Dear Jody: Cheating with a vengeance
Q: "Carrie" and I have been together for eight years. We started out monogamous in our relationship - that's what we agreed to. Two years ago, Carrie told me that she wanted to bring others [...]
Cocktail Chatter: A Yankee Sazerac
By Ed Sikov "This is like 'Jezebel,'" I snarled as I leafed through the cocktail books. Some were mine, but most came with the house, which was built by the guy who owned Showers - [...]
Famous female impersonator does gay icons during Windsor show
Frank Marino brings his famous female impersonations, including Britney Spears, Madonna and Bette Midler, to Canada at 9 p.m. Aug. 7 in the Colosseum at Caesars Windsor during his 75-minute show. Marino, in his role [...]
Antique Market offers unique finds
ANN ARBOR - If you have ever searched for that perfect accent item, or piece of furniture to complete your living room, look no further. The Ann Arbor Antiques Market will have thousands of items [...]
Sushi spot opens in downtown Detroit
DETROIT - The colorful, cool and comfortable ambiance hits you instantly upon entering Wah-hoo, making the new Chinese/Asian style restaurant in Detroit's downtown already feel like a hot spot. There's a solid wood, wrap-around cocktail [...]
Queen of the Night
Kelis doesn't take crap from anyone. Not from closet cases. Not from PETA, which she chewed out recently after they got on her case for wearing fur. That so much about her - two Grammy [...]
Hear Me Out: M.I.A.’s latest misses the mark. Plus: Sheryl Crow’s soulful ‘Memphis’
M.I.A., 'MAYA' M.I.A. knows what it's like to be different. Three albums in and the native Sri Lanka digi-punk provocateur's as trippy and surging as she was when 2008's "Paper Planes" shot her into superstardom [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Amy Adams is the new Janis Joplin. Yes, really. Years ago, as the search for an actor to play Janis Joplin heated up, the late Brittany Murphy saw her apparently very [...]
Q Scopes: Keep it legal, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig Venus entering Libra will line up with Saturn (think of Margaret Dumont) then aspects Mars, Uranus, Jupiter and Capricorn (enter the Marx Brothers!). You can maintain dignity only by relinquishing control. Your [...]
The OutField: GLAD all over sports
By Dan Woog Howard Cosell once called sports "the toy department of human life." So why would an LGBT legal organization - one whose mission is challenging barriers in areas like marriage, the military and [...]
Hope’s ‘Ballyhoo’ does Uhry proud
By Bridgette M. Redman Alfred Uhry is a popular man in Michigan this summer. The playwright who created a trilogy of shows about Jews in Atlanta, Georgia has had all three works staged by professional [...]
A squirrelly comedy at Planet Ant Theatre
Twice a year improv troupes from all over Southeast Michigan come together at Planet Ant Theatre for "Colony Fest," an almost week-long battle to determine which group earns the privilege of writing and starring in [...]
Radio show tickles ears, delights eyes
By Bridgette M. Redman The Capital TheatreWorks proved that a radio show can be as pleasing to the eyes as it is to the ears. The "1940s Radio Variety Show" combines four radio show classics [...]
Gay weddings begin in Argentina
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Same-sex couples began marrying in Argentina on July 30, nine days after President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signed the bill legalizing same-sex marriage. It passed the Senate on July [...]
Euro Court dings Austria over insurance discrimination
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Austria on July 22 for failure to recognize a same-sex partnership as "family," as required by the European Convention on Human [...]
Gays march in Jerusalem
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Jerusalem's eighth LGBT pride parade attracted thousands of marchers July 29 along with anti-gay protesters. The counterdemonstrators carried banners calling gay people sick. The parade traveled from Independence Park [...]
First pride parade planned in Nepal
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Kathmandu, Nepal, will see its first LGBT pride parade Aug. 25, says Sunil Pant, an openly gay member of Parliament. The procession will include elephants, a band and street [...]
Montenegro passes gay protections
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Montenegro passed a law banning anti-LGBT discrimination July 28, fulfilling a requirement for European Union membership. The vote was 67-6 with 4 abstentions. Passage came despite opposition from the [...]
Russian marriage case headed to Euro Court
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A Russian lesbian couple sued in the European Court of Human Rights on July 21 over Russia's refusal to register their Canadian marriage. Irina Fedotova and Irina Shipitko claim [...]
A Delicate Balance
by Jessica Carreras Norman Silk is feeling a little bipolar. It's easy to understand why: On any given day, the co-owner of the Birmingham-based floral design shop Blossoms deals with deaths and births, sympathy and [...]
Dangerous Art
by Jessica Carreras At first glance, Thomas McMillen-Oakley's photographs won't yield much response: They're photos of kids, sometimes with adults, sometimes playing outdoors with each other. Big deal. But a closer look at the Jackson-based [...]
Michigan Supreme Court could make progressive shift
by Lucy Hough Much more is at stake this upcoming election in Michigan than just who is to become governor. Though often a race that flies under the radar, two seats in the Michigan Supreme [...]
Speak Out: Our November deadline
by Eric Rader Now that the primary election is over in Michigan, attention shifts to November's general election. Much of this year has been consumed with speculation about how many seats the Democrats might lose [...]
Between Ourselves: Tony O’Rourke-Quintana
by Jessica Carreras Tony O'Rourke-Quintana is an organizer for the LGBT Latino nonprofit Detroit Latin@z, and a dedicated lifelong volunteer to HIV/AIDS causes. He is working to promote the LGBT Latino community, as well as [...]
Setting high GOALs
by Lucy Hough A slew of LGBT and allied public safety and law enforcement officials have recently launched Michigan Gay Officers Action League. The first of its kind in the state, MI-GOAL is a chapter [...]
Holland Is Ready responds
by Jim Larkin HOLLAND - A community group will not be directly responding to a full page advertisement that it says contained blatant untruths about gay people, but it will be attempting to ease the [...]
University wins court case after counseling student refuses to help gay client
by Lucy Hough YPSILANTI - On Monday, July 26, a federal court ruled in favor of Eastern Michigan University after former graduate counseling student Julea Ward sued the school for dismissing her from the program [...]
HRC Calls on Ball Memorial Hospital to adopt LGBT Inclusive Patient’s Bill of Rights
WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign - the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization - today called Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Ind., to immediately adopt an LGBT inclusive patient nondiscrimination [...]
Calif. gay discrimination suit yields $600,000 settlement
GUERNEVILLE, Calif. - Sonoma County has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by an elderly gay man who said social workers kept him from seeing his dying partner in the hospital. Clay Greene, [...]
Holland fights hate
The gay community is used to being bombarded by negativity by anti-gay organizations and individuals. From Westboro Baptist Church to the American Family Association, we see protestors at Pride events, signage at concerts and sometimes, [...]
Creep of the Week: Gary McCullough
Ellen DeGeneres has got to be so pissed at Gary McCullough right now. Everything was going so well for her on "American Idol" and he had to go ruin everything by blabbing to the world [...]
Parting Glances: Round peg, square whole
A major evangelical outreach - Send Our Denominations Out Ministering (S.O.D.O.M.) - is "thrilled with the unprecedented success" of its buddy-buddy approach to changing "Satanically bent" gays into God's straight shooters. The Summer 2010 Issue [...]
S/he said: Dancing, Anne Rice and the “gAyTM”
Compiled by Howard Israel "We agree watching same-sex ballroom can take some processing. The first 10 minutes is strange, but after that, you just watch the dancing. In all ballroom dance, there is undeniable sexual [...]
The Gay Moralist: What I learned at gay camp
by John Corvino "Remind me, dear," I said to my partner Mark on the way to the airport, "what I am absolutely, positively not doing again next year?" "You are not doing camp next year," [...]
Viewpoint: Gays using anti-gay law
by Jay Kaplan You may have seen the recent media reports that singer Melissa Ethridge and her partner of five years, Tammy Lynn, are splitting up. The California couple had two children together. California law [...]
Scene Check: Adam’s Apple
1. Ted, Tim, Brian, Mike, Jim and Larry 2. Diana, Jeff, Jeff and Mark 3. Alfredo, Jenn and Jeff 4. Jerry and David
McCain: Against filibuster of Defense Bill before he was for it
WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was quoted in Congressional Quarterly Aug. 5 as saying "I do not plan to filibuster" the National Defense Authorization Act - the bill to which repeal of the discriminatory [...]
Brutal stabbing in Battle Creek could be hate crime
by BTL Staff BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - A brutal stabbing in Battle Creek last week could be a hate crime, Battle Creek police officials said. According to a report on the website for the Battle [...]