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Q: I have a dilemma that I don't know what to do about. My boyfriend went to prison two years ago, and we have been corresponding at least once a week. He is going in [...]
Q: I have a dilemma that I don't know what to do about. My boyfriend went to prison two years ago, and we have been corresponding at least once a week. He is going in [...]
Hear Me Out Norah Jones, "The Fall" Norah Jones is a big tease. All that talk about a rock remodel, an added oomph to her dozy ditties that might fend off the Red Bull? With [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Neil Patrick Harris Santa visits Neil Patrick Harris As long as Neil Patrick Harris is already running Hollywood - at least that's how it seems these days - he might [...]
Mariah Carey plays a social worker in "Precious." Photo: Lionsgate The face of Clareece "Precious" Jones is gloomy and stone-cold. Frozen by years of unfathomable brutality, the tired-eyed Harlem teen struggles to find the [...]
The gays get a lot of love-hate in Lisa Lampanelli's memoir, "Chocolate, Please": "If it wasn't for gay guys, us fat chicks would have no friends." For a while there, Lisa Lampanelli - acidic-tongued [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Venus in Scorpio aspecting a variety of outer planets suggests opportunities for sexual challenges and healing. Too often people equate that with "letting it all hang out." The opposite may [...]
Across 1 They call balls 5 Hosp. workers 9 What comes out of your head 14 The Oscars, e.g. 15 Morales of "La Bamba" 16 Shoots in the mouth, at the dentist's office 17 Hurler [...]
By Dan Woog Steph Hoyer The OutField The University of Michigan is a sports-obsessed campus. Big Ten football and basketball games fill the stands; Wolverine paraphernalia can be found everywhere. Academically, one of the [...]
Kerianne Furgerson as Dolly, Robbie Dwight as Otto, Andrick Siegmund as Dr. Jason Pepper in "Dunelawn" at WSU's Studio Theatre. Photo: Janine M. Pixley DETROIT - Looking for a quick fix for a bad [...]
Julie Murney comes to WMU's University Theatre for "Late Night Broadway." Broadway star Julia Murney comes to Kalamazoo this holiday season for "Late Night Broadway." Murney will be joined onstage by Western Michigan University [...]
Eric Bloch and Elizabeth Mowers in "Impossible Marriage." Photo: Ann Arbor Civic Theatre Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's Studio Series presents the quirky comedy "Impossible Marriage," directed by Sam Zwetchkenbaum and Jean Leverich, Dec. 4-12 [...]
Time flies when you're having fun, which helps explain why it doesn't seem possible that Go Comedy! Improv Theater recently celebrated its first anniversary in Downtown Ferndale. Launched in the midst of a statewide economic [...]
by Andrew Collins Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara, delivers much of what visitors genuinely seek when visiting this country: mariachi and folk-music culture, fine tequila, authentic arts and crafts, superb regional cuisine, restored Spanish Colonial architecture, [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Australia's Capital Territory has again legalized same-sex unions. Two previous attempts were overturned by the national government, which has cited a national law that bans legal statuses that mimic [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A judge legalized same-sex marriage in Buenos Aires on Nov. 13. Mayor Mauricio Macri quickly said he would not appeal the ruling, and a gay couple was given a [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Indian transgender and intersex people will no longer have to choose "male" or "female" when they vote, the Election Commission said Nov. 12. They can instead choose "O" for [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Iran's Health Ministry says that as of mid-October, a total of 20,130 Iranians have tested HIV positive, 2,097 people have been diagnosed with AIDS and 3,409 HIV-positive people have [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Around 50 gays and their supporters protested at Uganda's Permanent Mission to the United Nations on Nov. 19 against a draconian anti-gay bill pending in Uganda's Parliament. The legislation [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Pink Life LGBT Solidarity Association in Ankara, Turkey, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission have teamed up to demand that Turkey's "Law of Misdemeanors" be [...]
By Lisa Keen A House of Representatives committee on Nov. 18 evening approved a bill to provide equal benefits to gay federal employees with domestic partners, but not without a political slugfest first over whether [...]
The Names Quilt ceremonies at SSteppin' Out AIDS Walk Detroit this past September. Quilts will be on display around the state for World AIDS Day. BTL Photo: Jessica Carreras Ann Arbor University of Michigan [...]
by Jessica Carreras Reverend Kevin Kinsel Reverend Kevin Kinsel is the associate pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit. Rev. Kinsel and his sister, Mary Beth, will be hosting a World AIDS Day [...]
by Jessica Carreras Larry Bryant, HIV advocate with the national organization Housing Works. FERNDALE - There are over 18,500 people in Michigan living with HIV/AIDS. Last Wednesday, Nov. 18, many of them gathered at [...]
Don't know all the facts about how you can and can't get HIV? Find out now through this quick guide from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention and spread the information - not [...]
by Jessica Carreras When Michigan AIDS Coalition Executive Director Helen Hicks announced her thoughts about adopting an HIV-positive child to her friends, she was shocked at the response. "Our friends thought we were insane, saying, [...]
Transgender Detroit is hosting the fourth annual TLGB Thanksgiving Potluck from 4-8 p.m. on Nov. 26. This annual event is designed for TLGB individuals who have no one else to spend the holiday with. Turkey [...]
FERNDALE - As the names and stories of transgender murder victims cycled on video screens at each end of the room, over a hundred people mourned together in the Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit's ninth [...]
Just in time for the holidays, two groups of volunteers have replenished the supplies and coffers for Wonderful Animals Giving Support, the program at the Michigan AIDS Coalition that provides support and supplies for the [...]
By Lisa Keen Parker's real opposition at this point appears to be people who don't like gays, period. And some of them are claiming that Parker's candidacy - along with that of two other openly [...]
Fear is a powerful thing. It starts wars, makes or breaks legislation, creates rifts in families and societies and even holds us back from making those important phone calls or saying those important words. Fear [...]
Star Parker If gay marriage is legalized in Washington, D.C., then everyone will get AIDS. BAM! Just like that. Move along, nothing to see here, everybody's dead, especially Obama and it's all his fault [...]
Not too long ago. While browsing in a cluttered Ann Arbor bookstore. I spent $10 for a used paperback - no. 3 of Richard Lamparski's 11 volume series "Whatever became of...? My purchase, originally going [...]
Compiled by Howard Israel Chaz Bono "I believe that gender is something between your ears and not between your legs. It was just a long process of being comfortable enough to do something about [...]
By Jennifer Vanasco Yes, Adam Lambert. You're right. Hip-hop artists and women get away with salacious performances all the time without an uproar. Of course, there was that famous Madonna-and-Britney kiss that caused a stir, [...]
by Mike Coleman "Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down." - Kobi Yamada I had not been familiar with Kobi, and wasn't at all sure of [...]
by Jessica Carreras Through my work at Between The Lines, I've met quite a few people who are HIV positive. However, I've never lost a family member, lover or close friend to the disease. So [...]
Sent into the spotlight by the sweet tunes of the 2007 film "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova make up The Swell Season.
The President of the United States of America - - - - - - - A PROCLAMATION Our Nation joins the world in celebrating the extraordinary advancements we have made in the battle against HIV [...]
by Malcolm Lazin Since Matthew Shepard's murder in 1998, there have been over 16,000 hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This represents about 1,450 annual sexual orientation and gender identity hate crimes. [...]
Frank Warren, creator of PostSecret, will visit Ann Arbor on Friday. Secrets - we all have them. Most stay locked away in the safety of our own heads, but many have found their way [...]
by Bob Roehr The Obama administration rolled out some of its biggest guns for World AIDS Day, but as has been the case before, it did not include the President himself or the Vice President. [...]
By Lisa Keen Sen. Tom Duane Following one of the most dramatic and emotional discourses thus far in the gay marriage debate, the New York Senate voted 24 to 38 Dec. 2 to reject [...]
BTL staff KALAMAZOO - Kalamazoo College has received a $2.1 million project grant from the Arcus Foundation to help launch the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. The grant will fund the center's programming plans [...]