Health & Wellness
Support Sites
Are you looking for support? Do you know someone who could use some direction? Here is a list of GLBT Support Websites that covers not only the metropolitan area, but also the greater state of [...]
GLBT Youth and Substance Abuse: Seeking Intersection of Support
The taboo regarding substance abuse and addiction are lessening thanks to the media and shows like Addicted, Intervention, and even Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab; bringing the reality of this disease mainstream. This has been a [...]
Beating the Winter Blues
This winter has thus far been pleasantly mild for Minnesota–mild enough that some people have kept the radio waves busy pondering global climate change. However, even a moderate season can give you a touch of [...]
A Word in Edgewise: I Know I Can, I Know I Can, I Know I Can…
“Knowing thyself,” and “Making New Year’s Resolutions” create something of an oxymoron. You already know your batting average with Resolutions––your avoirdupois of yesteryear still clings as tenaciously as barnacles on a rusty, sunken hull. Your dilatory attendance at [...]
World AIDS Day: Candice Wiggins Twitterview and Chat
As part of Thursday’s World AIDS Day, Lynx guard Candice Wiggins will host a Twitterview (@candicewiggins) at 12 ET, followed by a live chat at 3 ET to talk hoops and discuss her personal connection [...]
Family & Friends
Rock Yoga Puppet Opera To De-Stress Your Life
Rainbow Families and their allies of all ages can certainly benefit from and enjoy a creative way to let go of stress. Just hop on board and the Monkey Mind Pirates of Z Puppets Rosenschoz [...]
Leather Life: A Letter to EricJames Borges
Dear EricJames, I didn’t know you, but I wish I would have been able to. I wish I could have given you hope by telling you what we have in common, how things worked out for [...]
Through These Eyes: How to Meet a Stranger
Parents provide some helpful hints for navigating life; through their guidance, we learn how not to die. Like, you know, when they teach us to look both ways before crossing a street. Or to abstain [...]
Sugar & Spice: Icy Ambition
Snowy streets. Icy sidewalks. After midnight. Freezing cold and no one in sight. The street lamps alone send chills through passersby. They seem so cold–narrow and metal, bone-chilling to the eye. Bundled up though we [...]
Through These Eyes: Saint Vanity
Our eyes open to a teenage angel sitting at the edge of his keeper’s bed, hunched elbow-to-knee, watching the city beneath him. His wings are vast, mighty, ethereal; they belie his small, emaciated body. He [...]
Pets
Puppy Under the Tree? Puppy Eating the Tree?
PET TIPS for the Holidays Holidays can be fun and exciting times for people, but are often stressful or dangerous for our pets. Animal Humane Society asks that you keep your pet’s safety in mind [...]
Glimpses: Going to the Dogs at Canterbury Park, Fashion Students Showcase at Girlfriends Expo & Getaway
Going to the Dogs at Canterbury Park More than 1,200 dogs will be shown at the Minneapolis Kennel Club Dog Show at Shakopee’s Canterbury Park, November 19-20. Participating dogs come from every American Kennel Club’s [...]
Animal Humane Society Launches Kindest Cut
Through the generous support of Twin Cities area donors, Animal Humane Society (AHS), in partnership with private-practice veterinarian Dr. Meghann Kruck, has launched Kindest Cut, a high-quality, low-cost spay/neuter program for pets of people in [...]
Five Resources Help Metro Pet Owners
Paws on Grand Jaimee Hendrickson, Program Director of the Grand Avenue Business Association, shares, “I bring my yellow lab, Max. He loves Grand Avenue, especially during Paws on Grand, when he gets to fill up [...]
Lifestyles & Communities
Leather Life: A Letter to EricJames Borges
Dear EricJames, I didn’t know you, but I wish I would have been able to. I wish I could have given you hope by telling you what we have in common, how things worked out for [...]
Socially Savvy: The ‘Club’
We all have that one place we love to frequent, the space that inspires amuses or calms us. It could be as simple as the coffee shop, a nearby pub, or the public library. Perhaps [...]
Leather Life: Altered States
Sometimes your humble columnist is startled to see concepts, ideas, and practices associated with the modern-day leather/BDSM/fetish community appear in other communities, places, and times. Throughout history, humans have yearned for altered states of consciousness. And they have [...]
Leather Life: Atons Holiday Fundraiser
The Atons of Minneapolis held their traditional Holiday Fundraiser on Sunday, December 4, at the Bolt Underground in Minneapolis. There was food, drink and general merriment, along with live and silent auctions, two bootblacks, holiday photos with Leather [...]
Big Gay News
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and in commemoration of the occasion, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, headquartered at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, debunks the top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research. Myth No. [...]
Faith
Commentary: Politics of Scandal
By Joe McHugh I was born Catholic and hope to die Catholic. Despite its scandals, the church still speaks words of healing, hope and freedom to me. Right now, however, I feel scandalized by how [...]
A Televangelists’s Legacy: An Interview with Randy Roberts Potts, Part 2
Randy Roberts Potts is the grandson of Oral Roberts, a televangelist from Tulsa who was famous for many reasons, not the least of which were his conservative values and faith healing. Randy grew up carrying [...]
Glimpses
Minnesota United Methodist Clergy sign Equality in Christian Marriage Statement On September 19th, 77 United Methodist clergy in ministry in Minnesota released a statement affirming they will offer the Church’s blessing to any prepared couple [...]
A Televangelists’s Legacy: An Interview with Randy Roberts Potts, Part 1
Randy Roberts Potts is the grandson of Oral Roberts, a televangelist from Tulsa who was famous for many reasons, not the least of which were his conservative values and faith healing. Randy grew up carrying [...]
A Word in Edgewise: “Protecting” Marriage by Denying it to Others
Touring the Minnesota Historical Society’s Treasures of the Vatican exhibit in 2008, it didn’t occur to me that the power behind that gilt and guilt would be marshaled against my having the right to marry [...]
While I Was There
From the Editor: Fallacy v. Reality
I admit it. I’ve had some work done. A cognitive nip here, a mental tuck there. I feel good. Heck, I look good. Whether we’re willing to admit it or not, all of us could [...]
From the Editor: Valentines and Love
I’m so sorry. If you lifted up this issue and spat or guffawed, I’m sorry. I know what we’ve done to Valentine’s Day. I know we’ve made it a painful reminder of not being paired [...]
From the Editor: Happy New Year
What a year it will be. While resolutions are on our minds and thoughts stray to the past, I can’t help but think about where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we’re going. [...]
From the Editor: Local Music
This is our first Local Music Issue. Are you kidding? Every issue could be a Local Music Issue. Every issue should be a Local Music Issue. Under an early deadline, I’m listening to Rogue [...]
From the Editor: Lavender’s Land of Oz
Fab. I’m feeling fab today. It’s Friday. We’re sending the second half of the Fab 50 issue to press. The weekend is next. And I’ve got so much to tell you. I realize that [...]
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