D'Anne Witkowski
Creeps of the Year: Cropsey, Goschka, Cox
And the winner is… 2005 wasn't just the Year of the Cock, it was also the Year of the Creep. Creep of the Week debuted as a weekly column in BTL in our Jan. 13, 2005 issue. 50 weeks and 47 different Creeps later, we bid 2005 farewell and crown a [...]
Creep of the Week: Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Virginia)
Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Virginia) We are living in a time of war. The carnage is brutal and the headlines grim. I'm talking, of course, about the War on Christmas. But fear not, our trusty representatives in the U.S. House are taking care of business [...]
Creep of the Week - The American Family Association
The American Family Association If I call the American Family Association the American Taliban I risk being dismissed as hysterical. After all, the AFA isn't against kite flying. They're just Christian folks who want to spread the love. Sure, they [...]
Creep of the Week
Ohio Rep. Tom Brinkman Equal work for equal pay – but heavens, no, not if you're gay. That's what Ohio Representative Tom Brinkman, Jr. (R-Hamilton County) would write if he were a college student scrawling bad poetry in the margins of his [...]
Detroit native portrays LGBTs 'Just As We Are'
NEW YORK – "This all started as a possibility," New York City photographer Charzette Torrence said about "Just As We Are," her exhibit of 25 black and white portraits of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals. The exhibit opens Dec. 9 [...]
Hear Me Out
The Collection Alanis Morissette (Maverick) If you listen to Top 40 radio you've heard some lady singing Seal's "Crazy" in the last month or two. That lady is Alanis Morissette and her version of "Crazy" is the first single from "The Collection," [...]
Truth and Musings
I predict Al Franken will be president in 2016. First, in 2008, the same year the Democrats take back the White House, he'll run for – and win – the Minnesota's Senate seat. Then he'll propose and mastermind a successful "quickie impeachment" of [...]
Creep of the Week: Freeholders of Ocean County New Jersey
Freeholders of Ocean County New Jersey Ocean County officials to dying lesbian: bite us. Not wanting to send the wrong moral message, the freeholders (that's what they call elected county officials in New Jersey) of Ocean County have given the [...]
With a little help from her friends
Jill Sobule Jill Sobule may be best known for her lesbian tongue-in-cheek tribute "I Kissed A Girl" in the mid-90s. Or perhaps you remember her witty contribution to the "Clueless" soundtrack, "Supermodel." Sobule, however, is no one hit wonder. [...]
A holiday media medley
Cher Extravaganza: Live At The Mirage (Red Distribution, Inc) My goodness, did Cher have big hair in 1991! And thanks to the magic of DVD, you can truly turn back time and see it for yourself as she wows an audience of mostly middle-aged white [...]
Creep of the Week: VoteOnMarriage.org
http://VoteOnMarriage.org The folks at VoteOnMarriage.org have been mounting a full throttle petition drive, fraught with allegations of fraud I might add, to get the issue of marriage on the ballot in Massachusetts. VoteOnMarriage.org is "the [...]
Welcome to 'Henry's World'
Michigan native Cathy Conheim calls her three-legged cat, Henry, a "therapet." It's an accurate term for a kitty that has touched so many lives, including Conheim's own, in so many unexpected ways. Conheim, a psychotherapist in La Jolla, California, [...]