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TransGender Michigan to hold speakers bureau training
On Saturday, April 2, TransGender Michigan will hold a training for its speaker's bureau courtesy of funding provided through an Arcus Foundation grant. Participants will be trained to educate others about transgender identity issues and issues [...]
Saying YES to LGBT Florida youth
By Dawn Wolfe JACKSONVILLE, FL. – When most college students head to Florida for spring break, they go to party. During the week of Feb. 28 – March 5, however, a team of Project YES (Youth for Equality and Safety) interns headed to Florida to lend [...]
Vallimont brings photography to Ferndale
FERNDALE – Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center is hosting a reception on Friday, March 18 from 6-9 p.m. for artist Melanie Cherie Vallimont at the Pittmann-Puckett Gallery. The exhibit of Vallimont's work will run through April [...]
All politics is loco
Imagine that you have to convince thousands of total strangers to like you in a matter of months. Not just any strangers, but frequently voting strangers. And they have to do more than like you. You have to convince them to prefer you more than [...]
Ask Dr. Wang
By Dr. Kevin Wang Hepatitis 101 {ITAL Dr. Wang, Congratulations on your recent graduation and current residency in Family Medicine. I have a topic for your column that you could perhaps address in a future article, considering HIV/AIDS is one of [...]
Curtain Calls XTRA
By John Quinn Review: 'Boomtown 1925' Southwest Detroit in the 1920s returns to life at Matrix Theatre It was a decade unlike any other in Detroit's history: The War to End All Wars was over, prosperity was rising and Jazz was the music of the [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Toni Collette, is set to star in Armistead Maupin's "The Night Listener." 'Night' comes for Williams and Collette The big screen adaptation of Armistead Maupin's "The Night Listener," the first Maupin novel not to become a TV [...]
A passionate woman, a passionate cause
By Dawn Wolfe YPSILANTI – It's a beautiful thing when people find their passion. For Jimena Loveluck, executive director of Washtenaw County's HIV/AIDS Resource Center, it was a passion for equality that led her to work in the field of HIV/AIDS. "I [...]
HIV 'Super Strain' controversy dominates retroviral conference
By Bob Roehr BOSTON – The controversial claim of a "super strain" of HIV, announced at a news conference in New York City on Feb. 11, had its first scientific review at the 12th Annual Retrovirus Conference in Boston. David Ho, director of the [...]
The health challenges of LGBT youth
By Bob Roehr "I came out to my friends and one of them betrayed me. He told everyone and my locker got stuffed with notes saying, 'Don't spread your HIV! You perv!' My counselors and teachers won't help me, even the principle and vice principals [...]