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The Sidecar
By Ed Sikov Cocktail Chatter All the housemates - Craig, Sal, Sean and Sal's friend Colton - arrived at the same time, having ended up on the same ferry, as I was putting together the [...]
The Michigan Film Fail
It was destined to make Michigan the movie-making capital of the Midwest. Then, just three years after it was enacted, it was decimated by Gov. Rick Snyder and the boom went bust before it even [...]
Jordin Sparkles
Whitney Houston's starring role - the last before her tragic death earlier this year - isn't the only reason "Sparkle" has gay written all over it: there's the flamboyant style of the '60s, an all-girl [...]
Think ahead, Capricorn!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Aspects between Sun, Venus, and Pluto warn that efforts to charm and unite may be manipulative. Mars aligning with Saturn in Libra challenges us to examine the hard work and [...]
Hear Me Out: Best of 2012 (So Far)
Lana Del Rey, 'Born to Die' She was all anyone could talk about in the beginning of the year, but for all the wrong reasons: Lana Del Rey's two performances on "Saturday Night Live," of [...]
Magic Carpet Ride
Across 1 AZT, e.g. 5 Roadies' burdens 9 Performed like a top 13 Rock's longtime companion 14 Man in a skirt, perhaps 15 Coastal raptor 16 Nick was his master 17 160 rods 18 Prefix [...]
‘Burn This’ Casts Heat and Light
By Michael H. Margolin Lanford Wilson, who died just last year, wrote some two dozen plays, encapsulated the fever of off- Broadway in the 1960s, then captured Broadway with his characters, both straight and gay. [...]
Tibbits Revives Lost Cole Porter Musical
By Judith Cookis Rubens Considered too racy for Broadway in the 1930s, Cole Porter's saucy musical "Nymph Errant" was largely forgotten. Tibbits Summer Theater, with its cleverly staged and choreographed production, valiantly tries to revive [...]
Passion Sets Pigeon Creek Stage Aflame
By Bridgette M. Redman It turns out that Pigeon Creek Shakespeare can do passion and lust as well as they do comedy. Under the direction of Katherine Mayberry, "Antony and Cleopatra" tells a story of [...]
Michigan Politics Even Less Gay Now that Primaries are Over
BY Crystal Proxmire There weren't many openly gay candidates in the 2012 elections to begin with, and now that the primaries are over, the LGBT community has even less representation to look forward to in [...]
Neubecker home burns
BROWNSTONE TWP. - PFLAG parents Mike and Jan Neubecker's home burned to the ground early in the morning of Aug. 14. Both of them were not injured, but the house is a total loss. The [...]
The ‘Three Supremes’ to Star at LGBT Event in Royal Oak
ROYAL OAK - In one of the most important races for Michigan's LGBT people this November, three seats are up for grabs on the Michigan Supreme Court. BTL is strongly supporting the three chosen by [...]
BTL’s Picks Win in Almost All Primary Races
BTL Staff Report Of the 16 primary races in which BTL made endorsements, all but two races resulted in wins for BTL endorsed candidates and issues. But the two losses were by two of the [...]
Daniels Proposes Marriage Policy for Troy
TROY - Mayor Janice Daniels is making headlines again. This time, she is considering putting restrictions on marriage and divorce in the city of Troy with a Community Marriage Policy. She continues to draw attention [...]
Hunger Strike Week Two
FERNDALE - "Did you hear about the Hunger Strike at Affirmations?" That question is being asked all over the country, and especially here in Michigan where someone can be fired just for being gay, Michigan [...]
Black Hebrew Israelites Threaten Rape of Women at Gay Day, GR Police Let it Happen
GRAND RAPIDS - At the end of the East Hills Neighborhood Gay Day Aug. 4, women faced threats of violence, rape and an inevitable race war where men of the Black Hebrew Israelites would kill [...]
’10 Kids 2 Dads’ Features Local Family
By Jerome Stuart Nichols For some people, the idea of having to raise a child is scarier than the moment you realize you're out of red wine when you're only one film into a movie [...]
Heywood Files For Lansing Community College Board of Trustees Election
LANSING - Former Lansing Community College Trustee Todd A. Heywood filed Aug. 14 to seek a six-year term on the board. "Since I left the leadership at LCC in 2003, this college has been drifting [...]
Hungry4Equality: Strikers Quotes Week 2
"I'm tired of congress creating laws that identify me as a less important member of society. It's important to me to stand up for what I believe in so things can start to change here [...]
Paul Ryan Virtually A Zero at the Human Rights Campaign
BY PAUL SCHINDLER Editor Gay City News Paul Ryan, the budget hawk and conservative darling that Mitt Romney has selected as his vice presidential running mate, has in a number of media appearances shown impatience [...]
People with HIV Fear Unfair Treatment in Courts
Nearly half of HIV-positive respondents to a recently released survey on HIV criminalization say they believe they will not receive a fair hearing in the criminal justice system if they ever face charges for failing [...]
The Global View of Men Who Have Sex with Men & HIV
BY Bob Roehr The rate of new HIV infections is coming down in many countries around the world, "but that is not happening among men who have sex with men (MSMs)," Chris Beyrer said at [...]
A Fable For 6:30 a.m.
Parting Glances Once upon a time there was a young man down on his luck. He lost his job in January. In February his boyfriend dumped him. His cat died in March. His wallet was [...]
Romney-Ryan Ticket Out of Touch with Americans on LGBT Equality
BY Dan Rafter Viewpoint HRC's Online Campaigns Manager Mitt Romney announced Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, giving us a 2012 GOP ticket that could roll back much of the progress we've seen [...]
Sentence GLAAD to a pit of Chick-fil-A
by Mark Segal Viewpoint Let's not waste words here: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), you screwed up royally. In leading the chicken wars of last week, you need to go back to P.R. [...]
Chick-Fil-A Fail
By Abby Dees Thinking Out Loud There were so many things I could have written about today: openly lesbian Tammy Smith's promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the fact that the military is [...]
2012 Wilde Awards Nominations
Best Musical or Opera Chicago the Musical, Mason Street Warehouse; Kurt Stamm, director From My Hometown, Meadow Brook Theatre; Travis W. Walter, director I Pagliacci, Michigan Opera Theatre; Bernard Uzan, director The Light in the [...]
The 2012 Wilde Awards Program
Presented at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts West Bloomfield Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 Welcome and Introduction Awards Presentations: Best Musical or Opera Best Performance, Actress - Drama Best Design - Costumes Best Original [...]
A U.S. District Court jury decided Thursday evening that former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell must pay $4.5 million to gay student leader at the University of Michigan Chris Armstrong for having defamed and [...]
A U.S. District Court jury decided Thursday evening that former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell must pay $4.5 million to gay student leader at the University of Michigan Chris Armstrong for having defamed and [...]
Gay UofM Student’s Harasser Ordered to Pay $4.5 Million in Damages
A U.S. District Court jury decided Thursday evening that former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell must pay $4.5 million to gay student leader at the University of Michigan Chris Armstrong for having defamed and [...]