D'Anne Witkowski
Creep of the Week: George Rekers
Say you've had surgery that renders you unable to carry luggage and you're about to go on a European vacation. What's a person to do? Well, if you're Family Research Council co-founder and ex-gay therapy champion George Rekers, you look no further [...]
Creep of the Week: Peter LaBarbera
"Are (or were) you a practicing homosexual?" That's the question on the tip of Peter LaBarbera's salivating tongue and he's posing it to Elena Kagan, whose name has been mentioned as a possible Obama Supreme Court nominee, David Dreier and Patrick [...]
Creep of the Week: Steve King
Some fools from Michigan have filed a federal law suit over last year's Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which became federal law last year. The group is made up of three Michigan ministers and Gary Glenn, president [...]
Creep of the Week: Bryan Fischer
With Supreme Court Justice John Stevens announcing his retirement, speculation about whom President Obama will nominate to replace him is running rampant. Some have even speculated that Obama's nominee could be a homo. Sen. John Cornyn said, "As [...]
Creep of the Week: Traditional Values Coalition
Did you hear the news? Nancy Pelosi wants you to have sex with your dog. And President Obama wants you to do it with your underage cousin for money. It's all right there in the fine print of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Or at least the [...]
Creep of the Week: Tom McClusky
Call me overly sensitive, but I always thought it was an insult to black people when Bill Clinton was called America's "first black president." For one thing, it was as if folks were saying that Bill Clinton was as close as we'd ever get to [...]
Gentle giant at the helm
FERNDALE – Affirmations Lesbian & Gay Community Center board member George Westerman may not be a swamp-loving ogre, but he is tall, hardworking, dependable, and unwaveringly sincere. Hence his nickname: Shrek. "Leslie (Thompson, Affirmations [...]
Creep of the Week: Gen. James Conway
It's no secret that there's a horde of gay guys waiting in the wings to join the military the second "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" gets repealed. And we all know where they're headed: the Marines. Because only the Marines bunk two to a room. Let's be [...]
Creep of the Week: John Sheehan
A quick history lesson: In 1995, during the Bosnian War, thousands of people were murdered in the town of Srebrenica. It was – and still is – horrific. But it turns out the entire thing could have been prevented. And it's all Holland's fault. Or, [...]
Creep of the Week: Itawamba County School Board
When I was in high school I did not take my girlfriend to prom. It didn't even seem remotely possible. Instead I took a boy, who turned out to be gay. And my girlfriend took a boy, who turned out to be gay. And my twin sister who also had a [...]
Creep of the Week: Roy Ashburn
Closet Pro Tip No. 1: If you go to a gay bar and pick up a dude, don't drink and drive. Closet Pro Tip No. 2: Especially if you're an anti-gay state senator. Look, I don't care if elected officials want to get they drink on and shake they booties [...]
Creep of the Week: Cliff Kincaid
Last month when the Conservative Political Action Conference let gay conservative group GOProud cosponsor, they sure raised a shit storm. Ryan Sorba, last week's Creep, got his 15-minutes of fame when he was booed for excoriating GOProud's [...]