"All the men that like me are gay. It's true. I have a really strong gaydar. I do love gay men though." - Victoria Beckham explains her connection with gay men. Let's do this like [...]
By Dan Woog The OutField The athletes stand strongly, staring straight ahead. Scott, the cross-country team captain from Wisconsin's Madison West High School, is shirtless, glistening with sweat in the woods following a workout. Cynthia, [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen: Ellen DeGeneres is turning American housewives gay. Personally, I just thought she had a talk show where she danced funny and occasionally bawled her eyes out over puppies. But then, I'm not [...]
Two of my lesbian friends, Valrita and Margerita, make their living as psychics. They do tarot readings at house parties and pastor a New Age church where spirit messages are delivered from heavenly zip codes. [...]
compiled by Howard Israel "While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited [...]
This entire electoral primary season I have been stuck in a quagmire - torn not just between political candidates but between my two identities as an African-American woman while being mindful of the position each [...]
By Gregg Shapiro You'd better be prepared to dance this mess around because the B-52s are back. The party-out-of-bounds band has returned with "Funplex," their first studio album in more than 15 years. Peppy tracks [...]
Chris Carter and John Simpson can't really guarantee they'll convince the Michigan Court of Appeals to give same-sex couple benefits. But when they come to Saugatuck to shoot the upcoming season of their reality show, [...]
Anthony Paull The Dating Diet It's always the same story with my friend Jake. We'll be out to a glamorous dinner with a large group of friends and fellow acquaintances, and Jake manages to sniff [...]
Maybe she really did take all those pictures to document and expose abuse. Maybe her smiling face over the body of a dead Iraqi prisoner really is a mask of sorts as she claims. And [...]
FERNDALE - A touch of class is coming to fabulous downtown Ferndale June 14 when Chef Stef (Stephanie Y. Penn) offers a sneak peek of her Asiatic Acoustics Jazz Rhythm & Blues Supper Club that [...]
Has Kathy Griffin missed her gays as much as we've missed her? If previews for the fourth season of "My Life on the D-List," which launches nearly a year after the third, are any sign, [...]
By Thomas Matich If I were to open a gay bar, it would be the Stonewall Experience at Universal Studios: a drunken rollercoaster ride where cops pop out and you bash them with Judy Garland's [...]
Since late May, the cast and crew of Lifetime's "Prayers for Bobby" has made metro Detroit its shooting site for the movie adaptation of out journalist Leroy Aarons' classic gay tale - and now they [...]
When you get hair made "silky-smooth" by Zohan, you get a little more than you paid for. Well, actually, you get a lot more, including one big bush and a bang. Too bad the latest [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Jupiter normally brings luck, but he's in Capricorn now, needing focus and work. He's also in conflict to the Sun and Venus in Gemini and Eris in Aries. Those three [...]
Each year Zion Lutheran Church in Ferndale opens their parking lot without charge to people attending Motor City Pride. Zion is a fully inclusive congregation, welcoming people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions. This [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, DC - AIDS advocates are outraged that the proposed Senate version of Medicare reform does not correct technical problems that have created a gap or "donut hole" of coverage in the [...]
by Sarah Mieras GRAND RAPIDS - Pride month in Michigan's second largest city was ushered in with the public viewing of the touching documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So" and a panel discussion. Sponsored [...]
It's a good bet that most of the people reading this story - indeed, most of people reading any portion of this paper - have never been to East New York. But in his new [...]
by Tana Michaels When Ana Guerriero was in school, she was constantly teased by her peers. She lived behind a closet door so tightly shut that she says, "Nothing would've made me seek out help." [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service BOSTON- In a stunning defeat, a relatively progressive federal circuit court ruled Monday that a constitutional challenge against the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was properly dismissed by [...]
by Bob Roehr The architect of the anti-gay military policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is dead, and its political godfather is having second thoughts. Can the political obituary of the failed policy be [...]
In a Capitol Hill press conference today, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) announced the formation of the House of Representatives LGBT Equality Caucus. Baldwin introduced the bipartisan caucus and its founding [...]
Affirmations Community Center Health & Human Services Coordinator Knoll Larkin has been appointed to serve on the first board of FernCare, a free medical clinic serving the community of Ferndale. The clinic, which will be [...]
by Rex Wockner International News After marching inside a fenced-in park last year, gay pride celebrants took to the streets of downtown Riga, Latvia, May 31 for a real parade this year. About 300 marchers [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Following on the heels of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's threat to "cut off the head" of any homosexual the government catches, police in the West African nation arrested two Spanish [...]
by Rex Wockner International News The mayor of Tilos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, married two same-sex couples June 3. Anastasios Aliferis said Greece's marriage law doesn't prohibit marriages between people of the [...]
by Rex Wockner International News A Cairo appeals court on May 28 upheld the three-year prison sentences of five men arrested in a crackdown on people thought to be HIV-positive. Four other HIV-positive men have [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Faced with Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's ban on gay pride activities for the third year in a row, about 35 Moscow activists misled police into going to the wrong location and [...]
by Rex Wockner International News A bill in the Norwegian Parliament to legalize same-sex marriage has enough votes lined up to pass next month. The measure now has the support of the three-party government coalition [...]
by Rex Wockner International News An estimated 1,500 people took part in the ninth gay pride parade in Seoul, South Korea, May 31. The parade route, starting and ending at Berlin Square, was the longest [...]
by Rex Wockner International News A local Turkish court ordered the closure of the Lambda Istanbul Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite, Transsexual Solidarity Association on May 29, citing unspecified "errors and deficiencies" in its bylaws. The [...]
by Bob Roehr Progressive members of the House announced formation of the LGBT Equality Caucus on June 4. It is chaired by Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the only two openly gay members [...]
LANSING - Michigan Pride sighed with relief Monday night after the Lansing City Council approved a fireworks display permit, despite objections from the heads of the parks department, fire department and police department. The fireworks [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, DC - It's back - the fringe right is trying yet again to amend the U.S. Constitution to save the nation from the scourge of same-sex marriage. The "Marriage Protection Amendment," [...]
by Rex Wockner NATIONAL NEWS - June 09, 2008 Anti-gay activists have succeeded in qualifying an initiative for the Nov. 4 ballot to amend the California Constitution to undo the state Supreme Court's recent ruling [...]
by Rex Wockner NATIONAL NEWS - June 09, 2008 Five state lawmakers and the right-wing legal group Alliance Defense Fund sued New York Gov. David Paterson on June 3, hoping to block his order that [...]
by Rex Wockner NATIONAL NEWS - June 09, 2008 Presidential candidate Barack Obama said June 6 that his campaign is actively participating in more than 60 gay pride events this summer, as detailed at pride.barackobama.com/pridemonth. [...]
by Rex Wockner NATIONAL NEWS - June 09, 2008 A USA Today/Gallup poll released June 3 found that 63 percent of Americans believe the government has no business passing laws banning same-sex marriage and 30 [...]
MIDLAND - It is estimated that 10 percent of the population is gay. That is a key message behind a billboard near the Garfield Road exit on US-10 sponsored by the Parents, Families and Friends [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service In a case that could be on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court for a second time, the Virginia Supreme Court today unanimously upheld a decision that a [...]
by Sarah Mieras GRAND RAPIDS - The Kalamazoo LGBT community is stepping into the spotlight with its first downtown Pride festival in recent memory on June 14. The "It's A Family Affair" Pride festival is [...]
The 23rd Annual Pride Banquet and Awards Ceremony will salute the efforts and achievements of businesses, groups and individuals for their dedication to Michigan's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied communities. The organizers are inviting [...]
by Jessica Carreras As of the end of May, 53 cases of syphilis have been reported in Genesee County in 2008, according to the Genesee County Health Department. The surge in infections constitutes a large [...]
As vacationers head to Southwest Michigan and seasonal residents open their summer homes, Kurt Stamm is busy readying the Mason Street Warehouse for its sixth season of uptown theater in downtown Saugatuck. "It's a little [...]
Hidden away on a non-descript block near Detroit's Fox Theatre sits one of Detroit's premier jazz clubs. But one Sunday each month an "old-timey" vaudeville show takes over the art deco splendor of Cliff Bell's, [...]
Joe Sylvester, 23, is deeply involved in the conservative political scene in Michigan. He has worked on several campaigns, and serves on several Republican district committees for his home of Bay City. He is what [...]
