Chris Azzopardi
Up, up and away
Cindy Lu Edgerton won't forget how emotional she became watching Payton Schofield walk through a set of doors at last year's Eric "RicStar" Winter Music Therapy Camp. "I immediately started crying and ran up to her, hugging her and welcoming her," [...]
Through a local child's eyes
Lynn Eickhoff can't imagine not getting a headache after viewing endless hours of 20 children's first-person footage for "My Life As A Child." Armed with a digital video camera, her daughter Madison Walston-Eickhoff, then 8 years old, compiled [...]
Crazy cops invade metro Detroit
"It's like comparing apples and oranges. Reno's two major gay clubs tend to have a lot of wrinkled, dried-apple type fellas, and Miami is a bowl of tight, juicy, 19-year-old oranges, ready for squeezing and juicing." – Lt. Jim Dangle of "Reno 911!: [...]
Exclusive: Wave rider
Few pros emerged for Rupert Everett after co-starring with Madonna in the box-office bomb "The Next Best Thing." It fizzled faster than an ice cube in boiling water and halted the English actor's career. And Everett won't deny that. "It was a kind [...]
Queer activist loses cancer battle
People around Heather MacAllister didn't fret about their looks. "She just made everybody feel hot, sexy and wanted," remembers Elizabeth Davis, who met MacAllister through a friend in 1989. 38-year-old MacAllister, a queer activist who fought on [...]
Affirmations' friend dies at 42
Mario Cirefice knew how to make people smile. If not because of his kindness then because of his tickling fetish. "He was a very caring, spiritual and friendly man, eager to help when you needed him, and sometimes when you didn't," said Peter [...]
Cuban restaurant reaches out to LGBT scene
Chris Vazquez wants to give gay people a bite of Cuban flair. As co-owner of Vicentes Cuban Cuisine in Detroit, which serves an eclectic mix of patrons, launching a Sunday gay and lesbian night beginning March 4 seemed appropriate when Vazquez [...]
Exclusive: Coming out of the dark
Patty Griffin sees sunshine now. "No one's getting out of here alive," Griffin says. "But there must be something we're doing here. I have no idea what it is. But I'd rather see beauty in things where beauty exists than constantly be doubting and [...]
Erotic festival celebrates 20 years
Stephanie Loveless wasn't pleased with her performance at last year's Erotic Poetry & Music Festival. At 8 p.m. Feb. 3 at Northern Lights Lounge she'll have another chance to shine. The trans rocker will perform "You're Such A Pussy," "Three [...]
Local sci-fi series character goes lesbian in film
Consider it a blessing that director Mike Madigan's hard-edged lesbian in "Demeter" isn't based on pals of his own. "I don't know if I have any gun-wielding friends like that," laughs Madigan, a Troy resident who wrote the fan film. Turning Demeter, [...]
Gay TV drama to grace silver screen
Logo's hit flagship series about four black gay friends in Los Angeles, "Noah's Arc," will hit silver screens in 2008 as the TV station's first original theatrical film. "Noah's Arc" will join "Sex and the City," "Star Trek" and "The Simpsons" as [...]
Girl Bar to heat up Chicago
Sandy Sachs thought she left the cold weather behind. "Here I am in sunny California," said Sachs, co-founder of Girl Bar. "What was I thinking?" Sachs and company, which includes co-founder Robin Gans and former Chix Mix Productions gal Julie [...]