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 [...]
Dear Jody: The trick to lesbian dating
Q: I feel like a kid in high school. I'm not, of course; I am 42 years old. The reason I feel like a high school kid is that I want to ask this woman [...]
Book Marks: Silver Lake, Waiting to Land, Perpetual Care
by Richard Labonte "Silver Lake," by Peter Gadol. Tyrus Books, 296 pages, $14.95 paper. After 20 years together, Rob Voight and Carlo Stein - partners in life and business - seem the perfect couple. At [...]
Under It All
Wearing underwear is a full-time job for Andrew Christian. That could explain the fashionista forgetting about our first scheduled interview - or why, when it happened, he had no idea who we were or why [...]
Antique and Collectible Festival to feature country music, unique goodies
" Yeehaw!," readers: Over 80 acres of Midland will serve as the site for The Michigan Antique and Collectible Festival Sept. 26-27, the last set of dates until next summer. The festival, held three times [...]
Give into the ‘Ghost’
Brandi Carlile: God's gift to music. While fawning over Brandi Carlile as she mesmerized and melted a packed crowd to the core in Detroit nearly two years ago, I knew the Seattle-born musician crafted [...]
Detroit Derby Girls discuss part in Drew Barrymore film, ‘Whip It!’
The Detroit Derby Girls will speak in Ann Arbor about starring in Drew Barrymore's 'Whip It!,' shot last summer in Michigan. Before the official nationwide release of Drew Barrymore's directorial debut "Whip It!" on [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood: Jodie Foster, Rupert Everett, and W.S. Burroughs
By Romeo San Vicente Jodie Foster Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson reunite over 'Beaver' When you're director Jodie Foster and you really want to make your mark after not directing a film in nearly [...]
Avoid fights, Leo!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mars in Cancer tends to diffuse energy, leading us in moody circles away from productive focus. That can be directed into examining your past, especially the familial and emotional. He's [...]
Hatching a Plot
Across 1 Put your eye to a small opening 5 Lara Croft raids them 10 Tuft of pubic hair, e.g. 14 Meaty Mexican dish 15 "Farewell, Francois" 16 Italian wine center 17 Alice's Restaurant patron [...]
Regan’s back at the Network – with a vengeance
A seemingly random act of violence in the food court of a shopping mall results in a life-threatening head injury to the unsuspecting victim and a jail term for the perpetrator. But who else suffers [...]
Old friends, new loft for The Abreact
Familiar faces populate the world of 'Bogosian V(5): The Christening.' Photo: The Abreact Way back in August 2000, a new theater opened its doors in a second floor loft on the fringe of Detroit's [...]
BoarsHead’s ‘Beau Jest’ romantic and funny
By D. A. Blackburn Lansing's BoarsHead Theater has seen some tremendous changes over the past several months - new artistic and administrative leadership, and a new landlord among them--and though these things have been hot [...]
British consul murdered in Jamaica
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The honorary British consul in Montego Bay, Jamaica, was strangled in his home Sept. 9 in a possibly homophobic attack. John Terry's nude and beaten body was found with [...]
British prime minister apologizes to Alan Turing
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized to Alan Turing on Sept. 11 after 31,564 people signed a petition on Brown's Web site asking him to do so. Turing - [...]
Clinton says U.S. will battle anti-gay violence worldwide
by Rex Wockner U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sept. 11 that the United States will fight anti-gay violence anywhere in the world that it happens. Photo by Rex Wockner International News Briefs [...]
Uruguay OKs gay adoption
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Uruguay reportedly became the first country in Latin America to allow gay adoption Sept. 9 when the Chamber of Senators passed a bill that previously had passed the Chamber [...]
Detroit steps up for AIDS
by Jessica Carreras ROYAL OAK - No matter who was to thank for it - Royal Oak Mayor Jim Ellison, Steppin' Out volunteers or a higher being - one thing was for sure: the 2009 [...]
Banton under fire
by Jessica Carreras Jamaican "murder music" Reggae singer Buju Banton is scheduled to perform at Detroit's Majestic Theater on Sept. 30 - despite a recent outcry across the country and in Michigan by the LGBT [...]
Breakfast with the Bishop
KALAMAZOO - The broad, innovative and yet unassuming power of the Arcus Foundation was demonstrated on Friday, Sept. 11, at a private breakfast that drew over 70 members of southwest Michigan's faith and social justice [...]
A more intimate OutFest pleases crowd
Tracy Mack performed as part of the night's entertainment. BTL photos: Jason A. Michael ANN ARBOR - The 15th annual OutFest took place Saturday, Sept. 19 in Ann Arbor. The event, a fundraiser for [...]
A night light
The season of charity walk-a-thons continues with the Light The Night series of walks for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Michigan. In five cities across the state, walkers will come together to raise money [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Dr. Amanda Zawaideh Dr. Amanda Zawaideh, who is part of the team at the family-run DirectRx specialty pharmacy in Royal Oak, was recently appointed to the board of directors for HIV/AIDS [...]
Triangle State Dinner coming Oct. 3
The Triangle Foundation is hosting their annual State Dinner Event on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Hyatt Recency in Dearborn. This year's event is themed Carrying the Torch, and begins with a cocktail and hors [...]
Something to smile about
The mood was high and the weather was perfect in Royal Oak on Sept. 20. An electric buzz and loud cheers rang out from the farmer's market, where the 19th annual AIDS Walk Detroit was [...]
Creep of the Week: Carrie Prejean
Oh, Carrie Prejean. Give it up. There was a time I felt sorry for Miss Prejean. It sucked that when she was asked about gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant - by Perez Hilton, [...]
Parting Glances: On the QT.com (#2)
TOM TOP-QT: Sorry our Lenin's Tomb, Red Square assignation (instead of a little-too-obvious G-A-I Paree rendezvous) is no go for you. Tough travelog! Hook-up closeting - getting it on in an out-of-the-way place (that's my [...]
S/he said: Evan Wolfson, Ohio Rep. Jeff Wagner, Elizabeth G. Hines
compiled by Howard Israel "The freedom to marry has come to America's heartland, and Americans in Iowa and elsewhere have seen what people in countries from Canada to Spain to South Africa know: Ending gay [...]
Viewpoint: Why Kalamazoo should matter to you
by Terry Kuseske When you read this, less than 50 days will remain before voters in Kalamazoo decide who in Michigan deserves to be treated fairly and equally. For more than two years, people in [...]
Update: Banton show canceled
by Jessica Carreras A scheduled performance at the Majestic Theater by Jamaican "murder music" Reggae singer Buju Banton has been canceled due to an outpouring of disapproval from the community. The cancellation comes in the [...]
Banton performs at Blind Pig
by Jessica Carreras After his originally slated Sept. 30 show at Detroit's Majestic Theater was canceled, Jamaican reggae artist Buju Banton's performance was rescheduled for the same night at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor. [...]