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Michael Urie Q&A: ‘I Felt Bad’ I Couldn’t Be ‘Ugly Betty’ Character
Photo: Christopher Beyer Michael Urie doesn't mean to disappoint you. It's just that after basically becoming Marc St. James on "Ugly Betty," the hit ABC comedy that launched his career, he's often expected to [...]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Q&A On ‘Proud’ Gay Kiss, Channing Musical & BuzzFeed Calling Him The ‘Perfect Man’
Who doesn't see Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the "perfect man"? The one man who knows him best: Joseph Gordon-Levitt. And neither should you, he says. After playing a gay hustler in "Mysterious Skin," a Mormon homophobe [...]
Jazz Legends To Perform At 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival Labor Day Weekend
DETROIT - The Detroit Jazz Festival "Imported from Detroit" celebrates 34 years this Labor Day Weekend. The annual festival promises to deliver an eclectic lineup filled with jazz greats, performing on four stages. "We strive [...]
Royal Oak Hosts Arts, Beats & Eats Labor Day Weekend
ROYAL OAK - A selection of artists will display and sell their work at the 16th annual Ford Arts, Beats & Eats presented by FirstMerit Bank on Labor Day weekend, Aug. 30-Sept. 2 in Royal [...]
Hear Me Out: KT Tunstall, Over the Rhine
KT Tunstall, 'Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon' The fuzzy feelings of KT Tunstall's optimistic radio-baiter "Suddenly I See," a song hooked to your noggin because of your "Devil Wears Prada" DVD, is nowhere to be [...]
New Play Honors Friendships, Destiny
By Bridgette M. Redman Writing can lead to some pretty interesting discoveries for a playwright, especially when the writing is about real people and real relationships. Bailey Boudreau doesn't fashion himself a playwright, but rather [...]
Autumn In Boston, Cambridge
By Andrew Collins Out Of Town Summer may signal the end of high season at New England's beach resorts, but September and October are the perfect months for visiting the region's largest metropolis, Boston, along [...]
Assumptions Don’t Help In Royal Oak Campaign, Volunteers Do Though
One Royal Oak field director Megan Cece, right, Jen Weaver and Aaron Aptel want many others to join them in volunteering on the campaign to reinstate Royal Oak's inclusive human rights ordinance. Weaver works at [...]
Kim Worthy To Speak At Fundraiser For Adoption And Marriage Case
FERNDALE - The landmark case of the Hazel Park couple that is suing the State of Michigan and Oakland County for the right to jointly adopt their children and to be married is making its [...]
Michigan Pride Arrives
LANSING - As people of all ages, genders and orientations gathered in Lansing last weekend to march to the capitol steps and celebrate Michigan Pride, Mark Janger of Ypsilanti [...]
Husband And Wife Duo Presents Joint Exhibit At Affirmations Gallery
FERNDALE - For Mariuca Rofica, photography comes naturally. "My father, uncle and great uncle were avid photographers when I was growing up," she said. "I always watched them and was interested." But it's her husband, [...]
Manning’s Gender Transition Sets Up Legal Showdown
By David Dishneau Bradley Manning is the first transgender military inmate to ask for hormone treatments, officials say, a request that could lead to a legal showdown over how - and if - the soldier [...]
David Usher
Creep Of The Week Think back to all of the times you've heard straight women say things like, "Ugh, I wish I could be a lesbian, it would be so much easier." And have you [...]
How’s Your Quincunx, Mary?
Parting Glances A pleasure of English is the language's imaginative and poetic use of collective nouns. Their fanciful pedigree as names for persons, places, things goes back to the 15th century. A pride of lions. [...]
Good Afternoon Michigan!
Viewpoint It is so amazing to see so many family members here at the reunion! Thanks for coming! We are gay, straight, questioning, transgender, asexual, pansexual, bisexual - we are a massive and diverse family [...]
Parents, Protection, And Pee Politics
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions A parent, as a general rule, is going to put the safety and security of their own child above all else. They want their child to have a life without [...]
Medicaid Expansion Passes Senate
By Crystal Proxmire LANSING — After a bunch of partisan back-and-forth, made more complex by disagreements within the Republican Party, the state Senate approved expanding Medicaid to cover a larger group of low-income residents. A [...]
BREAKING: Treasury And IRS Announce That All Legal Same-Sex Marriages Will Be Recognized For Federal Tax Purposes
From Press Release Aug. 29, 2013 WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today ruled that same-sex couples, legally married in jurisdictions that recognize their marriages, will be [...]
HRC Calls On Olympic Sponsors to Condemn Anti-LGBT Law in Russia
From Press Release Aug. 29, 2013 WASHINGTON - Today, Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin sent a letter to the heads of the top sponsors of the International Olympic Committee expressing concern over the anti-LGBT [...]