Opinions on Motor City Pride’s move to Detroit
Who has to ask for your permission? How arrogant of you! There is no confusion. Pride is coming to Detroit proper! That's a good thing! They can plan Pride wherever they want. Pride in Ferndale [...]
Who has to ask for your permission? How arrogant of you! There is no confusion. Pride is coming to Detroit proper! That's a good thing! They can plan Pride wherever they want. Pride in Ferndale [...]
By BTL staff WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama called for a united effort to address bullying at the March 10 White House Conference on Bullying Prevention. Approximately 150 students, [...]
By Tara Cavanaugh "Hi, my name is Justin Alesna, I'm 23 years old and a resident of Detroit, Michigan. On the evening of March 7, 2011, I was attacked in a convenience store of a [...]
DETROIT- Agape Spirit Ministries launches a series of discussions called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Exploring the impact of silence on the African American LGBTQ community" on March 16. "It is time for black people in [...]
By Tara Cavanaugh Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a March 11 statement that he supports the rights of an Eastern Michigan University graduate counseling student, Julea Ward, who was dismissed after she refused [...]
by Ed Sikov Here's some advice: You need a restaurant manager as a close friend. Why? Because when you go to his restaurant, he'll tell the chef to send out all sorts of delightful little [...]
Q: I am a 52-year-old woman who wants to know how to get into a long-term relationship with another woman. I was married for 16 years when my husband died. I have known since I [...]
By Hannah Schwab Ann Arbor is putting the finishing touches on its upcoming annual film festival, which runs March 22-27. In its 49th year, the Ann Arbor Film Festival will present 188 films, videos and [...]
By Andrea Poteet cut/ Eisenhower Dance Ensemble company manager Kristi Faulkner has worked with the company since 2009 and says, "There are people of all kinds in the dance field." INFO BOX 'Motown in Motion' [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Don Johnson lives in 'Mann's World' It's hard out here for an aging, heterosexual male hairdresser. So goes the log line for a new NBC pilot called "A. Mann's World." The [...]
By Jack Fertig A Mercury-Saturn opposition normally sharpens minds as well as tongues, but with Neptune in hard aspect to both planets, misguided bitchiness and ill-considered control games are a lot more likely. Examine your [...]
'Burlesque': Turn back time. Please. Christina Aguilera is a gay icon. Cher is a gayer icon. Without knowing anything else about "Burlesque" (and really, what else is there to know?), the beyond-campy bore would've been [...]
R.E.M., 'Collapse Into Now' R.E.M.'s first album since 2008's "Accelerate," a return to form for the misstepping rock icons, is as obvious as lead singer Michael Stipe's coming out - and that's fine. After adventurous [...]
Across 1 Went down (on) 5 Sleek swimmer 10 Elizabeth of "Transamerica" 14 Burning software 15 Safari head 16 River of Ulrichs' country 17 Movie about garden dwarfs 20 Contemporary of Bela 21 Kind of [...]
By Dan Woog One day a couple of months ago, Craig Brownstein was enjoying a Washington Capitals game. He turned to his partner, Doug Johnson, and said, "You're my puck buddy." The two hockey fanatics [...]
Nonie Breen is delightful in "Sister's Easter Catechism: Will My Bunny Go To Heaven?" at Detroit's Gem Theatre. Photo: The Gem Theatre In hockey, three goals scored by an individual player during the course [...]
By John Quinn Lisa Lauren Smith and Brian Marable in "The Piano Lesson" at Performance Network Theatre. Photo: Jude Walton A powerful voice in the American theater was silenced too soon when August Wilson, [...]
By Martin F. Kohn Dave Davies and Matt Lockwood in Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company's "Last of the Boys." Photo: Charles Nowak It's only a passing reference, but the Civil War gets a mention in [...]
There's one indisputable fact when it comes to Edgar Allan Poe: The 19th century American author was a literary genius whose works are still popular more than 170 years after his death. Ironically, however, it's [...]
Yes, the rumors of her retirement were greatly exaggerated! Lansing legend Carmen Decker has returned to the stage in Stormfield Theatre's "Kimberly Akimbo," and it's a perfect showcase for the award-winning actress's formidable skills. But [...]
Oakland University master's student Sean O'Tuathal has been working to help people through problems with anxiety, stress, gender identity issues and substance abuse while gaining the credit hours needed to earn her degree, thanks to [...]
Affirmations has collaborated to premiere a web-based seminar, created as part of the "Treating Tobacco Dependency in Michigan" project. The objective of the seminar is to train healthcare professionals on helping their lesbian, gay, bisexual, [...]
If you are LGBT and smoke cigarettes, you can participate in a national and anonymous survey study on reasons for adult LGBT tobacco use. The purpose of the study is to better understand ways of [...]
By Lucy Hough The presence of LGBT themes in cigarette ads surprised a crowd of people at a workshop during the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference at the University of Michigan last [...]
By Tara Cavanaugh LGBT Health Week, put on by the National Coaltion for LGBT Health, shines a spotlight on the troubling health issues that the community faces across the nation. This year, the awareness week [...]
By Dana Rudolph Same-sex couples with adopted children living in states with anti-gay adoption laws and attitudes had more mental health issues in their first year of parenthood than couples with adopted children living in [...]
By Lucy Hough Coming out to one's doctor can be a daunting task for any LGBT person. But, as stressed by Michigan State University medical students Suzanne Borkowski and Emily Antoon, who presented during last [...]
By Andrew Collins As a road-tripping destination for LGBT travelers, there may not be a better place to go in Europe than Spain. It's relatively economical and easy to drive through this increasingly progressive country, [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS The well-known British gay magazine Attitude launched a Thai-language edition in Thailand on March 9. According to local correspondent Douglas Sanders, it was full of fancy ads, including from Jean [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS The European Court of Human Rights ruled March 10 that Russia violated the European Convention on Human Rights when it denied a residence permit to a man from Uzbekistan because [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS The European Parliament on March 10 adopted a resolution urging Iran to "stop discriminating against people on the basis of their sexual orientation" and denouncing "the inhumane and medieval practice [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Adopting resolutions on Turkey's and Montenegro's progress toward joining the European Union, the European Parliament on March 9 told both nations they will have to do better on LGBT equality [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Feb. 26, "As long as we are in power, traditional marriage and gay unions will never be on the same level." The national LGBT [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Conservative members of Lithuania's Parliament have proposed banning gender-reassignment surgery via the Civil Code. They said the move would protect the nation "from any preconditions which create grounds for the [...]
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS A joint statement recognizing human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity will be delivered at the United Nations Human Rights Council on March 21. The deadline for [...]
By Tara Cavanaugh Sara Spurgeon loves using the word queer. In fact, she thinks she's always been a queer girl. "As a pre-teen, I dreamed that the princes in my fairy tales were butch girls," [...]
By Tara Cavanaugh The Michigan Senate voted along party lines to overturn the decision to offer domestic partner benefits to state employees on March 10. The entire state legislature must vote to overturn the Michigan [...]
On March 26, the men of Adodi Detroit will host a one-day retreat for same-gender-loving men of African descent in the Metro Detroit area. The theme of the retreat is "The Fierce Embrace: Exploring the [...]
FERNDALE - Affirmations Community Center is still searching for an executive director. Last month, the search committee hosted a first round of potential candidates for the job onsite at Affirmations, but the board has decided [...]
FERNDALE- The Michigan AIDS Coalition is hosting a silent auction at Via Nove on Saturday, March 26 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. Via Nove is located at 344 W. Nine Mile. The money raised will [...]
By Eric Rader Public employees are under attack in Michigan and around the nation. Several new Republican governors argue that in order to balance their budgets, state employees, teachers, firefighters and police officers must make [...]
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS California state Sen. Christine Kehoe introduced a resolution sponsored by Equality California on March 9 calling on President Barack Obama, Congress and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stop fining LGB [...]
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS Marriage-license applications in Washington, D.C., jumped from 3,100 in 12 months to 6,600 in 12 months in the year since same-sex marriage was legalized. Though the district does not keep [...]
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS Maryland was widely expected to become the next U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage but the plan crashed and burned March 11. The bill to legalize gay marriage had passed [...]
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS The new national group Equality Matters met with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on March 10 and reported that he's eager to legalize same-sex marriage this year. "While our specific [...]
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS The June 2012 election for mayor of San Diego, America's eighth-largest city, could have three openly gay/lesbian candidates. Republican District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and Republican City Councilman Carl DeMaio already [...]
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS The board of trustees of Flour Bluff Independent School District in Corpus Christi, Tex., granted permission March 8 for students to form a campus gay-straight alliance after the American Civil [...]
There's been a lot of attention given to bullying lately, especially the bullying of LGBT students. That, of course, is fantastic news. Right now, groups across the country are figuring out ways to address bullying [...]
Creep of the Week We've all heard the argument that letting gays and lesbians marry will "hurt" heterosexual marriages. Or our country. Or children. Actual support for these claims is less readily available. Often those [...]
Heard on Facebook I hate that word. Queer is something that doesn't fit in or isn't quite normal. I'm gay and I do fit in and I'm quite normal. So no matter if you are [...]