Billy Masters "When she was on 'American Idol,' she came in seventh. This year, the winner came in her!" - Billy Masters' perhaps less-than-gallant introduction of Kimberly Caldwell prior to her performance at LA Pride. [...]
Americans For Truth President Peter LaBarbera is pissed. Specifically, he's pissed at public television. Even more specifically he's pissed at Chicago public TV station WTTW for having the gall to air a documentary during their [...]
Creature of literary habit that I am (at least on Thursdays) I pick up BTL at the same bookstore where I'm also given a generous 20% book discount. Often I find at the top of [...]
by Sean Kosofsky All Politics is Loco Once upon a time, racial and political strife ran down the spine of this country as if it were a central nervous system on guard for behavior that [...]
By Richard Labonte "Us Ones In Between," by Blair Mastbaum. Running Press, 208 pages, $14.95 paper. Less is more in Mastbaum's compact, superbly controlled second novel. His first, "Clay's Way," dwelled - as do many [...]
Our pooches deserve pampering. After all, we spend our days filing, typing, serving, cleaning - and they so charmingly snooze, and eat, and play, and snooze some more. OK, so they're pretty damn lazy, but [...]
By Cornelius A. Fortune When author Kage Alan first heard the suggestion that his second book be called "Lord of the Loins," he hated the idea - and not just because he thought it slightly [...]
By Dan Smith For 60-years-young Dennis Ashby, the thought of giving up the night life had never occurred to him. "According to the economy, I'm going to have to work until I drop," he says. [...]
LANSING - The BoarsHead Theater Dark Night Series will present a special summer production of Alfred Uhry's "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" at 7 p.m. June 21-22, 28-29. The Dark Night Series is produced by [...]
NEW THIS WEEK The Happening Philadelphia high school teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), whose wife (Zooey Deschanel) is experiencing doubts about their marriage, finds himself in the middle of a freakish natural event in which [...]
ROYAL OAK - The craft of playwrighting comes alive on Stagecrafters 2nd Stage as the local community theater presents the Fourth Annual New Works Play Festival from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. June 20 and [...]
The crowd's clothes were like a box of Crayola crayons when the second annual five-hour True Colors Tour stopped on June 11 at DTE Energy Music Theatre - but vibrancy wasn't just colored on a [...]
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 [...]
Gay Pride Day in Ferndale is an embarrassment to any gay person, male or female, who is trying to prove to their family and friends that not all gays are a bunch of freaks. Not [...]
by Jessica Carreras Imagine welcoming someone into your home who adamantly disagrees with everything you believe in. Imagine sharing meals with them, watching them hug your children and giving them a place to sleep for [...]
by Jessica Carreras DETROIT - On June 14, AIDS Partnership Michigan celebrated a bittersweet milestone: 25 years of fighting, preventing and helping people with HIV/AIDS. The event was held at The Roostertail on a pristine [...]
Six business and community leaders joined the Affirmations Board of Directors at the organization's Annual Meeting on May 28. New additions include: Jade Brown, Amrit Kohli, and Mary Rose MacMillan, who join the board as [...]
{ITAL As of 5:01 p.m. Monday, June 16, 2008, same-gender couples can start marrying in California. Congratulations! Below are some frequently asked questions regarding same-sex marriage in California.} Can same-sex couples marry in California? Yes. [...]
Police in Wayland, Mich., are investigating an attack by two 14-year-old girls on a third girl in Wayland Union High School. The victim was identified as a supporter of gay rights. The June 10 attack [...]
FERNDALE - He had a love of theater and, above all, a love of people. John Fowler, 62, died May 29 of liver disease. Born and raised in Painesville, Ohio, Fowler attended Miami University on [...]
By Sarah Mieras GRAND RAPIDS - Old and new friends gathered Saturday night at a downtown Grand Rapids church for a different kind of Pride celebration. There were no dance tents or vendors peddling rainbows, [...]
by Jessica Carreras DETROIT- After over two decades, HIV/AIDS is still one of the top five causes of death for black men - and most of those men are gay. Fortunately, it's not a fact [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS #738 Stefan Niesiolowski, a deputy speaker of Poland's lower house of Parliament, the Sejm, disparaged gays June 5 during a televised debate on a court decision that deprived a lesbian [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS #738 Norway's Parliament legalized same-sex marriage June 11 in an 84-41 vote. Support came from the three-party ruling coalition as well as two opposition parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals. [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS #738 The General Assembly of the Organization of American States unanimously adopted a resolution condemning human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity June 3. Human Rights Watch [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS #738 Thousands of people marched in Tel Aviv's 10th gay pride parade June 6. The march, funded by a $75,000 grant from the city, also was a celebration of the [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS #738 Three AIDS activists were arrested in Kampala, Uganda, June 3 for disrupting the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting. Onziema Patience, Valentine Kalende and Usaam Mukwaaya were seized by the Uganda [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS #738 Several thousand people marched in Warsaw's fourth gay pride parade June 7 with the theme "Live, Love, Be." Counterprotesters from All-Polish Youth and the National Radical Camp yelled insults [...]
By Sarah Mieras KALAMAZOO - Just over 1,800 people turned out last Saturday for Kalamazoo's first Pride Festival in the heart of downtown at the Arcadia Festival site. The daylong event drew large numbers of [...]
Friend - Never before have we seen this kind of enthusiasm and energy among voters in support of putting a Democrat back in the White House. This campaign season featured some of the best candidates [...]
I'm running for President to build an America that lives up to our founding promise of equality for all - a promise that extends to our gay brothers and sisters. It's wrong to have millions [...]
By Rex Wockner National News Briefs Leading national gay organizations have issued a strongly worded advisory all but demanding that same-sex couples who visit California to get married not file any lawsuits seeking recognition of [...]
By Rex Wockner National News Briefs County clerks in California's Kern and Butte counties have stopped performing all marriages so as not to have to marry gay couples. In Kern County, where Bakersfield is located, [...]
By Rex Wockner National News Briefs Katherine Patrick, daughter of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, came out publicly as a lesbian June 12 in an interview with the Boston gay newspaper Bay Windows. "We ... wanted [...]
By Rex Wockner National News Briefs The gay Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire who has almost singlehandedly caused a near schism in the worldwide Anglican Communion entered into an official civil union with his partner [...]
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 [...]
By Sarah Mieras GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Pride is all grown up and moving out on its own. After 20 years of operations under the umbrella of the Gay and Lesbian Network, the Grand [...]
This is the last chance to sign up for Affirmations' Summer Arts Adventure at a discounted price. See why kids and parents keep coming back to Summer Arts Adventure - a supportive environment for kids [...]
On June 27-29, all are invited to experience the Kingdom Ministries Network's 2008 Expanding the Kingdom Conference. It will be held in Madison Heights at the Praise Fellowship Christian Church and will include guest speakers [...]
Last Tuesday, Hamtramck became the 17th city in Michigan to expand its human rights ordinance to include the protection of sexual orientation in areas such as housing, employment and city contracts. The ordinance now also [...]
by Jessica Carreras The future of the Latino LGBT community has been bolstered, thanks to a $20,000 a year, two-year grant from the Arcus Foundation. Bestowed upon the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project, the grant will [...]
by Jessica Carerras DETROIT - Jeremy Waggoner, a 37-year-old Detroit resident, was found dead in a grassy field on Beaufait Street on Detroit's east side last Tuesday, police said. Waggoner, a stylist at the Michael [...]
The University of Michigan's Spectrum Center is excited to welcome Lauren Sherry as assistant director. She will work directly with Director Jackie Simpson in assisting and developing programming for U of M's LGBT students, faculty [...]
On weeks such as the one that just passed, we are reminded, overwhelmingly, of the threat that HIV/AIDS still presents, not only to our community, but to the world. Last week, AIDS Partnership Michigan held [...]
From male flight attendants ("The Vast Difference"), action heroes ("Thy Kingdom's Coming") and lovers ("Apartment 3A"), to Yoopers ("Escanaba in da Moonlight"), thespians ("Guest Artist") and sisters ("Norma & Wanda"), Jeff Daniels has entertained audiences [...]
By Robert Bethune We've been told for centuries that theater is supposed to entertain and instruct. I regret that with The Second City's new "The Best of The Second City" show, I can hope to [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mars in Leo promotes bold, flashy initiative. Now he's opposing Neptune in Aquarius, tempting us to jump way ahead of ourselves and the limits of common sense. Take a little [...]
{HEADAER Q Puzzle} Across 1 Stereotypical gay speech attribute 5 Izzard of stand-up and more 10 Thespian 15 Suffix with prefer 16 "___ we a pair?" 17 Dinah of a golf classic 18 Queens stadium [...]
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