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Q: I am a 35-year-old woman and my partner "Sarah" is 39. We have been living together for seven years and recently decided that we wanted to have a baby. I will be the baby [...]
Q: I am a 35-year-old woman and my partner "Sarah" is 39. We have been living together for seven years and recently decided that we wanted to have a baby. I will be the baby [...]
by Richard Labonte "Spanking New," by Clifford Henderson. Bold Strokes Books, 288 pages, $16.95 paper. Spanky, the narrator of this delicious novel, is an unborn baby who can flit from one character's thoughts and emotions [...]
by Jessica Carreras If the trend in TV and movies lately is to portray gay and lesbian characters without focusing on their orientation, "Off and Running: An American Coming of Age Story," showing Saturday as [...]
Something's concocting in Cameron Carpenter's outrageous mind regarding the garb he'll wear for his local engagement. It's a hodgepodge of khakis, a fishing vest, a ratty corduroy jacket over a button-down shirt from the '80s, [...]
Tret Fure's 16-year-old self wouldn't be happy with her. She never made it as big as she imagined herself being as a teenager, but after four decades in the business, her pride stands tall in [...]
By Romeo San Vicente You will believe an elephant can fly In keeping with the Disney Corporation's transparent bid for global domination of all adorability-based product, they want to bring "Dumbo" to Broadway. Tony Award-winning [...]
By Bebe Zahara Benet As I travel all around the country to promote my new single, so many people have told me that this season's Jessica Wild reminds them of me. I told my "mija" [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Zipping through Aries, Mercury is keeping tongues and wits sharp, and maybe dangerously ahead of good sense and manners. This week he aspects Jupiter, expanding wit and wisdom and also [...]
When you think of a spelling bee, what image pops into your mind? A slow-moving, geeky yawn-fest of rarely used words? Actually, there's much more behind the time-honored tradition than meets the eye, which creators [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman When it is dark, dreary and gray, the rain muddles one's surroundings, smudging the colors and lines leaving merely an impression of life. But when one steps back, as the very [...]
I'll be honest: The last place I wanted to be on Saturday night was reviewing yet another production of the original "Late Night Catechism." It's not that I dislike the show. In fact, I've probably [...]
By Rev. Deb Dysert Associate Pastor at MCC Detroit I recently had my teaching assignment changed. I was moved from a high school setting serving students with cognitive impairments (developmental delays) to a school building [...]
Dr. Matthew Clark Can you be gay and Christian? The answer is "yes!" Say it to yourself and believe it! You are a child of God. Christ loves you just as he does our heterosexual [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Fifty members of Lithuania's Parliament have petitioned the Prosecution Office to stop the Vilnius city government from permitting a gay pride parade in May. The MPs say the parade [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs London's High Court on March 17 exempted a Catholic adoption charity from laws that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in the provision of public services. The court said [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Same-sex couples started marrying in Mexico City on March 11. The first same-sex weddings took place in the Municipal Palace with Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and numerous other officials in [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Same-sex marriages could start in Portugal in May. Parliament finalized and passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage on Feb. 11. The law was sent to President Anibal Cavaco Silva [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A 27-year-old man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was sent to jail for a year, fined $1,330, and will be lashed 1,000 times for appearing in a gay-themed video. Ahmad [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Slovenia has seen its first convictions leading to imprisonment in an anti-gay hate crime case. Three men will spend 18 months in jail for attacking the Ljubljana lesbian bar [...]
by Jessica Carreras Mother's Day may be two months away, but for Sherry Duquet and Sandra Boulton, celebrating moms and the beauty and strength of all women is a year-round job. The couple owns Solstice [...]
by Jessica Carreras KALAMAZOO - Openly gay Kalamazoo City Commissioner Terry Kuseske underwent surgery Friday, March 19, as a beginning to treatment for pancreatic cancer. Kuseske, who became the first gay commissioner in Kalamazoo when [...]
Hundreds of metro Detroiters will kick up their cowboy (and girl) boots for a one-of-a-kind experience at Affirmations' 11th annual Big Bash. This year's event - dubbed the Rhinestone Rodeo - is set to take [...]
by Jessica Carreras Eric Folkmire is a 22-year-old activist from Warren. He serves as the networking and media chair for the Southeast Michigan Dyke March, which empowers lesbians and their GBT and allied friends to [...]
The organization created by the merger of the Triangle Foundation and Michigan Equality has announced upcoming Town Hall/Focus Group Sessions aimed at spurring conversations about how the organization can best serve Michigan's LGBT community. These [...]
by Rex Wockner Gays and lesbians were arrested in three separate protests March 18 at the White House and at the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. "Don't Ask, [...]
By Lisa Keen A bitterly divided U.S. House of Representatives approved the Senate health care reform bill late at night on March 21 - a bill that includes no provisions to prohibit discrimination based on [...]
by Chris Geidner Since Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) first began hearings last month on the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy," he's had many witnesses voice disagreement with him. Never, though, has the chairman of [...]
They say that every dog has its day. Well, perhaps the same is true when it comes to the legislation we care about. Health care reform's day, obviously, was Sunday night (perhaps Tuesday morning, too). [...]
A quick history lesson: In 1995, during the Bosnian War, thousands of people were murdered in the town of Srebrenica. It was - and still is - horrific. But it turns out the entire thing [...]
I feel remiss to the many PG fans of Sr. Serena Scatterpin, Renegade Sisters of Mary, who've sent worrywart e-mails about her absence from these too-frequently-secular columns. Over the years Recovering Catholics - which seems [...]
compiled by Howard Israel "I didn't want to overwhelm them or make them have to deal with this thing that they didn't ask for. But then I realize that that's an illogical thought because I, [...]
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith One key thing about being a transgender person today is simply being able to exist. Taken to its most extreme, this refers to those who murder us, who attempt to erase [...]
Two groups from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law - the UDM OutLaws, a gay activism group, and the school's chapter of the conservative Federalist Society - have joined forces to bring a [...]
On Friday, March 26, Ferndale Police were called to Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak after a male victim reported being beaten, robbed and held against his will beginning Thursday night at his Ferndale home. The [...]