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2026 Pride Reads for Every Shelf
The challenges of the current political era have inspired a strong wave of LGBTQ+ titles across every genre and age range, and our editors have been reading. [...]Read more about 2026 Pride Reads for Every Shelf
Queer Erotic Art Show at Affirmations Showcases Senior Talent
A new art exhibit at Affirmations, Ferndale’s LGBTQ+ community center, has a unique focus: erotic art created by senior artists. Four artists from Affirmations’ [...]Read more about Queer Erotic Art Show at Affirmations Showcases Senior Talent
The Best in Queer TV and Film in 2022
This article originally appeared in the Washington Blade.It’s that season, once again, when everyone is compiling their lists of the year’s best film and TV [...]Read more about The Best in Queer TV and Film in 2022
Fashion Icon André Leon Talley Dies at 73
André Leon Talley, both towering in stature at 6 foot, 6 inches and a giant in the fashion world, died Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He was 73. [...]Read more about Fashion Icon André Leon Talley Dies at 73
The New Queer Cinema Movement Paved the Way for Today's Mainstream LGBTQ+ Films. But at What Cost?
“We’re not like them,” says one man to another, laying atop him on a dirty roadside. “We don’t have as much time — so we’ve got to grab life by the balls and go [...]Read more about The New Queer Cinema Movement Paved the Way for Today's Mainstream LGBTQ+ Films. But at What Cost?
Arthouse Icon Udo Kier and His Co-Star Michael Urie on Their Moving, Queer Cross-Generational Bond in 'Swan Song'
German character actor Udo Kier is on camera holding old prints of press photos from his previous films over his face like a Halloween mask. He jokes that if [...]Read more about Arthouse Icon Udo Kier and His Co-Star Michael Urie on Their Moving, Queer Cross-Generational Bond in 'Swan Song'
5 Queer Things You Can Do Right Now
The pandemic has either delayed or entirely canceled most events across the state, but right now you can still take in an art exhibit or two. You could go on [...]Read more about 5 Queer Things You Can Do Right Now
BMA to Name its Restrooms for John Waters After Donation
Washington Blade Staff Report The Baltimore Museum of Art announced Wednesday that iconic gay director John Waters has donated 375 works from his personal art [...]Read more about BMA to Name its Restrooms for John Waters After Donation
Grace Jones Returns to Detroit for First Time in 18 years With Masonic Temple Show
Pull up to the bumper, baby, drive on in between Little Caesars Arena and the Temple Bar and head on inside the Masonic Temple on Monday, July 1, for what is [...]Read more about Grace Jones Returns to Detroit for First Time in 18 years With Masonic Temple Show
R&H Goes Pop
Across 1 Blows away 5 Affleck's "Chasing Amy" crush 10 Potatoes high in sugar 14 Robin Williams title role 15 What a knight sticks in his enemy 16 Morales of [...]Read more about R&H Goes Pop
Pop Art at the DIA
Colors, clear-cut lines and often, deceptive simplicity; those are just a few common characteristics of the pop art movement and exactly what will grace the [...]Read more about Pop Art at the DIA
Queer Fashion Course Offered at CMU
In an effort to explore another side of the fashion industry, Central Michigan University is offering a new course for the current term. Its name is Queer [...]Read more about Queer Fashion Course Offered at CMU
Now Playing at the Movies: Evening, Sicko ...
July 9, 2007 NEW THIS WEEK: Evening As she lies in bed, slowly dying of cancer and hovering between consciousness and morphine-inspired dreams, Ann Lord [...]Read more about Now Playing at the Movies: Evening, Sicko ...
Book Marks: Including review of Postcards from Heartthrob
by Richard Labonte January 15, 2007 " SoMa," by Kemble Scott. Kensington Books, 320 pages, $14 paper. Sexy but sexually ambivalent young Raphe, precipitously [...]Read more about Book Marks: Including review of Postcards from Heartthrob
["DIA Features Works By LGBT Artists Through Art","Pride Talks"]
BY BTL STAFF photo: S1M9_BRF_DIAArtPride_2435.jpg caption: "Something You Can Feel," Mickalene Thomas, 2008, rhinestone, acrylic paint, and oil enamel on wood [...]Read more about ["DIA Features Works By LGBT Artists Through Art","Pride Talks"]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente 'Mrs. Doubtfire' strikes back She exposed her true identity at the end of the first film, but that's not stopping Euphegenia Doubtfire [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
New DIA Exhibit Looks at Vibrant History of Dance
BY BTL STAFF The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will present its new multimedia exhibition, "Dance! American Art 1830-1960," from March 20 to June 12. The [...]Read more about New DIA Exhibit Looks at Vibrant History of Dance
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Denzel hires Tony Kushner for 'Fences' Denzel Washington is directing the film adaptation of the late August Wilson's 1985 play, [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
Confessions of a Superfan: Why a Self-Proclaimed 'Front-Row Bitch' Wrote 581 Pages on Madonna
Photo: Gregory Pace Matthew Rettenmund is only kidding, but his enduring commitment to Madonna isn't lost on him when he jokes, "She has me on speed hang-up." [...]Read more about Confessions of a Superfan: Why a Self-Proclaimed 'Front-Row Bitch' Wrote 581 Pages on Madonna
Bookmarks: World AIDS Day
By Keith Orr Dec. 1 is always a somber day — a time to remember those we have lost. Just as important, it is a time to renew efforts for an AIDS-free world. [...]Read more about Bookmarks: World AIDS Day
Q&A: John Waters On Kink Freaks, James Franco, His Collection Of A**hole Art & Why He May Retire From Film
Photo: Greg Gorman John Waters has taken many deviant turns during his influential career as a cult icon who's constructed a legacy out of the poop-eating, [...]Read more about Q&A: John Waters On Kink Freaks, James Franco, His Collection Of A**hole Art & Why He May Retire From Film
Home Sweet Dorm
By Sarah Hunt No matter what "home" means to you, you can transform your dorm space from institutional to inviting with a modicum of effort and a whole lot of [...]Read more about Home Sweet Dorm
Me. I Am Mariah...': Carey's Best Album Since 1997
With the glorious powerhouse "Vanishing," off her star-making 1990 debut, Mariah Carey couldn't have known she'd be foreshadowing another release some 25 [...]Read more about Me. I Am Mariah...': Carey's Best Album Since 1997
The Importance Of Being Oscar Wilde
By Amy J. Parrent Scenic designer Sarah Pearlines vision of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Photo courtesy of WSU "The truth is rarely pure [...]Read more about The Importance Of Being Oscar Wilde
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Ellen digs 'Six Feet Under' Ellen DeGeneres will make her return to episodic television this summer when the new season of "Six Feet [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
Pittsburgh
by Andrew Collins Out of Town Once one of the country's preeminent industrial powerhouses, with a population of nearly 700,000, Pittsburgh [...]Read more about Pittsburgh
Angel Among the Angels
Across 1 Charles of "Threesome" 5 Fey feline film felon 9 Kidman's award for "The Hours" 14 Pro foe 15 Folded fast food 16 Be intense like a queen 17 Sexual [...]Read more about Angel Among the Angels
A Boy Named Sues
Across 1 Home, to Glenn Burke 5 Result of a sexually active Woody 9 In the center of 13 Piercing rebuke from Caesar? 14 Stink up the place 15 Barcelona [...]Read more about A Boy Named Sues
Out Night: 'Astonishing'
By Hannah Schwab Ann Arbor is putting the finishing touches on its upcoming annual film festival, which runs March 22-27. In its 49th year, the Ann Arbor Film [...]Read more about Out Night: 'Astonishing'
The last dance
By Andrea Poteet After more than 50 years, an avant-garde dance company will take the stage one last time. But as the curtain falls on the Merce Cunningham [...]Read more about The last dance
Gay stamp of approval
By Leslie Robinson I've kept a secret for years. Now it's time for me to come out–as a stamp collector. I'm throwing off my shame. I'm a nerd and I'm [...]Read more about Gay stamp of approval
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Ron Howard wants Jodie for 'Stroke of Insight' Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylors' 1996 stroke at the age of 37 turned her life [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Across 1 Dumbledore might cast one 6 Butt 9 Mixed-up fruit 14 One to ten, e.g. 15 Maugham's "Cakes and ___ " 16 Woodworker's tool 17 Playful mammal 18 [...]Read more about Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Book Marks
By Richard Labonte "Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris," by Terrance Dean, James Earl Hardy, and Stanley Bennett Clay. [...]Read more about Book Marks
Ann Arbor Film Festival: 'The Gayest Ever'
ANN ARBOR – The Ann Arbor Film Festival explores "the new world of independent cinema" at the 48th festival, taking place March 23-29. With 33 film [...]Read more about Ann Arbor Film Festival: 'The Gayest Ever'
Book Marks: Just Kids, The Silver Hearted, The Talented Miss Highsmith
By Richard Labonte "Just Kids," by Patti Smith. Ecco Press, 280 pages, $27 hardcover. Though the likes of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg wander through [...]Read more about Book Marks: Just Kids, The Silver Hearted, The Talented Miss Highsmith
Metro Detroiters: 'Step Inside The Box'
ROYAL OAK – Back in September 2009, we called Step Inside The Box, the first of its kind, "a scene out of Andy Warhol's factory parties." On Feb. 19 the event [...]Read more about Metro Detroiters: 'Step Inside The Box'
Book Marks: The Metropolis Case, The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol, and more
by Richard Labonte "The Metropolis Case," by Matthew Gallaway. Crown Publishers, 382 pages, $25 hardcover. First-time novelist Gallaway strikes beguiling [...]Read more about Book Marks: The Metropolis Case, The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol, and more
Metro Detroiters 'Step Inside The Box'
by Jessica Carreras A box designed by a local artist. ROYAL OAK – Like a scene out of Andy Warhol's factory parties, Step Inside The Box, held Sept. 12 at ZMC [...]Read more about Metro Detroiters 'Step Inside The Box'
Book Marks - 8/27/2009
by Richard Labonte "The Hour Between," by Sebastian Stuart. Alyson Books, 248 pages, $14.95 paper. When nascent queer Arthur McDougal skips classes too often [...]Read more about Book Marks - 8/27/2009
Book Marks
By Richard Labonte "The Stone Gods," by Jeanette Winterson. Harcourt, 224 pages, $24 hardcover. Not too many fictional years from now, the planet Orbus has [...]Read more about Book Marks
Co-moms
Q Puzzle Across 1 Merit badge locale for the "morally straight" 5 Sunday service 9 Strap-on for a diver 14 Industry showcase 15 Crude cartel 16 Quotes gay [...]Read more about Co-moms
Harvey of Human Kindness
Q Puzzle Across 1 Sean, who played the lead in 67-Across 5 Lover's quarrels 10 TV show, e.g. 14 Two-toned cookie 15 Muscle Mary's tummy toughener 16 "Desert [...]Read more about Harvey of Human Kindness
Book Marks
by Richard Labonte "The Torturer's Wife," by Thomas Glave. City Lights Books, 268 pages, $15.95 paper. Few of the nine short stories in Glave's second [...]Read more about Book Marks
I've Been Had!
Q Puzzle Across 1 It arouses you in bed 6 "Mamma Mia!" band 10 Shows appreciation for 6-Across 15 Island of Mead's research 16 Have sex, with "around" 17 [...]Read more about I've Been Had!
Q Puzzle: Fate Club
Across 1 Stud fees? 6 Poet Teasdale 10 Nero's bird 14 Black to Bonheur 15 Singer Dobkin 16 Farm erection 17 Close of "Serving in Silence" 18 A little [...]Read more about Q Puzzle: Fate Club
