FERNDALE - It's been a few months since he stepped into the position, but Rev. Roland Stringfellow will be officially installed as senior pastor of Metropolitan Community Church - Detroit at a special service May [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service PENNSYLVANIA MARRIAGES: A federal judge on Tuesday declared a ban on same-sex couples marrying in Pennsylvania to be a violation of the equal protection and due process guarantees of [...]
Keen News Service President Obama this month nominated an openly gay State Department fellow to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam. Ted Osius has 25 years of experience as a State Department officer in [...]
Keen News Service President Obama this month nominated an openly gay State Department fellow to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam. Ted Osius has 25 years of experience as a State Department officer in [...]
Keen News Service Of eight openly LGBT candidates on primary ballots yesterday, six are confirmed winners, one lost, and for one the results were not yet in at midnight. In Georgia, incumbent State Rep. Simone [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service OREGON JUDGE STRIKES BAN: Oregon on Monday became the 18th state to allow same-sex couples to marry. In a 26-page ruling that shared some of his personal experience with [...]
Photo: Warner Bros. Records Rebellious and fearless, Lily Allen has slayed some egos in her time. But with Allen's recently released third album, "Sheezus," the tabloid target is experiencing the contentment of marriage and [...]
Oregon on Monday became the 18th state to allow same-sex couples to marry. In a 26-page ruling that shared some of his personal experience with anti-gay sentiments, U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane (an Obama [...]
U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball (Clinton appointee) granted a preliminary injunction Monday afternoon requiring that Utah recognize the marriages of an estimated 1,300 same-sex couples that took place before a U.S. Supreme Court issued [...]
Today U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled in Whitewood v. Wolf that Pennsylvania's ban on marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional. Judge Jones is the 14th federal judge in recent months to rule [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service OREGON DECISION AT NOON TODAY: U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane of Oregon said Friday he would issue his decision at noon PDT today in litigation challenging the state's [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service NINTH CIRCUIT STAYS IDAHO: A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday issued a temporary stay preventing Chief Magistrate Judge Candy Dale's order striking [...]
Wedding season unofficially kicks off this month, and with more and more states deeming same-sex marriages legal you're bound to receive an invitation to your friends' fabulous nuptials any minute. And that means you'll need [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus An "All Star" Drag Show is coming to Lansing's Avenue Cafe this month, just in time to launch the Pride season. The jam-packed event will feature over a dozen queens, including [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Queen Latifah will bend it like Bessie So she's never returned to the glorious swagger of her stone-butch, bank-robbin' "Set It Off" days. And she's being very old-school Jodie about talking/not-talking [...]
Across 1 Tutti-frutti ingredient 5 Lammies, e.g. 11 Peggy of Split Bitches 15 River of Memphis 16 Woman of La Mancha 17 Look intently 18 Start to climax 19 You wear it with a thong [...]
By John Quinn "Turandot" closes Michigan Opera Theatre's 43rd season. Photo: John Grigaitis "Turandot" is an Italian opera based on a Persian folk tale set in China. Its multiculturalism is positively all-American. Michigan Opera [...]
By John Quinn Performance Network Theatre's production of "Richard III" bends genders with Carla Milarch (left) in the title role. Photo: Sean Carter Photography As Mel Brooks would have it, "It's good to be [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman Rodney Creech and Merek Alam in the world premiere of "Bloom." Photo: Flint Youth Theatre There are many things that can heal a hurt: connecting with others, working with one's [...]
By John Quinn "Rhinoceros" gets a timely telling. Photo: The Abreact To close its lucky 13th season, The Abreact turns to one of the acknowledged masters of Theater of the Absurd, Eugene Ionesco. "Rhinoceros" [...]
FERNDALE - Affirmations will host its 11th annual Health and Wellness Fair for the LGBT community May 17 from 1-5 p.m. This free event includes educational workshops and free and low-cost health services, including screenings [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus Last years Ferndale Pride fest was rolling. The 2014 event is planned for May 31. File photo Andrew Potter. Ferndale Pride is a yearly event in Downtown Ferndale celebrating all [...]
By Paulette Niemiec Michigan Roundtables Kevin Hogan, Equality Michigans Executive Director Emily Dievendorf, Badlands President Jon Hoadley (who is running for State Rep. from Kalamzoo) and MCCD Rev. Stringfellow, who reminded the crowd of the [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus A staged reading of Howard Zinn's play, Emma, comes to Detroit this weekend. Zinn, a civil rights activist, chronicled the life of Emma Goldman, "a woman whose beliefs are as relevant [...]
By The Associated Press Elitist intellectuals and liberals are waging a religious war against Christians, trying to silence them, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told graduates of Liberty University on Saturday. "The new left in America [...]
Okay, let's get one thing straight here. If you are an everyday American citizen (a commoner, let's say), you have very little legal power in the United States. Oh, it might seem like you have [...]
My cellphone says 12:03 a.m. My second afterlife minute in heaven. (This brief account is probably an LGBT first.) DISCLAIMER: Unlike many straight accounts, my intent is not to make big bucks on the New [...]
The visual was stunning. There for all the (sports) world to see on ESPN stood Michael Sam, crying onto his boyfriend's shoulder and kissing him repeatedly after learning he had been drafted to the NFL [...]
By Sommer Foster Michael Sam just became the NFL's first openly gay professional football player. The league doesn't discriminate - the only thing that matters is whether you can play football. But that's not the [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service JUDGE SAYS NO TO NOM: U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane yesterday denied the National Organization for Marriage motion to serve as intervenor to defend Oregon's ban on same-sex [...]
By Lisa Keen Plaintiffs in the Virginia same sex marriage case. Keen News Service The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals hearing Tuesday was, as Judge Paul Niemeyer characterized it, just one step along [...]
