By Lisa Keen SURROGATE SINS: Keen on the trail Keen News Service LEADER IN TRUST: A poll just out this week shows that more registered voters trust Democrat Barack Obama on the rights of gay [...]
by John Corvino The Gay Moralist I admit it: I was fascinated by the announcement that Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. It's no surprise that teenagers have sex - even evangelical Christian teenagers, and [...]
By Vic Basile It is hard to imagine an election more important to the future of our community than the one we face in November. That is why we must do all that we can [...]
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions A recent survey by Out & Equal Workplace Advocated held a somewhat surprising number: roughly seven out of 10 straight adults feel that performance, not gender identity or expression, should [...]
I used to think that the Log Cabin Republicans took their name as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln or maybe even that brand of maple syrup. But now I'm thinking that the "log cabin" in [...]
Billy Masters "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup." - Daniel Radcliffe tells "Details" his secret dream. [...]
Even educated fleas do it. Let's buzz . . . Last week's New Scientist, Britain's popular science reportage magazine, is an eye-opener about kinky animal sex. "(Animals) participate in kissing, hugging, oral sex, masturbation and [...]
"I don't hate my sister," Christopher Ciccone - commonly, as he says, introduced as Madonna's brother - so candidly tells us, as if his tell-almost-all memoir would lead us to believe otherwise. And it probably [...]
By By D. A. Blackburn Who Wants Cake? kicked off its second full season Saturday night with an acclaimed new work, Stephen Karam's "Speech and Debate," hot on the heels of a twice-extended run at [...]
Billy Masters "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup." - Daniel Radcliffe tells "Details" his secret dream. [...]
By Anthony Paull There was the most fascinating report on NPR not too long ago that talked about the current climate of dating and how, across the country, college campus women were fed up with [...]
Jem, "Down to Earth" Jem's sophomore disc is a reflective genre-skipper that does two things remarkably well: establishes the Welsh-born singer as more than an airy-voiced Dido clone while also boasting multiple personalities. The latter [...]
NEW THIS WEEK Disaster Movie What do a saber-toothed, gasoline-swilling Amy Winehouse (Nicole Parker); a smart-mouth pregnant teenager name Junie (Crista Flanagan); those cute, singing Chipmunks (now turned rabid); and teen idol Hannah Montana (Flanagan), [...]
NEW THIS WEEK Disaster Movie What do a saber-toothed, gasoline-swilling Amy Winehouse (Nicole Parker); a smart-mouth pregnant teenager name Junie (Crista Flanagan); those cute, singing Chipmunks (now turned rabid); and teen idol Hannah Montana (Flanagan), [...]
By Richard Labonte "So Many Ways to Sleep Badly," by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. City Lights Books, 252 pages, $14.95 paper. The unnamed narrator of this fabulously flamboyant novel turns tricks for money and, on client-free [...]
By Jack Fertig QScopes Is everybody fabulous? Mercury, Venus, and Mars are together in Libra, drawing out everyone's social side, lighting up parties, and drawing us to the arts. All three planets are trine to [...]
Between The Lines Newspaper, Sept. 11, 2008 FERNDALE - Dave Noble is on a mission. He is driven to get LGBT voters to come out strong for Barack Obama, and he is concentrating his efforts [...]
by Jessica Carreras Just over ten years ago, Rachel Crandall was married, living as a man and unhappy. Then, she made the choice to be true to herself and lost her marriage, her job, her [...]
by Jessica Carreras The heated fight over the anti-discrimination ordinance in Hamtramck continues, leaving the city's LGBT community in uncertainty as to whether or not they will be protected come November. The ordinance was originally [...]
by Jessica Carreras One in every three LGBT youth will attempt or commit suicide, and Kalamazoo-based nonprofit organization Project Light intends to do something about it. That's why just over a year ago, Director Adam [...]
Last week, the United Way for Southeastern Michigan announced it would be giving close to $135,000 over a three-year period to Affirmations in a grant to support its nationally-acclaimed Youth Services Program. Since moving into [...]
by Jessica Carreras The Bay City AIDS Walk, part of AIDS Walk Michigan, will welcome a very special guest to their area in the 24 hours leading up to their fundraising event on Sept. 27: [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service Several political pundits this week say the 2008 Republican National Convention launched a second "cultural war," but it is unclear, as yet, just how much a target the LGBT [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The Log Cabin Republicans group announced Tuesday that it is endorsing Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and a top McCain campaign official showed up at the organization's "big tent" [...]
BIRMINGHAM - Ties Like Me, the premier LGBT business networking group is hosting their 2nd Annual Business Expo on Wednesday, Sept. 17 from 5 - 8 p.m. at Big Rock Reserve. From florists to upscale [...]
On Sept. 12, the newest exhibition of photos will open at the Affirmations Community Center's Pittmann-Puckett Art Gallery. The exhibit will open with a viewing from 7-9 p.m. "Gods and Goddesses: The Embracing of Self" [...]
Unlike four long years ago, the Michigan LGBT vote is being strongly courted outloud and proud by the National Democratic party this year with the leadership of Barack Obama. Back in 2004, when we were [...]
It seems like it was only a few short years ago that The Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company debuted. But no: The West Bloomfield-based professional theater opened its 20th season Sept. 6, and for that alone [...]
By Robert Bethune "Permanent Collection" by Thomas Gibbons, now on stage at Lansing's BoarsHead Theater, is beautifully designed to be inflammatory. Nothing stirs passionate controversy like clashing rights, and Gibbon's play accomplishes that in multiple [...]
By Mark Segal September 18, 2008 Gay History Project In this election season, the Gay History Project attempted to bring you the views of both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president â just as [...]
