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Dating Diet: Williams So-No-Oh-Oh-ma
By Anthony Paull My friend Josh has a dilemma. Single for two years, he's graduated from making love to kitchen utensils. It won't do anymore. It's Black Friday. His love is on clearance, but there [...]
Cocktail Chatter: The Salty Dog
By Ed Sikov It was with a toxic mix of boredom, curiosity, invigoration and the pathetic devilishness particular to the elderly that I called Kyle and asked him what he was doing Friday night. "The [...]
Book Marks: ‘Eminent Outlaws’ looks at revolutionary gay writers
by Richard Labonte "Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America," by Christopher Bram. Twelve/Grand Central Publishing, 378 pages, $27.99 hardcover. It's only a wistful whisper, but if there's an emotion threaded through Bram's clear-eyed [...]
Getting to know ComedyFest’s funnies
Need a laugh? Meet this year's Michigan LGBT ComedyFest bunch: Chantal Carrere, Erin Foley, Chris Doucette and Diane Amos (the Pine-Sol Lady!), all performing as part of the 16th annual event at 8 p.m. March [...]
Miller time
By Lawrence Ferber Ezra Miller plays a bad, bad boy in "We Need to Talk About Kevin," director Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's chilling novel about Kevin, a sociopathic teen, and his tormented mother, [...]
True beginners
{ITAL Uptown Film Festival March 8-10 Birmingham 8 Theatre 211 S. Old Woodward Ave. Birmingham, MI 48009 248-644-3456} http://www.uptownfilmfestival.com In her non-fictional directorial debut, Sophia Kruz tells a story about personal triumph, love and self-acceptance. [...]
Q Scopes: Don’t act prematurely, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig Mercury is slowing down in Aries to turn retrograde while aspecting Venus and conjoining Uranus. Enjoy flirtations, but don't count on them to last. Any "inspirational notions" this week will blow up [...]
Hold That Thought
Across 1 Chain with fruit syrups 5 Guy who cheats on his boyfriend, e.g. 8 Billy Budd, for one 14 Loose cannon 16 Cause of chaotic weather 17 Oz city shades 18 Some housewarming gifts [...]
Seein’ plenty of green at the Fisher
When smart theater executives plan their seasons, they do so knowing full well not every show will be a sell-out - and so they plan their budgets accordingly. If a show meets or surpasses its [...]
E’en a sea of troubles disturbs not this famed troupe
By Bridgette M. Redman At any given moment, the task of keeping two classical shows on the road can be likened to either Brutus' tide that leads on to fortune or a veritable comedy of [...]
Out of Town: Key West Spring Break
by Andrew Collins Even with much of North America enjoying a comparably mild winter this year, let's face it - thoughts of sipping tropical cocktails by the pool, floating happily on a catamaran and scampering [...]
St. Petersburg adopts anti-LGBT, anti-expression law
Today, lawmakers in St. Petersburg adopted a bill that would impose fines of up to $16,700 for the "promotion of homosexuality." The bill, if signed in to law by the City Governor in the next [...]
A grandson speaks out on complicated legacy
By ANDREA POTEET In more than five decades as one of the country's best-known preachers, famed televangelist Oral Roberts spread his trademark message: "something good is going to happen to you." But for his grandson, [...]
Seeking PG-13 for ‘Bully’
ANN ARBOR - When Katy Butler was in seventh grade; she was bullied for being a lesbian. She would cry in the mornings because she didn't want to go to school. Each day was as [...]
Michigan, Arizona: Gay GOPs still backing Romney
By Lisa Keen Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's campaign appears to have begun to self-destruct from the candidate's increasingly harsh rhetoric and statements on social issues. And Mitt Romney, despite a scandal surrounding a campaign [...]
ACLU Lansing Branch to host Rights at Risk in Michigan panel
"We're hoping anyone interested in learning more about these issues and what they can do to assist in defending, furthering and supporting the maintenance of the democratic process, bargaining rights and the LGBT rights will [...]
Dynamic new board will work to move Holland, Mich. forward
HOLLAND - Holland is Ready has selected a 14-member board of directors that will work to move the community forward to achieving the safety, rights and inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in [...]
Local comedian wins Las Vegas dream
When Leslie Thompson retired as CEO of Affirmations in late 2010, her life took a hilarious turn. The 54-year-old lesbian has found new success doing stand-up comedy, and she is on her way to Las [...]
Creep of the Week: Kirk Cameron
On March 2 Kirk Cameron was on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight for some reason. To many viewers it must have come as quite a shock that he was still alive (that was Corey Haim, folks). [...]
Heard on Facebook: Rush Limbaugh apologizes for his personal attack on Sandra Fluke (kind of), do you think it’s too little too late?
I don't buy it. Rush Limbaugh has been saying this sort of evil shit for many, many, years. He is only sorry - which I take with a grain of salt - becouse he is [...]
Parting Glances: Pages past tense #2
35 right; 25 left; 15 right. Click! After 60-plus years I can still recall my locker combination at Harry Burns Hutchins Intermediate, located on Detroit's west side. I can also rattle off 30 names of [...]
S/He Said: Girl Scouts of America and Homohate
Compiled by Howard Israel "I did a small amount of web-based research... abundant evidence proves that the agenda of Planned Parenthood includes sexualizing young girls through the Girl Scouts, a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood. [...]
Run for office
By Emily Dievendorf Advocates get a lot of complaints. As Michigan's only lobbyist entirely dedicated to gay and transgender rights I routinely don't make everyone happy. I don't do enough. I don't say enough. I [...]
HUD Secretary touts new rules against housing discrimination
DETROIT - U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan Friday told a White House conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender homelessness that a new federal housing rule is an "idea whose time [...]
HIV crisis in Detroit: The sobering numbers
DETROIT -- As the city of Detroit struggles to find a way out of a massive funding crisis -- one that has left parts of the city streets without cops or street lights -- another [...]