The Dating Diet: The Princess and the Pee-Pee
By Anthony Paull Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice, shame on me. Screw me three times, we're dating! Yes, isn't it a wonder how fast we slip into relationships? Sure, we take [...]
Dear Jody: She wants something I can’t guarantee
Q: My girlfriend, "Staci," and I have been going together for over two years and we have lived together for the last six months. Staci moved in with me because she had quit her job [...]
Book Marks: Sordid Truths, Remarkable Journey of Trnby Quirke, Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show
by Richard Labonte "Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence For a Taste of Stardom," by Aiden Shaw. Alyson Books, 258 pages, $15.95 paper. Can a book about compulsive sex for pay and unceasing drugged-out nights and [...]
Dancing Through Life
Paul Matteson and Asli Bulbul in "Fondly Do We Hope ... Fervently Do We Pray" (Photo: Paul B. Goode). Bill T. Jones will live to see 150. That's what the dancer-turned-director tells himself, [...]
The Top Five LGBT Entertainment Stories of 2009
By Romeo San Vicente Deep Inside Hollywood Adam Lambert's Make-Out-Gate When a conservative stalwart like Peggy Noonan (former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George Bush) declares a pop star part of the decline of American [...]
Tom Ford: The Other ‘Man’
"I don't think most people knew that I'm extremely romantic, and I'm extremely emotional and insecure and shy. I kind of always pose in the same way. I don't let a lot of people very [...]
Re-imagine the future, Aries!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Venus and the Sun align in Capricorn aspecting Uranus in Pisces and Neptune in Aquarius, bringing opportunities to take responsibility in new forms of relationships and to test artistic innovations. [...]
From Page to Screen
Across 1 You can have them in your pants 5 Composer Ned 10 Refuse hauler 14 Strip a fruit 15 Madonna title role 16 "What fun!" 17 Novel of 34-Down or movie directed by 25-Down [...]
Birmingham theater to present timeless Oscar Wilde comedy
The cast of Players' "Importance of Being Earnest." "Importance of Being Earnest," arguably Oscar Wilde's funniest comedy, opens at the Village Players Jan. 22. Audiences who saw Players' 1977 production remember this classic fondly [...]
Late night drama stuns at Planet Ant
While bible-thumpers and "throw-the-book-at-them" jurists may tell you that certain Judeo-Christian and legal pronouncements are immutable, those of us living in the real world understand that life is not all black and white or good [...]
Actors keep comedy aloft at Meadow Brook
By Martin F. Kohn If "Boeing-Boeing" seems old-fashioned, it isn't because door-slamming farces belong in the past or that no one today could ever have three fiancees and keep them unknown to each other. The [...]
‘Act Your Wage’ pays out no dividends
By D. A. Blackburn It's hard to laugh about the current state of our economy. News of layoffs, bailouts, plant closings and bankruptcies inspire lots of emotions, but levity is rarely one of them. And [...]
A few minutes with Joe Bailey of ‘Based on a Totally True Story’ at The Ringwald
Joe Bailey Since opening its doors in 2007, The Ringwald has become one of metro Detroit's hottest and most talked-about theaters - where patrons can expect anything and everything from the latest comedy to [...]
Cross-dressers arrested in Bahrain
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Gulf News reported Jan. 4 that nine cross-dressers were arrested at a hotel discotheque in Manama, Bahrain, on New Year's Eve and charged with public debauchery. The report said [...]
Iranian transgenders reclassified
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Iran's military will no longer classify transgender people as "mentally disturbed," said Hasan Mousavi Chelk, who heads the Socially Vulnerable Groups section of the State Agency for National Well-Being. [...]
‘Engaged’ gay couple jailed in Malawi
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Two men in Blantyre, Malawi, got engaged to be married in a traditional ceremony Dec. 26, local media reported. Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, and Steven Monjeza, 26, formalized their relationship [...]
Mexico City gay marriage law takes effect in March
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Mexico City's law allowing same-sex marriage will take effect in March. It was approved by the Legislative Assembly on Dec. 21 and published in the official register on Dec. [...]
Portuguese same-sex marriage bill passes
by Rex Wockner Portuguese couple Teresa Pires, right, and Helena Paixao, who lost a same-sex marriage case before Portugal's Constitutional Court last July, celebrate Parliament's Jan. 8 legalization of same-sex marriage. PortugalGay.pt photo International [...]
Serbian gay film festival deemed a ‘success’
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Serbian LGBT activists say the nation's first International Queer Film Festival, "Merlinka," staged in December in Belgrade, was a "success." Ten films were shown over four days, and a [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Knoll Larkin Knoll Larkin is a trans and community activist. The Detroit resident works in the University of Michigan's Bioethics Program as a research technician associate - but hasn't given up [...]
Affirmations to host COLAGE kick-off
A kick-off party and potluck meal for the new metro Detroit chapter of Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere is set to take place from 1-3 p.m. Jan. 16 at Affirmations LGBT community center in [...]
Detroit Mayor Bing, new city council take oath of office
By David Alire Garcia Charles Pugh, Detroit's first openly gay city council member and president, addressed a large crown at the swearing-in ceremony at the Fox Theater on Jan. 8. Originally posted on MichiganMessenger.com [...]
Petition aims to stop Macomb County HIV terrorism charge
Being HIV positive could mean being seen as a biological terrorist in Macomb County. But now, supporters of the man being charged could have the opportunity to fight back. Clinton Township resident Daniel Allen, who [...]
Hope, inspiration and victory
by Jessica Carreras Rosie Hayes, center, with Michigan AIDS Coalition Executive Director Helen Hicks and LifeLinks creator Link Wachler at a Jan. 5 MAC breakfast. Wachler presented Hayes with a bracelet donned with charms symbolizing [...]
PRIDE Institute to offer mental health services to GLBTQ Online High School students
EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN. - PRIDE Institute and GLBTQ Online High School have partnered to provide mental health services on an as-needed basis to the school's students. GLBTQ Online High School is the world's first online [...]
Prop. 8: The fight for marriage equality hits the courtroom
by Lisa Keen Plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier. SAN FRANCISCO - The trial to challenge Proposition 8 in federal court got underway Jan. 11 in San Francisco, but the opening acts were upstaged [...]
Celebrating (HIV) positive lives
So often throughout the history of the devastating epidemic, many of the stories we have heard about the impact of HIV/AIDS have centered on death, loss and anger. Not enough funding or treatment or prevention [...]
Creep of the Week: Lisa Miller
Miller When Lisa Miller left her partner Janet Jenkins and took their daughter Isabella with her, it was the Christian thing to do. Quite literally, since Miller denounced her former lesbianism and became a [...]
Parting Glances: Uganda, a forked tale
It's been countless centuries since proud Lucifer, an Angel of Light, was cast from heaven by the Almighty to roam the earth at will, seeking faithful but mindless minions to do his nefarious bidding. Lucifer [...]
S/he said: Lisa Brower, Jane Lynch, James Nsaba Buturo
compiled by Howard Israel "I saw so many pictures of naked men that I now have a condition called 'dick lash.' My eyes hurt from taking in so much male pulchritude. I swore when I [...]
The Gay Moralist: Rebuking LaBarbera
by John Corvino The column that follows is about anal sex. Some friends have urged me against writing it, not because readers find frank discussions of anal sex "icky," but because the offending comments' source [...]
Notre Dame paper advocates LGBT violence
by Jessica Carreras SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The Jan. 13 issue of Notre Dame's student-run newspaper, The Observer, has more than sports facts and event updates for the South Bend, Ind. school. An oft-controversial cartoon [...]
Gaga’s Greatest (and Gayest) Moments
Good romances: That's all Lady Gaga gave during her two-night stint in Detroit. Crazy, creepy and radical, it was like something out of ... well, Gaga's own warped world. That place is called "The Monster [...]
Scene Check: The Hayloft
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