Dear Jody: Mom makes out in front of me
Q: I am 14 years old. My mom is a lesbian. I am writing this letter to you because I know my mom always reads Dear Jody, and I think she will listen to you [...]
Queeries: Teaching kids of gay parents
By Steven Petrow Q: I teach fifth grade, and every fall we study genealogy and create what are called "family trees." I have a new student this year who has two dads, and I think [...]
Book Marks: The More I Owe You, The Twin, Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
by Richard Labonte "The More I Owe You," by Michael Sledge. Counterpoint Press, 336 pages, $15.95 paper. Fascinating fact is transformed into sumptuous fiction in Sledge's debut novel, based primarily on a slice of poet [...]
Catching up with Cazwell
Cazwell (front center) and his 'Ice Cream Truck' dancers. Photo: Marco Ovando California gurls aren't the only ones who can melt your popsicle. When Cazwell carts his "Ice Cream Truck," the summer song Katy [...]
Lisa Lampanelli: One Mean Queen
There's nothing like hearing a familiar voice on the other end of the line, and Lisa Lampanelli's is just as I remember it: loud and mean, like she's burping up Sue Sylvester. "What's up you [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Margaret Cho. Photo: David C. Lee for Asiance Queen Latifah's latest 'Dilemma' No, the dilemma is not the recent "I'm not gay" interview that her personal trainer and frequent companion [...]
Q Scopes: Breathe, Aries!
By Jack Fertig Saturn in Libra is squaring the lunar nodes, showing necessary steps in the relationships that are most important in our life's lessons. Mars is in Scorpio, offering insights to those problems, but [...]
Faith of Our Mothers
Across 1 Cross-dresser in a Kinks song 5 Purse attachment 10 Like a milquetoast 14 "Hey, sailor!" 15 "___ Family" 16 ___ angle (not straight) 17 Ceremony performed by 28-Across 20 Used rubbers 21 "Queer [...]
Everyone’s ‘beyond therapy’ at The Acorn
John Bonner and Katie Dufresne play two lost souls fated or jinxed to cross paths in "Beyond Therapy." Photo: The Acorn Theater At some point in our lives, everyone has experienced a very bad [...]
Cline’s music, not life, takes center stage
By Judith Cookis Rubens Lana Hawkins stars in "A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline." Photo: Farmers Alley Theatre Country music legend Patsy Cline's life was a mixture of struggle, success and tragedy. Her journey [...]
Bach Dor shrewishly slays comedy
By Bridgette Redman It was not merely the small size of the audience at the Hannah Center Friday night that muffled the laughter one would expect from the clever and bawdy comedy "The Taming of [...]
Gay Saudi diplomat seeks U.S. asylum
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The former first secretary of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Los Angeles has requested asylum in the United States because he says he'll be executed for being gay if he [...]
George Michael sent to jail
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Gay pop singer George Michael was jailed for eight weeks in London on Sept. 14 for crashing his car into a building last July after apparently mixing pot and [...]
Honduran policeman sentenced for stabbing trans woman
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Honduran police officer Amado Rodriguez Borjas will spend 10-13 years in prison after being convicted Sept. 9 in a stabbing attack on a transgender woman in Tegucigalpa. The woman, [...]
Irish support same-sex marriage
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Sixty-seven percent of the Irish support legalization of same-sex marriage, according to an Irish Times/Behaviour Attitudes poll released Sept. 15. But only 46 percent of those questioned support gay [...]
Israeli Supremes: City must fund gay center
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Sept. 14 that the city of Jerusalem must fund the LGBT community center, Jerusalem Open House, the same as it funds other social groups' [...]
60 LGBT protesters arrested in Kathmandu
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Around 60 LGBT protesters were arrested in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept. 14, apparently for demonstrating too close to government buildings. They were demanding that the government issue identity cards to [...]
Russian gay leader Alekseev abducted, released
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Moscow Pride founder and leader Nikolai Alekseev has reported that he was abducted by government agents of some sort at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport Sept. 15 and held for more [...]
AIDS Walk Detroit surges on
by Jessica Carreras Ferndale-based Lincoln High School currently leads the AIDS Walk High School Challenge with close to $1,000 raised. The school that raises the most funds will be rewarded with a free dance, hosted [...]
Iowa-based American Future Fund runs attack ads in Michigan
With the last of the primaries over, the right-wing funding machine has mobilized into high gear. One of the newest players in the 2010 campaign cycle is the Des Moines, Iowa-based conservative organization American Future [...]
‘Diversity is our greatest strength’
by Jessica Carreras Much discussion and celebration at the Michigan Alliance Against Hate Crimes' 2010 Response to Hate Conference, held Sept. 16 in Lansing, centered around the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes [...]
Cox chastises employee for anti-gay blog
Attorney General Mike Cox last week responded to revelations that one of his employees has a peculiar pastime: attacking openly gay University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong, along with other similar pro-life and [...]
Between Ourselves: Mike Odom
by Jessica Carreras Mike Odom is an account supervisor at Marx Layne, and has been the co-director of the Motown Invitation Classic for four years, which brings over 200 LGBT and allied bowlers to the [...]
Salesman, former Aff youth Steven William Swan dies
Steven William Swan, 38, passed away suddenly Sept. 17 after suffering acute chest pains. He was rushed to the hospital from his St. Clair Shores home and was pronounced dead. Swan, born Oct. 28, 1971, [...]
Community activist Susan Sanborn North dies
Susan North, 70, passed away Sept. 7 while vacationing in California. She had suffered a severe stroke just days before. North was a staunch supporter of Michigan's LGBT community, serving on committees at Affirmations, the [...]
OutFest continues its tradition in AA
Left, emcee Gabe Javier welcomes the crowd in Braun Court Saturday. Speakers and muscians came out to support WRAP. Photos courtesy Keith Orr ANN ARBOR - Hundreds of people danced, ate, drank, mingled and [...]
Holland is Ready to host film series
Holland is Ready, a group of community leaders working for the safety and rights of LGBT people in the Lakeshore area, will kick off its free 2010-11 film series with a documentary that was a [...]
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ fails in Senate
by BTL staff Lady Gaga addresses the crowd at the #4the14k Rally in Portland, Maine. Photo: Terry Richardson National reporter Rex Wockner contributed to this report Buoyed by a federal court ruling declaring the [...]
Feds committed to fighting hate
Every year, the Michigan Alliance Against Hate Crimes brings the Response to Hate Conference to Lansing, and a slew of law enforcement officials, students, nonprofit representatives, lawyers and concerned citizens meet to discuss and learn [...]
Creep of the Week: Tony Perkins
Everybody loves a parade, don't they? Especially gays. And gay-loving militaries the world over. I mean, with homos in the ranks, they aren't much for fighting, but they can build a fabulous flotilla of floats. [...]
Parting Glances: Life’s a drag, then you…
In the 50-some years I've been out, I've seen more female impersonators than you can shake a rhinestone tiara at. If I never see another gay deceiver - let alone play drag queen bingo with [...]
S/he said: DADT, Montana and homophobia on Facebook
Compiled by Howard Israel "If you're a white, heterosexual woman like me, your chances of being infected by HIV/AIDS are very low - just one in 50,000. But if you're a gay Hispanic man, your [...]
The Gay Moralist: Marriage and iconography
by John Corvino Some weeks ago I wrote a piece responding to a Ross Douthat column which draws on the celibate lesbian author Eve Tushnet. Tushnet had written, "If you have a unisex model of [...]
Scene Check @ Menjos
1. Chris and Scott 3. Happy Birthday, April Summers! 2. Raw Slik
Scene Check @ Menjo’s
1. Chris and Scott 2. Raw Slik 3. Happy Birthday, April Summers!