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 [...]
Book Marks: The Reluctant Daughter, Sugarless, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
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 [...]
Odds & Ends
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 - [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood: Liza, Jackson, Timing
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 [...]
Don’t Let Her Be Misunderstood
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 [...]
“Let go, Libra!”
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 [...]
Soap on the Ropes
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 [...]
JET lets go with fine season opener
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 [...]
‘Legally Blonde’ sentences you to a good time
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 [...]
Doing ‘The Time Warp’ at Clutch Cargo’s
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. [...]
Director discusses ‘Uncommon Women and Others’ at Downtown Library event
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 [...]
Euro Commission tells EU applicant nations to respect GLBT rights
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 [...]
Homophobic Moscow mayor unveils statue of Walt Whitman
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 [...]
Russian Web site and reality show contestant settle lawsuit
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 [...]
Boyzone’s Stephen Gately dies
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. [...]
Zimbabwean gay leader dies
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 [...]
Between Ourselves
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 [...]
Seeking ‘Rakers Who CARE’
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. [...]
Stunning: Avedon’s fashion legacy at DIA
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 [...]
Reflecting on Ruth
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 [...]
Save the Michigan Film Incentive!
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 [...]
One Kalamazoo, one Michigan
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 [...]
Michigan Project for Informed Public Policy receives grant
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 [...]
Detroit: Start somethin’
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 [...]
California recognizes seven-and-a-half years of gay marriages from elsewhere
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, [...]
Schwarzenegger signs Harvey Milk Day bill
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 [...]
Obama opposes Maine, Washington referenda
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 [...]
Obama’s gay appointments near 100
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 [...]
A win in K’zoo is a win for Michigan
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, [...]
Creep of the Week: Keith Bardwell
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 [...]
Parting Glances: Mirror, mirror. Sight unseen.
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 [...]
S/he said: Dr. Kevin Fenton, Courtney Bishop, Bishop Spong
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 [...]
The Gay Moralist: The other ballot battles
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 [...]
Viewpoint: Activist’s death teaches vital lessons
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 [...]
Hate crimes bill heads to the president
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 to hold equality march
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 [...]