Mel B Talks The Gay ‘Eye,’ Spice Girls Rumors & Loving A Woman
Mel B will tell you what she wants, what she really, really wants: to get back to being Scary Spice again. Not that the pop star, known as the Spice Girls' wild child, ever got [...]
Sarah Silverman Talks Poop, Miley & ‘Life-Changing’ HBO Special
Photo by Robyn von Swank There's nothing too taboo for Sarah Silverman. Not AIDS, not poop. And in her 20-year career - which began in 1993 with a spot on "Saturday Night Live," and [...]
BREAKING: Hawaii House Clears Way For Marriage Equality
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The Hawaii House gave final approval Friday evening to a marriage equality bill, putting Hawaii on track to become the 16th state plus the District of Columbia to allow [...]
Did State Sen. Roger Kahn (R-Saginaw) Steal Someone Else’s Speech?
BTL Staff LANSING -- As U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) continues to struggle with the fallout of his admission to plagarizing other's work, a Michigan state senator is now facing similar allegations. Sen. Roger Kahn [...]
Folk Festival To Feature Neko Case, Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin will headline the Ann Arbor Folk Festivals second night, Feb. 1. The annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival, a fundraiser for The Ark, returns to Hill Auditorium for two dynamic and different nights [...]
Strippers Turn It Up To 98 Degrees
By Emell Derra Adolphus So a pop singer, a jock, two thespians, a couple dancers, a fitness trainer, an ex-porn star and a radiology technologist walk into a bar. It's not a joke. It's "Men [...]
Hear Me Out: Celine Dion, Katy Perry
Celine Dion, 'Loved Me Back to Life' To have the glass-shattering lung power that Celine Dion has built an empire of love songs on in the last 20-some years hardly matters anymore. Shock value, personal [...]
Getting Excited Again About Grace’s Friend
Across 1 Alec of "Desperate Housewives" 5 Some Barneys locations 10 Dog-eared 14 Plunk down 15 "Dirty Dancing" director Ardolino 16 Bulb lighter 17 Head light? 18 A queen, for example 19 "___! Went the [...]
Good Company Makes For A Great ‘Visit’
By Carolyn Hayes Jeff Baron's distinctly self-contained "Visiting Mr. Green" tells a curious story of one relationship by showing its two characters together - and only together. Yet in the production currently at Matrix Theatre [...]
History Month Exhibit Reminder Of Path Toward Equality
In 1990, Frank Colasonti, Jr. told his bosses that he expected to keep his job and not be treated any differently than he had before. He also wanted the ability to be open about his [...]
Senate Could Pass Bill Against Cyberbullying
A rumor posted on Twitter. A barrage of insulting text messages. A fake Facebook profile in your child's name. Embarrassing pictures posted without permission. Nasty emails that can reach your kid at any hour of [...]
Michigan Filmmaker Addresses Bullying From Bully’s Viewpoint
Birmingham filmmaker Amy Weber is sharing the one project she said is the most important in her life, The Bully Chronicles. The 100 percent Michigan-made film is being celebrated at the Uptown Film Festival Nov. [...]
New Michigan AIDS Coalition Funded
A new coalition of nine Michigan AIDS organizations received a $25,000 grant from a national AIDS foundation to develop a strategic plan to collaborate more closely. Contributing factors such as economic stresses, changes in funding [...]
Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Program Seeks Volunteers
FERNDALE -Cross The Line is currently recruiting youth between the ages of 13 and 20 to become peer educators for the 2014 Cross The Line Peer Outreach Team. Now in its fourth year, Cross The [...]
Gay Author To Be Featured At Annual Jewish Book Fair
WEST BLOOMFIELD - Author Joel Derfner will discuss his recently published book, Lawfully Wedded Husband, How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family during the 62nd Annual Jewish Book Fair at the Jewish Community [...]
Evening Of Sacred Song To Benefit Jim Toy Center
ANN ARBOR - Sacred Song, a multi-ethnic choral group, presents the Seventeenth Annual Evening of Sacred Song, an evening of singing and instrumental music. Since 1995, the group's annual December concert has affirmed the values [...]
KICK To Host Health Expo
DETROIT - KICK, the agency for LGBT African Americans, is hosting the second annual Health & Wellness Expo from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Nov. 16 at KICK - The Center in Detroit, 48 Burroughs [...]
Where Is The High Ground?
As we move forward in our collective quest for equality we are struck by the absurdity of the opposition's arguments. Whether it is the Catholic Bishops letter against Employment Non-Discrimination Act or the rabid right [...]
The Moscow City Government
Photo: Flickr user Pavel Kazachkov Creep Of The Week As you probably already know, Russia is not exactly a paradise for LGBT people. Even talking about being gay is a crime there because it [...]
Pet Reparative Therapy
Parting Glances I received an e-mail from a conservative group calling itself Balaam's Ass of America (after the OT story of the fabled talking mule), asking for a five-buck, tax-deductible contribution "on behalf of gender [...]
The Truth About Pink’s Tour: It’s Amazing
Photo by Chris Azzopardi All you pop stars out there, go home. You've been served by Pink, who raised the bar for arena spectacles during her second show this year at the Palace of [...]