Parting Glances: Memories of a Near-Forgotten Past Pt.2
At 19, I went to my first gay bar on Halloween: the Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. I used borrowed ID, was escorted [...]
Viewpoint: Why Visibility Matters
BY JON HOADLEY This month, people across Michigan celebrated National Coming Out Day and Spirit Day. When Robert Eichberg and Jean O'Leary started the first [...]
Parting Glances: Memories of a Near-Forgotten Past. Pt. 1
Detroit's ancient, seven-story Cass Technical High School was replaced with a new $127 million structure five years ago; and an era of excellence in education [...]
Parting Glances: Once Upon a Sleeping Beauty
"I'm burning my candle at both ends. It will not last the night. But, oh, my foes, and, ah, my friends. It gives a lovely light!" These words are by poet Edna [...]
Parting Glances: LGBT-Q Lining Memory Lane
I was in the Sunday habit, a few years back, of taking a suburban bus to Birmingham. Riding with me were regulars, most of whom were off to church, or gave [...]
Parting Glances: How's It Hangin' Big Guy?
Like people, words can be outed. Take the noun "testimony" for example. It's closet meaning goes back to biblical times, and the quaint family values custom [...]
Parting Glances: A Very Modest Demand for Governing Recognition
FORM REQUEST: We, the undersigned, do hereby petition the Michigan State House of Representatives and Senate to confer Honorary Second Class Citizenship on [...]
Parting Glances: The Gas-trophy of 911 Dating
I've been out of the LGBT lovebird loop-the-loop for so long that it rarely occurs to me that dating can be hazardous to ones mental and physical well being, [...]
Parting Glances: GOP - Guardianship of Pornography
I've no firsthand knowledge of the profession, but I imagine being a porn star isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Not by a long shot. But! somebody's got [...]
Parting Glances: Bambi, JFK, and Lover Larry
I recall a New Yorker cartoon that appeared years ago. Picture if you will: two or three animals are gathered in a sunlit forest. A cute rabbit looks up to a [...]
Parting Glances: Murderabilia: Straight and Gay
On the eve of his 58th birthday, just hours after telephone chatting farewell with his wife Primrose, Dr. Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial [...]
Parting Glances: O Those "Revocable Waivers"!
On several sporty occasions I've dined at Angelina's Italian Bistro in Downtown Detroit with BTL co-publishers Jan Stevenson and Susan Horowitz, loyal Tiger [...]
