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Sherry McGregor: The Out ‘Karate Kid’
By Dan Woog The OutField As a scholarship basketball player at a South Carolina Baptist college, she thought her life's mission was to work in youth ministry. She joined Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and became [...]
Taos, New Mexico
By Andrew Collins Out of Town Remote and resplendent Taos, a diminutive town of about 6,500 nestled beneath New Mexico's highest peaks, has long been a haven for artists, bohemians and free spirits. The percentage [...]
The Gay Moralist: Miss California’s country
by John Corvino So a contestant for what is in large measure a popularity contest says something unpopular and doesn't win. Why am I having a hard time getting worked up over this? I'm talking [...]
Creep of the Week: Maggie Gallagher
I was talking to a friend of mine who was bemoaning the lack of cogent arguments against issues like marriage equality and second-parent adoption. She's an Ivy League law school graduate who currently represents a [...]
Parting Glances: Thank Buddha it’s Friday
I'm sitting next to Susan Horowitz and Jan Stevenson in the DIA Diego Rivera Court, a venue of special romantic endearment for both BTL co-publishers. Years ago when Susan - living and working in New [...]
Gay weddings on a budget
By Amy Wooten The Chicago Free Press An increasing number of couples are scaling back for their wedding day due to the failing economy. Couples are trimming their spending, inviting fewer guests and finding other [...]
Looking for a quickie?
by Jessica Carreras Feel like a wuss when it comes to chatting it up with that cute girl or guy at the bar? Worried that you're passing up a chance to meet Mr. or Ms. [...]
Here comes the expo
by Jessica Carreras In 1999, like so many LGBT couples before and after them, Cindy Sproul and Marianne Puechl decided to get married. They didn't have equality, but they did have a love for each [...]
Mahard and Beer shine as unlikely friends
By D. A. Blackburn Sometimes the most meaningful friendships grow out of profoundly unlikely situations. Such is the case of Joe Halpern and Dennis Johnson, the fictional duo - and namesakes - of Lionel Goldstein's [...]
‘8 Mile’ seeks to unify what 8 Mile divides
By D. A. Blackburn DETROIT - There's no debating the divide that exists between the city of Detroit and its suburbs. Along municipal boundary lines lies a virtual chasm that's easily crossed, physically, but wider [...]
Who’s that girl?
Samantha Ronson's name wouldn't mean much to those outside the electronic music scene if not for Lindsay Lohan. Legal oopsies, rehab, their hot-and-cold relationship and some wee-hour debauchery fueled tabloids - and late-night talk show [...]
A Sweet Duet
The name, even the frothy glam-rock beats suitable for a roller-skating romp, could fool a gay-dar ace. But for all their fruity foundation, My Dear Disco is pretty straight. Sixth-sevenths, exactly. We're accounting for the [...]
Remembering Bea Arthur
Anyone who perused their status updates on Saturday afternoon probably noticed every gay man on their Facebook was grieving the loss of Beatrice Arthur, an actress best known for her TV and Broadway work. Arthur, [...]
“Have fun, Capricorn!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun is in Taurus wanting things nice, comfy, and stable, but he's up against wild and wacky Uranus in Pisces. The trick is not to resist the crazy disruptions [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Stars line up for Schumacher's 'Twelve' Gay director Joel Schumacher knows a P.Y.T. when he sees one. Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell, Chris O'Donnell, Gerard Butler, Campbell Scott, everyone in "St. Elmo's [...]
AIDSWatch 2009
by Bob Roehr "We're watching and tired of waiting," the crowd chanted at the April 27 kick off of AIDSWatch 2009, the annual Congressional lobby days. The rally was at Freedom Plaza, the vast expanse [...]
Progress for LGBT families
by Jessica Carreras On April 22, House Bill 4131, which would extend full adoption rights to unmarried couples, passed the House Judiciary Committee, and is poised to go to vote in the House of Representatives. [...]
Between Ourselves: Linda Brincat
by Jessica Carreras By day, Linda Brincat is an advertising sales representative for Pride Source Media Group. But her passions are much more diverse. The 54-year-old Royal Oak resident is both a soprano in the [...]
LGBT youth invited to speak out about their experiences
Students are invited to help GLSEN inform education policymakers and the public about what's really going on in the nation's schools. By completing the 2009 National School Climate Survey, GLSEN's sixth national survey about the [...]
Hate crimes legislation introduced in House
Dan Levy, chief legal officer of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, announced last week that two bills have been introduced in the state House of Representatives to combat hate crimes. The bills, HB 4835 [...]
1,000 protest for gay marriage in Ireland
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A round 1,000 people rallied outside the Central Bank in Dublin, Ireland, April 19 in support of legalization of same-sex marriage. Ireland is considering adopting a civil partnership law, [...]
Hungarian Parliament passes partnership law
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Hungary's Parliament passed a registered partnership law for same-sex couples April 20. The measure passed 199-159, with support from the governing Socialist Party and the Alliance of Free Democrats. [...]
Iraqi gays’ anuses glued shut, then they’re fed laxatives
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Iraqi gays are being shot to death by militias and anti-gay family and tribe members, allegedly executed by the government, and - in the latest twist - are having [...]
Kiev gay bar raided
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Under the guise of investigating the murder of a gay man, officers from Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs raided the Kiev gay club Androgin April 11. More than 80 [...]
Jailed Senegal gays freed
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Nine Senegalese men who were sent to prison for eight years on Jan. 6 for engaging in gay sex and belonging to a "criminal association" (the HIV agency AIDES [...]
Ban on HIV-positive inmates in food service under scrutiny
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Corrections, which oversees the operations of the state's prisons, has prevented HIV-infected prisoners from working in food service positions since at least 1999. But legal scholars and the Michigan [...]
Family holds race for suicide awareness
by Jessica Carreras When Julie Boledovich lost her mom to suicide in 2005 after a three-year battle with schizophrenia, she could have spent years being in pain, not understanding what happened and feeling alone. Instead, [...]
New poll shows majority of New Hampshire voters support marriage equality
CONCORD, NH - A poll released today by New Hampshire Freedom to Marry shows that 55 percent of New Hampshire voters support marriage for lesbian and gay couples, while 39 percent are opposed. The poll, [...]
Goosby Nominated to Lead PEPFAR
by Bob Roehr The new head of PEPFAR, the U.S. international AIDS program, will be Eric Goosby. MD. President Barack Obama made the nomination on April 27. The official title is Ambassador at Large and [...]
Prejean speaks
by Rex Wockner She shocked the nation (and pissed off celebrity gossip blogger and guest judge Perez Hilton) when she clearly stated that marriage is "in her country" between a man and a woman. As [...]
Charles Pugh to run for Detroit City Council
A new character has been added to the bad soap opera that is Detroit politics today, and it's someone who's hoping to change the script. Metro Detroit media personality Charles Pugh will formally announce on [...]
John Berry Sworn in as Director of all federal employees
by Bob Roehr The swearing in of openly gay John Berry as Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the agency that oversees nearly 20 million federal employees, marked a world of change from when [...]
Learning, living and helping
FERNDALE - Over thirty local transpeople and supporters came out to Affirmations on Saturday, April 25, for the second annual Transgender Empowerment Day. They met to discuss topics like how to find and help educate [...]
‘Dr. Laura’ sings a new tune
by Rex Wockner National News Briefs "Dr. Laura" Schlessinger is now in support of same-sex unions as long as they're not called "marriage." Speaking to CNN's Larry King on April 8, she said: "I am [...]
Meghan McCain: Old-school Republicans ‘scared shitless’
by Rex Wockner National News Briefs Speaking to the gay Log Cabin Republicans' national convention April 18, Meghan McCain, John McCain's daughter, said "old-school Republicans are scared shitless" of the future. "Too many Republicans want [...]
New Yorkers support gay marriage
by Rex Wockner National News Briefs Fifty-three percent of New York state residents support legalization of same-sex marriage and 39 percent oppose it, according to a Siena Research poll. Gov. David Paterson introduced a bill [...]
Red ribbons and red tape
by Bob Roehr Public policy has not kept pace with the revolution in treating HIV, and experts in the field are saying that has to change. "We know what should be done; it takes structural [...]
Even without marriage, we can celebrate our love
With all the buzz surrounded the upcoming LGBT Wedding Expo coming to Detroit, you'd think we were Iowa, standing on the winning side of the marriage equality mountain. We're not - but that doesn't mean [...]
‘Goat’ challenges theaters, theatergoers
More than a living room is wrecked in The Abreact's current production of "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" by Edward Albee. So too are the lives of acclaimed architect Martin Gray, his devoted wife [...]
‘Love Springs Laughs’ short on love, laughs
By D. A. Blackburn Spring has arrived, and romance is in the air -- just not at the Planet Ant Theatre, whose latest production, a two-feature bill titled "Love Springs Laughs," falls short on both [...]
‘Jeeves’: It’s Andrew Lloyd Webber downsized
By Martin F. Kohn The runt of the Andrew Lloyd Webber litter, "By Jeeves" has no falling chandelier, no levitating rubber tire, no choo-choos on roller skates, no soaring anthems about the angel of music, [...]
Shakespeare’s never been this much fun!
Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark, but not in the city of Northville, where a madcap romp through every Shakespeare play ever written had theatergoers at Tipping Point Theatre gushing with praise [...]
BREAKING: Maine to recognize marriage for same-sex couples
Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed legislation recognizing marriage equality for same-sex couples under state law Wednesday, May 6. Last week the state Senate voted 21-14 and the state House of Representatives voted 89-57 to pass [...]
Cleveland Domestic Partnership registration to open
CLEVELAND, Ohio - On Thursday, May 7 at 8 a.m. when the doors of Cleveland City Hall open, any unmarried couples that share a residence will be able to register as domestic partners. Large numbers [...]