Dear Jody: Traveling Wars
Traveling wars Q: "John" (my lover) loves to travel anywhere and any time. I don't. I always feel like I have to somehow justify why I don't like it, but the plain truth of it [...]
Traveling wars Q: "John" (my lover) loves to travel anywhere and any time. I don't. I always feel like I have to somehow justify why I don't like it, but the plain truth of it [...]
by Richard Labonte "The Reluctant Daughter," by Leslea Newman. Bold Strokes, 256 pages, $16.95 paper. A distant daughter's angst-filled filial obligation toward her emotionally absent mother is at the heart of Newman's new novel. It's [...]
Looking for that perfect lamp? Track lighting for the den, or maybe something special to highlight your favorite picture? Top of the Lamp (415 S. Maple Road, 734-769-7019) has lamps, outdoor lighting, ceiling fans - [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Cheyenne Jackson. Photo: Miranda Penn Turin Liza to serenade 'the City' Is there such a thing as too much concentrated gayness happening in one spot? That's the scientific experiment the [...]
Singer-songwriter Susan Werner calls her latest covers album "user friendly." Photo: Asia Kepka Susan Werner wants me to friend her on Facebook. Little does she know that I've already done so - and she [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes We're entering a seriously challenging phase with a square between Saturn (in late Virgo) and Pluto (in early Capricorn). This week, the Sun entering Scorpio negotiates that square, offering insights [...]
Across 1 Strands, as seamen 8 Dustin Hoffman's cross-dressing role 15 Biting 16 In advance 17 Leccia, who plays 18-Across 18 One half of a soap opera couple 19 Memo start 20 Response to an [...]
Sarab Kamoo and Naz Edwards in "The Blank Page" at The Jewish Ensemble Theatre. Photo: Yakov Faytlin When asked what show I was looking forward to most this month, the answer was the world [...]
By Martin F. Kohn A cute little Chihuahua and an adorable bulldog scamper about in "Legally Blonde The Musical," and while they may reflect nothing more than an attempt to ramp up the awww factor [...]
By D. A. Blackburn There's something uniquely timeless about doing "The Time Warp," and though "The Rocky Horror Show" graces area stages with an almost alarming frequency, it never seems to wear out its welcome. [...]
Wendy Wasserstein is one of the most influential, sharply comedic and successful woman playwrights of our time. On Nov. 2, meet John Neville-Andrews - the director of the upcoming University of Michigan production of one [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs GLBT rights are a prominent topic in the European Commission's Oct. 14 progress reports on the seven countries that are planning to join the European Union: Croatia, the Former [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Anti-gay Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled a statue of presumably gay poet Walt Whitman at Moscow State University on Oct. 14. Luzhkov [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Russian reality show contestant Vasily Pechen, who was on Big Brother, and the Web site http://www.Gay.ru have settled a legal case stemming from Gay.ru's having alleged that Pechen is [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Openly gay Irish singer Stephen Gately, who achieved fame as lead singer of the boy band Boyzone, died Oct. 10 in Spain of acute pulmonary edema. He was 33. [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Key Zimbabwean gay leader Keith Goddard, director of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, died Oct. 9 from pneumonia. He was 49. "Keith dedicated his life to the advancement of [...]
by Jessica Carreras Rev. Mark Bidwell Rev. Mark Bidwell is the senior pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit. Ordained in 1997, the 50-year-old Ferndale resident is a father, ardent community supporter and [...]
The Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality, a children's advocacy group working to secure the legal recognition of parent-child relationships in all families regardless of the parents' marital status or sexual orientation, is looking for volunteers. [...]
One of the 180 Ricard Avedon photos on exhibt at the DIA Richard Avedon was 21, virtually unknown, when he took his first fashion photos for Harper's Bazaar. Alexey Brodovitch, the publication's autocratic art [...]
Photo: Jason A. Michael This month, Ruth Ellis was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. Also during October, the Ruth Ellis Center celebrates its 10th anniversary and all the things that make [...]
A rally will be held at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac at 7 p.m. Oct. 26 to help dissuade Michigan legislature from cutting the tax incentive that has brought filmmakers to the state. The event [...]
by Jessica Carreras Photo courtesy of Adam Taylor The LGBT community in Lansing, Flint, Detroit - even Traverse City - is all part of Kalamazoo. At least that's what supporters of the city's anti-discrimination [...]
The Michigan Project for Informed Public Policy announced on Oct. 16 that it has received an $85,000 grant from the Arcus Foundation. The grant will be used to continue MPIPP's work to improve equality for [...]
For two days in Detroit, an ambitious group of African Americans - gay, straight, bisexual and transgender - will use group-process therapy to create a unique kind of dialogue about how race, gender, attractionality, stereotypes [...]
by Rex Wockner National News Briefs A bill signed Oct. 12 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recognizes as fully married any gay couple in California who got married between April 1, 2001, and Nov. 5, 2008, [...]
by Rex Wockner National News Briefs California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Oct. 12 making May 22 "Harvey Milk Day." According to Equality California, the move "marks the first time in the nation's history [...]
by Rex Wockner National News Briefs Prodded by The Advocate, the White House issued a statement Oct. 16 opposing the Nov. 3 referendum in Maine that would repeal the same-sex marriage law passed by the [...]
By Lisa Keen On Oct. 7, President Barack Obama issued a statement announcing the nomination of an openly gay man to serve as the nation's ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. David Huebner, a founding [...]
In July, before One Kalamazoo even existed, Between The Lines reported on the passage - and then eventual rescinding - of the anti-discrimination ordinance that would protect LGBT people from harassment or bias in employment, [...]
Pop quiz: You are a Justice of the Peace in Louisiana and a couple comes to you to be married. The woman is white, the man is black. You turn them away because you don't [...]
The magic mirror that Alice passed through long ago - recounted by author Lewis Carroll in his story of wrong-sided wonderment, "Alice Through The Looking Glass" - was sold recently on E-Bay. (Capital E as [...]
Compiled by Howard Israel "Heterosexual black men with multiple sex partners - not bisexual men who secretly have sex with men - are responsible for high rates of HIV among black women. We have looked [...]
by John Corvino I've spent the last week traveling through rural Wisconsin for a series of diversity lectures at small technical colleges. Lecturing on gay issues at such venues can be eye-opening. It's a big [...]
By Rudy Serra The late Ron Coates In life, Ron Coates was a dedicated educator and a committed volunteer of the Triangle Foundation. He organized and ran monthly fundraisers at The Detroit Eagle, helping [...]
By Lisa Keen Suddenly, with little fanfare or notice, the signs of "change" for the LGBT community are beginning to appear in Washington. The Obama administration this week unveiled several new initiatives aimed at eliminating [...]
One Kalamazoo, the campaign that is heading up the support for the local anti-discrimination ordinance in the city, is planning to hold an equality march at 12-2 p.m. Oct. 25. The march will begin at [...]