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Dear Jody: Some SAD advice
Q: A couple of weeks ago, someone wrote in about trying to deal with Seasonal Affective Disorder while still having a sex life. I don't know if this would work for her, but I bought [...]
Book Marks: Because I Have Loved and Hidden It, In the Closet, Under the Bed
by Richard Labonte "Because I Have Loved and Hidden It," by Elise Moser. Cormorant Books, 262 pages, $21 paper. A seductive Montreal is the setting for this melodic meditation on loss, love and self-discovery. Julia's [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Zooey Deschanel is 'With The Band' Everyone loves warm, fuzzy nostalgia. If they didn't, "Hair" wouldn't be back on Broadway, "Hot Tub Time Machine" wouldn't be the most buzzed-about upcoming movie [...]
Week four and so much more on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’
By Bebe Zahara Benet Welcome back to my column! It's week four of "RuPaul's Drag Race," and once again the competition has been taken up a notch. I recently got a chance to chat with [...]
Don’t be bashful, Leo!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes As the Sun aligns with Jupiter in Pisces, spiritual/psychological insights abound, and intuitive flashes can bring excellent luck. In Aquarius, Mercury is aligning with Neptune and Chiron, bringing some of [...]
It’s Not Just You
Talk about pressure. When Nicholas Downs nabbed the role of the charming, gay hopeless romantic in "Is It Just Me?," the director told him, half-jokingly, "I don't want to freak you out, but just so [...]
PRTC’s new ‘Gravity’ exerts powerful force
By D. A. Blackburn In its latest world premiere production, The Purple Rose Theatre Company paints a surprisingly human portrait of one of history's greatest thinkers. Isaac Newton may have taught mankind that gravity is [...]
We should talk: Albee sizzles at The Abreact
In 1958, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee wrote his first play, "The Zoo Story," which to this day is still considered one of his signature pieces. The story of two strangers who meet and chat [...]
Dogs need friends, too
Dogs are pack animals, which means they like to be socialized with other dogs. They enjoy playing with each other, snuggling (sometimes) and going through the tests that determine just who is the real "top [...]
In the doghouse
by Jessica Carreras Heather Mehi is recalling the infamous July 2009 Chihuahua rescue, and the memories are almost too much to handle. The smell permeating from the Dearborn home with boarded-up windows and a strangely [...]
Dog shows come to Cobo
DETROIT - The Detroit Kennel Club Dog Shows March 6-7 at Cobo Center in Detroit offer fun for the whole family. The two-day celebration of dogs, presented by Purina, allows visitors up-close and personal time [...]
Pride Source is ‘going to the dogs’
LIVONIA - Fetchfinders is a new online and print "Yellow Pages" with everything you could ever want or need for your pet - or pets. Whether you have cats, dogs, birds, iguanas, alpacas, fish, reptiles, [...]
Anglicans OK gay pensions
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The General Synod of the Church of England voted Feb. 11 to give pensions to the same-sex widows and widowers of clergy members. Speakers at the synod session said [...]
Costa Rica may see same-sex-marriage referendum
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Ten Costa Ricans have turned in more than 130,000 signatures of registered voters requesting a popular referendum on a bill introduced in the Legislative Assembly to legalize same-sex marriage. [...]
Kenyan police reportedly stop gay ‘wedding’
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Police reportedly stopped a gay "wedding" in Mtwapa, Kenya, on Feb. 12 after a large mob formed and threatened to stone the couple and set them on fire. At [...]
Latin American LGBTs protest on Valentine’s Day
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs LGBT people in several Latin American nations staged public actions on Valentine's Day. In Peru, members of the Lima LGBTI Student Bloc held a kiss-in outside the Plaza San [...]
St. Petersburg refuses to fund anti-homophobia campaign
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Officials in St. Petersburg, Russia, have refused to include funding to fight homophobia in the city's Program for Tolerance. A funding request for posters, a film festival and other [...]
Sydney Mardi Gras bans Tasmanian gay vacation material
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Officials of Sydney's LGBT Mardi Gras extravaganza banned Tourism Tasmania from Mardi Gras' Fair Day because it planned to promote Tasmania as a gay-friendly holiday destination. Tasmanian Gay and [...]
Ugandan president feels the heat
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is feeling the heat over a bill pending in the nation's Parliament that would jail gays for life and punish some with the death penalty. [...]
‘They’re my children, too’
by Jessica Carreras Renee Harmon of Trenton has one wish this year: to be with her three children again. As more and more same-sex couples are willing and able to have and adopt children, custody [...]
Big Read spreads literacy in Ferndale
A city-wide literacy initiative will connect readers throughout Ferndale for the month of March as The Big Read showcases "The Maltese Falcon," a 1930s detective novel by Dashiell Hammett featuring a tough and clever detective [...]
Covey considers commission seat
FERNDALE - Ferndale Mayor Craig Covey is "strongly considering" running for a seat on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, and is expected to make an official announcement within the next two weeks. Covey said [...]
Between Ourselves: Tih Penfil
by Jessica Carreras Tih Penfil has been volunteering for LGBT efforts in Michigan for over two decades. She is a registered art therapist, puppeteer and helps out with Motor City Pride every year. 1) You're [...]
Go Mongo, raise cash for Ruth Ellis
The Ruth Ellis Center will be hosting a fundraiser at BD's Mongolian Grill in Royal Oak at 6:30 p.m. March 9. The restaurant is located at 430 S. Main. The evening will feature guest grillers, [...]
HTJ holds first 2010 meeting
The Black Pride Society, which hosts the annual black LGBT Hotter Than July week of events every summer in Detroit, has announced its first meeting of the year. The meeting will be held at and [...]
Mombian: Prop. 8 and Playdates
By Dana Rudolph I agree with Robin Wirthlin. The Massachusetts Mormon mother and I might not seem to have a lot in common. She and her husband were featured in a 2008 video for California's [...]
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 [...]
Lieberman to introduce DADTE repeal bill
On Feb. 22, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) announced that he would soon be introducing a bill in the U.S. Senate to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The 1996 law has since prohibited LGBT servicemembers from [...]
Lambda Legal releases health care discrimination report
NEW YORK CITY - On Feb. 4, Lambda Legal released the first nationwide survey that examines health care discrimination experienced by LGBT people and people living with HIV. "The results of this survey should shock [...]
Parental rights mean better lives for kids
With the increased ability and willingness of same-sex couples to adopt and have children has come an increasingly pressing need to address the issues of same-sex parenting - not just on a case-by-case basis, but [...]
Creep of the Week: Ryan Sorba
You know you're a creep when you get booed off the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference for being too anti-gay. But that's exactly what happened to Ryan Sorba, a member of California Young [...]
Parting Glances: Tossyoursalad.com
If there's any Web site that can attest to the versatility and ingenuity of the unfettered human spirit when it comes to creative sexpression it's http://www.x-tuber.com. It's free! If you're a bit lacto. In possession [...]
S/he said: Haiti, Olympics and Maddow
Compiled by Howard Israel "Only when it comes to the equal treatment of gays and lesbians does our country see fit to dole out rights to an oppressed minority by asking permission of the oppressing [...]
The Gay Moralist: What marriage is
by John Corvino An opponent writes, "What's YOUR definition of marriage? If you're going to use a word, you need a definition of the word." I doubt that. After all, most English speakers can competently [...]