Dear Jody: Sex… in my sleep?
Q: I have a problem and I can't discuss it with any of my friends because I think I would just become a big joke. I'm embarrassed by it, and it would be even worse [...]
Cocktail Chatter: The Old Fashioned
by Ed Sikov After that spirit-killing dinner with Craig and his - gag - new boyfriend, Kyle (my perfect Kyle, with his gymnast's ass and a treasure trail that brings tears to my eyes), Dan [...]
Marsha Ambrosius: ‘Hate is hate’
Marsha Ambrosius isn't going to tell you that it gets better. Her video, "Far Away," is an all-too-real take on gay bullying and suicide that's inspired by her friend's attempt at taking his own life. [...]
The last dance
By Andrea Poteet After more than 50 years, an avant-garde dance company will take the stage one last time. But as the curtain falls on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which will disband following the [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente 'A Star is' Beyonce It looks like the always-seemingly-being-discussed update of "A Star Is Born," the one Beyonce has been attached to for some time now (and before her it was [...]
Q Scopes: Trust your instincts, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig The Sun lining up with Neptune in Aquarius, and in a rare combination of aspects with Uranus (for the last time in our lifetime!), offers an unusual boost to intuitive clarity. ARIES [...]
Hear Me Out: Ricky Martin brings the boom-booms for the bon-bon
Ricky Martin, 'Musica + Alma + Sexo' Ricky Martin's totally shocking, world-rocking confession - that he's (omigawd!) gay - hasn't affected his shameless penchant for cheesy pop. Listen to the tracks on his first album [...]
A Different Perspective
Across 1 "Chicago" director Marshall et al. 5 Top of St. Peter's 11 Flirts with, with "on" 15 Etheridge's "I'm the ___ One" 16 Beat up on 17 Taking care of business 18 "I don't [...]
The OutField: Ryan Quinn comes out with ‘The Fall’
By Dan Woog Ryan Quinn calls being gay a "gift." There are challenges, sure - but, he says, "as you overcome them you gain the rewards of being more introspective and aware." That gift has [...]
‘Veils’ asks questions: Do we have answers?
By John Quinn Amanda Lyn Jungquist and Maria Thomas in "The Dance of the Seven Veils." Photo: Nicole Ladonne Photography Before Salome danced for the head of the Baptist, it seems the goddess Ishtar [...]
A musical of epic proportions at Meadow Brook
"Reunion: A Musical Epic in Miniature" continues at Meadow Brook Theatre through March 6. Photo: Rick Smith History, as the saying goes, is written by the victors. But even so, as the decades and [...]
‘Yankee Tavern’ is a doodle dandy
By John Quinn Joel Mitchell in Breathe Art Theatre's "Yankee Tavern." Photo: Demetri Vacratsis Steven Dietz's "Yankee Tavern" is an unsettling play. What seems at first to be mere dark comedy turns sinister and [...]
‘Foreplay’ works best when it finds its focus
By Jenn McKee Near the end of the opening night performance of "Men Fake Foreplay" at Andiamo Novi Theatre, a disenchanted male patron told writer/performer Mike Dugan, "This is a comedy club," to which Dugan [...]
Canadian Parliament passes trans rights bill
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Canada's House of Commons passed a bill Feb. 9 adding protections for gender identity and expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. "This kind of explicit [...]
Indian Supremes to hear appeal of ruling that legalized gay sex
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS India's Supreme Court on April 19 will hear an appeal of the Delhi High Court ruling that struck down the nation's ban on gay sex in July 2009. At least [...]
Sao Tome and Principe to legalize gay sex
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Sao Tome and Principe, an island nation located off the west coast of Africa, will decriminalize gay sex in upcoming revisions to its Criminal Code, its representatives said Jan. 31 [...]
HRW blasts Tokyo governor’s anti-gay remarks
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara must retract recent statements that denigrated gays and lesbians, Human Rights Watch said Feb. 1. On Dec. 3, while discussing a measure to regulate the manga [...]
UK couples take marriage and partnership case to Euro court
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Eight couples from the United Kingdom mailed a case to the European Court of Human Rights on Feb. 2. Four of the couples are gay and want to get married. [...]
Second-parent adoption bill to be re-introduced in state House
Renee Harmon listens to state Rep. Jeff Irwin on Valentine's Day. Rep. Irwin and state Senator Rebekah Warren, left, are re-introducing a bill to allow second-parent adoption. Harmon has not seen her children since 2009; [...]
DPS poised to enact anti-bullying policy
Laura Hughes, executive director of the Ruth Ellis Center, asks the DPS board to add LGBTQ students to the anti-bullying policy. Brandon, 16, (middle) told the board he was sometimes afraid to go to school [...]
Ferndale finances blamed for Pride loss
FERNDALE - The city that has hosted Motor City Pride for the past seven years is feeling a loss after Pride organizers announced the 2011 celebration will take place in Detroit's Hart Plaza. Pride brings [...]
2011 Motor City Pride gets bigger, louder than ever before
By Tara Cavanaugh Motor City Pride 2011 marks its biggest and proudest ever celebration this year by going back to its roots. The June 4-5 festival, taking place in downtown Detroit's Hart Plaza, will run [...]
AAA stops offering associate memberships to same-sex partners
By Tara Cavanaugh When Leslie Ann Thompson tried to put her current partner on as an associate member to her AAA roadside assistance coverage last fall, she thought it was just going to be a [...]
EMU dismisses student who refused to counsel gays
NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan filed a friend-of-the-court brief today supporting Eastern Michigan University's right to remove from its counseling program a graduate student who refused to [...]
Anti-gay group wants partner benefits reversed by AG
The decision by the Michigan Civil Service Commission to authorize partner benefits for state employees is coming under fire by the American Family Association of Michigan. Gary Glenn, the group's leader, has asked Republican leaders [...]
MDCH reverses position on HIV documents
The Michigan Department of Community Health announced Feb. 10 it will advise local health departments to change a controversial "client acknowledgment form." The forms have come under increasing scrutiny and criticism since Michigan Messenger reported [...]
U.S. should do more for human rights
by Eric Rader Speak Out Over the past month, the world has been riveted to the historic events in Egypt, as pro-democracy protesters succeeded in driving out the repressive president of that country. In many [...]
CARES appoints 2 interim directors
KALAMAZOO - Correction: The original article said David Kirby, not David Feaster. This issue has been corrected. Community AIDS Resource and Education Services appointed two interim co-directors, Amy Bartell and David Feaster, while it searches [...]
LGBT Democrats host anti-bullying action conference
YPSILANTI - The Michigan Democratic Party's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Allies Caucus will host an anti-bullying action conference on Saturday, Feb. 19 at the Ypsilanti Library. The free conference, which takes place from 10 [...]
Same-sex parents’ rights: It’s war
By Dana Rudolphs A film about two lesbian moms, "The Kids Are All Right," is an Oscar contender this month. ABC's "Modern Family," which features two gay dads, won last year's Best Comedy Emmy. But [...]
Own up to it already!
This issue's story about AAA suddenly refusing to grant associate memberships to domestic partners is a good example of an organization not 'fessing up to its anti-gay views. AAA granted less expensive, associate memberships to [...]
Vision America
Creep of the Week Every year, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is a hot bed of anti-gay ranting. CPAC 2011 was no exception, despite the fact that GOProud, a gay Republican organization that thinks [...]
EMU dismissed a counseling student who wouldn’t counsel gays. What do you think of the university’s decision?
Good for them! Clearly, she is in the wrong field if she has these kinds of problems. -Lisa Betz I think they made the right decision; the school has a responsibility to ensure that those [...]
Super Porn Sunday
I'm sure my PG readers will understand if I confess I was most definitely not one of the 111 million TV viewers watching the Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Green Bay Packers at the XLV Super [...]
Discrimination, Sheer stupidity
S/he said "Word is that Radical Homosexuals have infiltrated as event organizers to promote homosexual events that are designed to prey upon unsuspecting college students by enticing them to... help build parade floats in exchange [...]
Grandpa’s dissonance
By John Corvino A diversity speaker I know (who also happens to be a dear friend) is fond of saying, "People do the best they can with what they have." When I first heard her [...]
‘Fools Welcome’ welcomes all to second annual BTL party
DETROIT - Music, dancing, costumes and masks, Cajun cuisine, circus acts, fortune tellers and general revelry returns to Detroit's Roostertail April 1 beginning at 7 p.m. as Between The Lines newspaper presents its second annual [...]
Obama stops defending DOMA
By Tara Cavanaugh In a press release, U.S. President Barack Obama said his administration will stop supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, calling DOMA "unconstitutional." Many have wondered wonder why Obama was letting his lawyers [...]
Olson-Boies ask 9th Circuit to lift stay on lower court ruling
By Lisa Keen Ted Olson, lead attorney for the lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban announced Wednesday that he is asking the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to lift a stay on a district [...]