Creep of the Week: Pat Robertson
Thanksgiving is a particularly problematic holiday. I mean, not only do people try to cram the whole extended family into Grandma's 900 square foot house, but [...]
Mombian: LGBTQ Families, Past, Present And Future
BY DANA RUDOLPH I love LGBTQ History Month almost more than I love Pride Month. Going to grad school in history will do that. Keeping in mind the truism, [...]
Parting Glances: Ah! Those Days Long Gone, Number 2
Thirty-five right. Twenty-five left. Fifteen right. Click! After 60-plus years I can still recall my locker combination at Harry Burns Hutchins Intermediate [...]
Report Urges Collaboration Between LGBTQ & Racial Justice Organizations To Address School To Prison Pipeline
At the 2012 ACLU dinner in Detroit, Melissa Harris-Perry, author, college professor and host of a weekly news/information broadcast on MSNBC, spoke about the [...]
Creep of the Week: Eric Metaxas
I may be a grown up, but I read a lot of young adult fiction aimed at LGBT teens. Wait. I shouldn't use the term "aimed at" less I fuel the fire behind Eric [...]
Fire & Ink Four: Igniting The Genius In Us
Imagine attending a family reunion and discovering that your family consists of some of the greatest creative minds alive who not only share your passions and [...]
Parting Glances: Ah! Those Days Long Gone
I went to my first gay bar, the Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. Just 19, I used borrowed ID, escorted authoritatively by two [...]
Stop The Madness!
BY JAY KAPLAN I'm upset — no, I'm angry as hell — at certain members of our LGBT community. I'm outraged at those would-be partners in a same-sex relationship [...]
Transmissions: Take Action On Toilets
BY GWEN SMITH Once again, the issue of transgender people in bathrooms has reared its ugly head. In Houston, Texas, Proposition 1 seeks a veto referendum on [...]
Creep of the Week: Franklin Graham
In a recent interview evangelist Franklin Graham used the "s" word. And he used it a lot. That word is, of course, "sin," as in, "(T)he Obama administration [...]
