D'Anne Witkowski
Creep of the Week Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
Even with anti-gay marriage amendments on ballots nationwide, Democrats elbowed Republicans in the face this last election, regaining control of both the House and Senate. That's right: even the Boogeyman of "gay marriage" couldn't save the GOP this [...]
Creep of the Week: Gary Glenn
Is your boss a jerk? Are you self-conscious in social situations? Does it burn when you urinate? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you can safely blame the Lansing Human Rights Ordinance. Or at least American Family Association of [...]
Creep of the Week: Ted Haggard
{HEADER} OK, would every anti-gay right-winger who isn't secretly gay please step forward? At the rate gay-bashing members of the religious right and Republican Party are being outted they just might need to build themselves their own "log cabin" – [...]
Creep of the Week: George W. Bush
With so much bad news for the GOP dominating the media so close to a pivotal election, George W. Bush must see the New Jersey Supreme Court's marriage ruling as a welcome political fig leaf to cover his ass, as well as the asses who currently hold [...]
Suffer little children New documentary exposes pedophilia in Catholic Church
"Deliver Us From Evil" Now playing Maple Art Theatre, Bloomfield Hills Pedophilia in the Catholic Church is not news. Sure, the clergy abuse scandals dominated the headlines a few years back, but for folks who weren't Catholic or directly involved, [...]
Creep of the Week: The Archdiocese of Detroit
I'm not going to blame Marian High School. I'm not even going to blame Sister Lenore Pochelski, the school's president. No, after learning about the firing of out-lesbian Charlene Genther, a public safety officer at the Catholic high school in West [...]
Online Exclusive: Cut and run
It is a common misperception that all poets are crazy. They aren't. But woe unto the child whose mother wants to be Anne Sexton. Of course, that's the least of Augusten Burroughs's problems. Having a mom who is a little eccentric is one thing. [...]
Voter education forum tackles civil rights
FERNDALE – A voter education forum held by Citizens for a Fair Ferndale attracted a crowd of 25 people to Xhedos Cafe in Ferndale on Sunday. The forum focused on two of the six proposals Ferndale voters will see on their ballots Nov. 7: the [...]
Cold' wind blowing
"Honey, I'm indestructible." Or so says Truman Capote, the subject of the new biopic "Infamous," early on in the film. But anyone who knows anything about the literary celebrity knows that it was the book that made him a household name that also [...]
Creep of the Week: Dick DeVos
Finally, Gary Glenn and I are in agreement about something. Well, sort of. In an Oct. 14 article in the Kalamazoo Gazette, Glenn, who was identified as "chairman of the Campaign for Michigan Families, a conservative, pro-family lobby," said he [...]
Lesbian cartoonist comes out of the 'box' at U-M
ANN ARBOR – Over the past two decades both avid and casual readers of Alison Bechdel's syndicated comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For" have likely picked up the latest installment and asked themselves the same question: What on earth is going [...]
Born again in the U.S.A.
Meet Becky Fischer, an evangelical children's minister. Fischer is a large middle-aged woman who wears her yellow hair short and favors gold hoop earrings, wire-rimmed glasses, and, when addressing her young flock, a headset microphone circa Blonde [...]