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Creep of the Week: Rev. Dave Allison
I am no fan of Katy Perry. Mind you, I'm not against her or anything like that. It's just that she doesn't really register on my radar screen. I'm perfectly content and capable to conduct [...]
Parting Glances: Old boys, old band
Mort Crowley's "Boys In the Band" opened Off-Broadway 40 years ago. I bought a copy of the play in Chicago in 1968 and read dialog aloud while driving back to Detroit with my then partner [...]
Come on Sarah, any old vjayjay won’t do
Viewpoint Like a bad soap opera, the republican choice for vice-president is full of irony, pathos and a plot that not only is predictable but gives voters - women especially - reason for thoughtful concern. [...]
Like oil and Holy Water
by Leslie Robinson General Gayety Here's the sort of math I understand: Pope Benedict XVI + gays = a hoo-hah. Europe offers two recent examples of how charged, how volatile the relationship is between the [...]
Seven Years, No Itch
by John Corvino The Gay Moralist This column appears on the evening of my seventh anniversary with my partner Mark. Happy anniversary, sweetie. Like many gay couples, Mark and I have multiple anniversaries. It was [...]
Homophobia, ignorance prevent quelling of HIV infections
Recent local and national statistics released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Michigan Department of Community Health on the rates of HIV infection leading through 2006 are a numerical reminder of [...]
Dirty little secret
ROYAL OAK -It's 9 p.m. on a Saturday night. You're expecting some company and plan to be, ahem, tied up for the next few hours. Trouble is, your nipple clamps have seen better days and [...]
Say hello George, ‘Say Goodnight Gracie’
By D. A. Blackburn DETROIT - "I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left." These were the words of comedian George Burns, and even now, more than 12 years since [...]
Celine, Mary, Janet – oh my!
We can't always have our way. Or maybe - with the perfecto planning of Celine Dion, Mary J. Blige and Janet Jackson - we can. All three queer-loved divas will make Michigan pit-stops on separate [...]
BTL chats with Amy Ray
Sure, she's currently touring with Indigo Girls' other half, Emily Saliers. But Amy Ray spent much of the past year working on and promoting her third solo album, "Didn't It Feel Kinder." Released in August, [...]
Marie Woo’s ‘A Clay Odyssey’ concludes Michigan Master Series
BIRMINGHAM - If the art world handed out gold medals, the artists of the BBAC Michigan Masters series might well challenge Olympian Michael Phelps. Ceramist Marie Woo, a superstar of Michigan's art community, is the [...]
Gay porn star fired from making footlongs
Billy Masters "Ricky Martin will not be here tonight. He just had twins today. Surrogate mom. Yeah, they had to do it that way because babies don't come out of other men's asses." - Denis [...]
‘Come get your praise on’
FERNDALE - The 6th Annual Gospel and Soul celebration is scheduled for this Saturday, Sept.20 with the promise of a "Motown Celebration." A free concert will start at 5 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Church, [...]
Ladies Preferred offers love songs with a twist
DETROIT - It's billed as a musical of love songs by women for women, but that's only half the story. The fourth annual production of Ladies Preferred, a benefit for the Kick Agency for LGBT [...]
Ferndale gets funky with two fairs
FERNDALE - This once quaint, little bedroom community has in recent years cultivated its image as the area's most hip, cool place to hang. This weekend, along with hundreds of professional artists and performers, the [...]
Detroit welcomes gays with first-ever LGBT Home Tour
DETROIT - Detroit is rolling out the welcome mat for potential LGBT home buyers by hosting the city's first LGBT & Friends Home Tour Event on Sept. 28 in the Seven Mile and Livernois section [...]
Buying real estate in the off season
by Jeffrey Hammerbery As summer comes to a close and kids go back to school, the home buying season typically winds down before heading into hibernation mode during the dead of winter. That makes it [...]
There’s no place like home
A person's home - inside and out - is a reflection of their personality. Some are filled with art and surrounded with fancy shrubbery and stone walkways; others are cluttered and cozy, or sparse and [...]
Landscaping 101
by Jessica Carreras From the time the snow melts to the time it starts to fall again, landscaping season is in full force. And as a community who takes pride in their homes, the gays [...]
“Be creatively indulgent, Scorpio!”
By Jack Fertig Horoscopes Venus, Mercury, and Mars, dancing together through Libra, are now aspecting Uranus, Neptune, and Eris. As Venus peels away, and Mercury slows down to turn retrograde, new initiatives in teamwork are [...]
Now Playing
NEW THIS WEEK Burn After Reading Middle-aged gym employee Linda (Frances McDormand) laments about getting the money together to pay for plastic surgery. When a janitor finds a computer disc with top-secret intelligence information on [...]
Running for Many Reasons
By Dan Woog The OutField In high school, Joe Simenic always ran. His goal was tangible - the finish line of a cross-country or long-distance race - but looking back, he realizes he sought something [...]
“The Last Picture Show”
Q Puzzle Across 1 London mayor Johnson 6 Warning from Toto 9 Wet spot on a blanket of sand 14 In-your-face 15 "Don we now ___ gay apparel ..." 16 Horny creature 17 *Gay actor [...]
HIV infections numbers bring call for prevention increases, hearing
by Bob Roehr The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has offered a more detailed breakdown of HIV infections in the US, which offered few surprises. The analysis is based on the 40 percent increase [...]
Sept. 10: Gay news from the presidential campaign trail…
By Lisa Keen 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 couples than [...]
Equality California says it’s passed 50 pro-gay bills
by Rex Wockner National News California's statewide gay lobby group, Equality California, said Sept. 8 it now has passed 50 pro-gay bills through the state Legislature. "Partnering with the LGBT Legislative Caucus and allied lawmakers, [...]
Court: Florida’s gay adoption ban unconstitutional
by Rex Wockner National News Florida's gay-adoption ban is unconstitutional, Monroe County Circuit Court Judge David J. Audlin Jr. ruled Sept. 9. The law illegally singles out homosexuals for punishment, Audlin determined, according to the [...]
Obama answers written questions from Washington Blade
by Rex Wockner National News Barack Obama answered several written questions from the gay newspaper Washington Blade on Sept. 10. "Michelle and I have been blessed with many openly gay and lesbian friends and colleagues [...]
Lesbian San Diego city councilwoman marries
by Rex Wockner National News SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Out lesbian San Diego City Councilwoman Toni Atkins and her partner of eight years, Jennifer LeSar, got married Sept. 6 at the Lodge at Torrey Pines along [...]
Kevin McAlpine to leave Triangle Foundation
DETROIT - Deputy Director Kevin McAlpine will be leaving Triangle Foundation to pursue a position with Wayne State University as Director of Development for the College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts. McAlpine has been [...]
Serra gets State Bar post
FERNDALE - Attorney Rudy Serra, a former Detroit Judge, was appointed Friday to The State Bar of Michigan's Standard Criminal Jury Instructions Committee. "This is a very important appointment," Serra said. "The Standard Criminal Jury [...]
ACT UP/Paris protests pope’s visit
by Rex Wockner International News ACT UP/Paris demonstrated at Paris' famous Sacre-Coeur church Sept. 13 as Pope Benedict XVI staged a mass for more than a quarter of a million people on the Esplanade des [...]
Beijing reports HIV stats
by Rex Wockner International News Five percent of gay men in Beijing are HIV-positive and too many gay men are having unsafe sex, the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Sept. 5. Local [...]
Bogota police create group to protect gays
by Rex Wockner The Metropolitan Police in Bogota, Colombia, have created a special group of 650 officers charged with protecting the GLBT population. The officers, who have attended advanced training sessions, are directed to respectfully [...]
Cayman Islands bans same-sex marriage
by Rex Wockner International News The Caribbean's Cayman Islands banned gay marriage Sept. 5. Lawmakers voted for the measure unanimously. The bill amended the Marriage Law to define "marriage" as "the union between a man [...]
Ex-ambassador to help launch international gay rights group
by Rex Wockner International News The U.S.' former ambassador to Romania, openly gay Michael Guest, will help launch the Council for Global Equality on Sept. 23 in Washington, D.C. The new group plans to pressure [...]
Romanians disapprove of homosexuality
by Rex Wockner International News A new Gallup poll has found that 68 percent of Romanians think homosexuality is a "bad choice" and 36 percent support punishing gays with restrictions on their rights, fines or [...]
Pride to be staged in Singapore
by Rex Wockner International News Singapore's first gay pride parade is scheduled to take place Nov. 15 at Hong Lim Park, the locale where the government recently announced it will allow demonstrations. "I have no [...]
Tulua, Colombia, bans men from back of motorcycles
by Rex Wockner International News In an effort to fight crime, the city government of Tulua, Colombia, has banned men from riding on the seat of a motorcycle behind the driver. The move upset gay [...]
Homophobia, ignorance prevent quelling of HIV infections
Recent local and national statistics released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Michigan Department of Community Health on the rates of HIV infection leading through 2006 are a numerical reminder of [...]
Laughing all the way to the crucifixion
By D. A. Blackburn Antonio David Garcia has a unique relationship with Christ, and in his work "Candy Corn, Christ, and the Convoluted Creation of Golf," which plays at the Boll Family YMCA through the [...]
I love it, it’s perfect, now change it
By Robert Bethune "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" needs no introduction. It has not achieved iconic status among off-Broadway musicals a la "The Fantasticks," but in the tradition of the small-cast, off-Broadway sketch [...]
Going nuts over sports at The Second City
Sports - and in particular, Detroit's sports teams - get some good-natured ribbing this month, thanks to the fine improvisers at The Second City. And even the most diehard fan will laugh often and hard [...]
Why he walks
By Jim Larkin HIV positive Flint man to participate in his 20th walk to raise needed funds FLINT - Lamarr Mitchell will be walking in the Sept. 27 Flint AIDS Walk for pretty much the [...]
The HIV plight of black, gay youth
by Jessica Carreras In 2006, the Horizons Project, a program of the Children's Hospital of Michigan that focuses on providing care and help HIV positive and at-risk metro Detroit youth, was seeing a fair amount [...]
After Prop 2: The future of gay rights in Michigan
EAST LANSING - The Alliance of Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Students will host a panel discussion about the future the gay rights movement in Michigan on Sunday, Sept. 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 [...]
Detroiter killed while in Atlanta for Pride
DETROIT - A Detroit man was shot to death during a Labor Day weekend trip to Atlanta to attend Black Gay Pride. Forty-eight-year-old Kashman Avery, known to his friends by his last name, had just [...]