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 [...]
Positive Thoughts: The Hidden Survivors
Long-term survivors of HIV face unique challenges – they are the "hidden" survivors of the epidemic. When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1989, I wasn't sure I'd [...]
Legislature Must Stop Health Officials' Invasive Plans
BY BTL CONTRIBUTOR State health officials are using the newest science to address the HIV epidemic Michigan and to curb its growth. The new science certainly [...]
Where Memories Collide
I grew up in Houston, Texas, a fact I neither brag about nor hold my head in shame about (well, usually; but the less said about Ted Cruz's re-election the [...]
Parting Glances: Two Kings and a Presidential 'Queen'
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1965 historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, for African-American voter rights changed the South forever. (Or, did it?) Few [...]
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Well, we made it. We lived through the 2018 midterm election, an election that saw record turn out. And record voter suppression. Sadly, that voter suppression [...]
Parting Glances: How's your Thanksgiving Parson's Neck, Mary?
DRUMSTICK #1: If you're looking for a ploy to come out to your family this Thanksgiving, you might casually remark that according to "Biological Exuberance" by [...]
Take a Breather: Avoiding Post-Midterm Despair and Complacency
My religious teachings tell me that I should not be fearful. However, real and tangible fear should always be met head on. I struggle with that. On voting day, [...]
Parting Glances: 'Ys' Beyond my Years!
Long, long before The Village People made "YMCA" — the song that would become the unofficial, persistent national anthem of Winter Olympian Brian Boitano – [...]
The Morning After: No Pill, Just Hard Work
One of the lasting lessons I learned from Detroit's legendary activist Jeff Montgomery was no matter what the outcome was of an election, we must prepare for [...]
