Creep of the Week: Mike Huckabee
I have a confession to make. I love Chex Mix. I have been eating a lot of it lately. The new chocolate and peanut butter Chex Mix is amazing. I ate an entire bag for [...]
Parting Glances: Plotting Debra’s dialysis
JOURNAL ENTRY #1: It began months ago with a friendly call, cellphone received, 9:00 a.m., "May I speak to Debra S----, please." "There's no Debra S----- here," I reply, groggy from a Monday's oversleep, wondering [...]
Anything But Straight
by Wayne Besen Robots need not apply The most notable legacy of the New Hampshire primary will be the soiled reputations of leading pollsters and political consultants. For at least the past two decades we [...]
2008: The first year of a better tomorrow
2007 wasn't a horrible year but I'm sure glad its over. It had its GOOD moments - the introduction and possibility of hate crimes legislation and an employment non-discrimination act becoming the law of the [...]
‘Gay disease’ scare could bring even scarier consequences
In the past week or so, pandemonium has spread after a study published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine said that gay men in San Francisco were "many times more likely" to be infected [...]
Ferndale Blues Festival’s beat gets louder
FERNDALE - For the seventh year in a row, the annual Ferndale Blues Festival will grow once again to include more than 80 separate concerts and events in two cities over the nine-day period from [...]
Steel-ing the spotlight
By Jessica Carreras Don't define Holly Fisher. By her job, her gender or her sexual orientation. "There's no clear line for anyone," she muses about labeling people by their sexuality. "We don't need to have [...]
Give him a beat. Not a butt.
By Michael A. Knipp Porn is a hard act to follow. Literally. But former skin-flick actor Colton Ford, whose foray into filmed fornication gained him underground notoriety in 2002, is trying to put his penis-bearing [...]
Now Playing
NEW THIS WEEK: Cassandra's Dream Ian (Ewan McGregor) needs cash to fund an investment that will support the posh lifestyle he imagines with his new actress girlfriend (Hayley Atwell). At the same time, his brother [...]
Girl with guitar – and gossip
Being a young gay can be a bitch. But Taylor Swift doesn't care. One minute, the buzzed-about country star's self-titled debut, released as a deluxe DVD edition in November, bitter-sweetly recalls dancing with her ex [...]
Billy Masters
"I'm sore. I couldn't even get off the toilet the other day. It hurts so bad. I don't know if it's I'm not coordinated or using muscles I never had to use before." - Clay [...]
The OutField
By Dan Woog Wolfgang, Rodolfo, Paulo, Jeff - as teenagers, they all played Ping-Pong. They were good. But they grew up, went to college, got jobs, came to terms with being gay, and had no [...]
International News
by Rex Wockner Protester found guilty in Riga pride attack An assistant to Latvian MP Dainis Turlais was found guilty of gross public disorderliness Jan. 15 for throwing what was likely a bag of feces [...]
Gay news from the presidential campaign trail…
By Lisa Keen Keen on the trail... FRONTRUNNERS CLEAR NOW: There are two clear front-runners now in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and while John McCain has enjoyed a surge of popularity in [...]
Obama Includes Gays in Ebenezer Baptist Speech
by Bob Roehr Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was the home to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; it remains a touchstone of the civil rights movement. The Sunday before the holiday honoring his birth has [...]
Frenzy and apologies in the MRSA flap
by Bob Roehr Research from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) documenting the spread of the USA300 strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among gay males in San Francisco and Boston is not homophobic, [...]
BREAKING: Matt Foreman to step down from NGLTF
filed by BTL staff WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -- Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and a national leader in the struggle for equal rights and social justice, will step [...]
Preview of upcoming primaries: Gay vote’s impact
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service For gays in states with the largest gay populations, like California, it's decision time in the 2008 presidential race. From the evidence available - anecdotal and indirect - most [...]
Wyandotte witness to birth of latest accidental activist
WYANDOTTE - Following the latest denial to her parking permit appeal, Janet Law has announced plans to take the city of Wyandotte to court over the right to open a private club for transgenders in [...]
Reclaiming Our Rights conference urges local activism
By Jessica Carreras Reclaiming Our Rights 12 p.m. Jan. 26 Arab American National Museum, 13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn 313-882-2032 http://www.aclumich.org The metro Detroit branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is making everyone an activist. [...]
Art & Around for the period Jan. 24-Feb. 2, 2008
ARCHITECTURE/GARDEN TOURS: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Special events include: "A Classic Affair", an evening of entertainment and fabulous food (Feb. 2; $50). General admission: $8. Open Tue.-Sun. Grosse Pointe Shores: 313-884-4222. http://www.fordhouse.org ARTS FESTIVALS: [...]
Digging deep in the ‘Rabbit Hole’ at Meadow Brook
"There's nothing so devastating as losing a child," my mother remarked years ago upon learning of the death of a friend's young son. "No one can understand the pain those parents are going through unless [...]
Dark ceremonies in family and in irony
By Robert W. Bethune The moment you see Harry Wetzel's set for Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," now at the Detroit Repertory Theatre, you know things bode ill. Every little detail says seedy, [...]
A grand folly; a delightful farewell
Most of us cursed with a severe lack of singing ability are smart enough not to embarrass ourselves in public. (I suspect I'm one of the only former ninth grade chorus boys ever instructed to [...]
Detroit native returns to Michigan in national tour of ‘Camelot’
By Judith Cookis Rubens Now part of the national tour of "Camelot," Detroit native Chris Warren Gilbert credits his days of studying and performing with Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre as some of the best [...]
Theater Events for the period Jan. 24-Feb. 2, 2008
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: All in the Timing A collection of short stories by David Ives. Detroit Ensemble Theatre, Warren. Fri.-Sun., Feb. 1-16. $12. 877-636-3320. http://www.detroitensembletheatre.org And Neither Have I Wings to Fly Two Irish sisters mourn [...]
Steel-ing the spotlight
By Jessica Carreras Don't define Holly Fisher. By her job, her gender or her sexual orientation. "There's no clear line for anyone," she muses about labeling people by their sexuality. "We don't need to have [...]
BREAKING: Matt Foreman to step down from NGLTF
filed by BTL staff WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -- Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and a national leader in the struggle for equal rights and social justice, will step [...]
Preview of upcoming primaries: Gay vote’s impact
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service For gays in states with the largest gay populations, like California, it's decision time in the 2008 presidential race. From the evidence available - anecdotal and indirect - most [...]
Heath Ledger: More than that Gay Cowboy
By Miles Christian Daniels It's funny how we remember famous people. Tammy Faye Bakker will always be remembered for her eyelashes. Richard Nixon for Watergate. Luciano Pavarotti for his sprawling tenor voice. And, if headlines [...]