Creep of the Week: Rudolph W. Giuliani
Love the sinner, hate the sin. Or so goes the conservative Christian party line when it comes to homosexuals. It's intended to be benevolent. After all, if you're gay, they don't hate you, they just [...]
Parting Glances: O Little Town of Bedlam
1. And so it came to pass in a land many sizes too large for its tunic that three not-so-wise men got wind of a waning star in the east that it would be deemed [...]
Reclaiming the Roots of Heritage
Viewpoint One of the curses of homophobia is the disconnect we often feel from our family. After we come out we are often excluded from those family gatherings where so much history is shared and [...]
Performance Network Theatre extends ‘The Baker’s Wife’
ANN ARBOR - Due to overwhelming demand, Performance Network Theatre's smash hit musical "The Baker's Wife" has been extended for three additional holiday performances: 8 p.m. Dec. 28-29 and at 2 p.m. Dec. 30. "The [...]
Book Marks: New book reviews December, 2007
By Richard Labonte "The Assassination of George W. Bush: A Love Story," by Krandall Kraus. Lulu Press, 332 pages, $17.95 paper. The title is certainly incendiary, and George W. Bush does die, but this fierce [...]
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Celine Dion, 'A New Day ... ' Who can call being swarmed by a plethora of shirtless muscle-men work? Celine Dion can. The stainless-steel-voiced songstress, who spent five years at a Las Vegas coliseum built [...]
Now Playing
NEW THIS WEEK: Alvin and the Chipmunks Alvin, Simon, and Theodore (voices of Justin Long, Jesse McCartney, and Matthew Gubler) return to the pop-culture landscape updated - freshly computer-generated for a new generation of animation [...]
‘P.S.’: See This Movie
Nothing can cure a recently-widowed woman better than a trip to a gay club. Or so that's what Holly Kennedy's (Hilary Swank) girlfriends decide in rom-com "P.S. I Love You" after a letter, the first [...]
Fahrenheit 1977
By R.J. Beaumia Answered prayers can be very problematic, like when the U.S. cheered as communism gasped its last breaths in Russia and China adopted free market policies. But do those countries have democracy and [...]
Billy Masters
"I think the reason I never ended up in as much trouble as Paris or Lindsay seem to is that I'm not stupid, so I never do a lot of the things those girls do. [...]
“Sell, don’t buy, Scorpio!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The winter solstice leads the Sun into Capricorn. Just before that, he passes Pluto in Sagittarius, focusing on eroticism, obsession, and personal power. Once in Capricorn, he aligns with Jupiter, [...]
Q Puzzle: “Queer Kid TV
Across 1 Play about a gay bathhouse, with "The" 5 Toon Le Pew 9 Tennis champ Billie ___ King 13 "East of Eden" director Kazan 14 Treated as a sexual object 15 With 21-Across, TV [...]
Letter: Dems can beat Huckabee
I wanted to react to the most recent Creep of the Week regarding Mike Huckabee. Generally, I think you have this one right. So often this column is filled with a lot of anger and [...]
Nonprofit legal team gets grant to continue services to elderly LBGT
LANSING-- Elder Law of Lansing had an idea last year. The not for profit legal clinic, begun in 1990 to assist seniors with legal questions ranging from probate issues to medicaid, noticed that a lot [...]
Feds pull funding from local youth program
DETROIT - Facing drastic funding cuts by the federal government, the Ruth Ellis Center, one of the nations premier service programs for lgbt youth, is now scrambling to adjust accordingly without losing clients or staff. [...]
Gay Straight Alliance group at Bay City school draws fire
BAY CITY - Bay City Central High School's Gay Straight Alliance chapter was just formed in November, but it already is involved in a controversy. A parent complained to the Bay City School Board on [...]
International News
by Rex Wockner Swedish MP gay-bashed Swedish Member of Parliament Fredrick Federley was gay-bashed at a hot-dog stand after leaving a gay club in Stockholm on Dec. 8. Federley, 29, and two friends were attacked [...]
Race and serosorting in HIV prevention
by Bob Roehr One of the great mysteries of HIV/AIDS is why black men who have sex with men (MSM) have a rate of HIV infection that is at least twice that of white men [...]
BTL Editorial: Give the gift of community
OK - so it's the week before Christmas and you still haven't come up with any memorable and creative ideas for those special people on your list. You know who they are. There is that [...]
Art & Around for the period Dec. 20-Jan. 5, 2008
EDITOR'S PICK: "Remembrance", a mixed media collection by artist Carolynne W. Miller, will be on display from Dec. 13 through Jan. 31, 2008 in the City Gallery at the Costick Center at 28600 Eleven Mile [...]
Excuse my diatribe: But I hate Thursdays
I hate Thursdays. Not any PARTICULAR Thursday, but ALL of them, because that's the day I have to get my Theater Events and Art & Around listings done each week. You wouldn't THINK that it [...]
Usher in the New Year with Jeff Daniels
By Compiled by D. V. Calamia The Purple Rose Theatre Company will present Jeff Daniels' one-man show "Onstage & Unplugged" for a limited ten-show engagement from Thursday, Dec. 27 - Sunday, Dec. 30 and Wednesday, [...]
Theater Events for the period Dec. 20-Jan. 5, 2008
EDITOR'S PICK: It's that time of year again: local radio stations playing "Jingle Bells" on repeat, snow waiting to be scraped off your car each morning, daylight becoming as scarce as a store front without [...]
Mr. (Naked) Clean
Soon, Kevin Stea's crotch could have its own end credit. Maybe demand more money. Heck, it might even go on strike. "It could get its own head-shots," Stea quips from his Los Angeles digs, jokingly [...]
Iowa results: Disquieting message in Huckabee results for LGBT community
By Lisa Keen In Des Moines, the anti-gay editor of a college student newspaper crossed over from the Republican party to caucus for Democrat Barack Obama in Thursday night's caucuses. In Iowa City, a Democratic [...]