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Parting Glances: I’ll be mooning you eternally
Sr. Serena Scatterpin, Renegade Sisters of Mary, cajoled me into seeing "Angels and Demons" with her. "My child, a little box office cinematic penance is good for the soul." "It's a marvelous way to celebrate [...]
The Gay Moralist: That’s how I was raised
by John Corvino A recent New York Times Magazine article spotlighted a shocking vestige of our nation's racism: segregated proms. It focused on one school in Georgia's Montgomery County, though the practice is common across [...]
Creep of the Week: Gary Cass
Surprise, surprise: People who personally know gay folks are more likely to support marriage equality according to a recent Gallup poll. This really isn't news. LGBT advocates have used similar results from similar polls for [...]
The Dating Diet
By Anthony Paull Sometimes, I think the further we advance in technology as a world culture, the further we regress when it pertains to matters of the heart. Consider the life of our ancestor, the [...]
The Sounds make beautiful ones, Jason Antone does Dr. Seuss
Hear Me Out The Sounds, 'Crossing the Rubicon' The Swedish quintet's crossing the Rubicon ... into the '80s? "Underground" and Beatbox," with their mad-crazy synths - and the rap-tastic latter cut featuring a delectably cheesy [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Cher and Christina Aguilera get their 'Burlesque' on Not since Bette Davis and Joan Crawford buried the hatchet of their longtime feud and decided to co-star in "What Ever Happened to [...]
He, himself … and her?
It takes a lot to be Beyonce. More than frilly thigh-high dresses. More than hip gyrating. More than Jay-Z. It takes Neal Medlyn, a New York performance artist who's staging a by-the-numbers reenactment of the [...]
Emile Griffith: Out for the Count
By Dan Woog The OutField In 1962, Emile Griffith killed Benny "Kid" Paret. The occasion was a nationally televised fight, with boxing's welterweight crown at stake. If ever there were a non-gay event, a death [...]
Team Perry
The Perry Twins' grooves almost contradict the duo themselves. Their dance-floor jams - "Activate Your Body" and "Bad, Bad Boy" - seem as ambiguous as a "Shrek" film; kids might not get the adult undertones, [...]
“She’s Got the Beat”
Q Puzzle Across 1 Is unlike Dorian Gray 5 Band of 29-Across 10 Azaria of "The Birdcage" 14 Disney, e.g. 15 Illusory painting genre 16 Teheran's country 17 Feminizing tail 18 Excitement 19 Old Italian [...]
Meet summer TV’s newest gay icons
By Rohin Guha It's been a tough year for gay icons across the television universe. "Ugly Betty" sloppily washed its hands clean of the most prominent transgender diva to traipse through primetime in TV history [...]
Give credit, Capricorn!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun in Gemini sextile to Eris suggests two brilliant wits trying to top each other. Imagine Dorothy Parker vs. Clare Boothe Luce. If you can't be nice, you better [...]
Bosnian churches oppose anti-discrimination bill
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Bosnia and Herzegovina's Interreligious Council is opposing a bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, claiming it will lead to legalization of same-sex marriage. The measure has passed [...]
Ruling: English adoption agencies cannot discriminate
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Charities Commission of England and Wales ruled June 2 that adoption agencies cannot discriminate against gay couples. The commission cited the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007, which [...]
Gay marriage campaign launched in Portugal
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Movement for Equality in Access to Civil Marriage launched on May 31 in Lisbon, Portugal. More than 1,000 people signed onto the campaign, including politicians, well-known actors, pop [...]
IGLHRC receives OAS status
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The U.S.-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said June 1 it has received civil-society status from the Organization of American States. The recognition will enable IGLHRC to [...]
Lithuanian Parliament votes for ‘no promo homo’ law
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Lithuania's parliament, the Seimas, approved a measure on first reading June 4 that bans references to homosexuality in schools and in public information that can be visible to children. [...]
Mayor Luzhkov lashes out at gays
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has again lashed out at gays, calling them "homos" and calling gay pride parades "demonic." Appearing on a TV program June 2, Luzhkov reportedly said: [...]
New Stockholm bishop is a lesbian
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Stockholm diocese of the Church of Sweden elected an open lesbian, the Rev. Eva Brunne, as bishop May 26. Brunne, 55, is in a registered partnership with the [...]
Northern Irish LGBs report high level of hate crimes
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Twenty-one percent of gay and bisexual men and 18 percent of lesbian and bisexual women in Northern Ireland say they've been the victim of a homophobic hate crime or [...]
Spanish Supreme Court: Judges can’t refuse to marry gays
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Spain's Supreme Court ruled May 30 that judges can't refuse to marry same-sex couples. The ruling came in the case of a judge from Valencia province who wanted to [...]
Supreme Court refuses to hear DADT
By Lisa Keen Not all U.S. Supreme Court rejections are bad news. And when the nation's highest court couldn't find four justices willing to hear the appeal of a gay servicemember challenging the military's "Don't [...]
First-ever hearing held on LGBT immigration equality
Bob Roehr The U.S. Senate held the first-ever congressional hearing on GLBT immigration equality that would stop gay and lesbian families from being torn apart on June 3. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) introduced the Uniting [...]
After setbacks, gay marriage is legalized in NH
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The bill that wouldn't die passed Wednesday by its biggest margin yet in the House - 22 votes. Gay marriage died and was reborn twice in three months before Gov. John [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Monique Goch is 40 years old - with the energy of a teenager drinking too much Red Bull. The Michigan Pride outreach coordinator, head of Suits and the City, Michigan Equality board [...]
Dine Out Michigan joins the fight against AIDS
On Friday June 12, Dine Out Michigan is giving people across the southeast region of Michigan the opportunity to fight AIDS by doing something they frequently do - enjoy a meal at a favorite restaurant. [...]
Michigan Pride makes triumphant comeback
by Jessica Carreras LANSING - Though Michigan Pride was in over $10,000 of debt just last fall, that's not the case anymore. Pride Community Organizer Monique Goch said in the week leading up to the [...]
A Pride-ful day
by Jessica Carreras FERNDALE - On a hot, late spring day, over 50,000 people gathered in downtown Ferndale for one reason: to celebrate Pride. The June 7 event was marked this year by the absence [...]
Church to hold Pride breakfast, service
The Universalist Unitarian Church of East Liberty will celebrate LGBT Pride Month on Sunday June 14, at its 11 a.m. service. Before the service, the church will hold its annual Rainbow Breakfast. The public is [...]
Saginaw Valley holds first-ever Pride Awards
A dynamic evening is planned for the first Saginaw Valley LGBT Pride Awards Banquet on 6 p.m. June 17 at Saginaw's Andersen Enrichment Center. The event will include a social reception with complimentary wine and [...]
Wanted: LGBTs
Everybody Reads When Scott Harris opened Everybody Reads Books and Stuff in 2006, it was a dream come true that was born out of a tragedy. But now that the store has celebrated its third [...]
Mother of Ryan White to speak on his AIDS battle
FERNDALE - When Barbara Murray heard Ryan White's mother tell the story of her beloved son's fight against the AIDS virus and his eventual death, Murray was reduced to tears. "I've been in AIDS work [...]
Take your pride wherever you go
Thought last year's Motor City Pride was big? Well, folks, it got bigger. Downtown Ferndale was a happening place to be on June 7, and if you weren't there, you were probably pretty lonely. It [...]
Third time’s a charm at Dexter’s Encore
In baseball, three strikes and you're out. At Dexter's Encore Musical Theatre, however, it's just the opposite: The company's third-ever production scores a home run. Most brand-new theaters struggle for awhile to find their groove [...]
Nothing gets lost in the Rep’s translation
By D. A. Blackburn Despite inflammatory claims by Iran's president, the Holocaust was a very real, very dark chapter in human history. The proof - if any is needed - is readily available in the [...]
Experimental ‘Simone’ blends, bends genres
By D. A. Blackburn Planet Ant Theatre's latest venture is not theater intended for mass consumption. "Simone (An Evening in Chapter Titles)," adapted for the stage by Lyndsay Michalik and Anna Prushinskaya, is the most [...]
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