May Fake Ad contest winner
Jim Fuerst is our May winner of the Between The Sheets fake ad contest. Jim will receive $100 for selecting Big Water Rafting from our May 20 edition of Between The Lines. Don't miss out, [...]
GOTCHA at Club Gold Coast
Photos by Ray Magdaleno Club Gold Coast - Saturday, June 12 Come relax and taste the hot male dancers at Club Gold Coast.
Art & Around
Armory Arts Project holds information session for artists JACKSON - On Thursday, June 24, The Enterprise Group of Jackson and Artspace Projects, Inc. will hold an informational session for artists interested in living in the [...]
Community Clipboard
Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center195 West Nine Mile, Ferndale, MI 48220Phone: 248-398-7105 Fax: 248-541-1943Email: info@GoAffirmations.org Web: www.GoAffirmations.orgAffirmations is home to nearly150 groups every month!That's a lot of people and a lot of groups.Call our [...]
Curtain Calls
Review: 'Margaritaville' It's the Righteous Right's worst nightmare: Same-sex marriage becomes reality in new comedy Can two lovely lesbians in love turn the world around with their smiles? Probably not, but in Barton Bund's new [...]
Curtain Calls XTRA
Walk & Squawk announces new collaboration between Detroit and South African artists DETROIT - Walk & Squawk Performance Project announces its latest initiative, "The Walking Project," with three days of special events at the Furniture [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Paltrow wears Dietrich's pants Baby Apple's mommy is turning bisexual. Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow has just signed on to play legendary gender-bending screen diva Marlene Dietrich for DreamWorks. Based on the [...]
Bush continues Reagan’s legacy
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan died last week after a decade-long fight with Alzheimer's disease. The press and the pundits have been eulogizing and comparing the former Republican president known as the "Great Communicator" to [...]
GOTCHA at Gay Volleyball
Photos by Ray Magdaleno Gay Volleyball at River Rouge Park - Sunday, June 13 Every Sunday the boys of Gigi's and friends come to play some hardcore V-Ball
Marriage news from around the county
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe from the AP wire Louisiana: The state Senate voted 31-6 on June 9 to place a ban on equal marriage rights and civil unions into the state constitution, a proposal that [...]
National Briefs
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Family Rights Study finds that ballot questions on marriage will be harmful to communities AMHERST, Mass. - This fall voters in a number of states, including Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, [...]
Now Playing
Just Out Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban In his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) learns that Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), an inmate of Azkaban prison [...]
Parting Glances: (OO)ne snappy fairy tale
"Your problems can be solved with this box of amazing cure-alls," hooty hooted Exodus P. Barn Owl, Q.D., shoving a package of Miracle Elastics, Assorted Colors, Funny Farm, LTD., across his polished oak-apple desk to [...]
Q Puzzle Clues
Gayer Mayor Across1 Fish at Provincetown's Cape5 What you might be in when you're out9 Events for Bruce Hayes14 Like a top15 Gay video directory16 The way we word17 1952 Olympics site where Dick Button [...]
Q Scopes for men
By Jill Dearman Play matchmaker, Sagittarius! ARIES (March 21 to April 20): Venus moves with the Sun in the social sector of your chart in mid-June, so please try to get out more. You could [...]
Q Scopes for women
By Jill Dearman Play matchmaker, Sagittarius! ARIES (March 21 to April 20): Stop worrying about what other people think of you, sweetie. If there was ever a time to be true to yourself and say [...]
Theater Events for the period June 17 – 26
Professional Theater: Business as Unusual An original comedy written through improv in which a multitude of extremely diverse characters work together to get as little done as possible. Presented Friday through Sunday at Planet Ant, [...]
ANALYSIS: Ronald Reagan and the Gay Community
By Bob Roehr The gay community lost ground during the years of Ronald Reagan s administration as it reeled under the twin blows of the frightening emergence of HIV/AIDS and the growing prominence of the [...]
2004 APM Timewarp celebrates giving and glam
DETROIT - AIDS Partnership Michigan's 14th annual Timewarp took place at the Roostertail in Detroit on Sat., June 12. Approximately 300 people attended. Timewarp is APM's largest fundraiser, with over $180,000 raised this year. APM's [...]
Book Marks
By Richard Labonte "Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution," by David Carter. St. Martin's Press, 320 pages, $24.95 hardcover. There have been chapters here, a section of a book there, scattered oral remembrances [...]
Award-winning author to visit Ferndale
Author and psychologist Gary Glickman will perform scenes from his novel "Aura" at A Woman's Prerogative on Wednesday, June 23. In addition to his first novel, "Years From Now," Glickman's work has appeared in anthologies [...]
Sample letter to friends and family
The following is an example of a letter you can send to your friends, family, and neighbors urging them to decline to sign the anti-equal marriage rights petition. To my family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and [...]
Bette Midler reaches Stepford city limits
By Tony Phillips A town with "no crime, no poverty and no pushing" is probably the last place on earth one would expect to find Bette Midler. After all, the Divine Miss M probably sprang [...]
Gay chorus sings out proud and clear
By Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE - Think of a choral recital and a rather dull image might spring to mind - rows of singers dressed in white shirts and navy pants, standing stiffly on risers and [...]
GOP and Dems vie for the LGBT vote
By Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE - Life can get exciting at the Logan-Burton household - especially on the first Tuesday in November. Election Day isn't easy when you're a two-party family. Republican Carol Logan sometimes finds [...]
Senate votes to ensure full prosecution of hate crimes
WASHINGTON - Passing the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act today by an overwhelming 65 to 33 bipartisan vote, the U.S. Senate took an important step toward giving law enforcement the tools they need to investigate [...]
Community ‘Unites For Change’ at statewide Pride events
BTL Staff Reports LANSING - On June 12 the streets of Michigan's Capitol City were overrun with rainbow flags, banners, floats, families and dancing boys for the 16th annual Michigan Pride weekend. An estimated 20,000 [...]
Anti-gay marriage petition drive gathering steam
FARMINGTON - Citizens for the Protection of Marriage has announced that it has over 150,000 signatures toward its goal to get the issue of marriage equality on Michigan's Nov. ballot. The group's goal is to [...]
Transitional living center for LGBT teens celebrates its grand opening
DETROIT - It was a dream five years in the making, and now it has come true. The Ruth Ellis Center celebrated the grand opening of its first transitional living center, the aptly named Ruth's [...]
RuPaul is back and hotter than ever
In the early 90's RuPaul burst on the pop culture scene with attitude, verve, and the best legs on either side of the gender line. RuPaul quickly became America's ambassador "Supermodel to the World" and [...]
Michigan’s arts groups threatened with subsidy cut
By Carla Milarch, artistic director, Performance Network Theatre House of Representatives votes to slash Michigan arts budget... again! On May 19, the Michigan House of Representatives failed to pass a proposed tax increase on cigarettes, [...]
Heal emotions in the now
By Dr. Laurel A. Sills Much of the focus of therapy, self-help groups, and self-help books is on understanding how our past shapes our today. Truly, with more understanding and insight about our past, we [...]
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