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Michigan June Pride Season 2012
LGBT organizations and volunteer organizers are gearing up for another fabulous summer of pride. Below is a comprehensive list of this year's June Pride season festivals. Check back for updated additional information and new pride [...]
Jack Black (Maybe) Goes Gay
Is this Jack Black's first gay role? As a small-town Texan teddy bear who goes off the deep end, it might be. But, because the real-life man he's playing isn't out, we may never truly [...]
Take responsibility, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury conjoining Jupiter in Taurus offers new practical ideas. Then he enters Gemini stirring up new ideas to build on those foundations. Sun and Mercury squaring Neptune can create confusion [...]
Rufus Wainwright, Bonnie Raitt to perform during Summer Festival
From soul legends and songbook crooners to aerial acrobats and urban storytellers, the new Ann Arbor Summer Festival season runs June 15 through July 8 and features an eclectic mix of music, dance, comedy, film, [...]
Hear Me Out: Adam Lambert gets real on ‘Trespassing’
Adam Lambert, 'Trespassing' Adam Lambert isn't just here "for your entertainment" - the mission statement, and title, of the "Idol" grad's debut, a perfunctory music cherry-popper that entertained but shied away from any bold assertions. [...]
Circular Thinking
Across 1 Greek triangle 6 NG: Hotel in "Bobby" 16 Farewell to fifty million Frenchmen 17 Problem for a fluffer? 18 NG: Center 19 Cries over spilt milk, so to speak 20 NG: Trattoria topping [...]
Nuns raise funds and voices in Dexter
Since their off-Broadway debut in 1985, The Little Sisters of Hoboken are among the most famous nuns ever to hit the stage. They pop up pretty much everywhere, on stages large and small, and they [...]
Bending it like Peckham
By Martin F. Kohn The big black inkblots on the bright white backdrop in Detroit Ensemble Theatre's "Beyond Therapy" look like...well, what do you think they look like? Don't spend too much time trying to [...]
Motor City Pride Schedule
Saturday June 2, 2012 12:00 p.m. Family Picnic, Coordinated by Affirmations 2:00 p.m. Festival Opens 2:00 p.m. Commitment Ceremony, Pride Stage 10:00 p.m. Festival Closes Sunday, June 3, 2012 9:30 a.m. Parade Line-up (Fort and [...]
Leading by example
By Desiree Cooper Tony Johnson - LGBT leader of color from Model D TV on Vimeo. About eight years ago, Curtis Lipscomb attended an HIV/AIDS program in Detroit. As the founder of KICK -- a [...]
Agema ascends to national committee slot
Senior Reporter American Independent News Network LANSING - Michigan Republicans ousted long-standing National Committeemen Saul Anuzis this past weekend, instead opting for a right-wing state lawmaker who has made waves with legislation dealing with everything [...]
Eleven young leaders emerge
DETROIT - Eleven young people of color are the first wave of graduates of the new KICK LEAD program, which stands for Learn, Educate, Advocate and Drive. They were recognized in a graduation ceremony on [...]
Pride Commitment Ceremony planned at Motor City Pride
Affirmations Community Center and Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit (MCCD) are partnering for the 2012 Pride Commitment Ceremony which will be held during Motor City Pride. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 2 [...]
Arsonist torches lesbian couple’s Novi home
NOVI - Tawana Williams and Stacy Baker's mobile home was burned to the ground and vandalized May 12. Police and fire officials told Fox 2 News that arson is believed to be the fire's cause [...]
Volunteer during June Pride Month
BTL needs you Between The Lines is doing an exciting "2012 Voter Education Project," which will kick-off on June 2-3 at Motor City Pride in Hart Plaza and continue throughout June and July at Pride [...]
Garnet Lewis
Crystal Proxmire Between Ourselves Sitting in the Democratic Party Headquarters in Lansing on the day before the filing deadline, the Director of the Joint Legislative Campaign Garnet Lewis is calm, cheerful and glowing with resolve. [...]
NAACP backs marriage equality
By Lisa Keen Saying that the NAACP has "always stood against laws that demean, dehumanize, and discriminate against people," NAACP Board Chairman Roslyn Brock formally announced Monday the board's vote in favor of a resolution [...]
Dharun Ravi sentenced to 30 days in Rutgers webcam spying
BY Paul Schindler Editor Gay City News Tyler Clementi, a highly regarded violin player, was described as a shy college freshman at the time of his suicide. Dharun Ravi, a 20-year-old former Rutgers University student, [...]
White House objects as House omits LGBTs from domestic violence and defense bills
By Lisa Keen Despite a warning that President Obama may exercise his veto power, the U.S. House on May 16, approved a version of the Violence Against Women Act that omits provisions, approved in the [...]
Charles L. Worley
Creep of the Week It should be a surprise to no sentient being that by coming out in favor of marriage equality; President Obama opened the floodgates for the anti-gay crazies. Mind you, this is [...]
Granholm and Smith
Heard on Facebook
Pages past tense #11
Parting Glances I was fortunate as a gay teenager. When I turned 18 my parents never asked me who I was dating, or if I had a girlfriend. I was on my own. Of age [...]
Political atmosphere
Compiled by Howard Israel S/he Said " Our crisis has nothing to do with private morality. It's a crisis of public morality - of abuses of public trust that undermine the integrity of our economy [...]
Evolution: It’s been a long time coming
Point of View While on the road in 1963 Sam Cooke penned the original draft of his classic song " A Change Is Gonna Come" while sitting in the back of his tour bus. The [...]
Secretay Kathleen Sebelius speech at World Health Assembly LGBT Health Panel
May 21, 2012 Geneva, Switzerland While all countries are unique, with different languages, cultures, and histories - as health ministers, we have the same job: to promote and protect the health of all our citizens. [...]
WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?
By Abby Dees Thinking Out Loud You've probably seen this week's cheeky Newsweek cover, featuring a rainbow-haloed Obama and the tag line, "America's first gay president." I had no idea it was that easy to [...]
Lets make that change, okay?
By Leslie Thompson Viewpoint This is not the first time that there has been a suggestion or discussion around the merger of Affirmations and Triangle Foundation/Equality Michigan. A lengthy debate and even a grant funded [...]
INTERVIEW: Greta Gerwig: The New Gay-Loved Girl
Photo: Fox Searchlight It was only a matter of time before Greta Gerwig would enter gay consciousness. Roles in the "Arthur" remake, with Ben Stiller in "Greenberg" and as Natalie Portman's bestie in "No [...]
REVIEW: Bonnie Raitt in Ann Arbor
I still can't find my breath, because Bonnie Raitt - goddess of slide guitar, and heartbreakers - took it away so many times during her Friday night show at Hill Auditorium. In support of her [...]