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Baldwin’s Win Tops Record Number Of LGBTs In Congress
By Lisa Keen MADISON, WI - In an historic victory Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay person to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Her victory, along with the apparent wins [...]
Obama Victory Bodes Well for LGBT Community
By Lisa Keen In the Nov. 6 race with the greatest impact on the LGBT community, President Obama secured re-election Tuesday night, winning both the popular and electoral vote majorities. The Obama re-election on the [...]
Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance Planned for Kalamazoo Community
KALAMAZOO - The Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center will recognize National Transgender Day of Remembrance Nov. 18 with a memorial, live music and poetry, a candlelight vigil and a keynote address by Arcus Center Executive [...]
Let’s Get Physical
By Anthony Paull Dating Diet I'm an awful friend because I'm not in support of Doug and his less-than-sexy fling with a doctor even though it's not technically a fling. It's more of a professional [...]
The Hairy Navel
By Ed Sikov Cocktail Chatter Hairy navels make my mouth water. I'm referring to guys' belly buttons here, not the cocktail. (I'll get around to that in a minute.) I'd go so far as to [...]
A Show For All: ‘The Homosexuals’ At The Ringwald
By Dana Casadei FERNDALE - Defining what "family" is used to be simple. It was one man, one woman and their two-and-a-half kids. Now, its definition can no longer be described so, well, dully, as [...]
LGBT Sellers: How To Help Attract A Qualified Buyer
By Jeffery A. Hammerberg Founder and President Gay Real Estate Everyone is well aware that for the past couple of years the real estate market has been rather lopsided in favor of buyers and quite [...]
Screen Queen: ‘Rock of Ages,’ ‘Brave’ & ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’
Rock of Ages It's far from perfect. It's not even great. But following his first musical, "Hairspray," director Adam Shankman's take on this Broadway hit - which, by the way, basically only exists so history [...]
Sexy Sorcerers
Across 1 Nice Nellie 5 Head for 9 Petty squabbles 14 Actress Skye 15 Spartacus or Ben-Hur 16 Is het up 17 He played Cedric Diggory in the "Harry Potter" films 20 Gets a smile [...]
Roll Out The Superlatives: ‘Caesar’ Is In Town
By Michael H. Margolin Sitting down to report on Michigan Opera Theatre's production of "Giulio Cesar in Egitto" (though given the shortened, Shakespearean title, sung in Italian with surtitles) I grabbed for my list of [...]
Puzzling script, Strong Production Continues UDM Season
One of the joys of being a theater critic after more than a decade is having an opportunity to walk into a theater and experience a decades-old play about which you know nothing. Such was [...]
An American Tragedy: ‘Antigone In New York’
By John Quinn In "Antigone," the 5th century BCE tragedy by Greek playwright Sophocles, the title character buries her brother Polynices, who, killed in a civil war, had been declared an enemy of the State. [...]
‘Cancer! The Musical’: A Touching Tale
By Dana Casadei I've seen a few musicals in my few years as a critic, and they often contained big Broadway-style showstoppers, elaborate sets and constant costumes changes. "Cancer! The Musical" doesn't have any of [...]
Election Victories Celebrated, Equal Rights In Sight
A large, happy, relieved and celebratory crowd gathered at Affirmations Nov. 6 to watch the returns. They toasted Obama's win together. Photo courtesy of Johnny Jenkins FERNDALE - With Maine, Maryland, and Washington having [...]
Michigan Changes Little After Expensive Campaigns
LANSING - Despite millions of dollars and hard fought campaigns, the results of the Nov. 6 elections in Michigan netted only small changes in our state government composition. The Supreme Court will remain with a [...]
The Recall of Antigay Troy Mayor Janice Daniels
Troy resident Leonard Malkin with Recall Janice Daniels group co-founder John Kulesz waiting for results Nov. 6. BTL photo: Kate Opalewski Troy Mayor Janice Daniels has been recalled. The Tea Party favorite will be [...]
Kuhnke wins, other LGBT candidates lose
ANN ARBOR - Carol Kuhnke won her election for Circuit Court Judge in Washtenaw County, making her the first openly LGBT judge elected by the people in Michigan. "I am incredibly humbled and honored to [...]
100 Days and Still Hungry
Affirmations Executive Director Dave Garcia congratulated and thanked Deb Holbrook who covered six shifts during the 100 day Hungry 4 Equality strike. Photo courtesy of Johnny Jenkins FERNDALE - Troy Mayor Janice Daniels is [...]
Transgender Day of Remembrance Events
Cameron Breither moved to Ann Arbor from North Carolina because he knew it would be a place he could safely transition. Photo: Spectrum Center. ANN ARBOR - Since Transgender Day of Remembrance began in [...]
KGLRC Hires Megan Bauer As Community Engagement Coordinator
Kalamazoo - The Kalamazoo Gay and Lesbian Resource center has announced the hiring of Megan Bauer as its new Community Engagement Coordinator. Since July, Bauer has worked as an intern with the KGLRC's I Commit [...]
LGBT gains breathtaking leap forward
By Lisa Keen A first-ever openly gay person elected U.S. Senator, the largest ever number of openly LGBT people elected to Congress, two new speakers at state houses, the first-ever openly transgender person elected to [...]
LGBT Voters Crucial to Obama Popular Vote Victory
LOS ANGELES - The national LGBT vote was crucial to President Obama's popular vote victory on Election Day, according to new analysis from Gary J. Gates, distinguished scholar at the Williams Institute. In a contest [...]
Engagement Before Marriage Rights
By Lisa Keen Lauren Snead, right, hugs her partner Katy Jayne, left, as they celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine Nov. 6. AP photo. Was the sweep of marriage equality in four [...]
Marriage votes mark ‘watershed’ moment
By Lisa Keen Even the most jaded political pundits were stunned by the four victories for marriage equality on the ballot Tuesday. In an unprecedented vote, Minnesota became the first state to reject a proposed [...]
Gay Fraternity Sues Upstart Over Trademark
By Jeff Barnard AP - A pioneering college fraternity for gay men is suing a newer campus organization that calls itself a gender-neutral "frarority," claiming trademark infringement. The lawsuit was filed last month by Delta [...]
UPS Ends Grants To Boy Scouts Over Discrimination
By Michael Biesecker Federal tax returns for 2011 for Intel, the world's largest chip maker, were not immediately available. Some media reported the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company as giving hundreds of thousands of dollars over [...]
Hope Unfurls Election Night
"Boy, this restores my faith in the American people," said a woman sitting next to me at the election return watch party we attended Nov. 6 when it was finally announced that President Obama had [...]
Peter LaBarbera
Creep of the Week Remember that old saying about trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results being the definition of insanity? Well, if that saying is true, then I've got a [...]
Gaydar Goes Half App’d
Parting Glances I've been told by a high techie source - but perhaps it's just wishful thinking "queersay" - that there's a new app on the market called Gaytection. Its purpose is to determine at [...]
Q&A: Kylie Minogue On 25 Years Of Gay Fans, Bad Fashion & Girl Kisses
Kylie Minogue was just 19 when she landed a record deal that would turn the soap star into a singing superstar. This year marks a quarter-century of Kylie, who's celebrating the milestone with orchestral reinterpretations [...]
Royal Oak Moves Forward With Draft Human Rights Ordinance
Royal Oak resident Lindsay Hoffman addresses the Royal Oak City Commission Nov. 19. The city voted 7-0 to move forward with having the city attorney report back on broadening the human rights ordinance to welcome [...]
Q&A: Dan Savage On Haters, ‘Crazy’ Queer People & Why He’s Not a Bully
Photo: LaRae Lobdell In his two-decade career as a sex-advice columnist, and more recently as creator of the It Gets Better Project, Dan Savage has entertained readers with his frankness and inspired queer kids [...]