Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addressed the State of Michigan after a plan to kidnap her and other Michigan government officials was thwarted by state and federal law enforcement agencies. She started by saying thank you to law enforcement and FBI agents who participated in stopping this [...]
Starting July 9, DIRECTV will present Outfest Online, which gives nationwide access to official selections from the Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival -- the nation's leading LGBT film festival. Featuring a special collection of [...]
"I'm like the dorky kid on the bus who's like, ' Hiiii.'" Wait a minute. Is that you, Lizzie McGuire? Maybe? No. It's Hilary Duff, razzing on her cold-ridden, congested-sounding self as she does a [...]
By Lisa Keen Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case that legalized same sex marriage nationwide, is backed by supporters of the courts ruling on same-sex marriage on the [...]
LINCOLN PARK - Grace McClelland, former executive director of the Ruth Ellis Center, suffered a fatal heart attack on June 16. McClelland, 57, was born in Camden, N.J. After graduating from St. Joseph's High School [...]
Slip on your swimsuit, break out the blender and pump up the jams. Today you're kickin' it poolside with a freshly selected and eclectic playlist that screams fun in the sun. 'Summertime,' DJ Jazzy Jeff [...]
By Keith Orr A vibrant gay literary culture requires four elements: authors, readers, publishers and bookstores. This column regularly deals with the first two, and occasionally with the last. However, the forgotten third element of [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Tom Ford speaks, gets $20 Million At the recent Cannes Film Festival, Tom Ford announced his intention to make his next feature, "Nocturnal Animals", and Focus stepped in with $20 million [...]
Across 1 Tennessee Williams "Summer and Smoke" heroine 5 To ___ it may concern 9 Snatch 14 Billy Crystal played gay on this sitcom 15 "The English Patient" nurse 16 Bones below elbows 17 Bear's [...]
By Dan Woog There are many ways for athletes to be fearless. They can stand at the plate with the bases, in the bottom of the ninth. They can attempt a difficult dive. Rocket down [...]
After a critically acclaimed and intensely bloody run of "Hamlet," Slipstream Theatre Initiative says "goodbye" to death and "hello" to marriage in the most wickedly funny way! "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, [...]
By John Quinn SHOW DETAILS: South Pacific Encore Musical Theatre 3126 Broad St., Dexter June 4-July 3; check website for performance times $32-$28 734-268-6200 http://www.TheEncoreTheatre.org The "book musical" is as thoroughly American as baseball and [...]
SAUGATUCK, Michigan -- Mason Street Warehouse (400 Culver St.) has received two Wilde Award nominations for the 2014 Mason Street Warehouse (MSW) production of "Beehive." The first nomination is for "Best Musical" and the second [...]
picture on server: S2_FerndaleCC.jpg Tony Roko was named Best Fine Artist by the readers of Hour Detroit magazine in its 2015 "Best of Detroit" contest. Roko also won the Best Fine Artist nod from the [...]
By Gay rights activist, author and radio show host Michelangelo Signorile is not known for being a wallflower when it comes to LGBT equality issues. The former editor of Out Magazine gave birth to the [...]
BY AJ TRAGER LANSING - Michigan For Marriage was organized as a collaborative public education campaign to build support for marriage equality in Michigan and has spent the last few years gathering communities together to [...]
By the time Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum closed down her offices Friday, June 26, she had issued 26 marriage licenses and performed 16 ceremonies herself. She was definitely the first in Michigan to perform [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to [...]
By Lisa Keen The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision, upheld the right of the federal government to provide health care insurance subsidies to people with low income in states that have [...]
National Organization for Marriage Oh, NOM. NOM, NOM, NOM. You are so freaked out right now. And if you weren't so hateful, I might actually feel some compassion for you. Though probably not. Because you [...]
"Your problems can be solved with this box of amazing cure-alls," hooty hooted Exodus P. Barn Owl, Q.D., shoving a package of Miracle Elastics, Assorted Colors, Funny Farm, LTD., across his polished oak-apple desk to [...]
Forty-six years after the Stonewall Rebellion, almost to the day, marriage equality has finally become the law of the land. In some ways it feels lightening fast. And yet it also feels that it took [...]
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Pope Francis recently released an encyclical -- a letter the pontiff sends to all the Roman Catholic Church's bishops -- addressing climate change. As you can imagine, many on the right-wing [...]
