Dear Jody: Come Back to Me
Q: I'm a mess. That's the short of it, so now I'll try to tell you the long of it. I was with this guy, "David," 10 years ago. It was a relationship, but not [...]
Creep of the Week: Vito Fossella
Thank God marriage is safe in Michigan. Marriage for straight folks, of course. Not only marriage, but health care and other benefits that one person may be the conduit through which another person gets them [...]
Parting Glances: pee or not to pee
I've been to so many pickets lately that I feel like a backyard fence. My last was in a well-known white-by-connivance suburb at The Church of Get Right With God. (Or else). The reason for [...]
She/He Said this week
compiled by Howard Israel "The juxtaposition of being gay and black in sports is especially powerful. Because if people were to guess who the gay people in sport were, they'd pick the white folk. The [...]
The Gay Morallist: Behind ‘Enemy’ Lines
by John Corvino The sign read, "Focus on the Family welcomes the Bible Babes and Dr. John Corvino." I did a double-take. "Bible Babes" sounds like the title of a really bad porn video, but [...]
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 [...]
‘Desperate’ for Wisteria Lane queers, ‘Grey’s’ gay to marry teen
Billy Masters "I truly believed he would never get married. He never seemed interested." - The mother of Al Reynolds (the soon-to-be former Mr. Star Jones) explains why she was so surprised that her son [...]
Did you RSVP?
Call me a baby, but my Cry Switch turns to "on" every time Sally Field's eyes glaze over, like they did when her gay son wedded his man during Sunday's bold "Brothers & Sisters" season [...]
Black, white and gay
DETROIT - As a curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Sam Wagstaff left a mark on the late-20th century contemporary scene - and on the queer movement. Pre-"Will & Grace," being out was as [...]
Put best foot forward
Don't fret! Ferndale's 22nd annual Foot Frolic on May 18 won't be like climbing Mount Everest. It's a flat street course - with trees decorating the path to and from Gerry Kulick Community Center, where [...]
A Crazy Coaster
We have a love-hate relationship, me and technology. Right now, I'd marry it. Had it not been for Apple's iSight, the three front-ladies of BETTY, a two-decade-old estrogen rock(ish) band, would've had trouble connecting with [...]
Now Playing
NEW THIS WEEK Mister Lonely A down-on-his-luck Michael Jackson impersonator who lives as his character (Diego Luna) meets a woman who lives as Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton). Together, the pair retreat to a rural Scottish [...]
Pretty! Queer!
Lines between metrosexual and gay are blurrier than my eyes sans glasses, leaving us queers to wonder who sticks what in this never-ending sexuality guessing-game. So, thanks, Panic at the Disco for further confusing the [...]
A ‘Swell’ show
You'd think the Ireland-based Swell Season would be used to beer-sloshed crowds, but on Saturday's show at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, the rowdy, booze guzzlers became too much for the attention-required band. So much [...]
“Keep it light, Gemini!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury in Gemini and Mars in Leo energize us, promoting outspokenness and bold accomplishment. Alas, they are in discord, pushing us to push too hard and without necessary planning or [...]
Lifting the gay gym stereotype
By Dan Woog The OutField For some gay men, the gym is a place of terror. For others, it's a home away from home. For Erick Alvarez, the gym is the subject of an intriguing [...]
Planning needed to repeal state “marriage amendment”
By Jay Kaplan News Analysis Depressing, distressing and disappointing are words that can only begin to describe the reaction to the Michigan Supreme Court's 5-2 decision last week, upholding the appeals court ruling that Michigan's [...]
Justice for all?
by Jessica Carreras It makes no sense to A.T. Miller why anyone would want to take away his rights. The Manchester resident is a law-abiding citizen, well respected at his job at the University of [...]
Michigan Senate urged to fight bullying
LANSING - In the wake of action by the Florida legislature, the Michigan's Safe Schools Coalition called on Michigan's Senate on May 9 to follow Florida's lead and pass a long-stalled anti-bullying measure that would [...]
Finally, A resource for LGBT cancer survivors goes national
By Cathy Markes Nearly everyone of us has had our lives touched by cancer. With every diagnosis, each patient deals with the emotional and physical rigors of treatment in their own particular way. Overall, the [...]
Advocates seek doubling of HIV prevention budget
by Bob Roehr The limitations of HIV prevention activities in the U.S. were on display at a congressional briefing on May 12. Advocates called for a doubling of the CDC's HIV prevention budget to $1.3 [...]
Office of Special Council raided
by Bob Roehr The head of a powerful but obscure federal agency is in trouble again. FBI agents with warrants raided the home and office of Scott J. Bloch, head of the Office of Special [...]
Aussie territory forced to back down on gay equality
by Rex Wockner International News The Australian Capital Territory, where Canberra is located, was forced to rewrite its civil-union bill after the federal government promised to overturn it. The weakened measure passed the territory's Legislative [...]
Australia to extend almost equality to gay couples
by Rex Wockner International News Australia's government said April 29 it will change some 100 laws to extend equal rights to same-sex couples. But the move will not include access to marriage, which is explicitly [...]
Birmingham, England, pride parade canceled
by Rex Wockner International News Pride organizers in Birmingham, England, have canceled this year's parade, saying there were too many problems regarding the start time and road closures, The Birmingham Post reported. But they say [...]
Lesbos residents want their name back
by Rex Wockner International News Three residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have filed suit in an attempt to reclaim the word "lesbian" and stop the group Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece (OLKE) [...]
Gay man elected to Nepal parliament
by Rex Wockner International News Well-known gay activist Sunil Babu Pant, 35, has been elected to Nepal's 601-member Constituent Assembly, which will draft the nation's new constitution and also function as parliament during the drafting [...]
Gays attacked after rally in St. Petersburg
by Rex Wockner International News Homophobes attacked gay activists in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 3 after about 25 activists staged an "International Day of Silence" action in Chernyshevsky Park. The activists had taped their mouths [...]
Lesbian soccer player murdered in South Africa
by Rex Wockner International News An openly lesbian member of South Africa's national women's soccer team was murdered in Kwatema, east of Johannesburg, in late April. Reports said Eudy Simelane, 31, was raped and stabbed [...]
UK spinster sisters denied gay-couple rights
by Rex Wockner International News The European Court of Human Rights ruled 15-2 on April 29 that two elderly sisters in England who never married, and lived together their whole lives, have no right to [...]
It’s time: The Michigan marriage amendment must go
Our community has sat by more than patiently for four years awaiting the final word by the Michigan Supreme Court on the reach of the discriminatory anti-marriage constitutional amendment that was enshrined in our state [...]
Groovy, silly late night fun at the Ant
What do you get when you mix a handful of the best female improvisers in town with one relative newcomer? The answer can be found late night every Friday and Saturday through May 24 at [...]
TIDBITS: ‘9 Parts,’ calendar and Wilde
ITEM: Timing is everything - and sometimes it sucks. Originally scheduled for this space was a review of "9 Parts of Desire" that's playing at the Marlene Boll Theatre in downtown Detroit through May 24. [...]
Broadway gold turns the Fox Theatre ‘The Color Purple’
By D. A. Blackburn DETROIT - It began with a buzz and a big name on the marquee. Oprah Winfrey had signed on as a presenting producer, and, with a little help from a long-standing [...]
Planning needed to repeal state “marriage amendment”
By Jay Kaplan News Analysis Depressing, distressing and disappointing are words that can only begin to describe the reaction to the Michigan Supreme Court's 5-2 decision last week, upholding the appeals court ruling that Michigan's [...]
Justice for all?
by Jessica Carreras It makes no sense to A.T. Miller why anyone would want to take away his rights. The Manchester resident is a law-abiding citizen, well respected at his job at the University of [...]