Dating Diet: Say It Isn’t Sooooooo
By Anthony Paull I don't know if I like my 30s. I've been told I've become too put together, too flashy to piss on my shoes at a rock show, and that upsets me because [...]
Dear Jody: A sad sugar daddy
By Jody Valley Q: I happen to be very successful in business and have made a lot of money. I have a large house, several cars, and I love to travel. I mostly go on [...]
Book Marks: The Kid Sapphire, Bob Mould
by Richard Labonte "The Kid," by Sapphire. Penguin Books, 384 pages, $26.95 hardcover. This is a book that will make readers flinch. A sequel to Sapphire's 1996 novel, "Push," it opens with the funeral of [...]
Legend looks back
By Andrea Poteet Unless you're a hardcore folkie, you've probably never heard of Cris Williamson. Often called "the best kept secret in music," Williamson's albums, especially 1975's "The Changer and the Changed," have been handed [...]
Q Scopes: Do your best, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig The Sun makes hard aspects to Uranus and Pluto, bringing ego and power-struggles to a dangerous head; but Sol moves quickly into a grand trine with Eris and the North Node, offering [...]
Kilt Inaction
Across 1 Mr. in an Orton play 7 Sends back to a lower court 14 They may shoot cream into your mouth 16 Dancer Duncan 17 Gradual absorption 18 It takes balls 19 Start of [...]
‘Posing’: Failing in love with love
By Michael H. Margolin Jason Sebacher's play at The New Theatre Project, nestled into a small room behind the Mix, a boutique of women's clothing and vintage articles, makes the action and the audience into [...]
Hard-working women are the stars of ‘BoxFest’
One of my favorite summertime events each August is my visit to "BoxFest," the annual theater festival that provides opportunities for women directors to showcase their work. The objective, of course, is to help these [...]
Crisp, elegant ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Performance Network
By John Quinn Where does beauty lie? Playwright Joel Gross explores that question, and more, in his historical fiction, "Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh," now on stage at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor. [...]
The New Theatre Project poses contemporary questions
By Bridgette M. Redman YPSILANTI - What would Oscar Wilde think of modern gay culture? Playwright Jason Sebacher started with that premise when he created a 10-minute monologue several years ago. What has evolved, with [...]
Defense personnel enter boat in Amsterdam pride canal parade
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS For the first time, around 80 defense personnel - military and civilian - took part in Amsterdam's gay pride canal parade with their own boat Aug. 6. Joining them was [...]
Czech president: Prague should not support gay parade
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Aug. 4 that Prague city officials should not be supporting the gay pride parade. "I do not feel pride in this event," he wrote on [...]
Slovenia sees first same-sex second-parent adoption
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Slovenia's first same-sex second-parent adoption has been approved by the Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs, according to Ljubljana's SKUC-LL, the Students' Cultural Center Lesbian Section. A new Family [...]
Ugandan LBTI group’s membership list stolen
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS The LBTI group Freedom & Roam Uganda reported Aug. 1 that its offices were burglarized and sensitive information was stolen. Taken were computers, printers, a server, telephones, a microwave oven [...]
Anti-gay bill introduced in Ukraine
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS An anti-gay bill has been introduced in Ukraine's parliament, according to the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. The measure "regarding protection of children's [...]
‘Last’ gay victim of Nazis dies
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Germany's Lesbian and Gay Federation reported that the last known living gay victim of the Nazis, Rudolf Brazda, died at age 98 on Aug. 3 in Bantzenheim, France. Along with [...]
An international family affair
By Tara Cavanaugh Joe Bissell, in 2009 with his first exchange student Patrick, from Germany, and his partner Justin Maynard. Bisell and Maynard are now hosting their third exchange student, a boy from Spain. Photo [...]
Peters re-elected despite Gary Glenn attack
By Jeremy Martin HOLLAND- City residents re-elected Jay Peters to serve a second four-year-term as the 2nd Ward representative on its nine-member city council on Aug. 1. "My wish was that I would take 51 [...]
Ruth Ellis Center shows off its ‘Voices’
By Ruchi Naresh HIGHLAND PARK- Last Wednesday, one of the Ruth Ellis Center's creative writing projects came full circle in the form of "Voices," a published poetry anthology. To celebrate, a crowd of 50 listened [...]
State AIDS organizations face worries amid funding cuts
By Tara Cavanaugh Michigan's AIDS organizations are preparing for a huge cut in a national funding source as the disease increasingly affects minority populations. In July, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention alerted Michigan [...]
Between Ourselves: Roland Leggett
by Tara Cavanaugh Roland Leggett is a field organizer for Equality Michigan. 1. Tell us about your job as a field organizer. I've been with Equality Michigan since January of this year. Before that, I [...]
‘Michigan Response to Hate’ conference planned for September
LANSING- The Michigan Alliance Against Hate Crimes and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights are sponsoring a conference called "Michigan Response to Hate" on Friday, Sept. 9 at the Michigan State University Kellogg Hotel and [...]
Equality Michigan awarded $50,000 to educate the public on gay and transgender discrimination
Equality Michigan, the statewide gay and transgender advocacy organization, has received a $50,000 grant to educate Michiganders on discrimination in employment and housing. The organization will use the funds to educate citizens about non-discrimination ordinances [...]
We’re making progress
By Denise Brogan-Kator "Eye on Equality" As the newly appointed Executive Director of Equality Michigan, I want to share some of my thoughts about where we are as a movement and where we are headed. [...]
Ozone House receives Community Foundation grant
ANN ARBOR- Ozone House Youth & Family Services was recently awarded a $10,000 grant by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan to lead a project called "Implementing Inclusion: Improving Social Services for Youth with Queer [...]
Leadership Retreat Aug. 21
LANSING- The Unity Michigan Coalition and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force are convening LGBT and progressive leaders interested in building support for and advancing local and statewide non-discrimination ordinances. A 3-day "Power Summit" [...]
Celebrating Faith Inclusion Breakfast Aug. 19
TROY- The Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion is sponsoring a faith inclusion breakfast from 7:30-9 a.m on Aug. 19 at the Troy Mariott Hotel, located at 200 W. Big Beaver Road. The morning features [...]
Study: LGBT movement seriously lacking support
By Lisa Keen The LGBT movement is making progress, but it's being seriously outspent by opponents and still has "a long way" to go to reach equality. That's the conclusion of an in-depth analysis by [...]
HIV infections stable, but disproportionately affecting minority gay men
By Bob Roehr The numbers of HIV infections are stable, but they're disproportionately affecting more minority gay men, according to a troubling new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The estimated number [...]
California governor signs parents bill
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Protection of Parent-Child Relationships Act on Aug. 5. The measure will allow courts to determine who a child's parents are when there is both [...]
Groups launch campaign to stop anti-gay Calif. referendum
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS The Courage Campaign announced Aug. 1 that it has teamed up with Equality California and other organizations in an attempt to stop a ballot referendum on the new California law [...]
Fringe can’t be ‘balanced’
Last week, NPR featured a story that discussed gay conversion therapy. NPR's presentation of the therapy earned a lot of heated feedback from listeners, due to its unsuccessful attempt at showing the therapy in a [...]
Rick Santorum
Creep of the Week I have to admit, Rick Santorum has good reason not to like gay people. I mean, with the help of Dan Savage, one of the leaders of the Homosexual Cabal, gays [...]
Michigan is one of the most stagnant states in the country when it comes to our rights. What do you think we can do to push things along?
Heard on Facebook I believe the most important action we can take is to live as if we have all the rights of everyone else. We need to marry if that is what we desire, [...]
SOS Greets St. Peter
Parting Glances It must have been a slow news night, midweek, last week. Either that or the powers that be behind the scenes in the TV newsroom have a warped sense of human interest priorities. [...]
Progress and sports
Compiled By Howard Israel S/he Said "There has been a tremendous amount of important progress over the last few years. But the kind of momentum we're seeing can be a double-edged sword. While it has [...]
Bachmann-Perry overdrive: You ain’t seen nothing yet
Viewpoint It's months before the first primary and the rhetoric coming from declared and potential GOP candidates has already kicked into overdrive. Despite many fact malfunctions, including her claim that the Founding Fathers had worked [...]
VIDEO: What does Motor City Pride look like?
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