The Dating Diet: Look Who’s Stalking
Anthony Paull It's always an event when Pete decides to pursue a new guy. It can never start off with a typical dinner date, comprised of unfulfilled promise and a movie. No, that's simply too [...]
Dear Jody: He cheated, but I still want him
Q: I guess I'm too old to have a broken heart, but I do! I left my partner of 10 years due to his infidelity. I had forgiven him what seems to be several times. [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Peter Paige (pictured to the right). Photo: Christopher Lim/Ping Pong Playa LLC Madonna makes another movie. Guy assists. Madonna is going to direct again. What, you say you didn't know [...]
Sex is not a competitive sport, Aries!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes While Mercury and the Sun line up in Scorpio, they are aspecting Uranus, Neptune and Eris, stimulating new inspirations on how to innovate and compete in this radically changing world. [...]
Hear Me Out: Feel ‘Glee’-ful with new soundtrack, ‘Twilight’ music doesn’t suck
'Glee: The Music, Volume 1' Skittles encourage you to taste the rainbow, but have you heard it? You can with songs from the gay-tastic Fox musical romp "Glee" - a safe, legal and cheaper alternative [...]
God Bless the Child That Sings
Across 1 Many go down on them 6 Moby Dick chaser 10 Gallery of London 14 Palmer of "The Boys From Brazil" 15 "Oliver!" request 16 China setting? 17 "___ River" 18 Words after International [...]
The OutField: Crafting a career
By Dan Woog Bren Ahearn is very crafty. Growing up in New Jersey, Ahearn - now 45 - spent hours pursuing sand art, decoupage and the like with his craft-loving mother. Yet as he grew [...]
‘Hello, Dolly’ plays through Nov. 22
In Village Players' production of "Hello, Dolly," Dolly the matchmaker (Denise Kowalewski-Tucker of Livonia) does not always see eye-to-eye with her wealthy employer (Gary Mach of Beverly Hills). BIRMINGHAM - Village Players of Birmingham's [...]
Hospital comedy tickles the funny bone
As soon as the house lights went down and the theme music from the 1980s television series "St. Elsewhere" started, I laughed - and I continued to laugh, chuckle and grin throughout the entire world [...]
Hilberry’s ‘Dream’ a delightful reality
By D. A. Blackburn With the opening of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the Hilberry Theatre gives history's greatest bard his due, with a production that shines like an exotic gem. When it comes to Shakespeare [...]
‘Christmas’ comes early to Tipping Point
By Jenn McKee Watching "Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some)," now playing at Tipping Point Theatre, is like getting a nice pair of socks as a gift. At first, you're not particularly wowed. [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Jim Larkin is a Holland-based freelance writer. But more than writing for a living, Larkin uses his craft to promote local events, and as a result of his work, the Genesee County [...]
Celebrating Crandall
It would be hard not to call Rachel Crandall a giving person. She is a busy psychotherapist who sees low income clients and volunteers her services, the helpline coordinator at Affirmations LGBT community center and [...]
Trans actions
In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, here's a look at one-time and recurring events happening in Michigan for, by and about the transgender community. Friday, Nov. 20 Candlelight Vigil, 7 p.m. Held in honor [...]
Senate holds hearing on ENDA
By Lisa Keen Restrooms and religion arose as the only objections on Nov. 5 during the U.S. Senate's first hearing on the inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And the testimony from the Obama administration struck an [...]
Lawmakers question charges for HIV-positive man
An HIV-positive Macomb County man is facing charges created under Michigan's 2004 terrorism laws for biting another man in a neighborhood scuffle. That, HIV advocates, state lawmakers and legal experts say is "cowardly" and "nonsense" [...]
Health care reform passes House
By Lisa Keen While conservatives riveted their attention to passing an amendment to ban the use of federal health care funds on abortion, the U.S. House passed a health care reform bill Saturday night that [...]
Havdallah Happening
The Jewish Gay Network of Michigan is hosting the first-ever Havdallah Happening at 7 p.m. Nov. 14. The social event offers Michigan's Jewish LGBT community a chance to meet and get to know one another. [...]
LGBT rights move in Michigan legislature
by Jessica Carreras LANSING - Last week the Michigan legislature saw promising movement on two bills for LGBT rights in the state. Both measures - one to amend the state constitution to allow same-sex marriage, [...]
Pride on the move
by Jessica Carreras In August, Michigan Pride hosted a pool party fundraiser. Photo courtesy of Roxanne Frith LANSING - With a new team in place, Michigan Pride is planning for their 2010 summer pride [...]
S.P.I.C.E.-ing up the holidays
S.P.I.C.E. is looking for families to adopt for the holiday season. The Detroit-based group for LGBT women of color wants to assist families in need in spreading Thanksgiving and Christmas (or other holiday) cheer in [...]
‘Domino Effect’ tells personal, national same-sex history
by Rudy Serra Ferndale native Tom Coleman's latest book, "The Domino Effect: How strategic moves for gay rights, singles' rights and family diversity have touched the lives of millions," educates and inspires. Coleman's memoir starts [...]
WAGS Fundraiser
{URL The Malebox Bar is hosting a benefit show at 10 p.m. Nov. 14 to raise funds for Wonderful Animals Giving Support. WAGS is a program of the Ferndale-based Michigan AIDS Coalition, a non-profit HIV/AIDS [...]
Why we fight for our bills – even when they don’t stand a chance
Last week marked movement on the amendment to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act and the introduction of an amendment to include same-sex marriage in the Michigan constitution. It's cause for celebration - sort of. When [...]
Creep of the Week: Maggie Gallagher
What happened in Maine was sad. What makes it even worse is Maggie Gallagher's gloating. Gallagher is the president of the National Organization for Marriage. NOM is pretty proud of itself for Maine, considering they [...]
Parting Glances: Windsor’s gay slasher (Pt. 1)
Looking at Windsor, Ontario, today from Detroit, few would guess our neighbor was a city of rough edges in the mid-1940s, as World War ll was winding down. It was also a convenient stop-off where [...]
S/he said: Cathy Renna, Laura Ricketts, Suzanne Goldberg
Compiled by Howard Israel "This idea that gay people are coming to eat your children is a long-standing tactic of the right wing. The response to those ads that not only has more truth, but [...]
Viewpoint: When we act out of love
by Beverly Davidson "Love is a relationship founded on the realization that we are all connected, that everyone matters, that every single person is precious. True love does not stop at feeling; it cannot stop [...]
‘Bruno’: fab or drab on DVD?
"Bruno," the fussed-over Sacha Baron Cohen film, goes where no man has before ... like into the ass of Milli Vanilli's spirit. The film, available on DVD tomorrow, will disgust and disturb even the dirtiest [...]
Washington Blade, Southern Voice shut down
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The recorded message on the Washington Blade's phone Monday gives no hint at what happened. It still says "thank you for calling the nation's most trusted gay newspaper, serving [...]
Call to action: ENDA
It is expected that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act will be voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives shortly after Thanksgiving. In 29 states, it is still legal to fire someone because they're gay; and [...]