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Inauguration includes no gay references, but LGBT visibility
By Lisa Keen {WASHINGTON, D.C. - } Calling for an end to "petty grievances" and "worn out dogmas," President Barack Obama addressed a vast global audience, taking the oath of office as the 44th President [...]
Renegades rugby reaches 10
By Dan Woog The OutField Beginning in October 1998 - during the first 15 months of their existence - the Washington Renegades may not have changed the world, but they sure shook up the rugby [...]
WWOD – Are appointments and inauguration signs of the future?
After one of the longest campaigns in history, plus a historic election and inauguration, we are finally entering this new day of hope and change. There were a lot of promises made and now we [...]
Creep of the Week: Peter LaBarbera
So, was Obama's inauguration the gayest inauguration in the history of America? Did the queers come out in droves and flood Washington D.C.'s finest hotels and restaurants with their "decadent lifestyles?" Did gay Episcopal Wizard [...]
Parting Glances: The BVM strikes again
I had a tarot reading last Sunday by a psychic friend of Sr. Serena Scatterpin. "She's a marvel and a looker," was Sister's intro. "If just a tad off her ever-lovin' spiritual rocker." Glad that [...]
Catchin’ up with Chris
Chris Pureka is an old friend. Or at least, after three interviews with the queer folkie, it seems so. Over the phone, we're very shoot-the-shit, talking about randomness - the sucky weather and how she [...]
Ferndale Blues Festival breaks up the, well, blues beginning Jan. 23
FERNDALE - For the eighth year in a row, the annual Ferndale Blues Festival will bring music and crowds to downtown Ferndale with more than 60 concerts and events in at least 22 venues over [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Ellen Page plays real-life Lesbian The who is/who isn't rumor cloud has recently hovered over adorable, Oscar-nominated "Juno" star Ellen Page. (She even added to it on a "Saturday Night Live" [...]
Gossip Girl
Perez Hilton's balls could very well be bigger than the mess Bush left for Obama. To hype his literary, er, trashy book debut, "Red Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide on Keeping Up with the Hiltons," [...]
Full of grace
A child's death is inconceivable. But Mary Griffith didn't have to imagine it; she lived it. When her son, Bobby, leaned backward off a bridge into oncoming traffic, taking his life at just 20, the [...]
Play with new looks, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Venus in Pisces inspires ethereal, sensitive visions, and Mars in Capricorn helps us to focus that productively. Both planets aspecting Saturn, Uranus, Eris, and Chiron can help solve ethnic and [...]
“Crime Does Pay”
Q Puzzle Across 1 Opposite of erect 5 Reinaldo Arenas' Peter 10 Apple that isn't a fruit 14 How far up it goes (abbr.) 15 Lorca's "Later!" 16 Gay-friendly Barrett 17 Belle's companion 18 Hose [...]
GOD TV To broadcast Focus On The Family’s ‘Ex-Gay’ conference to millions
NEW YORK - Truth Wins Out recently expressed its dismay over a deal between GOD TV and Focus on the Family to air the group's "ex-gay" Love Won Out conference. Focus on the Family claims [...]
Between Ourselves
GSA President Thomas Wesley Thomas Wesley took a dying Gay-Straight Alliance at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and turned it into one of the more prominent organizations on campus. The 20-year-old student is studying Urban and [...]
A Prayer for the Nation and Our Next President, Barack Obama
By The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire Opening Inaugural Event Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC January 18, 2009 Welcome to Washington! The fun is about to begin, but first, please join [...]
Democrats propose more AIDS funding
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C.- Increased funding for HIV prevention and AIDS services is part of the $825 billion congressional economic stimulus plan. The House Democratic leadership introduced the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of [...]
Hitchcock, DNC Settle termination dispute
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - A nasty discrimination dispute between the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former employee Donald Hitchcock has been settled. It had played out over several years on a series of [...]
Michigan Equality appoints Nemecek and Brown as co-directors
LANSING - On Jan. 19, LGBT rights organization Michigan Equality announced the appointment of Michelle Brown and Dr. Julie Nemecek as co-directors for the organization. The announcement comes barely one month after previous Executive Director [...]
Ruth Ellis Center moves forward with plans for ’09
by Jessica Carreras YPSILANTI - The Ruth Ellis Center, southeast Michigan's organization for LGBT homeless and troubled youth, has put a plan in place to move forward with a new executive director in 2009. The [...]
Registration open for Leadership Camp 2009
Registration for Campus Pride's Summer Leadership Camp is now open. The annual camp takes place at Towson University in Towson, Md. from July 21-26. Campus Pride is asking for applications from LGBT and allied college [...]
U.S. Court of Appeals sends bullying case back for trial
HUDSON, Mich. - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th District has voted 2-1 to send a lawsuit against the Hudson School District back to the Circuit court for further proceedings. The case, Patterson [...]
Locals celebrate inauguration, hopes for Obama at Affirmations
by Jessica Carreras FERNDALE - A couple of years ago, Rev. Henry Brinker of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Imlay City, Mich. couldn't even come out as a gay clergyman. But on [...]
Inaugural Poem
Fran Levin Honor, valor, integrity Value, cherish, uphold A poem's words, like blessings pouring forth from some great Heart of the Universe Spoken through the human vessel, touching hidden places of longing, longing to connect [...]
LGBT visibility in ceremony a good indicator
Tuesday's inaugural ceremonies, and the events leading to and following it, were history in the making in more ways than one. True, when Barack Obama was sworn in as America's 44th president, he became the [...]
‘Radio Golf’ on par with the season’s best
By D. A. Blackburn Over the course of his 10-play "Century Cycle," playwright August Wilson charted the African-American experience decade by decade with more candor and realism than any writer before or since. His final [...]
Heads: Audience wins at Performance Network
Yes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead - or at least they will be by the end of "Hamlet," from whence British playwright Tom Stoppard borrowed them. But in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" at Performance [...]
‘Chorus Line’ dancers shine, lack musicality
By D. A. Blackburn When "A Chorus Line" debuted in 1975, it was hailed as a revolutionary work. Its revealing look behind the scenes of Broadway, its stark, Spartan staging and its candid discussions about [...]
California’s Proposition 8-Ours to Lose?
by Matt Foreman A lot of people have been saying that Prop. 8 was our side's to lose and that missteps by the No on 8 Campaign snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Those [...]