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Indiana, North Carolina show LGBT vote split
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service New differences on LGBT issues emerged between the two Democratic nominees during their primary state battles in Indiana and North Carolina. And given that the contest for the Democratic [...]
Long Way to Happy
By Anthony Paull We should all have friends like dear, dear Kyle. He's so informed about the dating scene, he practically is the dating scene. I guess that's why people obsess over him. He's sucked [...]
Creep of the Week: Americans For The Military
Before folks get all up in arms (no pun intended), let me be clear: I am not calling every citizen who slaps a Support Our Troops sticker on their bumper a creep. Far from it. [...]
Letter: Religious Prejudice
In response to John Corvino's 'After the dialogue, what?" (BTL, 5/01/2008, Issue 1618), had (Oklahoma State Rep. Sally) Kern used race, skin color or ethnic origin as her subject, I bet the rent she would [...]
Parting Glances: Butter on both sides
Ever since I was a teen - a curiously long time ago - I've tried to bring balance to my reading when it comes to subjects of a religious, occult, or scientific nature. (Porn mags [...]
Between the wild party and the wedding party
by Wayne Besen Anything But Straight When I first came out in 1988, if two young gay people met, the reaction often was, "You too! I thought I was alone." As my twenty-year high school [...]
All Politics is Loco: lgbtP
by Sean Kosofsky This past weekend I spoke on a panel in Chicago for ChoiceUSA about the intersections of abortion rights and LGBT rights. Although most LGBT people are pro-choice it is clearer to me [...]
Billy Masters
"In the world we're living in, gay people are still horribly discriminated against. Why does anybody need to be so affected by someone else's happiness? Some of these people show up 20 years in a [...]
Northville hosts May fun
{BOLD Second Annual Shopping Scramble 11 a.m.-4 p.m. May 10 Downtown Northville} For all the savvy shoppers out there, it's once again time to put their skills to the test and help raise money for [...]
Now Playing
May 12, 2008 NEW THIS WEEK: Iron Man Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) is a military weapons manufacturer who realizes that his life's work causes only death and misery. His response? Create a titanium suit [...]
Out from the ‘Trenches’
By Jessica Carreras There are some who believe that everyone needs a cause to devote themselves to; something to give their life meaning. Just ask Freda Wagman. When we try to phone the native Detroiter [...]
Book Marks
By Richard Labonte "The Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father," by Augusten Burroughs. St. Martin's Press, 256 pages, $24.95 hardcover. Once again, Burroughs is mining his life for another memoir. How many [...]
“Articulate conflicts, Cancer!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun in Taurus offers the comforts and pleasantries of spring. Now, however, Sol is aspecting asteroid Chiron in Aquarius and new planet Eris, stirring up the question of where [...]
“You’ve Grown a Foot”
Q Puzzle Across 1 Nick Malgieri, for one 5 Make-or-break date 9 Mystery writer Claire 14 Friend of Dorothy 15 Prefix with gravure, in "Easter Parade" 16 "Spartacus" venue 17 Fly like an eagle 18 [...]
AIDSWatch 2008 sheds light on U.S. funding frustrations
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C.- Frustration, hope and a dedication to change through the coming election were common threads marking AIDSWatch 2008 at a rally at the foot of the Capitol on April 29. The [...]
HARC to celebrate local heroism, fighting HIV at Dining for Dollars
by Jessica Carreras It is a celebrated fact that HIV-positive people are living longer, healthier lives. However, it creates an ongoing problem for organizations dedicated to helping those who are not able to care for [...]
Canadian charity must pay fired lesbian, stop discriminating
by Rex Wockner International The large Ontario charity Christian Horizons, which helps disabled people, must pay $23,000 to a lesbian it fired and stop discriminating based on sexual orientation, the provincial Human Rights Tribunal ruled [...]
Latvian officials want to fence in Pride
by Rex Wockner International Latvia's prime minister and integration minister said April 24 that they want Riga's gay pride parade to again take place inside a fenced-in park, to protect celebrants from violent anti-gay protesters. [...]
Serbia vows to protect GLBT Eurovision attendees
by Rex Wockner International Belgrade's police department has promised to protect the throngs of GLBT people who typically travel to the Eurovision Song Contest -- being held in Serbia this year because a Serbian singer [...]
Singapore TV station fined for too-gay broadcast
by Rex Wockner International Singapore's Media Development Authority has fined MediaCorp TV's Channel 5 $11,000 for airing a program that was too gay-friendly. The home and decor series "Find and Design" made the error of [...]
Spanish activist awarded government honors
by Rex Wockner International Veteran Spanish gay activist Jordi Petit of Barcelona was awarded the Catalonian government's Cross of Saint George on April 22. "(It) is the highest award that is granted in Catalonia, a [...]
Same-sex marriage breakthroughs ahead, experts say
by Bob Roehr The events of the next few months "can truly transform the arc of our movement" for marriage equality, civil rights attorney and LGBT advocate Evan Wolfson told a symposium of the Association [...]
Mildred Loving dies
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The woman who started the ball rolling toward knocking down laws banning interracial marriage and who, late in life, also spoke out against bans on gay marriage has died. [...]
Highest ranking veteran in Congress calls for repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
' WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA), the highest ranking military veteran in Congress, on Saturday urged fellow lawmakers to join him in repealing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law banning lesbian, gay and [...]
Good Beans, good vibes
By Jim Larkin FLINT - Ken VanWagoner knows well what it's like to grow up gay in the Flint area. That's why his Good Beans Cafe has become a safe haven of sorts for Flint [...]
Lansing community groups rally to clean up anti-gay graffiti
LANSING- An upsetting display of homophobia turned into a community clean up on April 26 in Lansing's Old Town. Residents and business owners responded to a series of anti-gay tags spray-painted on buildings in the [...]
Community homophobia breeds community outcries
When the federal government makes a decision to not allow certain rights for the LGBT community, there is little that we as individuals can do that we feel will actually make a difference. We can [...]
Oy! Universal fun and laughter at JET
The old adage "If you can't laugh at yourself, then who CAN you laugh at?" certainly proved true at the opening night performance of "Oy!" at The Jewish Ensemble Theatre. Referred to as "a comic [...]
Baseball invented – but is it a play?
By Robert W. Bethune How can Ty Cobb point three different guns at himself? By being divided among three actors, as the famous baseball player finds himself in the excellent Planet Ant Theatre production of [...]
The Second City plays some familiar tunes
By D. A. Blackburn In its latest offering, The Second City invites guests into its home for 75 minutes of "fresh air." As performer Nancy Hayden explains at the production's outset, the company's normally scathing [...]
Fugard celebrates life in the theater
Relationships in the theater are often fleeting. Actors are cast in a show, they become fast friends and then they go their separate ways - in many cases, never to cross paths again. In "Exits [...]
Theater Events for the period May 8-17, 2008
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: The Best of Me Enter a place where love struggles to survive it's own delusion, as a devoted married couple exist in near complete isolation. The Abreact at The Zeitgeist Gallery and Performance [...]
Michigan Court Sends Warning to Florida
MIAMI - Today the Supreme Court of Michigan ruled that that state's amendment banning "gay marriage' also prohibits public employers such as cities, counties and universities from offering domestic partnership benefits to unmarried employees. According [...]
Health care benefits of same-sex couples, families in peril
by Jessica Carreras LANSING - Yesterday, a decision was made that shook the LGBT community across the state. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the language of the amendment that defined marriage in Michigan as [...]
Off the curb and into the street
We the people in order to form a more perfect union... Ah yes, those famous words, the very foundation of our union, of our great experiment in democracy. They set a standard to which all [...]