Dear Jody: In another abusive relationship
Q: I got out of an abusive relationship three years ago. Now I'm afraid I'm in another one. I thought I would never be in another one because I wouldn't pick an abusive person again. [...]
Ke$ha’s debut causes queasiness, Patty Griffin goes gospel
Hear Me Out Ke$ha, 'Animal' Pop's new "bi" on the block is the kid Katy Perry would have if she could birth a 22-year-old smart ass. Her stock elocution is an almost-clone of the "I [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
Romeo San Vicente 'Inception,' starring your 2009 gay indie crush Maybe you swooned over Joseph Gordon-Levitt in last year's "(500) Days of Summer" or fell for adorable roller-derbying Ellen Page in "Whip It." Maybe you [...]
Explore, Cancer!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Jupiter is entering Pisces, where he'll spend the next few months. Usually spending a year in a sign, Jove is pretty zippy right now, so take quick advantage of "the [...]
Better Than Sex
Across 1 Went down on with gusto 6 Counterfeiters' nemesis 10 Moves the head 14 Whale finder 15 Gore Vidal's "At ___ " 16 Role for Ron Howard 17 Start of a quip about why [...]
Sweet turnaround for Peggy Beck
By Dan Woog The OutField Stereotypes have long held that there are no gay male athletes - but most female athletes are lesbians. However, ever since "The Front Runner," authors have tackled the theme of [...]
Making merry at the Hilberry
Just like the character of Arlecchino in its current production, Detroit's Hilberry Theatre is also "The Servant of Two Masters." But while the comical buffoon needs only to satisfy his bosses, Wayne State University's Department [...]
‘A Song For Coretta’ spins an unusual tune
By D. A. Blackburn With Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the post-weekend horizon, it seemed entirely fitting that the Detroit Repertory Theatre would choose to open "A Song For Coretta" Thursday night. The play, [...]
Life’s ups and downs at The Ringwald
Every now and then as a theater critic you'll walk out of a show and wish you'd liked it better than you did - which is what I felt as I left the opening night [...]
Stranded at 27,000 feet
By Martin F. Kohn So strong is the physical narrative - storytelling by action, stance and facial expression - in Tim Edward Rhoze's production of Patrick Meyers' mountain-climbing drama "K2" that it hardly requires words. [...]
Gay couple ‘marries’ in China
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs State media reported Jan. 13 that a gay couple got "married" in a gay bar in Chengdu, China. Zeng Anquan, 45, and Pan Wenjie, 27, tied the knot before [...]
HRW: Release Malawi lovers
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Malawi's government should drop all charges against a gay couple who are facing up to 14 years in prison, Human Rights Watch said Jan. 12 in a letter to [...]
Major Moscow gay club shut down
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Moscow's oldest gay dance club has been indirectly shut down by the city, GayRussia.ru reported Dec. 31. Club Body & Soul had been targeted by Moscow Northern District Prefect [...]
Report criticizes PEPFAR program
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Council for Global Equality and the Center for American Progress issued a report Jan. 13 criticizing numerous practices of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief , a [...]
Trans prison to open in Italy
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs About 30 inmates will be moved to a prison near Florence, Italy, that will house only transgender prisoners, local media reported Jan. 12. The facility in the town of [...]
Building a beautiful COLAGE
FERNDALE - Growing up, Lea Brown wasn't apt to tell people that she was the daughter of a lesbian. "No 13 year old wants their parents to have anything about them that is different," she [...]
Tightening the red ribbon
by Jessica Carreras Several of Michigan's HIV/AIDS organizations may have a tough 2010. As the Michigan Department of Community Health's HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Section made their announcements in response to requests for funding, several [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Brian Kendall is a 20Something - and he's proud of it. The 26-year-old Warren resident was one of the founding members of the Affirmations group, which is looking to help all LGBT [...]
Liberty and equality for all
by Eric Rader Speak Out Liberty, equality and democracy have been America's guiding lights since the founding of the republic. Unfortunately, the United States has often fallen short of these ideals, and some leaders have [...]
Michigan Fairness Forum seeks project manager
The Michigan Fairness Forum - formerly the Peninsula Group - has an immediate opening for a part-time, independent contract project manager position. The ideal applicant will have a diverse set of skills to advance and [...]
U of M offers students, staff ‘sexpertise’
The University of Michigan is hosting the second annual Sexpertise conference on Jan. 27-29 at its Ann Arbor campus. The free series of events is open to all students, staff and faculty of U of [...]
Homophobic cartoon causes outpouring of anger, repercussions
by Jessica Carreras SOUTH BEND, Ind. - An anti-gay cartoon run in the Jan. 13 edition of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College's independently-run newspaper, The Observer, has caused a backlash from [...]
Prop. 8 update
by Rex Wockner News Analysis At press time, the trial in the federal lawsuit against Proposition 8 was continuing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco before Judge Vaughn Walker. Famous heterosexual attorneys Ted Olson [...]
Life, Sweetness, Hate?
The University of Notre Dame's motto is a beautiful message: Life, Sweetness, Hope. But apparently, it doesn't hold true for the South Bend, Ind., college's LGBT students. A recent cartoon run in the school's independent [...]
Creep of the Week: Hak-Shing William Tam
You know what? If Gay marriage is just a ploy to get child rape legalized then to hell with it. Can I get an Amen? No? OK, how about a WTF? This is one of [...]
Parting Glances: It’s that time again …
If you ask me, the National Enquirer is once again doing America a great - and much needed - public and patriotic service this month by devoting several kiss-explicit pages to Who's Gay & Who's [...]
S/he said: Theodore B. Olson, Rhianna, Joe Solmonese
Compiled by Howard Israel "Has anyone noticed that now that lesbians and gay men have left the closet to assert their equal rights as citizens, their adversaries seem to be running for a closet of [...]
Viewpoint: Just a twitch
by Nancy Squires A few months ago, a historic vote took place in the Lutheran church. The largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S., the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, voted to allow non-celibate gays and [...]