Cocktail Chatter: What to Do with Cheap Champagne, Part II
by Ed Sikov Dan and I got home from our one-night honeymoon at the beach to find five silver or gold bags waiting for us in the mailroom. More champagne - of sorts. Only one [...]
Book Marks: ‘Women of the Mean Streets’ doesn’t live up to title
by Richard Labonte "The Art of Fielding," by Chad Harbach. Little, Brown, 524 pages, $25.99 hardcover. College baseball is merely the surface subject of Harbach's perfect-pitch debut novel. At its heart is a shy and [...]
LeAnn Rimes: Country Star Who Cares
LeAnn Rimes was a free-spirited 13-year-old when, on one of her biggest songs, she threw caution to the wind and bought a one-way ticket on a westbound train. You know, "to see how far I [...]
Q Scopes: Don’t be shy, Pisces!
Jack Fertig Venus and Mercury dancing into Sagittarius crank up sociability and charm. The challenge is to back that up with substance and accomplishment. ARIES (March 20 - April 19): Secrets about your sex life [...]
Happy Daze
Across 1 Threesome for Da Vinci 4 Where you can eat a heroes 9 People in the hole 14 ___ Tin Tin (TV dog of old) 15 Start of the answer by 19-Across 16 More [...]
The OutField: Gay Sports’ Hot 100
By Dan Woog To John Amaechi's long list of achievements - former NBA basketball player, gay activist, human rights advocate - add another: Order of the British Empire. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has tabbed [...]
Epicenter Theatre presents a study of contrasts
By John Quinn Theater is magic. Theater is illusion. Theater, if I appropriate the Bard's imagery, is "such stuff as dreams are made on." Where dreaming is strongest is in the "black box" theaters that [...]
Strong vision carries Hilberry’s ‘Much Ado’
By Bridgette M. Redman There is much ado that can be made about the Hilberry Theatre's production of "Much Ado About Nothing." This production, directed by Matthew Earnest, demonstrates how beautiful a production can be [...]
Wayne State to participate in nationwide staging of plays to promote marriage equality
DETROIT - On Nov. 7, a group of Wayne State University faculty and students in the College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts will participate in a nationwide staged performance of "Standing on Ceremony: The [...]
Out & About
Ann Arbor kicks out the Jams 2.0 The Ozone House Youth and Family Services presents their second annual Kicked Out the Jams benefit concert for LGBTQ youth at risk of homelessness on Nov. 18. The [...]
Birmingham Maple Clinic teams up with Ruth Ellis Center
HIGHLAND PARK- Several therapists from Birmingham Maple Clinic, along with the clinic's owner and director, Lori Edelson, visited Ruth Ellis Center of Highland Park recently. REC is the youth social services agency that provides a [...]
Teased and tortured
The tragic suicides of bullying victims in the last couple of years have been worst-case scenarios of what happens when someone reaches rock bottom. But for those hanging onto hope that it does, indeed, get [...]
Everyday stigma stressful for LGB people
According to a new study released in October, ongoing stigma and social inequality can increase stress and reduce well-being for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, even in the absence of major traumatic events such as [...]
LGBT patients needs underserved
By Bob Roehr U.S. and Canadian medical schools offer a median of only five hours of training on meeting the needs of LGBT patients, according to a survey published in the Sept. 7 issue of [...]
Harness your creative genius with the right fuel
by Ellen Livingston ANN ARBOR - When passion, mental clarity and focused energy all come together our creative expression is at its peak. We're not likely to make major creative breakthroughs when we're tired, uninspired, [...]
Out of Town: Winter Adventures at Vail and Beaver Creek
by Andrew Collins Colorado's most famous gay ski weeks are held in Aspen and Telluride, in mid-January and late February respectively, but over the past few years, Vail Gay Ski Week http://vailgayskiweek.com has begun drawing [...]
ACLU dinner honors LGBT project milestone
Change can only occur if people speak out and encourage others to do the same. People like Allan Gilmour and Eric Jirgens, Stacey Cassis and Dr. Arianna Morales, Howard Israel and [...]
Pro-LGBT billboards going up in West Michigan
Article Number: 49941 Jeremy Martin contributed to this report GRAND RAPIDS- After initially refusing to accept billboards from a group that supports an inclusive civil rights ordinance in Holland, CBS Outdoor will run billboards in [...]
Pastor arrested at protest against Holland’s city council vote
By Jeremy Martin HOLLAND- Chaplain Bill Freeman posted $100 bond and was released from jail Oct. 23 after he attempted to "occupy" Holland City Hall. Freeman said he planned to live and sleep inside the [...]
Shirvell sues Armstrong’s attorney over his firing
ANN ARBOR- In a bizarre twist, the former Michigan assistant attorney general who stalked and harassed a gay University of Michigan student, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the student's lawyer. Andrew Shirvell filed [...]
Meet Dave Garcia Nov. 14
FERNDALE- Affirmations is holding a welcome reception for the public to meet the new Executive Director, Antonio David Garcia, on Monday, Nov. 16 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Garcia plans to announce new developments currently taking place [...]
Motor City Pride will return to Hart Plaza in 2012
DETROIT- Equality Michigan announced that Motor City Pride would return to Hart Plaza on June 2 and 3, 2012. It will be the festival's 11th year as a production of Equality Michigan. This past June, [...]
Support group for fifty-plus starts
DETROIT- A support group for Black Same-Gender-Attracted women who are fifty years and over will hold their first meeting on Friday, Nov. 11, from 6 - 8 p.m. The group is just one of the [...]
Creep of the Week: Linda Wall
Once upon a time there was a lesbian gym teacher (shocking, I know). More specifically, that time was the early 1970s and that gym teacher was Linda Wall, who is now an Independent candidate running [...]
Letter: Hatred in Holland
My partner and I lived in Holland, Michigan for 12 years. We have been together for over 20 years. My partner and I experienced severe discrimination in all forms of hatred in Holland, including our [...]
Letter: Time for Rainbow Flu
Regarding the article. 'Gay, You're Fired!," we must make the government understand how valuable LGBT workers are! We deserve to be treated equally! We will not allow them to discriminate against us. One way to [...]
Heard on Facebook
Last Thursday, a 15-year-old gay teen was recorded being brutally beaten by a classmate in Union-Scioto High School of Chillicothe, Ohio. The classmate was suspended for three days. Is that a fair punishment for his [...]
Moon me once, Jamie Franco
Parting Glances For whatever reason of over-the-hill desperation I've just paid $10.95 for a copy of Flaunt, this month featuring on its cover the talented buns of actor James Franco. No doubt without question a [...]
Anti-Gay Bullying, Latinos, Conservatives, Adoption
compiled by Howard Israel S/he Said "Right-wing anti-gay... social conservatives can't think 'gay' without thinking 'sex.' Never mind that they, themselves, routinely have sex as an expression of love or harmless desire (not to mention [...]
Eye on Equality: We are family
by Nusrat Ventimigia So Thanksgiving is nearing again. Apart from contentious historical origins, Thanksgiving has come to represent a time for coming together with loved ones. Don't get me wrong, eating my way into a [...]
Transmissions: Scout’s honor
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Bobby Montoya wanted to join the Girl Scouts. Born with male genitalia, Montoya decided at age two that she was a girl. She dresses and acts like a typical American 7-year-old [...]
Remarks by Dr. Jill Biden at PFLAG National Convention
Alexandria, VA Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 Thank you Rabbi and thank you Jody for that warm introduction - and thank you all for that wonderful reception. It's great to be here with you today. As [...]
‘License to bully’ bill passes Republican controlled senate
LANSING - Kevin Epling is no stranger to a broken heart. He lost his 14-year old son Matt to suicide in 2002 after he was bullied in school. Since that time he has lobbied and [...]
J. Edgar: The (Gay?) Man Behind The Mask
No milk for Dustin Lance Black - the 37-year-old filmmaker who says he feels 10 years older today - on this recent morning in a suite at a Beverly Hills hotel. Instead, the screenwriter is [...]
Gay candidates win reelection in Michigan
Jim Carruthers won reelection to his seat on the Traverse City City Council last night, and David Coulter easily won his first mayoral election in Ferndale after last year's job-swap with current Oakland County Commissioner [...]
Traverse City voters approve non-discrimination ordinance by two-to-one margin
TRAVERSE CITY- Voters overwhelmingly approved a measure to affirm the city's inclusive non-discrimination ordinance. The ordinance, which includes protections for LGBT citizens, was passed last year by the city council. An anti-ordinance movement had put [...]
Pro-equality candidates win in most Michigan races
A majority of pro-equality candidates won last night in local races across the state. Of the 19 candidates endorsed by Equality Michigan Pride PAC, 13 won their elections. And in Holland former pro-equality public school [...]
How HRC can partner with the larger community
by Matt Foreman Imagine. To many of our opponents and even to many allies, the LGBT movement is a cohesive force for change. But despite our undeniable successes, particularly at the state and local level, [...]
Election 2011: Large gains for openly gay candidates across U.S.
By Lisa Keen Tuesday was a very good day for openly LGBT candidates around the country, with three out of four of the more than 60 candidates winning, including Annise Parker, who secured a second [...]