Dear Jody: Addicted to stealing
Q: I don't know if you can help me or not. Actually, I don't know if anyone can help me. I am an older lesbian, 65, and I have a problem that I am afraid [...]
Book Marks: Pacific agony, Rage, a love story
by Richard Labonte "Pacific Agony," by Bruce Benderson. Semiotext(e) Native Agents, 184 pages, $14.95 paper. Reality merges with mockery and slips into mania in Benderson's acerbic novel, a hallucinatory satire of travel writing. Commissioned by [...]
Book sale to benefit Common Language
ANN ARBOR - Common Language, an LGBT book store that opened in 1991, is determined to survive and thrive in an era of frequent independent bookseller closures. Avid supporters have organized the latest in a [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente James Franco visits 'The Broken Tower' Here's how heterosexual James Franco is: He's played gay three and half times. First as James Dean, then as Harvey Milk's boyfriend and soon he'll [...]
Straight Guy, Gay World
DJ Dave Aude talks about mixing for the music industry's top dogs Dave Audé might be the gayest non-gay person you don't know. But you've probably heard his work - mixes of Lady Gaga's [...]
Be very careful, Gemini!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Pluto in Capricorn squaring Saturn in Libra signals social revolution and reaction. Mars in Leo square Venus in Scorpio trumpets - perhaps too brazenly - sexually assertive displays. These discordant [...]
A Wilde madness comes to the Planet Ant
By D. A. Blackburn Actor and author Glen Allen Pruett stars in "The Madness of Oscar Wilde by Sebastian Melmoth" Nov. 20-21 at Planet Ant Theatre. The life and work of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie [...]
Gift Guide Editor’s Pick: Band Hero
Me rocking out is like a vegan gnawing on a pork chop. So when Band Hero was announced, and I learned that I could revel in my stereotypically gay side with Culture Club and Taylor [...]
The Ultimate Guide to Gay Gift Giving
STOCKING STUFFERS "Club Christmas 3," from D1 Music producers Peter McLean and Keith Kemper, features uplifting, instrumental dance-floor versions of beloved holiday classics like "Away in a Manger," "O Come, All Ye Faithful," and a [...]
1,800 march in second Hong Kong parade
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs About 1,800 people took part in Hong Kong's second gay pride parade Nov. 1, double last year's turnout. With the theme "Be Proud! Be Yourself!" the hourlong march set [...]
Hungarian Parliament approves unusual adoption bill
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Hungary's Parliament on Nov. 9 passed a new Civil Code that extends second-parent adoption rights to same-sex couples who live together informally but not to same-sex couples who are [...]
ILGA Latin America confab set for Brazil
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The fifth Latin America and Caribbean regional conference of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association will be held in Curitiba in the Brazilian state of Parana [...]
Lesbian bishop consecrated in Sweden
by Rex Wockner The Church of Sweden consecrated Eva Brunne the world's first openly lesbian bishop in a mainstream denomination Nov. 8. Svenska kyrkan/Magnus Aronson/IKON photo International News Briefs The Church of Sweden consecrated [...]
Gay Euro MPs denounce Ugandan bill
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Members of the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights have strongly denounced the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009" pending in Uganda's Parliament. "The proposed legislation includes provisions to punish those alleged [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Michelle Brown Michelle Brown of Detroit is on the board of Michigan Equality and the National Black Justice Coalition, is the co-chair of the Michigan Women in AIDS Committee and is [...]
New Michigan GLSEN chapter proposed
by Jessica Carreras FERNDALE - A local psychologist and mother of a gay son is taking matters into her own hands when it comes to bullying of LGBT youth in southeast Michigan. Jane Kelly, a [...]
Raising funds for youth – Pronto!
Pronto!, a gay-owned restaurant and bakery in Royal Oak, has committed 10 percent of all food, drink and carry-out sales on Dec. 2 to a non-profit neighbor in Ferndale. Affirmations is metro Detroit's community center [...]
Growth Through Art
Steppin' Out is holding a fundraising event, called Growth Through Art, at 6-9 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Douglas J. Aveda Institute in Royal Oak. This event is a collaboration with "Stitches - A Doll [...]
Washington Blade, Southern Voice shut down
By Lisa Keen The recorded message on the Washington Blade's phone on Nov. 16 gives no hint at what happened. It still says, "Thank you for calling the nation's most trusted gay newspaper, serving the [...]
Marriage struggles across the U.S.
By Lisa Keen T he struggle for marriage equality looks like a juggling act this week: New York's up in the air, New Jersey is poised to hop from one hand (the legislature) to another [...]
Turning social networking into social tolerance
It's doubtful that any frequent Facebook user has never seen something on the site that offended them. A status commenting that such-and-such a thing is "gay," as in stupid. A posted photo that's less than [...]
Creep of the Week: Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri
Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri Since gays and lesbians aren't allowed to legally vow "'til death do us part" in Rhode Island, it's only fitting that they not be allowed to take care of [...]
Parting Glances: Windsor’s Gay Slasher (Pt. 2)
The frantic search for the Windsor, Ontario slasher killer stretched over two years, 1945 and 1946. There were five victims. Two savagely shredded. One with his buttocks repeatedly slashed. The crime was shocking - incomprehensibly [...]
S/he said: Steve Chapman, Will Phillips, Frank Bruni
Compiled by Howard Israel "What got overlooked on Election Day was the victory for gay rights on the other coast, in Washington state - where the electorate extended to homosexual couples all the privileges and [...]
Transmissions: There are always more
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith While I consider myself to be involved in many different aspects of transgender life, there is one issue that drives me, and one thing I always come back to: anti-transgender violence. [...]
A HIGHER ‘SCORE’
In season two of "Keeping Score" - the national project of the San Francisco Symphony to make classical music more accessible to the masses - three new programs explore the music and stories behind Hector [...]
BRIEF BELIEFS
Piss & Vinegar - the provocative new brand of underwear from Ginch Gonch founder Jason Sutherland - has a heart on. For Jesus. Yes, that Jesus. Made from breathable, body-conforming stretch fabric, the first release [...]
DIRTY ‘POP’
An homage to the surreality that defines New York City, celebrated pop artist Olan Montgomery's new pocket-sized book, "POP - Art inspired by New York's Own Subcultures from Celebrity to Subway," examines with hypercolor sunglasses [...]
FLY PINK SKIES
Like you need a reason to jet off to a faraway land - but at least this is a good one. Now through the end of the year, when you purchase an American Airlines gift [...]
JAM SESSION
Oprah named Sarabeth's Legendary Spreadable Fruits one of her top 10 all-time favorite gifts - and 'round here, what Mama O says goes. But it's no wonder why the daytime diva and her devoted minions [...]
JESUS JUICE
Treat the oenophiles on your list to the gift that keeps on giving with monthly deliveries from the Wine Every Month Club. Recipients will enjoy new, noteworthy discoveries from wine regions around the world - [...]
MERRY-TINIS
With flavor infusions like Pomegranate, Chocolate, Tomato and Triple Shot Espresso, Three Olives Vodka is quickly gaining a reputation as the gourmand's drink of choice. But that doesn't mean you have to be a food [...]
SONIC COLOR
Built on the concept of technology meeting style, DEOS introduces two collections of innovative iPod earphone covers available at all price levels. The first, DEOS DIAMOND - for those who have more cash than they [...]
‘STRiDA’ RITE
Give your hooves a rest with the STRiDA collapsible bike, the first completely new bicycle geometry in 95 years. Inside a foldable triangular frame of lightweight aluminum, power is transferred to the rear wheel via [...]
A doggone good time at the Fox Theatre
Rachel York as Cruella de Vil and the Company of "The 101 Dalmatians Musical." Photo: Joan Marcus The longevity test for any family-friendly play or musical is not so much whether or not the [...]
Tampa City Council Protects Transgender Citizens
BREAKING NEWS Thursday, November 19, 2009 TAMPA - Tampa is the latest city in Florida to add "gender identity" to its human rights ordinance that bans discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation. Equality Florida,Florida's [...]
NCAVP Statement: Honor the memories of Jorge and Jaysen: End the culture of violence
Nov. 19, 2009 National Coalition of anti-violence programs statement on the murders of Jason 'Jaysen' Mattison, Jr. and Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) joins the national and international LGBTQ [...]
‘Precious’: From hell to hope
Gabourey Sidibe plays "Precious" in Lee Daniels' buzzed-about film of the same name. The face of Claireece "Precious" Jones is gloomy and stone-cold. Frozen by years of unfathomable brutality, the tired-eyed Harlem teen struggles [...]
‘Precious’: From hell to hope
Gabourey Sidibe plays "Precious" in Lee Daniels' buzzed-about film of the same name. The face of Clareece "Precious" Jones is gloomy and stone-cold. Frozen by years of unfathomable brutality, the tired-eyed Harlem teen struggles [...]