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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]