The Dating Diet: Oh, The Places You’ll Ho
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, [...]
Dear Jody: Dating interrogation
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 [...]
Hear Me Out: Adam Lambert’s debut doesn’t suck, Lady Gaga parts her poker face
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 [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
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 [...]
Queer ‘Year’
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 [...]
“Seize new ideas, Cancer!”
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 [...]
Right, Reverend!
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 [...]
The OutField: Gene and John spread the wealth
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 [...]
Have yourself “A Forbidden Broadway Christmas”
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 [...]
Engaging ‘Seagull’ flies into the Hilberry
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 [...]
North Pole housewives anything but frigid
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 [...]
Argentine same-sex marriage blocked, Supreme Court to rule
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 [...]
Australian Capital Territory sees civil-union battle
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 [...]
Government opens gay bar in China
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 [...]
EU treaty is first to ban discrimination against gays
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 [...]
Sweden changes ban on gay blood donors
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, [...]
UN secretary general calls for end to gay discrimination
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 [...]
Opening quilts, opening hearts
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 - [...]
Arcus Foundation grants $2.1 million to Kalamazoo College
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 [...]
Appreciating Avedon
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 [...]
Between Ourselves
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 [...]
Queer the Census
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 [...]
They’re coming out!
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 [...]
Lack of state policy puts those exposed to HIV at greater risk
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 [...]
Anti-gay incident renews calls for bullying legislation
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 [...]
D.C. Council gives first nod to marriage equality bill
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 [...]
Marriage bill dies in N.Y. Senate
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 [...]
World AIDS Day at the White House
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. [...]
Why – and how – we should queer the census
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 [...]
Creep of the Week: Harry Jackson
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 [...]
Parting Glances: Sister’s really big 10er!
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 [...]
S/he said: Levi Jonston, Jon Marcotte, Dave Huebner
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. [...]
Viewpoint: At the intersection of racism and homophobia
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 [...]
Viewpoint: What is peace to you?
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 [...]