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Three Days to Consider
Monday, Oct. 11 offers three choices: LGBTQ+ celebration, Native American reconsideration, and some conflict of interest to Chris Columbus 1492 believers. As [...]Read more about Three Days to Consider
Parting Glances: How's your sugar plum fairy, Mary?
I hate to play the gay Grinch who stole Christmas, but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away with all suspected gay references [...]Read more about Parting Glances: How's your sugar plum fairy, Mary?
Parting Glances: Christmas Un-corked!
I hate to play the Gay Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away with all suspected gay references [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Christmas Un-corked!
Trump Appointments: A Troubling Trend
BY LISA KEEN President-elect Donald Trump's selection of a Secretary of Education who is affiliated with the far right, anti-LGBT leadership in Michigan [...]Read more about Trump Appointments: A Troubling Trend
Parting Glances: On Your Scale of One-to-Forever!
There are many experiences that are alien to most people: walking on the moon, winning the big bucks lottery, being gashed by a grizzly bear, doing H, [...]Read more about Parting Glances: On Your Scale of One-to-Forever!
Parting Glances: Dreams, Wet and Otherwise
The mind boggling possibility of recording dreams will soon be a reality predicts a British monthly science magazine, How It's Made. The nano technology/brain [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Dreams, Wet and Otherwise
Parting Glances: Gay Grinching It ...
I hate to play the Gay Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away with all suspected gay references [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Gay Grinching It ...
Parting Glances: Gay Divorcees, Anyone?
Human nature being what it is – and sometimes mostly what it isn't – those who marry in haste, straight or gay, usually repent at leisure by visiting an [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Gay Divorcees, Anyone?
Sister's bra 5Ks Madoff
I usually spend New Year's Eve alone. Just for old time's sake. Yes, hard to admit – popular raconteur and egad-about Spell Checker that I am – I sit in my [...]Read more about Sister's bra 5Ks Madoff
And I Dream In Color, Too
From time to time I keep a dream journal. Last year I recorded over 50 dreams, which is pretty good considering that dreams are like exotic butterflies: unless [...]Read more about And I Dream In Color, Too
Creep of the Week: Franklin Graham
There are a lot of things about the right-wing universe that don't make a lot of sense to me. The fanatical obsession with the unborn paired with the callous [...]Read more about Creep of the Week: Franklin Graham
Feb.18: Rice Calls Ugandan President, Alaska Warms To Marriage ...
Keen News Service Security Advisor Susan Rice has called Ugandan President urging him not to sign anti-gay law.http://keennewsservice.com RICE CALLS UGANDAN [...]Read more about Feb.18: Rice Calls Ugandan President, Alaska Warms To Marriage ...
Mary Censored XXX-mas
Parting Glances I hate to play the Gay Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away with all suspected [...]Read more about Mary Censored XXX-mas
Pet Reparative Therapy
Parting Glances I received an e-mail from a conservative group calling itself Balaam's Ass of America (after the OT story of the fabled talking mule), asking [...]Read more about Pet Reparative Therapy
Screen Queen: For a Good Time, Call... , Game Change
For a Good Time, Call … "For a Good Time, Call …" keeps the dirty-girl trend going with a sweet/sexy story of two college foes – they hate each other because [...]Read more about Screen Queen: For a Good Time, Call... , Game Change
OJ made us gay!
Parting Glances It was shocking. Totally unexpected. Downright naughty, even. Yet so deliciously thrilling to the hundreds of angry gays who just happened to [...]Read more about OJ made us gay!
Scott Nevins: Fine, funny... and 'fat'?
Scott Nevins has a special request: "Make me sound funny in the article so people come see my stupid ass." But Nevins, a comedian who's been called a younger, [...]Read more about Scott Nevins: Fine, funny... and 'fat'?
Bachmann-Perry overdrive: You ain't seen nothing yet
Viewpoint It's months before the first primary and the rhetoric coming from declared and potential GOP candidates has already kicked into overdrive. Despite [...]Read more about Bachmann-Perry overdrive: You ain't seen nothing yet
Fun with Fred
By Vince Farin For just over 34 years, the B-52s have been crashing parties with their infectious brand of dance music. Their most recent studio release, [...]Read more about Fun with Fred
Two up yours!
Parting Glances Gay composer Leonard Bernstein's 1956 broadway musical "Candide" has a bravura soprano song, "Glitter and be gay" written for and originally [...]Read more about Two up yours!
Parting Glances: Blow out my candles!
Two auspicious events take place as this, my 586th PG column, appears today. I turn 75 on May 12. Jesus returns May 21 to 'rapture' his flock (stopping off [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Blow out my candles!
Bell, book, scandal (Pt. 2)
For most Christian evangelicals – and probably all fundamentalists, such as Southern Baptists – if a sinner hasn't been born again (accepted Jesus as [...]Read more about Bell, book, scandal (Pt. 2)
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Lee Daniels eyes Bradley Cooper What movie will Lee Daniels ("Precious") make next? It seems like he has a new potential project every [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
Leave diapers behind!
Parting Glances It was bound to happen sooner or later. After 40 years of the spearheading Ex-Gay Movement – founded in 1970 during the onset of the [...]Read more about Leave diapers behind!
Now Don't Get All Het Up
Across 1 Julianne of "The Hours" 6 Sondheim's Sweeney 10 Deer, or without a dear 14 Some Autobahn autos 15 R.E.M.'s "The ___ Love" 16 Q to a Scrabble [...]Read more about Now Don't Get All Het Up
Moon us up, Ronnie!
"The gay lobby does not own the rainbow," boasts Jennifer Roback Morse, a harried looking, biblically myopic, one man/one woman marriage Cassandra and [...]Read more about Moon us up, Ronnie!
More than Palin to blame.
After tragedy, people start pointing fingers. How else to understand why it happened? The Jan. 8 shooting in Arizona, that left Congresswoman Gabrielle [...]Read more about More than Palin to blame.
Heard on Facebook
Do you think Sarah Palin's "target map" influenced the Arizona shooter on Saturday? Language always matters. And injecting imagery suggestive of violence [...]Read more about Heard on Facebook
Parting Glances: Don we now our CENSORED apparel...
I hate to play the Gay Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away with all suspected gay references [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Don we now our CENSORED apparel...
Crazy Sexy Cool
Gerrification with Gerry Visco 9 p.m. Sept. 3, Free Five15 Media Mojo & More 515 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak http://www.gerryvisco.com There's a way to [...]Read more about Crazy Sexy Cool
Parting Glances: Round peg, square whole
A major evangelical outreach – Send Our Denominations Out Ministering (S.O.D.O.M.) – is "thrilled with the unprecedented success" of its buddy-buddy approach [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Round peg, square whole
Parting Glances: Teabagboys.com
Curiosity got the best of me and I went with a new acquaintance to a lecture, "Wide-Stance Christians: New Horizons for Tea Room Ministries." My friend, "Mr. [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Teabagboys.com
Parting Glances:Takes two to dream tango
I was five years old when I had my first vivid dream, still vividly recalled today. Imagery was induced by counting to 10, drifting off to dreamland, as ether [...]Read more about Parting Glances:Takes two to dream tango
Straight pride' shirts at Tea Party rally draw fire
LANSING – State and national organizations who represent the LGBT community are expressing outrage over T-shirts bearing the slogan "Straight Pride" offered [...]Read more about Straight pride' shirts at Tea Party rally draw fire
How rapid's your nightly EM?
The lifelong dream of recording dreams for replay may soon become reality predicts "How It's Made," a British monthly magazine devoted to explaining working [...]Read more about How rapid's your nightly EM?
DVD Dish: Rupert Everett's new movie: What a drag!
As a brainless British farce gung-ho on spreading grrrl-power, "St. Trinian's" asks a lot of you just to see Rupert Everett in drag. Patience, to ride out the [...]Read more about DVD Dish: Rupert Everett's new movie: What a drag!
Parting Glances: It's that time again ...
If you ask me, the National Enquirer is once again doing America a great – and much needed – public and patriotic service this month by devoting several [...]Read more about Parting Glances: It's that time again ...
S/he said: Levi Jonston, Jon Marcotte, Dave Huebner
Compiled by Howard Israel "Growing up in Wasilla… I've never seen a gay guy in Wasilla, I don't think. Once I started doing all these tours and everything… I [...]Read more about S/he said: Levi Jonston, Jon Marcotte, Dave Huebner
S/he said: Jose Antonio Vargas, Rep. Todd Akin, Corey Johnson
compiled by Howard Israel "As I watched the live stream of (President Obama's) speech online, I flipped through the pages 'Why We Can't Wait,' the [...]Read more about S/he said: Jose Antonio Vargas, Rep. Todd Akin, Corey Johnson
Creep of the Week: Carrie Prejean
Oh, Carrie Prejean. Give it up. There was a time I felt sorry for Miss Prejean. It sucked that when she was asked about gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant – [...]Read more about Creep of the Week: Carrie Prejean
The Gay Moralist: Always and Everywhere
by John Corvino Marriage equality opponents frequently claim that marriage has been heterosexual since … well, since forever, and that it is arrogant and [...]Read more about The Gay Moralist: Always and Everywhere
Book Marks
by Richard Labonte "Risk," by Elana Dykewomon. Bywater Books, 268 pages, $14.95 paper Woman meets woman herein, and romance ensues. But this isn't one of [...]Read more about Book Marks
Labelle brings back the 'mocca chocolata'
By Clay Cane After 30 years, the Labelle gals who made the lines "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?" and "mocca chocolata ya ya" famous – Nona Hendryx, [...]Read more about Labelle brings back the 'mocca chocolata'
Long live Amanda Palmer
By Laura Witkowski Amanda Palmer is a theatrical master of dark and salacious subject matter, a daring original – punk in the truest sense of the word. On [...]Read more about Long live Amanda Palmer
The 'Milk' Man
Jerks make Denis O'Hare tick – but not like they do most people. He gravitates toward them, and vice versa, which is the Michigan native's reason for spending [...]Read more about The 'Milk' Man
A lemon merin(gay) moment
Parting Glances It was totally unexpected. Shocking. Downright naughty, even. Yet so deliciously thrilling to the hundreds of angry gays who just happened to [...]Read more about A lemon merin(gay) moment
Change we need to believe in
BY CHRIS CRAIN Viewpoint "Change has come to America." With those electric words, Barack Obama embraced his landslide election as the nation's first-ever [...]Read more about Change we need to believe in
