by Richard Labonte "The Stranger's Child," by Alan Hollinghurst. Knopf, 448 pages, $27.95 hardcover. For gay fans of Hollinghurst's first novel, "The Swimming-Pool Library," his new work - seven years in the writing - may [...]
Meeting Denis O'Hare should be scary as hell. But today, in the back of homo-hotspot Saint Felix in West Hollywood on his day off, O'Hare doesn't project the eeriness he does as a horny "True [...]
Downtown Ferndale has been transforming itself into an artfully-sculpted wonderland every holiday season for years, but this year the 11th Annual Holiday Ice & Winterfest Market, presented by the MotorCity Casino Hotel, will take your [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Don't call it 'The A-List' Contempt breeds ratings and ratings breed copycats and that's why, with the success of "The A-List: New York" and "The A-List: Dallas," comes a reality series [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes This week's lunar eclipse will be partially visible in New Zealand, but felt everywhere as brainstorms lead too easily to arguments. Rather than inadvertently showing off what you don't know, [...]
Hear Me Out Rihanna, 'Talk That Talk' Rihanna doesn't beat around the bush - and that's not meant to be a dirty-minded pun, though her sixth, and worst, studio album is full of them. She's [...]
By Dan Woog The OutField At 6-feet-4-inches - and still three months away from his 16th birthday - Galen Dodd might have been expected to play basketball. There's pressure to do so on every tall [...]
FERNDALE - If you're allergic to shopping malls, excessive commercialism or egg nog, Who Wants Cake? has the perfect solution to restore a smile to your overburdened holidays. Opening Dec. 18 at Ferndale's Ringwald Theatre [...]
Remember in the not-so-distant past when Michigan's film incentives brought plenty of excitement to towns all across the state? Well, multiply that reaction by at least three and the result is Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple [...]
By Judith Cookis Rubens Last December, Farmers Alley audiences met Suzy, Missy, Cindy Lou and Betty Jean - a quartet of high school gal pals known as "The Marvelous Wonderettes." The off-Broadway musical revue (of [...]
By John Quinn The famous last words are attributed to many English actors - Kean, Wolfit, Shaw - but, the story goes, a deathbed visitor comforted the soon-to-be-dearly-departed by saying, "Dying must be hard." "No," [...]
By John Quinn It was early exposure to J. R. R. Tolkien's essays on storytelling that has led me to an ongoing fascination with how a story is told. "The Greatest Gift" is a 1939 [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman In the 400 years since "The Tempest" was first performed, it has been put up in venues as diverse as the spirits that inhabit Prospero's haunted isle. With the play so [...]
By Michael H. Margolin The New Theatre Project, the tiny 30-some seat in Ypsilanti, again brings a young playwright's work to theatrical fulfillment. With "Fugue," Audra Lord has chosen a theme - not unlike Sartre's [...]
By BTL Staff What if there was a gay story in the Old Testament? What would be the elements of this story? This is exactly what author Robert Greene asked himself when writing "Halo's Golden [...]
DETROIT - It's a subject that brings to light one of the very darkest examples of man's inhumanity toward man. About 50 people came out to a panel discussion on hate crimes last Wednesday. The [...]
DETROIT - After originally calling upon the FBI to investigate the case as a possible hate crime, officials at Equality Michigan are now revealing that the tragic death of Michelle Moore is no longer being [...]
Do GSAs help the young people who participate in them? To many in the LGBT community, the benefits seem obvious, yet until now there was not much data to back it up. A new study [...]
FERNDALE - When his partner, Kris Heck, passed away in 2001, Rick Henning of Warren got comfort from making a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in the young man's name. Heck was only 37 [...]
The Ruth Ellis Center held a private service on Dec. 5t in memory of the late Michelle Moore Hilliard. More than 70 family and friends gathered at the Center to pray, sing and dance to [...]
OBITUARY Feb. 27, 1936 - Nov. 26, 2011 ROSEVILLE - He was known as a character, a diva and a legend - at least in his own mind - by those who loved him and [...]
ROYAL OAK - State Representative Jim Townsend, (D-Royal Oak), a strong and consistent supporter of LGBT rights, was targeted for a recall earlier this year, in part because of his strong support for enumerated anti-bullying [...]
BTL Staff The Plymouth Canton Educational Park (PCEP) GSA is hosting an educational summit Feb. 4, comprised of workshops for LGBT students, allies and parents on LGBT issues such as coming out and reconciling with [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service Something changed for U.S. Rep. Barney Frank between February and November of this year. In February, he announced he would seek re-election in 2012, to a 17th term in [...]
By Lisa Keen On Dec. 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on the governments of all nations to ensure that their LGBT citizens are treated with respect and dignity. In doing so, [...]
By Lisa Keen A three-judge panel of the conservative 11th Circuit U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals ruled Dec. 6 in favor of an employee of the Georgia General Assembly who was fired after telling a [...]
Creep of the Week Marriage between same-sex couples has, to say the least, become a complicated social issue. Mind you, it shouldn't be complicated. But it's hard for some folks to wrap their brains around [...]
Heard on Facebook I think she should resign. Her wages are paid by us taxpayers. Gay taxpayers. -Duane Harter Jr. Boycott the city and her employer. See how much real estate she sells now. -Joe [...]
Parting Glances I hate to play the Gay Grinch Who Stole Christmas but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away with all suspected gay references in Christmas carols and holiday [...]
Compiled by Howard Israel S/He Said "If you care about gay rights, you'll skip the Salvation Army buckets in favor of a charity that doesn't actively discriminate against the LGBT community. The Salvation Army has [...]
By Abby Dees The first writing I ever got published was an essay about my frustration with straight men. It was really more of a screed, albeit a funny one. I wrote it in an [...]
By Denise Brogan-Kator In law school, I was trained to pay attention to words. We were taught that when reviewing a law, the words themselves are the best evidence of what the legislature intended the [...]
Update Dec. 15, 2011 This statement was released from community leaders today: "This morning Gov. Snyder asked the Michigan State House to call back House Bills 4770 and 4771 and provide a specific clarification that [...]
By Crystal Proxmire DETROIT - Detroit Police confirm that an arrest has been made in the murder of Michelle "Shelly" Moore, a transgender woman whose torso was found on the east side of Detroit near [...]
By Eric W. Rader After years of needless procrastination, the Michigan Senate recently passed MattÕs Safe School Act, a bill originally intended to ban bullying against youth in the state. The namesake of the legislation [...]
