Parting Glances: What’s in a nickname, Feygeleh?
I was in the Sunday habit, a few years back, of taking a suburban bus to Birmingham. Riding with me were regulars, most of whom were off to church, or gave that halo'd impression by [...]
The Gay Moralist: Springtime for gays
by John Corvino Spring arrived for gays this year, not with daffodils and cherry blossoms, but with Iowa and Vermont. First Iowa, where the state Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state's ban on same-sex [...]
Creep of the Week: Bob Peters
I wish I could say I was shocked about the recent shooting of 17 people in Binghamton, New York. But I live in America, where gun laws are lax and gun ownership is considered a [...]
Funny games
Even the morning after Suzanne Westenhoefer returned from Dinah Shore Weekend, a big lesbian soiree in Palm Springs where she sang with the Indigo Girls and hung with Katy Perry, she woke up at 6:30 [...]
Welcome home, Elaine
By D. A. Blackburn Actress and Detroit native Elaine Stritch is a woman known for brash wit and fiery disposition. At 84, with a resume that reads like a history of entertainment on both coasts [...]
Three days of concerts connect gay communities across the state
FERNDALE, ANN ARBOR, TRAVERSE CITY - Meefers.com announced this week the We Are Michigan concert series, a three-day event taking place in different cities each day to help raise awareness about LGBT human rights issues. [...]
Getting the ‘bug’ back
By Gregg Shapiro Indigo Girls fans who have been waiting longer than usual for the out-duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers will find their patience rewarded with not one but two CDs on the [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Hathaway goes over the rainbow to play Garland Anne Hathaway has enraptured queer audiences in movies as varied as "Brokeback Mountain," "The Princess Diaries," "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Rachel Getting [...]
Guarding women’s rugby
By Dan Woog The OutField When the women's rugby college championship playoffs take place this month in Sanford, Fla., many top teams will wear jerseys prominently displaying the Army National Guard logo. When winners are [...]
Mendoza, Argentina
by Andrew Collins Out of Town After Buenos Aires, the part of Argentina that gay and lesbian visitors tend to frequent as much as any other is the Mendoza wine country, a vast and sunny [...]
Be a pal, Aquarius!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes In the last degree of Pisces, Venus is turning direct, suggesting spiritual lessons from recent issues and conflicts over how we look, flirt and establish immediate contact with others, especially [...]
Commit to me, dammit!
Dear Jody Q: I read with great interest the column "Does He Love Me?" in Between The Lines (March 26). I have been "dating" a guy for close to eight years now. We started dating [...]
Blue Cross is hurting an already ill-protected minority
I think Blue Cross's decision to stop coverage of gender reassignment surgery is just another corporate ploy and example of discrimination to oppress a weak, marginalized and voiceless minority who cannot seek or secure justice [...]
Affirmations continues to struggle in tough economy
FERNDALE - As Affirmations community center manages a sharp demand for youth programs and services, the center is also dealing with the loss of $30,000 in annual support from Chrysler. With other LGBT service organizations [...]
Between Ourselves: Activist Tiff Thompson
by Jessica Carreras Tiff Thompson had a fairly easy time coming out - and she wants to make campuses safe for other students to do the same. The 22-year-old Hazel Park resident is doing just [...]
Students go silent to speak out
by Jessica Carreras As thousands of Michigan students prepare to participate in the National Day of Silence, the Gay and Lesbian Straight Education network, faith leaders and educators are asking that they and their allies [...]
Gay republicans split nationally, Michigan to follow
The announcement Friday that Christopher Barron, a former member of Log Cabin Republicans, national - a gay right group affiliated with the GOP - had created a 527 group for conservative gays may reflect as [...]
Dishing out denim
by Jessica Carreras The Michigan AIDS Coalition has the blues - denim, that is. On April 25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, they'll host their first-ever Design for Life event, which will showcase [...]
New prevention campaign moves toward putting HIV/AIDS back on radar
by Bob Roehr The Obama administration held a high profile unveiling of a new HIV/AIDS public awareness campaign in part of the White House compound of buildings on April 7. AIDS advocates were grateful for [...]
Botched carjacking leaves two dead outside Off Broadway East
DETROIT - Close friends Brandan Rogers, 22, and Melynda Goodwin, 19, of Detroit were killed outside the Off Broadway East nightclub early Thursday morning in what police are calling a botched carjacking. Rogers and Goodwin [...]
Making the case for diversity
by Jessica Carreras On Tuesday, April 21, Crain's Detroit Business, in collaboration with the Detroit Regional Chamber and the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, will present the Innovation Through Diversity Conference. Held each year, [...]
Pro-gay moves at European Parliament
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The European Parliament's Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights has praised the Parliament's recent adoption of two reports. A report on "Rights of EU citizens and their family members [...]
Gays killed in Iraq, others allegedly sentenced to death
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Seven gay men were murdered in Baghdad's Sadr City district in late March and early April, activists and media reported. Three men were shot by fellow Shiite tribe members [...]
Landmark Hungarian gay rights case settled
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Hungarian Equal Treatment Authority has issued its first decision in a sexual orientation discrimination case, fining a dance studio 200,000 forints ($914) for denying membership to an openly [...]
Russian activists found guilty of violating gay propaganda ban
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Moscow Pride members Nikolai Baev and Irina Fet were found guilty April 6 of violating a local law in the Ryazan region that bans exposing minors to homosexual propaganda. [...]
Samoa bans ‘Milk’
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Samoa Film Control Board has banned the award-winning movie 'Milk' in the South Pacific island nation. The move came after a movie shop submitted the film for approval [...]
Motor City Pride looking for volunteers
Motor City Pride happens on Sunday, June 7 in downtown Ferndale - and the Pride committee is asking for help from volunteers. "Last year we had an amazing turnout, and this year we are expecting [...]
Mass. youth hangs himself due to anti-gay bullying, GLSEN Calls on Schools, Nation to Embrace Solutions to Bullying Problem
SPRINGFIELD Mass. - An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself Monday after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother's weekly pleas to the school to address the [...]
Day of Silence reminds us it’s time to speak up
On April 17, thousands of students around Michigan and the U.S. will be silent for a cause. But as we reflect on the meaning of the National Day of Silence, there is more to say [...]
World premiere has heart at the Rep
There's a moment towards the end of "Finding the Burnett Heart" when a very frustrated and upset Grace Burnett shrieks at her husband, son and father-in-law, "This is not a laughing matter" - and she's [...]
Kuhl’s cool in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Hilberry
By Martin F. Kohn It has always been about the free-spirited rebel against The Man (in this case, The Woman), the individual against society, freedom versus repression, who's crazy and who's not, but "One Flew [...]
New York Governor introduces marriage bill
BTL Staff WASHINGTON, DC - New York Gov. David Paterson has introduced marriage equality legislation that would recognize marriage for same-sex couples under state law. In 2007, pro-marriage equality legislation passed the state assembly but [...]