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This Week: Propeller Lands Again At Power Center
Photo: Ben Allen (Olivia) and Joseph Chance (Viola) in Propeller's "Twelfth Night." Photo: Manuel Harlan YPSILANTI - The month ends with five days of performances by the exquisitely bawdy all-male Shakespeare company Propeller, performing [...]
Pisco Punch
By Ed Sikov Cocktail Chatter Call me the Pisco Kid. Yes, I'm still on a Pisco kick. The attentive reader will recall that my last Cocktail Chatter column concerned the Peruvian firewater called Pisco, a [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente From Ira Sachs' "Keep the Lights On." Photo: Jean-Christophe Husson James Franco is one of the beautiful people, but you knew that Let's just go ahead and make the man [...]
Hear Me Out: Lisa Loeb, Justin Bieber
Lisa Loeb, 'No Fairy Tale' Lisa Loeb will forever be defined as an artist of a bygone decade. (Boy, reality does bite.) But it's not like she doesn't already know this; "The '90s" is a [...]
First Gay Inaugural Poet
Across 1 Benjamin Britten's Peter 6 Comedy sketch 10 Reproduced nonheterosexually? 14 Mother of the groom, to the other groom 15 Reverse an action 16 Foam at the mouth 17 Beethoven's "F,r ___" 18 Former [...]
Philippe Kahn: A role model for all
By Dan Woog The OutField As a volunteer assistant wrestling coach, Philippe Kahn had an easy relationship with the athletes at South High School in Torrance, Cali. They respected his talents, but like teenagers everywhere, [...]
Detroit Mercy Theatre’s ‘Wings’ Soars
By John Quinn Melissa Beckwith gives a striking performance in UDM Theatre Company's production of "Wings." Photo: Greg Grobis "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's [...]
Piecing Together The Relics Of Tragedy
By Carolyn Hayes Seth (Zach Hendrickson) interrogates Farsted (Alastar Dimitrie) in Puzzle Piece Theatre's "Show and Tell." Photo: Tom Michaels Metro Detroit is no stranger to low-budget, guerrilla theater, which thrives on low overhead [...]
The Buzz About ‘Extremities’
Amanda Sayers and Jeremy Strebendt star in "Extremities" at The Box Theater. Photo: The Box Theater One sure way to know a psychological thriller is succeeding is to have its patrons move back a [...]
Bustling ‘Joseph’ A Saturated Spectrum
By Carolyn Hayes "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" continues through March 3 in Dexter. Photo: The Encore Musical Theatre Company With decades of roaring success under its belt and name recognition aplenty, "Joseph [...]
Farmers Alley Drama Forces New Thoughts On Freedom, Family
By Judith Cookis Rubens Rico Bruce Wade, Benjamin Reigel and Scott Norman in "The Whipping Man." Photo: Farmers Alley Theatre Audiences might think they know many Civil War-era stories, but playwright Matthew Lopez's "The [...]
Same-Sex Marriage Bills Approved In UK, France
Britain's Parliament voted 400-175 to extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples in the United Kingdom Feb. 5, with the measure on track for another positive vote in the House of Commons before final [...]
Youth Rising: The Push For Marriage
By Crystal Proxmire MiLove intends to collect enough signatures to put a repeal of Prop. 2 on the ballot for Nov. 2014 Change is bubbling up in Michigan's LGBT community, with people who weren't [...]
Detroit Man Sentenced For Anti-Gay Hate Crime
Justin Alesna, a 23 years old resident of Detroit who was attacked on the evening of March 7, 2011. Alesna recorded a YouTube video to report his ordeal originally. DETROIT - Almost two years [...]
Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Cases Explained
At the Ferndale Public Library, attorney Lisa Schmidt donates her time to do community education classes about a variety of legal issues. Most recently she tackled the sometimes complicated issue of same-sex marriage, breaking down [...]
HIV Prevalence Predictions in Gay, Bi Men ‘Staggering’
LANSING - If current infection trends continue unabated, the federal government estimates that today's 20-year-old men who have sex with men will face a 50 percent infection rate in 30 years - 70 percent for [...]
Getting Creative With Gay Owned Mortgage Company
By Jim Larkin Peg Matthews Peg Matthews knows it can be uncomfortable when gay and lesbian couples make one of life's biggest decisions - mortgaging their home - with an agent who either doesn't [...]
LaChey, Stevenson To Run for LGBT Caucus Leadership
DETROIT - BTL'S co-publisher, Jan Stevenson, is running for vice chair of the LGBT Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party. Attorney Mark LaChey is running at the top of the ticket for chair with three [...]
Grant Allows For Affirmations Cyber Center Upgrade
FERNDALE - The new year is bringing changes to Affirmations Community Center. A grand re-opening event will take place on Feb. 15 to unveil the improvements. One of the most notable changes is the addition [...]
HIV/STD Testing Expanded At Affirmations
Affirmations Community Center in Ferndale partners with Oakland County Health Division, AIDS Partnership Michigan and Michigan AIDS Coalition to offer free HIV and STD testing. All tests are free, confidential and anonymous. Find all scehdules [...]
Extended Hours For Ozone House’s Drop-In Center
YPSILANTI - The daily hours of operation for the Ozone House Drop-In Center in Ypsilanti are being extended due to a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The new Ozone House [...]
Art Donations Sought for LAAN Support
Lansing Community College Gay Straight Alliance is looking for artists who wish to donate their art to be auctioned off for the Lansing Area AIDS Network. The subject of the art or type of art [...]
Campaign Looks To Break Culture of Silence Around Discrimination
HOLLAND - Hope is Ready has initiated a "Silence Isn't Always Golden" campaign in an attempt to open communication and education about the need to end discrimination against LGBTQ people. And they are calling on [...]
Affirmations’ Spring Bash 2013 Set
Spring Bash, Affirmations Community Center's premier event of the year, is coming April 13 and will once again help raise significant funding to support vital programming and services. The 14th annual event is guaranteed to [...]
AIDS Partnership Michigan Appoints Chief Executive Officer
Tom Verwest, President of the Board of AIDS Partnership Michigan, has announced the appointment of William D. VanHemert to the position of Chief Executive Officer effective March 4. VanHemert will succeed Barbara Murray, who is [...]
BREAKING: PACHA Passes Resolution Condemning HIV Criminalization
Resolution passed Feb. 7, 2013 Despite the relatively low risk of transmission and significantly lowered level of harm, thirty-four U.S. states and territories have adopted criminal statutes based on perceived exposure to HIV. Most of [...]
LGBT Catholics React to Pope’s Resignation
by Chuck Colbert Pope Benedict XVI. Photo: Mimmo Ferraro In a decision that surprised, if not shocked the one billion Roman Catholics worldwide, Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that he was stepping down. [...]
Bonauto Receives American Bar Association’s First Stonewall Award
The American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity recognized Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defender's Civil Rights Project Director Mary L. Bonauto with the newly created Stonewall Award for her significant achievements [...]
Diana Medley
Creep of the Week Not every teacher is able to find the courage to boldly declare that gay, lesbian, and bisexual students have no purpose in life and that their very existence is offensive to [...]
Lucy Van Pelt Goes Disco
Parting Glances I'm spending several hours this week with 40 kids, the youngest three, the oldest 14. Each has a story about being or becoming aware that they are "different," had crushes on other boys, [...]
It’s February: Time for Love, Marriage And Equality
It's February; love's in the air, and apparently everyone is high on the Valentine's Day Kool-Aid. You expect to be inundated with love stories, engagements and wedding photos but did you ever think you would [...]
Jewel: The Gay Q&A
Jewel's life is the best kind of It Gets Better story. Even though the famed music-maker recorded a video to offer hope to struggling teens, she didn't need to; to be inspired, one only has [...]
Gays Offer Mixed Reviews on State of The Union Address
By Lisa Keen President Obama continued his trend of including references to LGBT people in his State of the Union address Tuesday night (Feb. 12), but he got mixed reviews from the community itself. Early [...]