Love in a Hopeless Place
By Anthony Paull Dating Diet It's a whirlwind, growing up. I can't get the hang of it. I'm on tour with a new book but I don't know how I got here. I say aloud, [...]
Love in a Hopeless Place
By Anthony Paull Dating Diet It's a whirlwind, growing up. I can't get the hang of it. I'm on tour with a new book but I don't know how I got here. I say aloud, [...]
The Union Square
by Ed Sikov Cocktail Chatter You can't go to the Olive Garden without your server pushing "specialty cocktails," a euphemism for toxic waste. These poisonous catch-alls are enough to make you hurl. "McSewer's 12-year bourbon, [...]
The Union Square
by Ed Sikov Cocktail Chatter You can't go to the Olive Garden without your server pushing "specialty cocktails," a euphemism for toxic waste. These poisonous catch-alls are enough to make you hurl. "McSewer's 12-year bourbon, [...]
Book Marks: The Stranger, Trans/Love, Out of Step
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 [...]
Book Marks
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 [...]
New Lebanese restaurant opens in Royal Oak
"As the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, we all need a place to go to where we can experience an atmosphere of entertainment and enjoyment with friends and loved ones," says Elias [...]
New Lebanese restaurant opens in Royal Oak
"As the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, we all need a place to go to where we can experience an atmosphere of entertainment and enjoyment with friends and loved ones," says Elias [...]
Music of the heart
By Andrea Poteet These days, Richard Schooping is focusing on the little things. He's not thinking about the nerve damage that has ravaged his throat and left him unable to sing. He's ignoring the possibility [...]
Music of the heart
By Andrea Poteet These days, Richard Schooping is focusing on the little things. He's not thinking about the nerve damage that has ravaged his throat and left him unable to sing. He's ignoring the possibility [...]
Be patient, Virgo!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mars in Virgo sesqui-square Jupiter in Taurus goads people to be more stubborn, assertive and critical. Listening patiently and graciously, and learning how to improve, gives you an edge. Being [...]
Remembering Barbara Grier
Across 1 Jodie Foster, to Yale 5 Bob Marley, e.g. 10 Craig Claiborne's gumbo pod 14 Gauche side, for Debussy 15 Sea eagles 16 Fashionable Christian 17 Kind of round 18 Brand of foamy heads [...]
Galen Dodd blocks, hits, comes out
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 [...]
‘Wicked’: Not just another pretty farce
By Michael H. Margolin If you are considering paying as much as $165 for a premium ticket on New Year's Eve for "Wicked," you will want to know if there is a lot on the [...]
‘Wicked’: Not just another pretty farce
By Michael H. Margolin If you are considering paying as much as $165 for a premium ticket on New Year's Eve for "Wicked," you will want to know if there is a lot on the [...]
Social activist challenges groups to create safe spaces for all
By Desiree Cooper LGBT LEADER: ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN from Model D TV on Vimeo. You might say that Adrienne Maree Brown is an exorcist for social justice. "I help social justice groups align themselves with [...]
Detroit Police arrest suspect in Shelly Moore Murder
Detroit Police confirmed Friday, 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 I-94 on Oct. 23. [...]
Detroit Police arrest suspect in Shelly Moore Murder
Updated Thursday, Dec 15, 2011: Qasim Raqib has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder and mutilation in the death of Shelly "Treasure" Moore. A preliminary examination will take place on Dec. 22 at 1:30 p.m. [...]
Measuring the impact of anti-bully laws
Before 1999, no state had laws against bullying in schools. Then there was the shooting at Columbine High School, and a wave of media attention to similar cases, where picked-on kids either sought revenge or [...]
Measuring the impact of anti-bully laws
Before 1999, no state had laws against bullying in schools. Then there was the shooting at Columbine High School, and a wave of media attention to similar cases, where picked-on kids either sought revenge or [...]
LCC won’t fight partner benefits law
LANSING - The state's only community college to offer health care benefits to unmarried partners says it will not defend those benefits if Gov. Rick Snyder signs legislation which would ban them. Lansing Community College, [...]
Movie gets aging gays together for coalition building
ROYAL OAK - After a lifetime of taking part in the gay equal rights movement, aging LGBT seniors are now coming together to take on a new fight, equality in end-of-life care. Over 100, mainly [...]
Movie gets aging gays together for coalition building
ROYAL OAK - After a lifetime of taking part in the gay equal rights movement, aging LGBT seniors are now coming together to take on a new fight, equality in end-of-life care. Over 100, mainly [...]
Karen Golinski: Marriage equality’s inadvertent champion
by Dana Rudolph Karen Golinski never meant to become one of the headline names in the fight to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. All she wanted to do was to secure health care coverage [...]
Rick Perry
Creep of the Week You don't have to be a political scientist to recognize that Texas Governor Rick Perry is an ignorant prick. But I've got to hand it to him: he knows how to [...]
Mother brings Boy to tell Michele Bachmann: “My mommies are gay but they don’t need any fixing.” Watch the video and tell us what you think.
Heard on Facebook The kid does seem pretty uncomfortable though... Not entirely sure using children like this is the most helpful way to make a point. -Daphne Rhodes I totally agree with you Daphne. The [...]
Wise men, cross-dressing chickens
Parting Glances An olde, olde legend - newly shared for posterity by a handful of forthright and gay-friendly scholars - says that the wise man known as Kaspar liked on festive occasions and birthdays to [...]
The Bachmanns, Muppets and Finances
S/He Said "I don't believe Michele Bachmann's husband is gay - I don't think you'd [Michele Bachmann] run for president - I think he's just effete. If you can have gays who don't seem gay, [...]
State Republicans extreme attack on LGBT Michigan citizens
By Eric W. Rader After years of needless procrastination, the Michigan Senate recently passed Matt's Safe School Act, a bill originally intended to ban bullying against youth in the state. The namesake of the legislation [...]
A step in the rights direction
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman from Georgia, had been working as a proofreader and editor in the state's Office of Legislative Counsel. Two years into her employment, in 2007, [...]
A step in the rights direction
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman from Georgia, had been working as a proofreader and editor in the state's Office of Legislative Counsel. Two years into her employment, in 2007, [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Mary J. Blige Talks Gays, God and Going to Strip Clubs
You could say this is Mary J. Blige's second life. Her first, candidly chronicled on her confessions-of-a-wreck album "My Life," was an early glimpse into one of the biggest singing superstars in the world, who [...]
Cops target gay men in Kent County parks
By BTL Staff and AP Wire GRAND RAPIDS - Activists in western Michigan say sheriff's deputies have been unfairly targeting gay men in Kent County parks by striking up conversations with them while working undercover. [...]
Anti-gay graduate student’s appeal for reversal of expulsion denied
By BTL staff ATLANTA- On Dec. 16, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit unanimously upheld a lower court's ruling against Jennifer Keeton, a graduate student in [...]