Dear Jody: Lazy lover
Q: It snowed about nine inches last night. Before I went to work today, I had to get the kids up and feed them. (I have two children by an earlier marriage.) I shoveled the [...]
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Common Language to hold fundraiser to keep its doors open
Common Language LGBT bookstore in Ann Arbor's Kerrytown district isn't the last bookstore standing - but it's one of a dwindling few bookstores that caters specifically to the LGBT community, providing media that appeals specifically [...]
Hollywood’s Hot Mess
Ke$ha's so crazy she pees in wine bottles and pukes in closets. Because of that frat-boy behavior, she's just as easy to love as she is to hate. But try denying the power of her [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood: John Barrowman takes a ‘Desperate’ turn
By Romeo San Vicente John Barrowman takes a 'Desperate' turn John Barrowman is the favorite gay actor of an extremely enthusiastic cult of "Torchwood" and "Dr. Who" addicts thanks to cable network BBC America. And [...]
Week three is a charm on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’
By Bebe Zahara Benet Hello all you beautiful people! Can you believe it is week three of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' already? So much is happening - let's get right into my conversation with Mystique Summers [...]
Be very careful, Capricorn!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun in Pisces is time for meditation and self-exploration. That hits some bumps as Sol quincunxes Saturn in Libra and Mars in Leo, heightening awareness of unmet personal and [...]
Hear Me Out: Sade soothes on first album in a decade, not much love for ‘Valentine’s Day’
Sade, 'Soldier of Love' Sade doesn't come around very often, so to think she'd completely finagle her first album in a decade around the edgy martial beat of its namesake single was wishful thinking. The [...]
Gay Man of the Decade
Across 1 Part of a Stein line 4 Comes out on the beach 8 Mauresmo of the courts 14 Women's patriotic org. 15 Come quickly 16 Study of pansies, e.g. 17 Prayer to the Queen [...]
Out in the NFL?
By Dan Woog? The OutField Did you hear all that buzz last month about National Football League player Ovie Mughelli? Probably not. What started as a post on an Atlanta black entertainment blog, http://MissJia.com - [...]
‘Male Intellect’ only slightly oxymoronic
By D. A. Blackburn Regular readers of this space may have noticed an unusual phenomenon over the last two weeks: the fact that there are currently three shows playing between The Gem and Century Theatres [...]
Taking it all in through a child’s eyes
By Martin F. Kohn It's the story of a little girl and her imaginary friend, but there's nothing sweet about "Mr. Marmalade." For one thing, Noah Haidle's play is about a little girl, Lucy, her [...]
A2CT goes On with the Show
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre kicks off its new fundraising campaign On with the Show: the Campaign to Sustain Community Theatre on March 20 at The Corner Brewery. The campaign will run until the end of [...]
The Wonderettes are marvelous indeed
By Martin F. Kohn Judging by the commemorative banners on the gymnasium wall, Springfield High School is just a cut above mediocre: the bowling team once made the semi-finals; the glee club once came in [...]
Williamston women entice with aroma of revenge
By Bridgette M. Redman "The Smell of the Kill" is a revenge fantasy aimed right at anyone who has ever felt mortally wronged in a marriage. Director Kristine Thatcher populates the Williamston Theater stage with [...]
MBT plays an intriguing, unusual ‘Mindgame’
By D. A. Blackburn Something strange is afoot at Meadow Brook Theatre, and it's apt to keep patrons guessing until the final curtain falls on March 7. Anthony Horowitz's thought-provoking "Mindgame" made its Michigan premiere [...]
‘[title of show]’ co-creator talks
Ferndale's Ringwald Theatre knows a thing or two about making one's dreams come true. So it's not surprising that the hit Broadway musical "[title of show]" should make its Michigan premiere at the relatively young, [...]
First pride planned in St. Petersburg, Russia
Despite the violence and official bans that have hit Moscow's pride events over the past four years, Russia's second city, St. Petersburg, will stage its first pride parade on June 26. The plan has the [...]
Costa Rica’s new female president opposes same-sex marriage
Costa Rica's first woman president, elected in a landslide Feb. 7, supports gay civil rights but doesn't want gays "to touch an institution like marriage." Speaking to media during the campaign, Laura Chinchilla said: "A [...]
Malawi gay activist arrested
A gay activist in Malawi, Peter Sawali, was arrested in early February for putting up posters in the city of Blantyre that said "Gay rights are human rights," according to the European Parliament's Intergroup on [...]
Euro Parliament: EU nations must protect LGBT rights
A plenary session of the European Parliament reaffirmed Feb. 10 that nations hoping to join the European Union must modify national law to protect LGBT people from discrimination. Adopting reports on the EU accession of [...]
Two become one
by Jessica Carreras They haven't decided on a name yet, or a new mission statement. Both Web sites are still up, and some of the details still need to be hashed out. But there's no [...]
Gospel and AIDS
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day of national HIV testing, treatment and community mobilization, was recognized on Feb. 7. But for Kick - The Agency for LGBT African Americans, the Black Pride Society and [...]
Speak Out: The State of the LGBT Union
by Eric Rader Information on contacting the U.S. Department of Defense to speak out about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" can be found athttp://www.defense.gov/faq/comment.html. Find your federal legislators at http://www.house.gov or http://www.senate.gov to voice your opinion [...]
Between Ourselves: Mitchell Rivard
by Jessica Carreras Mitchell Rivard is a college student at Michigan State University. He's also an ardent activist for such causes as getting out the vote, social and economic justice and blood donor discrimination. After [...]
Local poets to perform at Affirmations for Black History Month
Poets Eboni Hogan and Natasha "T" Miller, plus performance artist Billione, will step onto the stage at Affirmations this month as part of the center's ongoing celebration of Black History Month. Miller's poetry interrogates what [...]
Oakland County adopts anti-discrimination addition to employment policy that protects LGBT workers
OAKLAND COUNTY - Oakland County made a huge leap in equality for its LGBT employees this month when it voted on and adopted a resolution to add sexual orientation to its Equal Employment Opportunity Policy. [...]
MSU GLBT groups announce 2010 scholarships
The Michigan State University GLBT Alumni Association, GLBT Faculty, Staff and Graduate Student Association and the LBGT Resource Center announced applications and giving opportunities for 2010 student scholarships this month. Three scholarship opportunities are available [...]
Gays arrested at NYC marriage license bureau
by Rex Wockner NEW YORK CITY - Four members of a new ACT UP-like group known as Queer Rising were arrested in Manhattan on Feb. 12 after chaining themselves to the entrance of the New [...]
Moves to repeal same-sex marriage in Iowa and NH fail
by Rex Wockner Iowa legislators opposed to same-sex marriage were unable to force resolutions out of House and Senate committees Feb. 9 in support of a statewide vote to amend the constitution to re-ban gay [...]
Merger: Celebrate cautiously
There will be plenty of both cheers and caution at this week's announcement that the Triangle Foundation and Michigan Equality have merged. Cheers for obvious reasons: We're all ecstatic that this day has finally come. [...]
Creep of the Week: Nancy Elliott
Woah there, State Rep. Nancy Elliott (R-New Hampshire). Relax. No one is trying to anal sex you. Though this is something you apparently think about a lot. So much, in fact, that you must not [...]
Parting Glances: Can ya’ spare 24 for Elvis?
As someone who came out many Elvis Presley moons ago, it occurs to me, given all the media hoop-law these days about us - good, bad, fabricated, indifferent - that it's time we collectively revived [...]
S/he said: Love, gender roles and coming out
Compiled by Howard Israel "A 13-year-old knows a lot about his sexuality. Think back to when you were 13. Maybe your tastes have changed, but you were still you, and you knew when you had [...]
Viewpoint: Creating Change
When all the furor erupted over Sen. Harry Reid's remarks that then candidate Barack Obama could be successful in obtaining the presidency because "he is light skinned" and that he spoke with "no Negro dialect, [...]