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Controversial Musician Cameron Carpenter: Don’t Call Me The ‘Flamboyant Organist’
The abs are not the point. Although Cameron Carpenter briefly went all "Magic Mike" for a promotional video for "Revolutionary," his 2008 debut, the organ virtuoso is more than the sum of his literal parts. [...]
Screen Queen
Pride "Pride," you ain't foolin' nobody. So fine, strip all traces of gayness from your box art, but no closet can hide the fact that you, by title alone, are an exploding rainbow of gay. [...]
Even Stephen
Across 1 Manger for Mary's boy 5 E with a queer orientation 10 Biggest of three bears 14 Columnist Barrett 15 Richard Chamberlain's The ___ Birds 16 Pigged out (on) 17 Start of a quote [...]
Closet, Hollywood Gossip Collide In Riverwalk Theatre Production
Mitchell (Blake Bowen) contemplates the meaning of love while in bed with Alex (Michael Boxleitner) in The Little Dog Laughed. Bowen Boxleitner: Alex (Michael Boxleitner) tries to understand how he can have feelings for [...]
Riverwalk Theatre Awarded Two MCACA Grants
By BTL Staff Community Circle Players, Inc., doing business as Riverwalk Theatre, has been awarded two grants by the State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA), including a Technology Improvement grant for [...]
Looming Dilemma For Upcoming Historic Marriage Case
By Lisa Keen Plaintiffs April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse are accompanied by their attorneys Dana Nessel, Ken Mogill and Carole Stanyar at the close of the trial last winter that would lead to Judge Bernard [...]
LGBT Successes Provide One Bright Spot For Democrats
BTL Staff Report Ken Siver, left, is running this fall to be the first openly gay mayor of Southfield. He is strongly supported by Michigan Democratic Party LGBT Caucus Chair Mark LeChey, center, and former [...]
New Matthew Shepard Film To Screen In Detroit
BY AJ TRAGER A screen shot from the new documentary aMatt Shepard is a Friend of Minea will be showing at Cinema Detroit beginning Feb. 20 for one week. Matt is pictured second from left [...]
Is This The Beginning Of The End For Conversion Therapy?
In early February, a state court judge in New Jersey struck a blow to the defense in a case involving so called conversion therapy -- counseling designed, supporters say, to change a person from homosexual [...]
Michigan Education Conference Discusses Status OF LGBT Youth In Schools
BY AJ TRAGER The closing panel in Auburn Hill discusses how academic leaders can and are changing the dialogue for acceptance of out LGBT youth in schools. Panel includes: (L-R) Naomi Kahlil, Erika Rust, Rachel [...]
KGLRC Announces 2014 REACH Award Winners
BY BTL STAFF KALAMAZOO - West Michigan LGBT people and allies were recognized at the annual honoring of the REACH Awards. These individuals and groups were awarded for their continued advocacy work in furthering LGBT [...]
Affirmations Hosts Upcoming HIV/AIDS Art Exhibit
BY BTL STAFF FERNDALE - The Pittmann-Puckett Gallery at Affirmations will host an upcoming exhibition in honor of Black History Month. "Ebony, A Deeper Love of Self" will honor black experiences, reflecting on the impact [...]
aut Bar To Host Film Festival Meet Up
Meet up for a social hour at aut BAR, the longtime friend and supporter of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, at 5 p.m. this Sunday, Feb. 22. A major champion of the Ann Arbor LGBTQ [...]
Commission On Civil Rights Appoints LGBT Community Leaders In Michigan
BY BTL STAFF WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced the appointment of two openly LGBT advocates to the Michigan Advisory Committee Jan. 29. Jon Hoadley, state representative for Michigan's 60th House [...]
Creep of the Week: Sam Brownback
After an awful seven year stretch, state employees in Kansas have finally been granted equality with the rest of the Kansas workforce. Thanks to Gov. Sam Brownback, state employees will no longer have to live [...]
Parting Glances: Remembering Mr. George
As a teenager in the mid-1950s, I listened faithfully to Country & Western music radio, and later 'Senator' Bristo Bryant's Rhythm & Blues after-high school class broadcasts. (A favorite group was Billy Ward & His [...]
Creating Change 2015: A Black Lesbian Intersectional Account (KICK)
By Rhiannon Chester I had the opportunity to attend the 27th National Conference on LGBTQ Equality: Creating Change in Denver, Colorado with the staff at LGBT Detroit from Feb. 4-8. Creating Change brings together thousands [...]
Tobacco Usage In The LGBT Community
By Alicia 'Kunto' Howard At Creating Change, the largest national LGBTQ conference, I collected data around willingness to stop smoking tobacco. I collected the opinions of smokers who identify as LGBT to discover their thoughts [...]
IT All Starts With ‘Hello’
By Nathan Strickland I had the opportunity to attend the 27th Annual National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change in Denver, Colorado. It was my first time attending a conference, let alone on a national [...]
Stonewall Calendars
BY Kathleen LaTosch The older I get, the more I realize two things: I know very little and history is inextricably wound up in the present -- even more than all of us will probably [...]
Transmissions: Trans Dehumanization
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Humans have a great ability to show empathy. When a pair of terrorists gunned down twelve people at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hedbo, people fell over themselves to declare "Je [...]
Michigan Study Seeks LBT Women For Focus Group
BY BTL STAFF YPSILANTI - An Eastern Michigan University (EMU) graduate student has put out the call for LBT women interested in participating in a roundtable study to help complete her thesis. Queer-identified women are [...]
Singer Lesley Gore Succumbs To Cancer
Singer Lesley Gore, best known for the 1963 smash hit "It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To)," died Monday following a battle with lung cancer. The singer was reportedly a non-smoker. She [...]
West Mich. Conversation On Marriage Equality
BY BTL STAFF GRAND RAPIDS - The Supreme Court of the United States is likely to make a decision on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage sometime in the middle of the year; however, continuing the [...]