Parting Glances: Black Gay Detroit Friends (Pt. 2)
The year I graduated as a commercial art major from Detroit's prestigious Cass Technical High School I did not attend my senior prom. As a gay male I had no [...]
Heroic in its Normalcy
"Supergirl," the television show based on the comic book character of the same name, is currently in its fourth season on The CW Television Network. It is part [...]
Mombian: A Mutual Benefit: Letting Employees Define their Families
People and families come in many forms, as any LGBTQ person can attest. Now, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company or MassMutual, as it's more commonly [...]
Creep of the Week: Eric Porterfield
Eric Porterfield is blind, literally. According to his website, Blind Faith Ministries, he lost his eyesight in 2006. But Porterfield is also figuratively [...]
Parting Glances: Black Gay Detroit Friends (Pt. 1)
As a teenager in the mid-1950s, I listened faithfully to country and western music radio — especially Patsy Cline — and later 'Senator' Bristo Bryant's rhythm [...]
Creep of the Week: James Greene Sr.
By the time this column runs, Donald Trump's State of the Union address will be over and done with. But as I'm writing this there's a good 24 hours before the [...]
Valentine's Day Visibility: To Stay in or Go Out?
As a lesbian, I often feel the urge to be vocally happy in my engagement to a woman. It's a spiteful parry to a book I keep on my shelf as a joke: "The Unhappy [...]
A Look at LGBTQ Artists in Burlesque
One would think that in the field of burlesque, sex and the discussion of it would be welcome, but this may not always be the case. In 2019 there is open [...]
Parting Glances: When Arts' Gay Fleet Scuttlebutted!
Back in the "good old days" of Great Depression No. 1, following Stock Market Crash '29 years and years – well, at least a galloping few – before my time, the [...]
Lessons in Change: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future
I am a Detroiter, born and raised. So was my mother. My father, although born in Kentucky, grew up in Chatham, Ontario, before settling in Detroit. I didn't [...]
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad president. This is something that has been clear to the majority of Americans from the get-go. Trump's [...]
