He brings the sexy to "Noah's Arc" - the Logo series and, opening next month, the feature film - but there's also a serious side to Jensen Atwood. In town to celebrate his birthday with [...]

His score is 10 out of 10. For every year there's been an AIDS Walk Michigan - City of Detroit, there's been Felix Sirls in the mix - and often out front and in the [...]

DETROIT - A crashing stock market can't crush the human spirit. That appears to be the moral of the AIDS Walk Michigan story. According to Barbara Murray, AWM's president, this year's walk program is on [...]

by Bob Roehr The case for equal benefits for domestic partners of federal employees was laid out in a hearing on Sept. 24 before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Lead sponsor of [...]

by Rex Wockner The Athens Pride Committee staged a demonstration in front of the Greek Parliament Sept. 29 in support of the mayor of the Aegean island of Tilos and two same-sex couples he married [...]

by Rex Wockner The Baghdad head of the international group Iraqi LGBT was assassinated in late September, activists in London reported. Bashar, 27, was gunned down in a barbershop. "Militias burst in and sprayed his [...]

by Rex Wockner U.S. TV interviewer Larry King quizzed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his nation's treatment of gays Sept. 23. There have been persistent, though unconfirmed, reports for years that Iran hangs men for [...]

by Rex Wockner At least 10 people were injured - six of whom required hospitalization - when dozens of hooded, bearded men shouting "Kill the gays" and "Allahu akbar" ("God is great") attacked the opening [...]

by Rex Wockner Openly gay lawyer and former Olympic fencer Sir Terence Etherton became a member of England's and Wales' second-highest court in late September. Etherton, 58, was sworn in as one of 36 judges [...]

by Rex Wockner Ugandan police arrested two high-profile "male-to-female transgendergay" activists Sept. 10, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission reported Sept. 19. Georgina Oundo and Brenda Kiiza were taken into custody at Oundo's [...]

EAST LANSING - Nearly 80 students gathered at Michigan State University's Erikson Kiva on Sept. 28to discuss the future of the gay rights movement with a panel of experts on the community and politics. The [...]

by Rex Wockner Pop singer Clay Aiken came out in People magazine Sept. 26. "It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken, 29, told the magazine. "I cannot raise a child to [...]

by Rex Wockner The number of GLBT characters on broadcast-TV networks' scripted series has more than doubled in the new season compared with last year, says the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. GLBT representations [...]

by Rex Wockner Film director, producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, donated $100,000 Sept. 22 to the campaign to keep same-sex marriage legal in California. Voters will face an initiative Nov. [...]

by Rex Wockner In response to ongoing questions about whether Sarah Palin tried to ban books when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, activist Michael Petrelis from San Francisco has donated two gay-themed children's books [...]

DETROIT - Recently released numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Michigan Department of Community Health put the spotlight on youth, who experienced one of the highest rises in new infections. [...]

From Oct. 17-19, the Faith Action Network will hold their annual Together In Faith Collaborative, a weekend conference of reflection, workshops and activities designed to bring together LGBT, questioning and allied people of all ages, [...]

The Motown Invitational Classic, Michigan's largest LGBT bowling tournament, is back. Now in its 23rd year, MIC will host three days of competitive events from Oct. 10-12. The event will be held at Clover Lanes [...]

by Jessica Carreras Recently, the Uniting American Families Act, a bill that would grant equal immigration rights to same-sex couples in bi-national relationships, made strides forward when four more senators and 16 more representatives joined [...]

ROCHESTER - When Cheryl Marshall initiated the successful effort to save the financially-troubled Meadow Brook Theatre in 2003, the beleaguered troupe's group sales manager hardly expected to find herself sitting in the managing director's chair [...]