Dear Jody: Living at home … again
Q: I am a 21-year-old dyke. I am currently not working and, therefore, having to live with my parents. I was working until about three months ago when the company I was working for went [...]
Book Marks: The Others, The Vampire Maker
By Richard Labonte "The Others," by Seba Al-Herz. Seven Stories Press, 328 pages, $17.95 paper. Queer readers are likely to be drawn first to this novel's Sapphic content, as a young Shi'a woman attending a [...]
Ferndale Blues Festival launches Jan. 29
FERNDALE - For the ninth year, the annual Ferndale Blues Festival will bring music, food and revelry to downtown Ferndale with at least 66 concerts and events in 23 venues over a 10-day period from [...]
DVD Dish: Rupert Everett’s new movie: What a drag!
As a brainless British farce gung-ho on spreading grrrl-power, "St. Trinian's" asks a lot of you just to see Rupert Everett in drag. Patience, to ride out the whole tedious affair. A simple sense of [...]
Still folkin’ around
Patty Larkin will feel naked without her guitar as she hosts this weekend's Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the annual benefit for The Ark. We can't, however, think of many people more cut out for the [...]
Mariah’s all diva in Detroit
You attend a Mariah Carey concert to be in the dreamlike presence of a super-diva, not expecting to be wooed by artful razzle-dazzle or the singer's dexterous dance moves. Those aerobics are in her voice, [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Jackie Warner and Scary Spice fight your fat Finally. Romeo had been lamenting the loss of lesbian personal trainer Jackie Warner from the Bravo line-up of shows (especially that whole girlfriend [...]
Rethink your purpose, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun in Aquarius opposing Mars in Leo prompts outbursts of ego. Everybody is s bit more certain of being right. Could you be as deluded as they? Uranus in [...]
Wilde Medical Drama
Across 1 Fashion designer Oldham 5 Biggest of a bear trio 9 Gay nightlife district of London 13 "Jeffrey" won one 14 Defender Dershowitz 15 Mine, in Montreal 16 Long for 17 Peter on the [...]
Raising the rafters with ‘Altar Boyz’
LANSING - Peppermint Creek Theatre Company proudly presents the award-winning musical comedy/concert "Altar Boyz," Jan. 28-31 and Feb. 4-6 at the Old Town Temple Building (formerly Temple Club) in Old Town Lansing. "Altar Boyz" is [...]
Liz Taylor (and Joe Bailey) at The Ringwald
FERNDALE - Acclaimed Michigan-based playwright Kim Carney and the gang at Who Wants Cake? will team up for a one-night-only reading of her newest play. "Elizabeth the Beautiful" tackles the issues of beauty, fame, and [...]
A New Year starts with a new bad habit
DETROIT - Looking for a New Year's resolution? Consider visiting an institution that will break you of your bad habits. All you have to do is take the twisted route played by Nurses Benson and [...]
Sec. of State candidate targets transgenders
Originally printed on http://www.michiganmessenger.com State Rep. Paul Scott, (R-Grand Blanc), announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination for Secretary of State on Jan. 15, but he's already caused a shock wave. Scott, who just completed [...]
Viewpoint: Distraught over Scott
by Jay Kaplan State Rep. Paul Scott of Grand Blanc is seeking the Republican nomination for Secretary of State. Listed on his Web site as part of his campaign platform, the aspiring heir to Michigan's [...]
Planning for HIV women’s conference under way
by Jessica Carreras The Women Living 2010 conference is coming to Michigan - and organizers are looking for volunteers and donations to help make it happen. Originally held in Illinois for the past six years, [...]
Affirmations to host discussion and resource fair
In honor of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and in conjunction with their series of Black History Month events, Ferndale LGBT center Affirmations will host an African American LGBT Community Discussion and Resource Fair at [...]
Why Paul Scott matters
You may have noticed, in this week's issue of Between The Lines, mention of a 2010 Michigan Secretary of State candidate. You may have seen the name Paul Scott, and you may have read that [...]
Creep of the Week: Paul Scott
You don't have to be a threat scientist to identify the biggest danger to America's national security, especially the Michigan part of America: transgender folks. The question is, who is going to save us from [...]
Parting Glances: One dream at a time
I spent New Years Eve with a group of friends at a Dearborn Italian restaurant. There were 20 of us, all gay men, all gathered there for a second or third gay-friendly year of celebrating [...]
S/he said: Richard Socarides, Kimberly Reed, David Boies
Compiled by Howard Israel "What is especially troubling is Mr. Obama's oversensitivity to a dwindling minority of bigots on this issue. Hundreds of military careers have been destroyed on his watch for no valid reason. [...]
Viewpoint: How I create change
by Ej Dean Sitting in the balcony of the Brooklyn Academy of Music today, surrounded by a community about to get to their feet over and over again - hands clapping - I was reminded [...]
The Gay Moralist: Perverted Analogy
by John Corvino The Gay Moralist is a philosophy professor by day, and today's column is a logic lesson. Consider the following two exchanges: Jack: I can't support gay marriage because it violates my religion. [...]
Feedback: Obama’s first State of the Union
by Lisa Keen Gay leaders offered a mixed reaction for President Obama's statement, in his Jan. 27 State of the Union address, that he would work for the repeal of the military's discriminatory policy against [...]