Parting Glances: Remembering Mr. George
As a teenager in the mid-1950s, I listened faithfully to Country & Western music radio, and later 'Senator' Bristo Bryant's Rhythm & Blues after-high [...]
Stonewall Calendars
BY Kathleen LaTosch The older I get, the more I realize two things: I know very little and history is inextricably wound up in the present — even more than all [...]
Transmissions: Trans Dehumanization
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Humans have a great ability to show empathy. When a pair of terrorists gunned down twelve people at the French satirical newspaper [...]
Tobacco Usage In The LGBT Community
By Alicia 'Kunto' Howard At Creating Change, the largest national LGBTQ conference, I collected data around willingness to stop smoking tobacco. I collected [...]
Creep of the Week: Linda Harvey
After years of arguing that being gay is not a choice and that gay people can't magically become straight via a wish and a prayer, I now have to admit that I [...]
Little Bigger Than A Metronome Minute'
When Detroit-born, Cass Tech graduate Bernard Johnson died of pneumonia in January 1997 at age 60, the New York Times carried a quarter-page obit celebrating [...]
Stating The Obvious
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith This January President Barack Obama ascended to the speaker's rostrum in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to [...]
Wedding Bells For Michigan Grow Louder
This June the U.S. Supreme Court will finally decide whether to extend full marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, and it will be Michigan's DeBoer v. [...]
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 [...]
Black And Gay: My History, My Truth
History by definition is the branch of knowledge dealing with past events. Dig a little deeper and many dictionaries expand the definition to include the [...]
Creep of the Week: Mike Huckabee
Good news, Jews. Former Arkansas Governor and Fox TeeVee host Mike Huckabee isn't going to force you to sell "bacon-wrapped shrimp" in your delis when he [...]
