Dear Jody
Too much junk in the trunk Q: For the last 3 years, my partner "Nan" has made a New Year's resolution to lose weight, but instead she has gained weight every year. In fact, she [...]
Dissecting the Pledge of Allegiance
by Sean Kosofsky All Politics is Loco This holiday season many of us will be wrapped in the warm thoughts of family, friendship, pretty holiday lights and our most attractive winter outfits. Many of us [...]
Creep of the Year: Larry Craig and Bob Allen
Oink, oink. 2007 was the Year of the Pig and my goodness did Republicans do their best to live up to that name. Competition was tough for Creep of the Year 2007. GOP Presidential hopefuls [...]
But your are, Blanche!
Parting Glances I spent a quiet New Year's Eve holding hands with Sr. Serena Scatterpin, Renegade Sisters of Mary. As many of my PG readers of all true, red-blooded American faiths know, January 1st is [...]
Best-of Film 2007
Nothing like knocked-up chicks, a real-life princess, a drag queen and a foodie rat to get someone through 2007. Those zestful personas were the meat and potatoes of a pretty tasty box-office year. Even though [...]
Sea-ing the truth
By Peter Galvin Alison Sudol inhabits a vivid imaginary world populated by siren songs and sailors, sightless creatures and fragile fallen eagles, a place where almost lovers and hopeless dreams are bid a melancholy musical [...]
Lansing gets ‘A New Brain’
LANSING - Peppermint Creek Theatre Company presents "A New Brain," by the Tony-award winning authors of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." "Brain" is described as an energetic, sardonic, often comical musical about a [...]
Book Marks
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 [...]
“Hobnob, Pisces!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Just as the sun spends a month of every year in each sign, Jupiter, in his 12-year cycle, spends about a full year in each sign. Fresh into Capricorn, he [...]
GLAF supports acceptance for all
By Dan Woog The OutField This fall, Mac Chisaboon fielded an anguished e-mail sent to the Gay & Lesbian Athletics Foundation http://www.glaf.org. As founder of the organization, which promotes the visibility and acceptance of GLBT [...]
“The Golden Rule”
Q Puzzle Across 1 "Spartacus" and others 6 Checks for STDs 11 Wine region of Michelangelo's land 15 Porn director Chi Chi 16 "Veronica's Closet" star 17 Ian McKellen and Elton John 18 Like an [...]
New Fresard dealership opens in Ferndale
FERNDALE - With brass music, an honor guard and a bevy of community leaders on hand, Fresard Buick, Pontiac, GMC heralded the grand opening of their new 22,000 square foot dealership. Located on Woodward north [...]
Year in Review: The Gay Agenda in Congress
by Bob Roehr Political expectations were high at the start of 2007. With Democrats in control of both Houses of Congress, after more than a decade under Republican majorities, now was the time to move [...]
Year in Review: AIDS
by Bob Roehr The year 2007 was the best of times and the worst of times for HIV/AIDS. The good news - two new classes of drugs for treatment were approved by the FDA and [...]
Gays in Iowa, N.H. split going into voting
By Lisa Keen As the first presidential caucus and primary approach, the gay vote in Iowa and New Hampshire is not reliably behind any one candidate. Sure, contributions to Democrats in the nation's gayest zip [...]
Year in Review: National Transitions
by Bob Roehr Allan Berube: Died Dec. 11, age 61. An independent gay historian who wrote the important book "Coming Out Under Fire," the story of gays and lesbians in the military during World War [...]
Michigan “Firsts” in 2007
Last year Michigan's LGBT community passed several significant milestones. As we look back and remember, these nine achievements stand out as the primary reminders of the seventh year of the new millennium. Ruth Ellis Center [...]
Art & Around for the period Jan. 3-12, 2008
EDITOR'S PICK: In 1978, only two years after the end of China's Cultural Revolution, noted Magnum photographer Inge Morath and her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, were invited to travel to China. They returned again in [...]
2007: A fabulously queer year in theater
Gays and theater: You can't have one without the other. Whether it's behind the scenes or in the spotlight, we can be found in pretty much every theater - oftentimes unbeknownst to the people around [...]
Theater Events for the period Jan. 3-12, 2008
EDITOR'S PICK: Front Row Productions and Club Venetian's Dinner Theater present the off-Broadway sensation "Nunsense." The $50 package includes the show, dinner and soft drinks, with a cash bar available. Production dates are Jan. 11, [...]
Come to the ‘Cabaret’
Stagecrafters produces oddly familiar musical Based on the play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood ROYAL OAK - The unthinkable is happening. Civil liberties are trampled, private security forces are terrorizing innocent [...]
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 [...]