Creep of the Week: Voice of Christian Youth America
Beware! Something "wacky" this way comes... Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg, Wisconsin was a scary place on April 4 when students participated in a pagan ritual called "Wacky Week" and were encouraged to come to school [...]
Parting Glances: Well, bless my poperazzi!
I'm reluctant to share the following e-mail with my spiritually minded Parting Glances readers, so many of whom are touchy about controversial issues concerning fashion-conscious nuns in out-of-the-way locals My e-mail comes from Boston. Home [...]
She/He Said Week of April 24
compiled by Howard Israel "The more hateful his rhetoric, the more Catholics see how in conflict with our core values he is. He has issued some of the most hurtful and extreme rhetoric against our [...]
Dream for our children faces crisis of character
Forty years after his death, Martin Luther King's dream that his/our children would one day live in a nation "where they would not be judged on the color of their skin but by the content [...]
Disinvited:
by John Corvino The Gay Moralist I'm sometimes criticized by fellow gay-rights advocates for being too accommodating towards our opponents. Why dignify gay-rights opponents with a response? The simple answer is that, like it or [...]
What’s Old is … Forever?
By Joe Franco Gay bar (n.): 1. a smoke-filled arena of gay self-deprecation and attitude wherein dancing and drinking occur 2. any location with bathrooms for only one gender 3. a room or combination of [...]
Billy Masters
"Even if I get AIDS at this point, I'll still live 17 years! I could smoke now. I could smoke! Because I'm gonna die anyhow. I think I'm gonna light up as soon as I [...]
Ferndale Bud Light Blues Festival distributes funds this month
FERNDALE - Organizers of the annual Ferndale Bud Light Blues Festival announced the distribution of over $23,000 in direct proceeds this month to local charities and not-for-profit organizations. This year's festival, held during nine days [...]
Mary J: The Lost Interview
Back in January, Mary J. Blige strolled into the GM Design Center looking a little out of place. After all, this was Warren - not Hollywood. With her hands tucked into her jeans, she was [...]
‘Shelter’: Cool, dude
For all the saliva-producing hunks, it'd be easier than Paris Hilton to call surfer-dude story "Shelter" just another gay movie. But think of the here! movie, which premieres on April 18, as the Lifetime equal [...]
ansing neighborhood marred with anti-gay graffiti
Capital Correspondent LANSING- Residents and business owners are responding to a series of anti-gay tags spray painted on buildings in the city's historic Old Town late Tuesday night, or early Wednesday morning. The area is [...]
“Exercise restraint, Capricorn!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Saturn in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn are hard, mean planets in tough signs. Thank heavens they're in an easy aspect, and that Mercury is going into Taurus, letting them [...]
Hank Weintraub’s Water Polo World
By Dan Woog The OutField Hank Weintraub is a gay athlete. He kicks, scratches, elbows, and grabs opponents' balls. That makes him no different than any straight athlete playing water polo. In that game, anything [...]
“A Taxing Situation”
Q Puzzle Across 1 The bottom line 5 Exited the closet, with "out" 9 Colette's coffee servings 14 Beginning of 35-Down 15 Type of stimulation 16 In-your-face 17 Make a hole bigger 18 "Oz" setting [...]
Countdown Pennsylvania
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service When Mark Walsh knocked on the door of a blue-collar residence in northeast Philadelphia last Saturday, there was very little chance of his encountering another gay person. This was [...]
Obama talks – to Advocate
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama gave his first general interview to a gay publication this month, sitting down in person for a 25-minute interview at his Chicago campaign headquarters [...]
Schwarzenegger: Marriage-ban effort ‘a total waste of time’
by Rex Wockner No McCain endorsement yet SAN DIEGO - Speaking April 11 at the Log Cabin Republicans National Convention, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the effort by anti-gay forces to amend the California Constitution to [...]
BTL Editorial: New era for Presidential politics
We've come a long way from that fateful day in 2004 when 11 states voted in favor of a definition of marriage that did not include same-sex couples and had these laws shamefully enshrined in [...]
New theater fills niche in Grand Rapids
It's a conversation heard countless times in theaters everywhere: Two eager, young actors are talking backstage when one says to the other, "Wouldn't it be fun to start our own theater?" Most don't, of course. [...]
Surviving with love in Yonkers
By Robert W. Bethune There are two versions of Neil Simon. One is the rapid-fire wisecracker of "The Odd Couple," the other is the comic, yet serious writer of "Lost in Yonkers," currently in production [...]
Theater Events for the period April 17-26, 2008
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: Avenue Q Real life in New York City is explored by people and puppets in this hilarious, irreverant Tony Award-winning musical. Wharton Center, East Lansing. Tue.-Sun., through April 20. $25-$58. 1-800-WHARTON. http://www.whartoncenter.com Company [...]
Detroit undergoes trans-formation
by Jessica Carreras Last Wednesday, the city of Detroit made a huge leap forward in LGBT rights when the City Council voted to amend the city's non-discrimination ordinance to include "gender identity or expression. It [...]
Corvino cancelation causes Grand Rapids uprising
by Jessica Carreras Aquinas College's decision to stop public speaker and gay rights advocate Dr. John Corvino from coming to speak at their school has given rise to a movement of Aquinas students, Grand Rapids [...]