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Dear Jody: He has to know everything
Q: "Daryl" and I have been seeing each other for almost a year. Since about the third month of our relationship, he has to know where I am and what I'm doing, almost all the [...]
Book Marks: Ganymede Unfinished, Thiefing Sugar
by Richard Labonte "Room," by Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, 336 pages, $24.99 hardcover. The horrific is rendered unsettlingly normal - even hauntingly innocent - in lesbian author Donoghue's mesmerizing (and mainstream-straight) novel about 5-year-old Jack [...]
Motown bowling tournament celebrates 25 years
by BTL staff The exterior LED neon lights at MotorCity Casino Hotel will proudly display the colors of the rainbow Oct. 8-10 in recognition of the Motown Invitational Classic, Michigan's oldest and largest LGBT bowling [...]
Detroit film festival explores key issues
The Detroit Waldorf school will raise awareness on key issues concerning childhood, the environment, our food systems and Detroit during its film festival Oct. 8-9. Tickets are $10 in advance/$15 at the door (per day) [...]
Love, New York
Love or hate her, Tiffany Pollard - better known as her reality show-spawned celebrity alias, "New York" - isn't a name you forget. At least not if you caught her, and all the drama she [...]
DVD reviews: ‘Glee,’ ‘Modern Family’
'Modern Family: The Complete First Season' (Blu-ray, $59.99; DVD, $49.98) So much of "Modern Family" is fall-on-the-floor funny because, come on, who doesn't love families crazier than our own? Since making a buzzy landing last [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
'Glee' gets closer to 'Rocky' It's full steam ahead for the televised mashup machine that is "Glee." The appropriation of every single music reference of the past several decades - well, the ones they can [...]
Q Scopes: Click those slippers, Cancer!
Venus retrograding across Mars in Scorpio offers a chance to repeat or correct romantic and erotic errors. Stress from Jupiter and Uranus push it toward errors of comic proportions. Keep your sense of humor. A [...]
Can I Have Your Number?
Across 1 Story of Greeks that busted some Trojans 6 All-night bash 10 She played with Sherman on "The Jeffersons" 15 Brando's last one was in Paris 16 Zip 17 Standard of excellence 18 Charlize [...]
Breathe Art’s ‘boom’ : Apocalypse – now?
By John Quinn Jaye Stellini and Jeffery J. Steger in the Michigan and Canadian premieres of "boom." Photo: Breathe Art Theatre Project "This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but [...]
Hilberry actors make hay with Noel Coward
By Martin F. Kohn Sara Hymes, Alan Ball, Samantha L. Rosentrater and Andrew Papa in "Hay Fever" at the Hilberry Theatre. Photo: Richard L. Fosbrink Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" is the kind of thing [...]
‘Keely and Du’: an intense night of theater
By Jenn McKee Susan Boonenberg as Keely and Wendy Wagner as Du in UDM Theatre Company's production of "Keely and Du." Photo: Greg Grobis You know you're watching an intense play when an on-stage [...]
Out of Town: Atlanta’s Hippest Neighborhoods
by Andrew Collins The cultural and commercial capital of the Southeast, Atlanta http://www.atlanta.net has rapidly become one of the nation's true A-list gay destinations, with its hugely visible and dynamic GLBT scene and a wealth [...]
Baja California moves to ban recognition of same-sex marriages
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The unicameral Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican state of Baja California, where Tijuana is located, voted 18-1 on Sept. 29 to amend the state constitution to prohibit recognition [...]
Euro court says UK discriminated against lesbian
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The European Court of Human Rights ruled Sept. 28 that the United Kingdom discriminated against a woman in a same-sex partnership in the area of child support prior to [...]
Euro MPs target Polish official
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Following a row in Poland over comments by the government's minister for equality, members of the European Parliament have urged the European Commission to reconfirm that she has a [...]
EU increases attention to gender identity
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The European Union's commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, Viviane Reding, has received kudos from the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights for including gender-identity equality in the [...]
Anti-gay Moscow mayor fired
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired anti-gay Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Sept. 27, saying he had lost confidence in him. Over the past five years, Luzhkov has banned gay pride [...]
Same-sex marriage bill introduced in Australian Parliament
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Greens party introduced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia's Parliament Sept. 29. The group Australian Marriage Equality is calling for a "conscience" vote on the bill, [...]
UK finds that only 1.5 percent of population is GLB
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics has produced data suggesting that only 1.5 percent of UK adults are gay, lesbian or bisexual. As part of a yearly data [...]
Traverse City approves anti-discrimination ordinance
by Jessica Carreras TRAVERSE CITY - After a decade of trying, months of heated debate, right-wing scare tactics and skepticism voiced by some city commissioners, the Traverse City City Commission on Oct. 4 unanimously approved [...]
UM student harasser Shirvell takes leave of absence
by Jessica Carreras Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell, who made national news after word spread of his anti-gay blog attacking University of Michigan Student Assembly President Chris Armstrong, has taken a paid leave of [...]
Celebrating LGBT History
by Jessica Carreras The University of Michigan-Dearborn Gender and Sexuality Alliance wants to give its school's students a little history lesson. But these teachings on times gone by aren't anything that can be found in [...]
Gay Through History
E. Lynn Harris Every October, GLBT History Month honors 31 key players who have fought, sung, written, acted and spoke out for civil rights for all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in America [...]
Oak is their king
Mona Shores students wore "Oak is my King" shirts in support of trans home coming king Oakleigh Reed. MUSKEGON - Students at Mona Shores High School are coming together in support of 17-year-old senior [...]
MSU evaluates campus climate for LGBTQ students
by Thomas Wesley While news of several recent suicides of gay students nationwide and the recent harassment of University of Michigan Student Assembly President Chris Armstrong dominates the media, some colleges and universities are taking [...]
Adjustments for AIDS
When Dan Farkas was 20, a car accident altered his life forever. "I couldn't walk for over 30 days," he recalls. "I was in so much pain and my legs just didn't want to work. [...]
Between Ourselves: Daniel Cuschieri
by Jessica Carreras Daniel Cuschieri is a social work student at Wayne State University and intern at Affirmations LGBT community center. The 30-year-old Berkley resident hopes to eventually work as a counselor for LGBT people. [...]
Local DJ Aaron-Carl, 37, dies
DETROIT - Innovative electronic music recording artist, DJ and producer Aaron-Carl died suddenly Sept. 30 following a brief bout with cancer. He was 37. Born Aaron Carl Ragland on Aug. 19, 1973, the sweet-voiced singer [...]
Saline School Board to vote on protecting LGBT students from discrimination
At 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12, the Saline School Board will be voting on whether or not to add sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression to the list of protected characteristics named in the district's [...]
Optimism dominates AIDS vaccine conference
by Bob Roehr AIDS vaccine researchers, meeting in Atlanta, expressed renewed optimism that they might finally be on a path to creating a product that can prevent the deadly HIV virus. "A few years ago [...]
End suicides by showing teens success stories
When a teenager in the midst of personal crisis hears adults say, "Don't worry, this will all pass, and things will get better," oftentimes the message falls on deaf ears. That's not to say that [...]
Creep of the Week: Andrew Shirvell
Hopefully by the time you are reading this, Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell is out of a job. Shirvell recently took a paid leave of absence after his favorite hobby became subject of a [...]
Parting Glances: Whap! Thud! Shazam!
O, the simple 10-cent pleasures of days long gone by! The Saturday joys that a shiny quarter could bring. A coke. A box of popcorn. A cowboy movie. A Roy Rogers serial. Way back when [...]
S/he said: Bullying and ten suicide
Compiled by Howard Israel "We have the power to give these kids hope. We have the tools to reach out to them and tell our stories and let them know that it does get better. [...]
The Gay Moralist: Why aren’t we talking more about HIV?
by John Corvino You may have seen last week's headline, "Study puts HIV rate among gay men at one in five." And the story starts off grim: "One in five gay men in the United [...]
Scene Check @ Club Honey’s Grand Opening
1. Jacob, Nate, David and Joey 2. DJ Gemini and Huddle 3. Jeff, Brian, Jason, Tony and Andrew 4. James and Mario