Dear Jody: Spending too much at Christmas
Q: My boyfriend "James" and I have been together for three years - lived together for almost two years. Every Christmas, we have the same conversation about presents: how much we should spend on each [...]
Queeries: Too affectionate at the mall?
By Steven Petrow Q: Do you think there was anything improper about the lesbian couple I read about recently who held hands in a public mall, kissed each other lightly, and then found themselves asked [...]
Scene Check @ Adam’s Apple
1. Marty, Jose, Jeff and Tim 2. David, Aaron and Rick 3. Chilli and Marty BTL photos: Danielle
Christina Aguilera: Can’t Hold Her Down
Christina Aguilera's career is built of bold moves - be it the "Beautiful" video, with its tight shots of men making out, or musically shifting from shameless pop to futuristic mode, as she did on [...]
Hear Me Out… for the Holidays: Mariah’s holiday spirit carries sequel. Plus: Indigo Girls and ‘Glee’
Mariah Carey, 'Merry Christmas II You' Sequels usually suck, but Mariah Carey's not going down with that sleigh on her cleverly titled offshoot to her "Merry Christmas" behemoth. That 16-year-old album spawned "All I Want [...]
‘A Day With HIV in America,’ pictorial depicts diverse face of AIDS in U.S.
In time for World AIDS Day Dec.1, Positively Aware, a magazine devoted to HIV treatment, announced Nov. 23 that "A Day With HIV In America," a photo essay published in the new November/December 2010 issue [...]
HIV Testing Sites in Michigan for World AIDS Day
Affirmations 290 West 9 Mile Road, Ferndale 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Nov. 27 5:30 - 8 p.m. Dec. 2 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Dec. 4 248-398-7105 AIDS Partnership Michigan 2751 East Jefferson, Suite [...]
Michigan World AIDS Day Events
Ann Arbor World AIDS Week Committee at U-M Kick-off Breakfast Come learn about the events around campus from HIV testing to research panels to fundraiser nights. 7 a.m. Nov. 29, Mason Hall/The Diag, Ann Arbor. [...]
White-Ginder to keynote LAAN’s 25th anniversary
BTL staff LANSING - On Dec. 3, the Lansing Area AIDS Network will host their sixth Red Ribbon Gala and Auction Event, and this year they will be hosting a very special keynote speaker, Jeanne [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Nate Berkus is here to 'Help' It's not all interior design and life makeovers for Nate Berkus anymore. The man who got his start as Oprah's go-to design guy is taking [...]
Homo for the Holidays
Nov. 25 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC; 9 a.m.) The 84th annual march through midtown Manhattan will feature performances by Big Rush, Victoria Justice and India.Arie; appearances by Kanye West, Jessica Simpson, Gladys Knight and [...]
Q Scopes: Consider your passion, Taurus!
By Jack Fertig Mars is in Sagittarius feeding energy but requiring discipline. He's now trine to Eris, firing up questions about identity and personal or group progress. LGBT people typically live with each foot in [...]
No More Bullying
Across 1 Invitation to a top? 5 Bottomless 9 Expressed, as farewell 13 Rupert Everett's " ___ Life" 14 Proof part 15 Eurythmics' "Would ___ to You?" 16 Founder of 37-Across 18 Milano moola 19 [...]
The OutField: The athletic buddy system
This fall's epidemic of gay youth suicides shocked and saddened millions of Americans. Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" video project provided hope to young people struggling with their sexual orientation; LGBT men and women told [...]
Fine comedic team owns ‘Greater Tuna’
By Bridgette M. Redman Bertha Bumiller (Wayne David Parker) gets interviewed by Chad Hartford (Aral Gribble) in Williamston Theatre's production of "Greater Tuna." Photo: Chris Purchis "Greater Tuna" is not a new show. It [...]
Hilberry’s ‘Richard III’: Ambition unleashed
By John Quinn Carollette Phillips as Lady Anne and Edmund Alyn Jones as Richard in "Richard III" at the Hilberry Theatre. Photo: Richard L. Fosbrink We have put a nasty season of campaigning behind [...]
The alienated have landed at The Ringwald
Jamie Warrow (center) is crowded by Joel Mitchell, Jon Ager and Leah Smith in Harry Kondoleon's "Christmas on Mars" The Ringwald Theatre. Photo: Colleen Scribner Anyone walking into The Ringwald Theatre expecting "Christmas on [...]
“Drowsy Chaperone”: Lotsa laughs, songs and fun
By Michael H. Margolin Phil Powers as A Man in a Chair. Photo: Jude Walton The charming musical "The Drowsy Chaperone" gets its first professional Michigan outing at Ann Arbor's Performance Network and proves [...]
Skillman to leave Equality Michigan
DETROIT - Alicia Skillman, executive director of Equality Michigan for the past two years, resigned Nov. 22, effective Dec. 31. Former board chair Denise Brogan-Kator has taken the reins as the chief executive officer, and [...]
Aging advocates debate assisted living options for LGBTs
by Jessica Carreras When Michigan nonprofit Citizens for Better Care teamed up with Affirmations community center to begin work on a training program that would better the lives of LGBT residents in the state's assisted [...]
Ecumenical service for World AIDS Day
FERNDALE - The seventh annual World AIDS Day Ecumenical Service will take place Dec. 1 at Zion Lutheran Church in Ferndale. The service is an offspring of the traditional People Who Care About People With [...]
Anti-violence report shows decrease in reported violence
The National Coalition of Anti-violence Programs released its 2009 annual report in October, and though the number of reported instances of violence in the LGBT community was down, the news may not be as good [...]
SpeakOut: Moving toward equality
by Eric Rader With the midterm elections behind us, it's time to look ahead. The recent Republican victories would seem to be a major setback for the LGBT community. Since the early 1980s, the Republican [...]
Metro Parent hosts bullying workshop in Troy
It's always difficult being a teenager, but it seems like today's teens face more challenges than ever before, from navigating social media to the pressures of fitting in. In response, Metro Parent Magazine will present [...]
Levin asks early release of DADT study
WASHINGTON DC - Countering speculation that U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) might agree to stripping the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" from the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, Levin's press office stated to BTL [...]
iPrEx Trial: Key Findings*
Efficacy: The trial found that a once-daily pill containing tenofovir plus emtricitabine (brand name Truvada) provided an average of 44 percent additional protection to men who have sex with men (MSM) who also received comprehensive [...]
C-SPAN to televise Prop. 8 trial live
SAN FRANCISCO - On Wed. Nov. 17, Managing Director of the Courage Campaign, Eden James, announced that the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will allow C-SPAN to televise the Dec. 6 Prop. 8 trial [...]
HIV Drugs Can Prevent Infection
by Bob Roehr HIV drugs can do a remarkable job of suppressing high viral loads to undetectable levels, but can they prevent that infection in the first place? Most people thought they could in theory, [...]
SPLC’s Intelligence Report: Gays targeted for hate crimes far more than any other minority in U.S.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Homosexuals are far more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group in the United States, according to a new analysis of federal hate crime statistics [...]
National business and leadership conference reports record attendance
WASHINGTON - The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce wrapped up its seventh annual National Business and Leadership Conference Nov. 21. The NGLCC saw record-breaking attendance numbers and stronger-than-ever support from policy makers and [...]
BTL Editorial: AIDS
There was a time in the early days of the epidemic when HIV/AIDS was synonymous with gay. It entered the U.S. through the gay male community and quickly spread, wiping out tens of thousands of [...]
Creep of the Week: Peter LaBarbera
Have you ever been at an airport looking around you at all of the harried travelers in flip flops and sweatpants stuffing their faces with dinner plate sized Cinnabons and thought to yourself, "If only [...]
Letter: Plymouth-Canton has taken steps to protect students
I recently read the "Michigan 'not listening' to bullied kids" article in the Nov. 10 edition. While I wish to emphasize that I am not denying or belittling the Tripp Family's experience, I would like [...]
Parting Glances: Get stuffed, Rosie!
As a kid growing up after World War Two, I was fascinated by two women living on the fourth floor of our Peterboro apartment building. Each had short-cropped hair. Each wore slacks. They were always [...]
She/He Said: Living rooms, setbacks, and handcuffs
compiled by Howard Israel "I think it does a lot of good. I think any time we're getting into people's living rooms showing them complicated, interesting, relevant portrayals of gay people, we're doing something right. [...]
General Gayety: Transgender steps forward
By Leslie Robinson Recently our community marked another annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a somber day devoted to memorializing those murdered for their gender identity. Also recently, however, we've seen transgender breakthroughs that are, in [...]
Annie Lennox Speaks Out
Photo: Mike Owen Legendary status, earned through over three decades in the music business, hasn't changed Annie Lennox. Despite being a global superstar, first making an impression as part of the Eurythmics in the [...]
Keys, Lady Gaga to sign off Twitter for charity
By MESFIN FEKADU Associated Press Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga take charity work seriously, and they're going offline to prove it. Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher and other celebrities have joined a new campaign called Digital [...]