Though not all details were confirmed as of press time, anonymous sources confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Derek Smiertka is no longer the executive director of Michigan Equality. The future of the organization remains uncertain. An [...]
I watched Dr. Phil the day he had people in his studio fronted by the con side of Prop. 8, including Maggie Gallagher of NOM and Pastor Jim Garlow. I read the article at your [...]
By Dana Rudolph It is supposed to be a time to give thanks, but the news is getting grim. Papers are carrying stories about children of same-sex parents worried that their families will fall apart [...]
ONCE UPON A TROUBLED TIME, there was a Crunch (distant cousin of a Grinch) who with malice of no thought kept poking an X into Christmas, like so: Christ(X)mas! X-mas Crunch really, truly thought of [...]
Did you know that gays are rioting across the country against the Mormons? Oh, you know how gays are. Do something to spite them, like passing an anti-marriage amendment in California, and before you know [...]
"This is your problem. Send in ... get a bunch of Chippendales. Get 'em something tight....thong-like. He's yours. Three, four - no less than three, I would say. Make one a blond." - Brad Pitt [...]
By Anthony Paull We're plunging like bargain-basement prices in post-election recessionary America. It's Jake and me, and we're spiraling down a dark, air-free tunnel where we feed on the other's edible soft spots, wallowing in [...]
No matter how many times you've heard the line "make the yuletide gay," it takes on a different - definitely more literal - meaning when Melissa Etheridge sings it. Yeah, I did go there, and [...]
NEW THIS WEEK Cadillac Records The likes of blues guitarist Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) and rocker Chuck Berry (Mos Def) find stardom at Chicago-based Chess Records, while label founder Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) fulfills his [...]
By Dan Woog The OutField Before the 2006-07 school year, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association had never fielded a question about transgender athletes. That year, they received four inquiries about whether teenagers with non-traditional gender [...]
"You grow up pretty fast when you have naked people around you," says Robert Spaniolo, recalling - at just 8 years old - starring in his first show, "Pippin." Before that he pursued community theater [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun and Mars are aligned in Sagittarius, boosting energy tremendously, but it's too easily all over the place. As this pair aspects Chiron in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces, [...]
Q Puzzle Across 1 "East of Eden" director Kazan 5 Moisten with spray 9 Oscar movie for Whoopi Goldberg 14 Dogs do it when they're hot 15 CK One emanation 16 Carrie Chapman Catt, by [...]
ROYAL OAK - Five15, an independent book, music, movie and gift store in Royal Oak launches its newly renovated Web site with an unprecedented gesture of good will during these tough economic times. Dubbed "The [...]
by Jessica Carreras MT. PLEASANT - The Office of Gay and Lesbian Programs at Central Michigan University has switched hands again - and new director Shannon Jolliff says things are about to change. "The position [...]
Charles Pugh presided as master of ceremonies at the World of Desserts benefit Dec. 4 at the Detroit Historical Museum. About 150 people nibbled on delicious delicacies, all donated by local bakers to benefit the [...]
by Jessica Carreras Since the Nov. 4 election, California's Proposition 8 has dominated news pages, columns, blogs and letters to the editor nationwide. Taking the short-lived rights of marriage from gay and lesbian Californians, Prop. [...]
by Rex Wockner Resolutions were introduced in both houses of the California Legislature on Dec. 2 opposing Proposition 8, the voter-passed initiative that amended the state constitution Nov. 4 to re-ban same-sex marriage, which had [...]
by Rex Wockner The University of Toledo's former associate vice president for human resources, Crystal Dixon, filed a federal lawsuit Dec. 1 over being fired after writing a newspaper column that suggested "the homosexual lifestyle" [...]
by Rex Wockner New Hampshire state Rep. Jim Splaine plans to introduce a bill next year to legalize same-sex marriage. New Hampshire already has a comprehensive same-sex civil-union law, and nearby Connecticut and Massachusetts allow [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a sterile conference room on the 11th floor of a non-descript office building in Washington, D.C., more than two dozen LGBT bloggers listened intently last weekend as their more veteran peers [...]
By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON, D.C. - There will be some real gains for LGBT people under the administration of President-elect Barack Obama, but there are some real caveats, too. "Things may happen later than we [...]
The National Youth Advocacy Coalition elevated Gregory Varnum to executive director, the agency's board of directors announced last week. Varnum had served as acting executive director since April. "Greg has overseen an intense transition period [...]
Most of the time in the media world, events happen, then newspapers, magazines and television and radio stations report on them after interviewing, researching and compiling information. But all that's changing. As has long been [...]
Few theaters in Southeast Michigan have done more in recent years to encourage, develop and stage new works by local up-and-coming artists than Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre. Many - if not most - have come [...]
By Robert Bethune Now we come to "Hymn & Carol" at the BoarsHead Theater. Good thing that "y" is in there, or the United Grammarians of America would declare syntactic jihad. As for the rest [...]
By D. A. Blackburn If the holiday season has already begun to grate on your nerves - the round-the-clock Christmas music, the crowded malls filled with crying children, the obnoxiously cheery sales clerks, etc. - [...]
Conservative activists at http://www.RightMichigan.com have started blogging about a "cost saving" idea for the Big 3 bailout: Eliminate same-sex partner benefits. The pundits at http://www.RightMichigan.com argue the elimination of the benefits would save the Big [...]
by Rex Wockner A Harris Interactive poll released Dec. 3 found that Americans support a range of policies and protections for gay people. The Pulse of Equality survey, commissioned by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance [...]
By Lisa Keen The big news in the presidential transition this week for the LGBT community was not the appointment of primary favorite Hillary Clinton to Secretary of State, nor that of long-time ally Bill [...]
Though not all details were confirmed as of press time, anonymous sources confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Derek Smiertka is no longer the executive director of Michigan Equality. The future of the organization remains uncertain. An [...]
by Jessica Carreras MT. PLEASANT — The Office of Gay and Lesbian Programs at Central Michigan University has switched hands again - and new director Shannon Jolliff says things are about to change. "The position [...]
ANN ARBOR - A coalition of Ann Arbor organizations have banded together to present a special sneak preview benefit screening of "Milk," the new Harvey Milk biopic at the Michigan Theater on Dec. 18. The [...]
BTL staff NEW YORK, NY - On Thursday, SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders) announced significant new support from the Atlantic Philanthropies and The Calamus Foundation. Both grants represent multi-year [...]
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