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Which actor is a grower, not a shower – and is Justin Timberlake really {ITAL that} big?
Billy Masters "What the hell does that mean? Now I'll turn on you, Barbara. She's gotta be kidding! I'll trip you next time you're walking!" - Joy Behar responds to Barbara Walters' erroneous prediction that [...]
Creep of the Week: Pat Robertson
Angel rapers! That's what homosexuals are. That's right, you heard me. Homosexuals rape angels. What, you don't believe me? It's in the Bible! Pat Robertson said so. And because gays rape angels, they should not [...]
Parting Glances: Blame your amygdala, Mary
According to specialists in brain neuroanatomy, each of us is anatomically blessed with an amygdala. (You show me yours; I'll show you mine.) If you're gay, your amygdala is similar to that of straight women; [...]
The Gay Moralist: Missed Pride
by John Corvino "Is he your brother?" It's a simple question, but it startled me. My partner Mark and I were outside planting flowers, and Mark had gone to the garage to fetch the lawnmower. [...]
Portraits of local drag queens dance into Ferndale
FERNDALE - Painter Nada Jurisic will present "Detroit's No Drag: Queens of the City," her collection of portraits representing Detroit-area drag queens at the Pittman-Puckett Art Gallery at Affirmations on July 11. Vivid canvases of [...]
BBAC celebrates artBLAST with fireworks, entertainment
BIRMINGHAM - artBLAST, a summer arts celebration at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC), takes place July 3. The event - with entertaining art adventures for all ages, a chuck wagon supper, a petting zoo, [...]
Friends Forever
Sinking into a comfy couch situated against the back wall of the Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn's lounge, Chantal Chamandy can't decide: White wine or juice? When the waitress saunters toward the long-locked Canadian, she's still indecisive. Finally, [...]
Genre Man at it again
Joe Fitrzyk's life after splitting with his partner of 13 years could've been an episode of "Sex and the City": "I felt like Carrie after Mr. Big left her at the alter - minus the [...]
Two’s company
When a 17-year-old God-Des left Ann Arbor to attend the University of Wisconsin, she may have already had the music bug in her, but she had yet to meet her better half. At the same [...]
Michigan goes Hollywood
Like something out of Hollywood, Sigourney Weaver scoots out of the prop tent to join a parade procession every time an ear-piercing horn roars. Except this isn't Tinseltown; this is Royal Oak - or, rather, [...]
BTL chats with Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver had an icky alien burst out of her chest, so a chilly Royal Oak afternoon is nothing. Several days after our phone interview, where Weaver was shooting in the setting for the Griffith [...]
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NEW THIS WEEK Get Smart Freshly promoted CONTROL secret agent Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) and his skeptical partner Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) travel to Russia to investigate a nuclear weapons theft. They come face to [...]
Gotham Knights: A Gay Hero’s Legacy
By Dan Woog The OutField {ITAL "We're Gotham, we're Gotham, we're so far from home We're so f------ horny so leave us alone We smoke till we get high and we drink till we get [...]
Pride on fire(works)
By Jessica Carreras Justin and Michael Matthews know a thing or two about pride. They fought adversity and started the first ever gay-owned fireworks company, Defying Gravity Fireworks. And now they're putting that pride in [...]
“Don’t wait for inspiration, Libra!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Chiron and the North Lunar Node both point to working through an old wound to open your own abilities to heal others. The Sun is in harsh aspect, creating emotional [...]
Q Puzzle – by and by
Q Puzzle Across 1 Pull a boa behind you? 5 "I'm not in the ___!" 9 Coward's milieu 14 Cicero's queer 15 Isherwood's " ___ Camera" 16 Like Alexander Pope? 17 Open a crack 18 [...]
Black, gay men’s HIV work should have started years ago
The news that 46 percent of black, gay men may be infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS is old news and were just getting around to having a town hall meeting about it. [...]
Detroit’s Hotter Than July! 2008 need volunteers
The Black Pride Society, Inc. producers and sponsors of the Midwest's oldest same gender loving pride celebration, Detroit's Hotter Than July is seeking volunteers to assist with the following Hotter Than July events. All persons [...]
Four gay delegates to represent Michigan at Democratic National Convention
by Jessica Carreras On June 14, the remaining delegates set to represent Michigan at the 2008 Democratic National Convention were chosen. Four of them are openly gay. The convention will be held August 25-28 in [...]
Not nearing the end
by Jessica Carreras Older gays and lesbians are always happy to talk about the crazy stories of their youth as though they were rites of passage. Community organizer and long-time gay rights activist Penny Gardner [...]
20th West Michigan Pride draws 4,000
By Sarah Mieras GRAND RAPIDS - Organizers estimate 4,000 people passed through the gates of West Michigan Pride on Saturday, June 21. The 20th anniversary of the Grand Rapids event included a commitment ceremony, carnival [...]
Community members express concerns about Grand Rapids HIV prevention programming
GRAND RAPIDS - Rick Otterbien, the legislative director for the Michigan Positive Action Coalition, has sent out a notice for a meeting with people interested in HIV/AIDS prevention services in the city. The meeting, scheduled [...]
National HIV Testing Day emphasizes need for testing
by Jessica Carreras The Michigan Department of Community Health estimated in 2006 that 18,000 people in Michigan are living with HIV and that another 3,000 or so are living with the disease and unaware of [...]
Prop 2, Defense of Marriage
by Jay Kaplan What a wonderful, inspiring and energizing moment for LGBT people to see marriage licenses being granted to same-sex couples in California and to watch them wed. The marriage of Phyllis Lyons and [...]
Gregory Kamm, early gay activist at Western Michigan and MSU, dies at 57
By Tim Retzloff MANISTEE - Gregory Curtis Kamm, a founder of the first known gay organization in Kalamazoo and an officer with the earliest LGBT group at Michigan State University during the early 1970s, died [...]
She/He Said week of June 26
compiled by Howard Israel "Gay Marriage? This is an issue of zero actual importance to me. At this point in my life, if I get mugged by an overly aggressive gang-banger, I consider it a [...]
Lesbian couples claim they are being treated unfairly
Two lesbian couples, one in Lansing and the other in Grand Rapids, are claiming two major social institutions have discriminated against them. Sarah Himes and her partner Cate tried to sign up for a family [...]
Power to ‘The People’
by Jessica Carreras WARREN - It was a "Who's who" of the Michigan LGBT community at the 23rd annual Pride Banquet and Awards Ceremony on June 19, where local individuals, businesses and organizations were recognized [...]
Michigan Pride co-chair looks back on finding her pride
{LANSING -} For 37-year-old Candice Reisner of Jackson, coming out was a stuggle that ultimately cemented her pride in herself and the LBGT community. She marks her coming out by the day Ellen Degeneres came [...]
Remembering Stonewall, celebrating Pride
On June 28, LGBT people from across the state will celebrate Michigan Pride. We will play games. We will enjoy bands. We will buy rainbow necklaces and gay pride buttons. But we shouldn't forget. On [...]
‘Brokeback’ meets ‘Prada’ at the Network
There will be more than just a little dog laughing at Ann Arbor's Performance Network Theatre this summer, thanks to Douglas Carter Beane's 2007 Tony Award-nominated comedy that opened in previews June 19. "It's a [...]
Timely political satire at The Abreact
Mike McGettigan's second chapter of his "Desperate Losers" series couldn't have come at a more opportune time for the playwright. Because I suspect he has the recent foibles of Detroit's text-messaging and Messianic mayor to [...]