Walking With a Ghost
By Anthony Paull Dating Diet There's a time in every adult man's life when he realizes he's no longer a kid. For me, it occurred while hanging out at a theme park without a kid [...]
Dill-Infused Vodka
By Ed Sikov Cocktail Chatter It began innocently enough. But like so many of life's little catastrophes, my attempt to serve something a bit unusual took a sudden and unexpected dive, and the whole evening [...]
OUTFest Celebration Returns To Braun Court
ANN ARBOR - The 18th OUTFest returns to Ann Arbor's history Kerrytown District Saturday, Sept. 29 with a multiplicity of activities and entertainment for LGBT and allied community of Washtenaw. This annual celebration begins in [...]
Detroit Design Festival Returns Sept. 19-23
DETROIT - Detroit's top and emerging design talent will be put on display at the second annual Detroit Design Festival (DDF), Sept. 19-23, along downtown Detroit's Woodward and Creative Corridors and in select locations across [...]
Wanda Sykes Talks Commitment to Detroit’s Homeless Youth
Two and a half hours. That's all it took for Wanda Sykes, who spent that much time mingling with and encouraging the youth at the Ruth Ellis Center during a Detroit tour stop, to attach [...]
Janet Jackson’s Trans Film Called Into Question
By Jerome Stuart Nichols As an artist, your ideas and vision are your life - especially when you're independent. But what happens when you're midway through your greatest work and you discover that someone with [...]
Trust erotic instincts, Virgo!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury is lord of the zodiac now, but he's in bad aspect. Reign in ego and criticism. Venus in Leo aspecting the outer planets is challenging us all to innovative [...]
Hear Me Out: Little Big Town Releases Breakthrough Album
Cat Power, 'Sun' The artist who "once wanted to be the greatest" isn't just imagining it now; she's living it. The confidence on Cat Power's first album of original material in six years, self-produced and [...]
Famous Homophobes
Across 1 Shakespearean "shucks" 6 Do-overs for Billie Jean 10 Bean and Burke waved theirs around 14 San Vicente of gossip 15 Island of Diamond Head Beach 16 Black and white sandwich 17 Office employee [...]
Tough Times Are The Right Time For ‘Billy Elliot’
By Jenn McKee As I watched the opening night performance of the touring version of "Billy Elliot," now at the Fisher Theater, I thought more than once of yet another British film that made a [...]
Principles Of Pleasure And Pain At The Ringwald
By Michael H. Margolin Mark Ravenhill, the author of "Shopping & F***ing" at Ferndale's Ringwald Theatre, is one of the several playwrighting "stars" of Britain's "in yer face" theater movement of the 1990s. Like the [...]
Entertaining ‘A Little Work’ Needs A Little Work
By Dana Casadei The title of the show may be referring to plastic surgery, but it's shown quickly - and often - that everyone could use a little work, and not just the kind done [...]
‘Art of Coexistence’ Hits Speed Bump In ‘God of Carnage’
As the saying goes: Boys will be boys. It's probably safe to assume that the first 11 year old boys to roam the earth probably played together, scuffled together, picked themselves up, dusted themselves off [...]
Graveyard Humor At The Abreact
By John Quinn We Irish, descended from kings, are known for our poets, playwrights and our unshakable humility. We're also known for throwing a helluva party. Thus it is fitting that The Abreact celebrates its [...]
A Classic Comes To Life At Tipping Point
By Dana Casadei They say a show can only be as good as its script and its actors. "Deathtrap," written by the brilliant Ira Levin, was put in the right group of actors' hands at [...]
Mich. Dems Embrace Marriage Equality, Full LGBT Rights
LANSING - The Michigan Democratic Party embraced full equality for LGBT people in the 2012 state party platform adopted this past weekend at the Michigan Democratic Party convention. In an unequivocal statement of support, the [...]
Adoption Rights Suit Amended to Include Same-Sex Marriage
When a Hazel Park couple filed a lawsuit against the state for denying their family the right for second parent adoption, they hadn't expected to also sue for equal access to a marriage license. Yet [...]
Get Your Walking Shoes On For Upcoming AIDS Walks
All across Michigan folks are gathering pledges and getting ready to lace up their sneakers for one of nine AIDS walks across the state. Eight of those walks are AIDS Walk Michigan events (with walks [...]
Transgender Health Fair Coming Up
FERNDALE - As cultural acceptance grows for people across the transgender spectrum, so does the need for information and access to healthcare. That's why Transgender Michigan is hosting the third annual Transgender Health Fair on [...]
Hungry4Equality: Week 6
"I think it's absurd that I can be the hardest working and most productive employee, yet still be fired based on my sexuality when it has absolutely nothing to do with my work or ability [...]
KICK To Send Five Youth To D.C., In Need Of Donations
Detroit - KICK and the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) are partnering to empower and prepare our youth leaders by providing an opportunity for them to meet with other like-minded youth, political and civil rights [...]
MCCD Raises $3000 In School Supplies For Ruth Ellis Center
Members of the Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit (MMCD) in Ferndale organized a fundraiser throughout August, "Backpacks for Ruth", and collected school supplies and backpacks for the residents of the Ruth Ellis Center, homeless and [...]
Doctoral Student To Research LGB In The Workplace
Paul Battle, a doctoral student in Counseling at Oakland University has begun work on a dissertation, compiling research on the work experiences of gay, lesbian and bisexual indviduals. "I hope that learning more about the [...]
U.S. Transgender-Inmate Ruling Movement’s Latest Win
By Meghan Barr (AP) Years ago, in a darkened parking lot in the middle of the night, Kathy Padilla would meet with fellow transgender people who sought support from one another in a society that [...]
Bryan Fischer
Creep of the Week Happy One Year Anniversary of the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, everybody. Well, not happy for everyone, I suppose. There are still plenty of anti-gay bigots out there unhappy about the [...]
Shading The Seventh Oracle
Parting Glances I've been bike riding pretty much daily from my art studio to the studio of my artist friend Jon Strand in Cork Town, a distance of about three miles one way. My biking [...]
Getting LGBT Homeless Youth Off The Streets
Opinion by Laura A. Hughes As the Executive Director of the Detroit-based Ruth Ellis Center, one of a tiny handful of organizations in the country dedicated to working with runaway and homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual [...]
Stark Difference Part Two: DNC Convenes in Charlotte
Viewpoint "So a Democrat, a Republican and Apathy walk into a bar..." Now that we've seen the "Better Future" offered at the Republican National Convention, it's was the Democrats turn to pitch to American voters [...]
BTL Viewpoint: Living United for the LGBT Community
Many of our readers will be participating in workplace funding campaigns operated by Live United http://www.liveunitedsem.org, known as the United Way for Southeastern Michigan. Former partner agencies Affirmations Community Center and AIDS Partnership Michigan are [...]
LGBT Organizations Help Dreamers Apply for New ‘Deferred Action’ Program
SAN FRANCISCO - More than $75,000 has been raised by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizations and LGBT movement leaders to help young LGBT undocumented immigrants pay for work permit applications made possible through President [...]
Michigan LGBT and Ally Voter Action Town Hall Event
Update : video from the event The Affirmations Community Center in Ferndale and Equality Michigan are organizing a Voter Action Town Hall meeting and action day that will be held at Affirmations Community Center on [...]
Q&A: Ezra Miller Talks ‘Queer-Ass Family,’ Drag Upbringing & How No One’s Really Straight
Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller and Emma Watson in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." Photo: Summit Entertainment Twenty is a young age to have already played two characters that couldn't be any more different. [...]
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Endorsements on the Voter’s Guide
Back to the Voter's Guide LGBT Rights Between The Lines Equality Michigan/Pride PAChttp://eqmipridepac.com/ Lansing Association for Human Rightshttp://lahronline.org/Articles/CandidatesAug2012.htm Kalamazoo Alliance for Equalityhttp://www.kalamazooalliance.org/category/endoresements/ Women's Rights National Organization for Women (NOW)http://www.nowpacs.org/2012/federal.html#MIhttp://www.michnow.org/release_2012endorsements073012.pdf Planned Parenthood National Abortion Rights Action [...]