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By Anthony Paull Oh, how I love my boyfriend; he makes the best death threats. And no, not the kind you think, but rather the kind where each time he's sick, no matter how acute, [...]
By Anthony Paull Oh, how I love my boyfriend; he makes the best death threats. And no, not the kind you think, but rather the kind where each time he's sick, no matter how acute, [...]
Q: I have read about problems people have had on sites for meeting people, but I haven't heard of this one yet. Here goes: I've been communicating with a woman on a match-type site (I [...]
Adam Lambert Adam Lambert, 'For Your Entertainment' Judging the guylinered gay based solely on his sexually superfluous shot at being, uh, "spontaneously artistic" during the American Music Awards wouldn't be fair. He needed none [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Hudson Jennifer Hudson to star as 'Winnie' No, not "The Pooh." The beloved, Oscar-winning "Dreamgirls" song-stomper Jennifer Hudson is going to play Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson, in a new [...]
Performance artist Krystine at Motor City Pride. Three-hundred and 65 photos, and the only one Wayne State Press - the publisher of John Sobczak's "A Motor City Year," a snapshot look-see into Detroit life [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury entering Capricorn focuses minds to constructive action, but at this ingress he conjoins Pluto and squares Saturn, so be careful not to obsess. The Sun is trine Mars, favoring [...]
Across 1 Get straight 6 "Hedwig and the Angry ___ " 10 Stuff stuffed in G-strings 14 Get down on your knees in front of 15 Singer Amos 16 Golden rule word 17 Piano adjuster [...]
By Dan Woog Scientists, artists and world leaders have Nobel Prizes. Geniuses have MacArthur grants. Gay athletes have the Gene and John Athletic Fund of Stonewall. While not as well-known as those other prizes, the [...]
By Jenn McKee A "Sound of Music" revenge fantasy, featuring young Nazi Rolf taking out some VonTrapps? If this premise sounds irresistible to you - and it should, it's hilarious - then you should consider [...]
There's a lot of lovin' going on in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" at Detroit's Hilberry Theatre. Struggling writer Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplyov loves aspiring actress Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya, but she has eyes for only popular novelist [...]
By D. A. Blackburn It turns out that wealthy, spoiled housewives are the same everywhere - from Orange County, California, to Washington D. C., and even at the North Pole. The Bravo network has been [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A national judge on Nov. 30 blocked a city judge's ruling that legalized gay marriage in Buenos Aires - canceling the city's first same-sex wedding scheduled for Dec. 1 [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Some gay activists in the Australian Capital Territory have rejected proposed amendments to the ACT civil partnership laws. Territory Attorney-General Simon Corbell reportedly struck a deal with the federal [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Officials in Dali Prefecture in China's Yunnan Province have opened a gay bar in hopes of reducing stigma against gay men and thereby slowing the spread of HIV. The [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The European Union's Treaty of Lisbon, which came into force Dec. 1, incorporates the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the only international governmental document that bans discrimination based on [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Sweden will end its blanket ban on blood donation by gay men on March 1, the National Board of Health and Welfare said Dec. 1. Under the new rules, [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs In a World AIDS Day message Dec. 1, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the world must "shine the full light of human rights on HIV." "I urge all [...]
Lisa, Joe and Janita Gaulezetti honored their mother at the Affirmations AIDS quilt opening on Dec. 4. Shirley Gaulzetti passed away from an AIDS-related illness in 1995. BTL photo by Crystal Proxmire FERNDALE - [...]
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 [...]
by Jessica Carreras Listen up, Michigan: This may be the last chance you have to see the work of local artist Barry Avedon. The Ann Arbor resident and openly gay professor of art at Eastern [...]
by Jessica Carreras Maxwell Cameron, second from left. Maxwell Cameron is a 22-year-old activist working with the National AIDS Fund's Detroit AmeriCorps team. A resident of Royal Oak, he hopes to make an impact [...]
by Jessica Carreras In March of 2010, millions of people will open up their mail and find their 2010 census. Extrapolating from 2000 census data, at least 600,000 of these households will include a same-sex [...]
LGBT Michigan loves to be heard. But activism aside, many are choosing to use their voices to sing in local LGBT and allied choirs. Out Loud Chorus, a men's and women's mixed choir, is based [...]
It was a mistake, Trevor Hoppe admits. He made a poor choice in a sexual encounter which may have exposed him to HIV. But being a candidate for a masters degree in public health and [...]
LANSING - A cell phone video of a Lansing School District bus driver harassing a student about her sexual orientation has legislators, gay activists and anti-bullying advocates crying foul. "This incident was verbal bullying," said [...]
By Lisa Keen The City Council of Washington, D.C. voted 11 to 2 Dec. 1 to support a bill to provide marriage licenses to same-sex couples the same as it provides to straight couples. "Today's [...]
By Lisa Keen 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 a bill guaranteeing equal [...]
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. [...]
Every household will be sent a census form in March of 2010 - but not everyone will care about filling it out, and doing so accurately. But here's one category of U.S. citizens who should [...]
If Washington, D.C. starts letting gays and lesbians get married, then we as a nation are doomed. Even more specifically, the National Cathedral is doomed. In fact, true Christians ought to set fire to it [...]
TIME magazine each week features a regular series - popular for nosey readers, of which there are plenty galore - called 10 Questions. Respondees are rich, famous, photogenic. Status is enhanced by a) having placed [...]
Compiled by Howard Israel "Growing up in Wasilla... I've never seen a gay guy in Wasilla, I don't think. Once I started doing all these tours and everything... I just.. you know, they're people too. [...]
They say every picture tells a story and is worth a thousand words. What they don't say is how pictures can be staged to manipulate, deceive and divide by their back story. Most people would [...]
By Rev. Deb Dysert This was a question that our pastor posed this last Sunday as we gathered for worship on this second Sunday of Advent. Advent is the season where we prepare our hearts [...]