Transmissions: 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 [...]
Creep of the Week: Sally Kern
Mental illness is a serious, unfairly stigmatized issue in this country. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four Americans deal with [...]
Parting Glances: Days Of Wine And Roses
"It's a pity that youth is wasted on the young," said George Bernard Shaw, whose play "Pygmalion" was given a fresh start and a heart pacer as the Broadway [...]
Schuette's Cowardly Plea To Discriminate
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's op-ed in Sunday's Detroit Free Press attempted to defend his decision to continue fighting marriage equality all the [...]
Art History Gets In Drag
Parting Glances One of the most sensational art heists in history took place Aug. 11, 1911. It was spontaneous rather than planned. The theft — the most famous [...]
Out Of Touch
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions I doubt she'd be the one to admit it, but my mother enjoys celebrity gossip. When I was growing up, it was quite common to [...]
The Movement, Martin And Marriage
Movement is about change. Sometimes the causes change, the tactics change — even the leadership changes — but the constant in all of our movements is our quest [...]
C.B. Embry Jr.
Creep of the Week I don't like public restrooms. There's just something really, well, icky about sharing a space with strangers where everybody does their [...]
A Spank-Spank In Time...
Parting Glances A few years ago I was invited by one of BTL's many creative editorial associates to attend what might best be labeled as an exclusive "Kink [...]