Dear Jody: Psycho mom!
Q: My partner "Gerald" and I have been together for four and a half years. We get along very well. Life has been good with him. But there is one area that we are now [...]
Queeries: How to have a successful lesbian potluck
By Steven Petrow Q: I hate to be a stereotype, but I'm going to have a lesbian potluck next month. It's the food that has me worried, though. The last time I did this, I [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood: DeGeneres for Abdul, Beatles manager, Gus Van Sant
By Romeo San Vicente Gus Van Sant Replacing Abdul, one gay judge at a time They took away the only ray of sunshine on the "American Idol" judging panel. And though it was a [...]
‘Hump’ it out
Straight friends Ben and Andrew (Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard) want to make art ... by having sex on film. Photo: Magnolia Pictures Friendships between gay men are weird: Seemingly, there's always that hard-to-shake [...]
Rough House-ing
By Caitlin M. Foyt The Dykes of Hazard Comedy Tour with Jen House Doors, 7 p.m. Show, 8 p.m. Sept. 23 Upstairs at The Park Bar 2040 Park Ave., Detroit. Tickets: $10 www.dykesofhazardcomedy. com. [...]
Marvelous Maalouf
by Jessica Carreras Want a haircut? Go to Fantastic Sams. But for a beauty experience unlike any other, there's Maalouf Salon. Nestled in a complex on Old Woodward Avenue in Birmingham's bustling business district, Maalouf [...]
“Talk it out, Gemini!”
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun aligned with Saturn in Virgo makes us more serious and critical. Venus in Leo makes it hard to keep ego out of the way, while aspects from Uranus [...]
Bearing it
Grizzly Bear - 8 p.m. Sept. 26, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor, www.michtheater.org A name like Grizzly Bear conjures images of chunky, hairy gay men and grisly, man-eating mammals. This quartet, [...]
Hear Me Out: Whitney Houston looks to us, A Fine Frenzy blows up
Whitney Houston, 'I Look to You' Who won't always love Whitney Houston for her sky-reaching vocal bombast - the kind that could rip through a song like a chainsaw cutting into a tree trunk? That [...]
Women We’d Seen
Across 1 The T of NGLTF 5 Sharon of "If These Walls Could Talk 2" 10 La Douce role of Shirley 14 Think tank output 15 Do this with the International Male catalog 16 Bottomless [...]
The Outfield: ‘Stronghold’ stands up for wrestling
By Dan Woog Wrestlers get erections. That straightforward fact is the elephant in the wrestling room. And it's just one of many controversial, often-ignored topics addressed by Victor Rook in his insightful new documentary, "Stronghold: [...]
McKenzie belts, Ethel Merman sings again
By D. A. Blackburn Rita McKenzie stars in 'Ethel Merman's Broadway.' Photo: Courtesy The Gem Theatre Patrons who spent a few nights at Detroit's Gem Theatre last season may have noticed a trend in [...]
Gimmicky, romantic ‘Phantom’ still charms
By Jenn McKee At a certain point, you wonder what's left for a critic to say about a perpetually-touring theater staple like Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera." The show's a known commodity [...]
TV comedy classic returns – but on stage
Chris Fusco as Carol Burnett in TNT Productions' 'The Carol Burnett Show.' Photo: Courtesy TNT From Television City in Wyandotte - better known as The Biddle Hall - it's "The Carol Burnett Show." Yes, [...]
Belgrade gay film festival canceled
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Serbia's first gay film festival, scheduled for Sept. 11-13 in Belgrade, was postponed till November on Sept. 9. Organizers said they feared violence from participants in a Sept. 12 [...]
Police prevent attacks on Budapest pride march
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A heavy police presence prevented widescale violence at Budapest's 14th gay pride parade Sept. 5. About 2,000 people marched down a boulevard that was, due to a security cordon, [...]
Italy sees anti-gay crime wave
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs More than 1,000 people marched in Rome on Sept. 4 in protest of an ongoing anti-gay crime wave. In one incident, a gay couple was attacked outside a gay [...]
Queer culture festival in St. Petersburg
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The International Festival of Queer Culture will take place Sept. 19-27 in St. Petersburg, Russia, with support from the Swedish and Dutch consulates and local travel-book publishers. Planned events [...]
Treatment activists rate HIV drug companies
by Bob Roehr The nine pharmaceutical companies selling HIV drugs in the United States received grades ranging from B to F in a "report card" issued by the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition on Sept. 10. [...]
The race to reauthorize Ryan White
by Bob Roehr The Ryan White AIDS programs are set to expire on Sept. 30 because of a sunset provision written into the last version of the law, unless Congress enacts a reauthorization of those [...]
Affirmations launches LGBT statewide tobacco-free coalition
FERNDALE - Affirmations has partnered with Tobacco Free Michigan to establish a statewide coalition of LGBT and ally organizations that will focus on statewide tobacco use and secondhand smoke in the LGBT community. Tobacco Free [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Jon Fitzgerald Jon Fitzgerald is a 43-year-old Royal Oak resident - and about the most dedicated volunteer LGBT community center Affirmations in Ferndale could ask for. There, the volunteer-turned-part-time-worker spends 20 [...]
Busch’s gets bashed
Caitlin M. Foyt Some 30 protesters gathered outside of Busch's grocery store on Saturday, Sept. 12 to lambast the firing of gay employee Marc Roark. BTL photos: Caitlin M. Foyt ANN ARBOR - There [...]
Detroit remembers author E. Lynn Harris
On July 23, the publishing and LGBT world lost renowned author E. Lynn Harris, an important and beloved part of both communities. This month, Karen Hunter Publishing is proud to publish his final novel, "Mama [...]
Let the healing begin
'We're fighting for gay marriage and concerned about health care reform, but the issues of safety and freedom from molestation and rape and sexual violence is just not here.' Karen Williams loves to laugh [...]
LGBT Caucus releases D.C. march details
The Michigan Democratic Party's LGBT Caucus has released more details about the busses they will be sending to the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 11. The event, hosted by Equality Across America, [...]
U of M welcomes Indonesian gay rights pioneer
The University of Michigan will welcome Dede Oetomo, one of the principal founders of Indonesia's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender queer and intersex rights movement, as a Martin Luther King - Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks [...]
OutFest is on
by Jessica Carreras Though rumors have circulated that the ever-popular OutFest, held each year in Ann Arbor's Kerrytown district, was no more, that scuttlebutt has been squelched. The 15th annual OutFest celebration will be held [...]
Metro Detroiters ‘Step Inside The Box’
by Jessica Carreras A box designed by a local artist. ROYAL OAK - Like a scene out of Andy Warhol's factory parties, Step Inside The Box, held Sept. 12 at ZMC Pharmacy in Royal [...]
DOMA repeal: a learning curve
By Lisa Keen 'We have pending four major pieces of (LGBT) legislation which have a serious chance to pass,' said Barney Frank Sept. 14 in a phone interview. A bill seeking to repeal the [...]
We Are For Survivors, Too
In the LGBT community, we know our issues. We have a clear grip on what's important to us and what we need to fight for - even if we sometimes disagree on the details or [...]
Creep of the Week: Michael D. Duvall
Duvall Oh, open microphones, you career ending menaces, you. Why must you insist on amplifying the voices of insolent, disgusting, hypocritical assholes like Michael D. Duvall? In case you are unfamiliar, Duvall represents Orange [...]
Parting Glances: Invasion of the ‘bud’y snatchers
Some call it coincidence. One of nature's oddball pranks, like small fish or polliwogs falling by the thousands from an empty sky. If I believed in signs and miracles, I might grant that just maybe [...]
S/he said: Rafael Nadal, Caster Semenya, Heather Havrilesky, and more
compiled by Howard Israel "For me it wasn't a problem. The guy was really nice. He was a great fan. He said, 'I love you,' and he kissed me." - Rafael Nadal of Spain, international [...]
The Gay Moralist: Always and Everywhere
by John Corvino Marriage equality opponents frequently claim that marriage has been heterosexual since ... well, since forever, and that it is arrogant and foolish to tinker with such a pervasive human institution. Whatever its [...]
The Wizard of Oz
70th anniversary event for 'The Wizard of Oz,' showing in high definition at theaters across the U.S. 70th anniversary event for 'The Wizard of Oz,' showing in high definition at theaters across the U.S.
Regina Spektacular
Regina Spektor performed an enchanting show Tuesday night at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. "It's a very complicated shirt, but it makes up for it in its shininess," assured Regina Spektor - wide-eyed [...]
BTL chats with Jeff Daniels
Jeff Daniels and director Guy Sanville at work recently on the world premiere production of Daniels' "Escanaba" at The Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea. Photo: Danna Segrest Now onstage at The Purple Rose Theatre [...]
BTL chats with Jeff Daniels
Now onstage at The Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea is the third in Jeff Daniels' trilogy about the Soady family in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which began in 1995 with "Escanaba in da Moonlight" and concludes [...]
LGBT Maine asks for volunteers to help keep marriage equality
Sunday, Sept. 27 is National Day of Action for Marriage Equality - and Maine needs help. Currently, Question 1 is up on the ballot for the November election in Maine, and enough "yes" votes could [...]