Clay is gay (shocking!)
Billy Masters "I don't think anyone cares. Let's face it - it's 2008. Who cares? It's like being told Santa Claus isn't real." - Simon Cowell's candid reaction to the news that Clay Aiken has [...]
Billy Masters "I don't think anyone cares. Let's face it - it's 2008. Who cares? It's like being told Santa Claus isn't real." - Simon Cowell's candid reaction to the news that Clay Aiken has [...]
By Jack Fertig Horoscopes Venus and Mars are moving into difficult aspects with Pluto and Saturn, respectively. Recent efforts at seduction are likely to go awry. Trying to walk away gracefully may be as difficult [...]
By Dan Woog The OutField Like millions of Americans, Brandon Triche was captivated by the gymnastics competition at this summer's Beijing Olympics. Unlike most viewers, he had keen insights into the sport. A gymnast since [...]
by John Corvino Clay Aiken is gay. This is not news. Lindsay Lohan might be gay, too. (Her answer during a radio interview was noncommittal enough to leave room for "clarifications" later.) Big yawn. You [...]
"I'm burning my candle at both ends. It will not last the night. But, oh, my foes, and, ah, my friends. It gives a lovely light!" These words are by poet Edna St. Vincent Millay [...]
Profits are for the righteous. Solvency is decided by God, a.k.a. The Christian Master of the Financial Universe. Just ask Christian Civil League of Maine Executive Director Michael Heath. In a Sept. 25 post to [...]
by Leslie Robinson Hours after taking office, South Africa's new president announced he was removing Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as health minister. At last, Dr. Beetroot has been uprooted. Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang truly earned her reputation as an [...]
Janet Jackson might've bailed on us when she rescheduled her Saturday gig for Oct. 28, but that semi-sexy (and really, really uncomfortable) feeling we've come to expect from her soft-core musical porn was satisfied by [...]
The Oxford American Dictionary defines the word "choke" as "hav(ing) severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air" and "fail(ing) to perform at a crucial point of [...]
You know her for her five Grammy awards and 50 chart hits, but gay-fave Dionne Warwick is branching out. The legendary singer, coming Jan. 9 and 10 to Caesar's Windsor, is promoting her new gospel [...]
FERNDALE - What's Halloween without a few dead bodies? Who Wants Cake? will unleash Brad Fraser's "Love and Human Remains" on Oct. 17 at Ferndale's The Ringwald Theatre. "Love and Human Remains" will play Fridays-Mondays [...]
DETROIT - The ICON Detroit leather club plans a weekend of leather and fetish fun at venues across the city Oct. 10-12. Events scheduled during the club's 15th annual-run weekend include ICON Unleashed, a hot [...]
By By Taras Berezowsky BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Jeff Davison, Matt Horn and Anthony Marsalese are no strangers to edgy work. Since the three first met during a production of "La Cage Aux Folles" in 2001, [...]
By John Polly Aaron Yoo is a pretty lucky guy. In the past 16 months alone, he's scammed casino bigwigs in Vegas with a gang of collegiate card sharks ("21"), played amateur suburban sleuth alongside [...]
NEW THIS WEEK Eagle Eye A stranger's voice on the phone warns slacker Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) that the FBI is after him, just as agents burst through his door. The same voice threatens to [...]
Kevin Thornton makes a mad dash across Mack Avenue, through some drizzle, to a pub across the street from the dinky hole-in-the-wall bar he and his band will jam at. Save for what he dug [...]
I was glad to read Michelle E. Brown's column informing your readers about Sarah Palin's anti-woman, anti-choice position, even in cases of rape. The agenda of the anti-abortion forces has nothing to do with "protecting [...]
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 [...]
No one will ever forget the shock of hearing the two-time outburst that happened on the set of "Grey's Anatomy" by actor Isaiah Washington. Once in 2006 and again to reporters, the actor so glibly [...]
One of the most difficult scripts director Demetri Vacratsis and actor Kevin T. Young will ever tackle is likely "Nocturne" by playwright and novelist Adam Rapp. Essentially one long monologue, the script has no stage [...]
By D. A. Blackburn The University of Detroit Mercy's Theatre Company opened its 2008-2009 season Sept. 26 with a production with all the right elements - a strong, well known script, two of the area's [...]
By Robert Bethune I was writing that "Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire," now on stage at Performance Network Theatre, is a highly thought-provoking play. But no. It's a FEELINGS-provoking play. It is, at heart, [...]
by Rex Wockner Oct. 8, 2008 A TV ad showing San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom saying California is going to have same-sex marriage "whether you like it or not" is being credited with flipping poll [...]