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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 - [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]