health forum to be held in Kalamazoo
by Shaun Hittle KALAMAZOO - With a theme of "lighting the way" for LGBT persons suffering from mental health problems, a coalition of sponsors and advocates will be holding a mental health forum Jan. 11, [...]
January 15 Presidential Primary news
On Jan. 15, 2008 Michigan will hold its Presidential Primaries. The last day to register and be able to vote in the primary is Dec. 17, 30 days prior to the elections. Voters will be [...]
Court prohibits RI lesbians from divorcing
by Bob Roehr The wedding vow of "until death do us part" has taken on new meaning for a lesbian couple in Rhode Island that wants to divorce. The state Supreme Court has said that [...]
Wake up call needed
Between The Lines Editorial The interminable war in Iraq, now approaching its fifth anniversary, has so distorted our political system that it is getting ever harder to make sense of what comes out of Washington [...]
Art & Around for the period Dec. 13-22
ARCHITECTURE/GARDEN TOURS: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Events include: "Elegance in Entertaining: Traditions at the Estate" explores the holiday season and its celebrations held at the Ford home (through Jan. 8, 2008; $8); Holiday Dinner [...]
Frankly, my dear, BoarsHead gives a damn
By D. A. Blackburn Kristine Thatcher, artistic director of the BoarsHead Theater and stage director of the company's latest offering, is quick to point out that "Moonlight and Magnolias" is a play produced for the [...]
A ‘Timeless’ treat at Planet Ant Theatre
One of the surprise hits at last summer's Box Fest at Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre was a short, 10-minute oddity called "Timeless: The Danceical." The Lauren Bickers' creation was so wildly unique and amazingly funny [...]
Laughs plumbed from Second City’s vaults
Whenever a collection is entitled "The Best of," its creators run the risk of being proven wrong. After all, what one person thinks are the best episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," for example, [...]
Theater Events for the period Dec. 13-22
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: The Baker's Wife The inhabitants of a French Provincial village share a passion for bread, gossip and arguing with their spouses. Performance Network Theatre, Ann Arbor. Thu.-Sun., through Dec. 23. $30-$42. 734-663-0681. http://www.performancenetwork.org [...]