Dear Jody: Moving On
Moving on Q: My partner "Janis" died from a stroke five months ago. She and I weren't aware that she had any heart issues, so it was quite a shock to say the least. She [...]
Queeries: When to tell your date you’re transgendered?
By Steven Petrow When to tell your date "I'm transgender"? Q: I've told men upfront that I'm a male-to-female trans woman (I date straight guys) and I've also waited till longer into the relationship, and [...]
Getting Randy
Randal Turner jokes that the semi-shirtless photos on his Facebook page would be appropriate for our publication - which he keeps wanting to call Between The Sheets in honor of the whore he's portraying in [...]
Go, Jonsi! Sigur Ros singer’s flamboyant solo debut is amazing. Plus: Bitch’s bitchin’ second CD.
Hear Me Out Jonsi, 'Go' You won't understand much of what Jonsi Birgisson, the gay bandleader of Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Ros, sings on his solo outing. But here's the gist of it: Life is [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Gaga for 'Glee' The all-Madonna-song episode is coming up soon (begging the question of who gets to keep Jane Lynch's cone bra), but this past weekend, "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy, at [...]
Who’s your drag Momma?
By Bebe Zahara Benet Respect your elders and your history! That was one of the themes of this week's episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race," and no one did that better than the very funny, very [...]
Look wise, Virgo!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Venus in Taurus, Mars in Leo and Jupiter in Pisces are all strong and happy but in discordant aspects, suggesting way too much of many good things. Slow down to [...]
Oscar Night Revelation
Across 1 Streisand, for short 5 Price tag 9 R.E.M. frontman Michael 14 Queens stadium name 15 Island of Barrie's land 16 Animal handler 17 Stadium level 18 Threaded fastener 19 Writer Saikaku 20 "The [...]
Focus on the NCAA
By Dan Woog The OutField It's one thing for Apple or Doritos to hawk their wares during the Super Bowl. It's another thing entirely for Focus on the Family to do so. The right-wing Christian [...]
‘Carol Burnet Show’ take two…and action!
By D. A. Blackburn Last season, critic Donald V. Calamia took a stroll downriver to Wyandotte - a charming community, not generally listed among Southeast Michigan's vibrant enclaves of theater - to review a production [...]
“The Exonerated” to raise funds for ACLU
LANSING - Lansing's newest professional company, Stormfield Theatre, will perform a staged reading of "The Exonerated" by authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen April 2-3 at the Riverwalk Theatre. The Friday, April 2 performance is [...]
Charleston, South Carolina
by Andrew Collins Out of Town One of the wealthiest and largest cities of pre-Colonial America, Charleston today mixes expected, if stereotypical, Southern charms like plantation museums, cobblestone lanes, ancient military sites and traditional Lowcountry [...]
Hungarian court upholds gay partnership law
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Hungary's Constitutional Court upheld the nation's same-sex registered-partnership law March 23. Conservative forces - including the Christian Democratic People's Party, the Society for Christian Physicians in Hungary, the Pro [...]
Malawi gay couple to face full trial
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The gay couple in Blantyre, Malawi, who were jailed in December after they staged a public engagement ceremony will face a full trial, a judge decided March 22. Following [...]
Dutch gay group plans to sue U.S. general
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Dutch foundation Pink Army said March 22 it will sue retired U.S. general and former NATO commander John Sheehan in federal court in California for slander and defamation. [...]
Skinheads attack Bulgarian gay rally
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Six skinheads were arrested in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, on March 20 after they attacked gay and lesbian activists who were protesting a City Council decision to ban public displays of [...]
Anti-lesbian Spanish judge will stay suspended
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Spain's Constitutional Court has refused an appeal from a judge in Murcia who was banned from office for 10 years by the Supreme Court after he refused to let [...]
Police ban ILGA conference
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Police in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, forced the cancellation of the fourth Asian regional conference of ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, the group said [...]
UN to target gay sex bans
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs UNAIDS, a grouping of 10 United Nations agencies, will launch a new campaign to repeal laws that criminalize gay sex in 85 of the world's approximately 194 nations. UNAIDS [...]
LGBTs infiltrate anti-gay presentation
by Eric Folkmire GROSSE POINTE - Dozens of LGBT and allied people filled the Grosse Pointe War Memorial on March 25 to protest the message of Mission America organizer Linda Harvey. Point of Relevance, an [...]
An unlikely activist
by Jessica Carreras Eric Alva didn't know he was a hero. Sure, the retired Marine had spent 13 years serving his country. He had lost his leg in battle as the first American wounded in [...]
Focus groups explore past, future of state’s LGBT organization
by Jessica Carreras FERNDALE - The organization formed by the merger between the Triangle Foundation and Michigan Equality held a series of focus groups over March 26-29 in order to gather anonymous input from a [...]
Date meeting turns to robbery, beating
FERNDALE - At 2 a.m. March 26, Ferndale Police were called to Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak after a 48-year-old male reported being beaten, robbed and held against his will beginning Thursday night at his [...]
‘More than southeast Michigan’
by Jessica Carreras Members of West Michigan's LGBT community are calling for the organization created by the merger of the Triangle Foundation and Michigan Equality to live up to their word - they want the [...]
Speak Out: Health reform breakdown
by Eric Rader Yes, they did. In a stunning cliffhanger of a vote last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed landmark health care legislation that fulfills a century-old quest by presidents of both parties [...]
Between Ourselves: Rachel Lutz
by Jessica Carreras Rachel Lutz may be a minority in her thinking, but she's thrilled to tell people she's from Detroit. The 29-year-old ally (who currently lives in Bloomfield Hills, but is looking to move [...]
U-M elects openly gay student body president
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan students elected Chris Armstrong as the president of the Michigan Student Assembly on Thursday, making him the first openly gay student body president in the University's history. Armstrong, a [...]
OutCenter hiring assistant
The OutCenter of Berrien County is seeking a part-time program assistant to help out with office and programming duties 20 hours per week. The OutCenter serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of southwest [...]
Census help at KGLRC
For the first time ever, gay and lesbian couples will be counted in the U.S. Census, and the Kalamazoo Gay and Lesbian Resource Center wants to help make sure that happens. To assist in that [...]
U.S. State Dept. reports on LGBT life in nearly every nation
by Rex Wockner This year's U.S. State Department "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" looked at LGBT life in nearly every nation on the planet and did an excellent job of documenting anti-LGBT abuse across [...]
Repeal of DADT would be enactment of freedom
Depending on who you are and what your position in life is, the way you support the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - the U.S. military's ban on gays and lesbians serving openly - [...]
Creep of the Week: Gen. James Conway
It's no secret that there's a horde of gay guys waiting in the wings to join the military the second "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" gets repealed. And we all know where they're headed: the Marines. [...]
Parting Glances: Ex-Southpaw Journal
For six months now I've been using my right hand only. See the block lettering in this journal. Some parts illegible. My p's look like q's. My i's blend into my u's. Scribbles. Got to [...]
S/he said: Catholics, DADT and coming out
compiled by Howard Israel "What's fascinating in the steady onslaught of new incidences of previous cover-ups of child rape and molestation in the Catholic hierarchy is the notion that the hierarchs tended to see child [...]
Viewpoint: A winter you never expect to come
by Dave Ellison My favorite professor in college once remarked that, for many students, education was like "so much grain stored against a winter they never expect to come." The same could be said for [...]