Dear Jody: Partner Can’t Drive
Partner can't drive Q: My partner and I are getting up in years. We're both doing OK, but we have our problems. My partner "Jane" is having more problems than I am and it scares [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Jodie Foster gets married to the mob The next time you see Jodie Foster in front of the camera it'll be in "District 9" director Neill Blomkamp's 2013 sci-fi epic "Elysium" [...]
Turn up the charm, Gemini!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun entering Virgo and Mars coming home to Scorpio push us to work. Both aspect Neptune so focus may be hard to achieve. Mediation helps. Venus, Mercury and Jupiter [...]
Movin’ On Up
Across 1 Fruit cover 5 Has sex on a carpet? 10 Nuts and bolts 14 Obsidian source 15 Earhart, for one 16 "Serpico" author Peter 17 Ghostbusters role 18 Able to bend over 19 Large [...]
Coffee, Tea or All Three in Flighty Farce at Mason Street
By Sue Merrell As the French maid says, "it isn't easy" to juggle three fiances - but, oh, is it ever funny in "Boeing- Boeing," the latest production of Mason Street Warehouse. A boisterous audience [...]
Barn Theatre Looks on the Bright Side of Musicals with ‘Spamalot’
By Bridgette M. Redman Absurd. Hilarious. Ludicrous. Slightly naughty. Shrubberlicious. These are all things that Monty Python fans will expect from a musical based on the British comedians' sketches. And those are all things that [...]
Michigan to be Nation’s First No-Kill State, Goal of Upcoming Conference
LANSING - While the state of Michigan has a long way to go in some areas, we are in the forefront of becoming the first no-kill state with 11 no-kill communities, more than any other [...]
Ferndale Fur Trading Company is the New Pet Connection
FERNDALE - Andrea Johns is no stranger to helping displaced animals find homes. As a former organizer for Fido Does Ferndale and a volunteer for the now dis-banded Waggs & Wishes she's helped make dozens [...]
Oswald and Cadbury, Bunnies on a Mission
FERNDALE - Oswald and Cadbury are grey Flemish Bunnies on a mission. The super soft and extra friendly rabbits ride around the Ferndale area in a double baby carriage pushed by animal-loving activist Julie Miron [...]
Lasers Zap Pets Pain, Disease
FERNDALE - When our pets suffer from medical problems, we try to find inexpensive, painless and natural ways to help them heal rather than simply mask symptoms as is often the case with conventional medications. [...]
Pet Calendar
Humane Society of South Central Michigan Benefit Aug. 25 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration fee: $25 (269) 963-1796 or jgilbert@hs-scm.org Featured events: Dog walk (registration begins at 9 a.m.), vendor booths, dog fashion show [...]
Dog Parks in Michigan
Dogs parks can provide our canine friends with hours of excercise, friendship, play and pure fun. Here are some of the local dog parks: Behnke Memorial 300 N. Groesbeck Hwy. in Mt. Clemens http://www.cityofmountclemens.com/parks.htm Cherry [...]
Jackson City Commission Votes to Take Up Non-Discrimination Ordinance
JACKSON - On Aug. 14, the Jackson City Commission voted to take up the issue of adopting an inclusive and equal non-discrimination ordinance. Specifically the ordinance would ban discrimination of people based on a number [...]
Making a DIFFAerance
WEST BLOOMFIELD - The first time Michael Bartus really stopped and paid attention to Michigan AIDS Coalition (MAC) was back in December when they brought Max Fisher in to do a lunchtime presentation about his [...]
Ruth Ellis Graduates 20 Interns
DETROIT - For the second year in a row Ruth Ellis Center gave LGBT youth the opportunity to work as interns for six weeks out of the summer. The internship program is a partnership between [...]
ALEC Power: How Corporations are Taking Over Government One Policy at a Time
A new study details the way ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is wining and dining conservative legislators while handing them model legislation to cut-and-paste into their bills. The report, ALEC in Michigan, was released [...]
OUTFest celebration returns to Braun Court
Ann Arbor, MI - The 18th OUTFest returns to Ann Arbor's history Kerrytown District Saturday, September 29 with a multiplicity of activities and entertainment for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and allied community of [...]
Armstrong’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 [...]
Future Funding Uncertain at United Methodist LGBT Ministry
By Crystal Proxmire DETROIT - For the past year George Jonte has been running the United Methodist LGBT Ministry, whose mission is to unite congregations in the region in support of full inclusion. Though progress [...]
Historic Gathering to Tackle ‘Sex and Justice’
ANN ARBOR - The U of M's Institute for Research on Women and Gender will host a conference on "Sex and Justice," Oct. 4-6. The international conference will examine and critique ongoing domestic and international [...]
Hungry4Equality Week 3
Monday - Carolun Simmons "We must be taken seriously as a part of our communities. We need more gay people to "come out" and make our voices heard. This starts by accepting who and what [...]
LGBT reactions to Ryan Pick
BY Chuck Colbert T he dog days of summer brought the 2012 presidential race into sharper focus, when on Aug. 11, presumptive Republican Party nominee Mitt Romney announced that his choice for running mate would [...]
Family Research Council Shooting, LGBT Groups Respond
Within hours of a shooting by a lone gunman at the Family Research Council's offices in Washington, DC, LGBT leaders made the following statement: "We were saddened to hear news of the shooting this morning [...]
Proposed GOP Platform Dramatically Out-of-Step with Mainstream American Values
FROM HRC PRESS RELEASE Despite the fact that a majority of Americans - including increasing numbers within the GOP - support marriage equality, reports indicate that the Republican 2012 platform will not only reject marriage [...]
Politics Gets Simple
BTL Editorial If you have a TV set you have most likely been subjected to the barrage of political ads this summer. It is so easy to tune them out and begin thinking that Romney/Ryan [...]
William Owens
Creep of the Week Can we just get one thing clear? If you're black and Christian then the thought of same-sex couples makes you puke and if it doesn't then you are a "Judas" and/or [...]
Why I’m gay, no doubt
Parting Glances There are experiences that are alien to most people: walking on the moon, winning the $337 million Power Ball lottery, weighing 400 pounds, having implant boobs. Because my life tends to be introspective, [...]
Andrew Rannells Q&A On ‘New Normal’ vs. ‘Modern Family,’ One Million Moms Boycott & Stripper Role
Another modern family is moving into prime time: Ryan Murphy's "The New Normal," premiering at 9:30 p.m. Sept. 11 on NBC, casts Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha as gay dads going through a surrogate to [...]
Nelly Furtado Talks Gay Clubbing, First Drag Experience & Coming Full Circle With New Album
Photo: Joseph Llanes There's a story Nelly Furtado likes to tell of her seeing two lesbian teens squeeze each other while crying as she sang " ... On the Radio (Remember the Days)" on [...]
When Sex Calls
ÒDoes it feel gay to you?Ó Jamie Travis asks about his directorial debut, "For a Good Time, Call," as if there was any question that a phone-sex caper with two females engaging in pseudo-lesbian three-ways [...]
Ari Graynor On ‘For a Good Time, Call’: ‘The Gayest Movie Ever!’
ÒDoes it feel gay to you?Ó Jamie Travis asks about his directorial debut, "For a Good Time, Call," as if there was any question that a phone-sex caper with two females engaging in pseudo-lesbian three-ways [...]
Ari Graynor On ‘For a Good Time, Call’: ‘The Gayest Movie Ever!’
"Does it feel gay to you?" Jamie Travis asks about his directorial debut, "For a Good Time, Call," as if there was any question that a phone-sex caper with two females engaging in pseudo-lesbian three-ways [...]