Dear Jody: Hey, that’s my food!
Q: There are three of us that have been living together in a house near campus. Two of us are in college and one has a job in the community. I'll call my roommates "Martha" [...]
Hear Me Out: Andy Bell’s so-so second CD. Plus: Country singer comes out – but how’s her new album?
Andy Bell, 'Non-Stop' The new-wave band Andy Bell was born from, Erasure, had a knack for bundling heavy issues in breezy, head-hogging synth-pop. On Bell's second solo outing, his approach is both celebratory and world-weary, [...]
Derrick Carter Does It His Way
Derrick Carter doesn't like doing interviews. The Chicago DJ - one of the city's house music majors in the '90s - hasn't given one like this in over five years, he says. And that's just [...]
Wanda’s New World
There's no better time than now for Wanda Sykes to return to her stand-up roots. Her eponymous Fox late-night show was canceled after one season and "The New Adventures of Old Christine," the CBS sitcom [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Banderas, Lohan sign on for skin flicks It's reunion time for Antonio Banderas and Lindsay Lohan. No, they're not reuniting with each other. They were never united in the first place. [...]
Q Scopes: You can change the world, Gemini!
By Jack Fertig In his 84-year orbit Uranus spends seven years in each sign, each defining a period of LGBT history. On May 27 he moves into Aries, signaling a major turning point. DADT should [...]
Kined Words
Across 1 Worn-out stallions 5 Sound of three men in a tub 10 Speak like a tough guy 14 Middle Eastern sultanate 15 Undeliverable letter, in post-office slang 16 Capable of performing 17 Stuff out [...]
The OutField: Gearing up for the Gay Games
By Dan Woog In 2001, as Chicago was bidding to host the Gay Games, Kurt Dahl decided to lend a hand. He didn't know much about the Games - he vaguely recalled something about Greg [...]
Fading ‘Phantom’ still entrances
By Bridgette M. Redman All the fantastical, grand elements that made "The Phantom of the Opera" into the most commercially successful entertainment hit of modern times still thrill audiences and inspire the knowledge that live [...]
Williamston brings Midwesterners ‘Home’
By Bridgette M. Redman There are some words that defy easy definition. "Home" is one of them and "Midwest" is another. But while they are concepts that resist being nailed down accurately to simplistic sound [...]
Same-sex marriage comes to Portugal
By Barry Hatton LISBON, Portugal - Portugal's conservative president announced May 17 that he is ratifying a law allowing gay marriage in the predominantly Catholic country. The head of state's decision to permit the enactment [...]
District attorneys ‘open a dialogue’ with LGBT community
by Jessica Carreras DETROIT - At a May 13 forum hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, lawyers and LGBT community members converged with the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of [...]
Windsor gay man beaten and robbed
On May 21, a Windsor man was the victim of an alleged hate crime and robbery by two men who assaulted him as he was walking home from a friend's house early Friday morning, only [...]
Between Ourselves: Lateshia Dowell
by Jessica Carreras Lateshia Dowell may be fresh out of college, but the 22-year-old Oak Park resident is ready to make a difference. Recently, Dowell joined the team of Steppin' Out as the walk team [...]
Speak Out: Contemplating Kagan
by Eric Rader The Senate confirmation battle can now begin. Two weeks ago, President Obama announced his nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. [...]
S.P.I.C.E. calls for film submissions
S.P.I.C.E. has set the date for their fourth annual Hotter Than July Film Festival, set to take place on July 20 at the Focus: HOPE Conference Center, located in Detroit. Now, they just need more [...]
Banding together for gay business
"We must all band together." That was the reason given by Metro Detroit Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce founder Eric Licht for creating the business networking and promotion group specifically geared towards LGBT business [...]
BREAKING: Lesbian country artist Chely Wright to headline Michigan Pride
LANSING - The 2010 Michigan Pride Diversity Festival will welcome country artist Chely Wright, who recently came out publicly, to the Mainstage on June 12 at Burchard Park. Monique Goch, outreach director of Michigan Pride, [...]
To enumerate or not to enumerate
by Dana Rudolph There's a tug-of-war underway in the movement to pass more laws to address the growing problem of bullying, and it centers on whether such laws should "enumerate" bullying that targets LGBT youth. [...]
Hate crime reporting burden lies partially with us
At a May 13 meeting at the offices of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan in Detroit, the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Michigan made a promise to the state's LGBT [...]
Creep of the Week: Mark Souder
OK "family values" politicians, I don't care if you cheat on your wives. Frankly, that's between you and your wife and whomever else you're humping. But when you hold your pecker up as the holy [...]
Parting Glances: Teabagboys.com
Curiosity got the best of me and I went with a new acquaintance to a lecture, "Wide-Stance Christians: New Horizons for Tea Room Ministries." My friend, "Mr. XXII," and I hooked up on Facebook. He [...]
S/he said: Outing, cheating and Laura Bush
Compiled by Howard Israel "We were actually told that any student that comes to school dressed in the opposite gender's clothing will be sent home and suspended and it could be on our permanent record. [...]
Viewpoint: Never on Sunday with Grappa
The abundance of misinformation bantered about by opponents of LGBT rights never ceases to amaze me. One would think in this day and age with Google, Bing and all the other search engines, folks would [...]
The Gay moralist: The danger of the gay closet
by John Corvino When I was a high school sophomore, one of my classmates had the misfortune of popping an erection in the communal shower after gym class. I doubt "Paul" was gay. Most likely, [...]