As the world continues to learn more about coronavirus and its spread, it's vital to stay up-to-date on the latest developments. However, it's also important to make sure that the information being distributed is from credible sources. To that end, Between The Lines has compiled, [...]
The Gay Moralist: Choosing sides
By John Corvino Sometimes commenting on current events is just too easy. Take last week's revelation that Robert Traynham, director of communications for gay-baiting Senator Rick Santorum, is (in his own words) an "out gay [...]
Parting Glances: Getting your what off?
I apologize to BTL readers who read Parting Glances online rather than here. Google click-ons are likely to be about stones, nose bleeds, and bouncing balls. If any of these items strikes your fancy, do [...]
Messin’ with Texas
By R.J. Beaumia I used to believe that the United States should give Texas back to Mexico, but now I think that would be rude -- like returning a borrowed handkerchief without first washing it. [...]
‘Culture wars’ claims three-year-old
Maybe little Ronnie cried one time too many. Or perhaps his father became suspicious of how often the three-year-old needed his diaper changed. Or, maybe, the toddler liked his stuffed animals better than he liked [...]
Planning for action
The loss last year at the ballot box ushered in a new era of LGBT activism in Michigan. LGBT people who either were apolitical by nature or who had believed the hype that we had [...]
Art & Around
Plowshares Theatre presents Hat-itudeâ Fashion Contest DETROIT - Plowshares Theatre Company, along with WJLB FM98 and DiamlerChrysler Corporation Fund, will sponsor a "Hat-itude" Fashion Contest on Sunday, July 24 at the Charles H. Wright Museum [...]
Concert Connections
This Week: Tom Jones Thurs. 7/21/05 Clio Area Amphitheatre VHS or Beta Thurs. 7/21/05 Magic Stick, Detroit Holly Golightly Fri. 7/22/05 Magic Bag, Ferndale Celtic Woman Fri. 7/22/05 Meadow Brook Music Festival, Rochester Hills Ben [...]
Curtain Calls
Review: 'Heavenly Body' Eye candy and laughs served at dinner theater What do you get when you mix a pair of opposite-sex writers desperately searching for a plot and a buxom beauty who mysteriously shows [...]
Theater Events for July 21 – 30
Professional Theater: And The Winner Is An Oscar-nominated Hollywood actor wakes up in a strange bar where time has no meaning and where nothing is as it seems. Purple Rose Theatre Company, Chelsea. Wed.-Sun. Extended [...]
Shout Out!
DETROIT - The University of Detroit Mercy McNichols Campus Library and Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture are hosting "Shout Out! Young Poets Rising," a spoken word competition being held in honor of Broadside Press's [...]
Trivial Pursuit with a twist
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WOODLAWN, Ohio - On June 28, 1975 the first rainbow flag was used. In what city did this occur? Who is Urvashi Vaid? Was the noted artist Paul Cadmus known for [...]
Mighty Wrong: Biography fails to capture the full fabulousness that was Sylvester
"At first, I thought maybe I was the wrong person for the job of writing this book," writes Joshua Gamson in the acknowledgments section of "The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in [...]
Michigan Womyn’s Music Fest celebrates 30 years
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman HART, Mich. - Each year, the Festival grows. From "four full-time and a couple of part-time people," in the off-season, by the time it begins there is a staff of "about [...]
‘Steamy’ baseball drama comes out at Performance Network
ANN ARBOR - "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" might just be Artistic Director Carla Milarch's motto these days. For neither a director's heart attack nor upset subscribers have stopped Ann Arbor's Performance Network Theatre [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Wanda Sykes becomes a man Remember "All of Me"? The surprise 1984 hit starred Lily Tomlin as a dying rich woman who arranges to have her soul transferred into another person's [...]
Now Playing
Just Out Dark Water A slum apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island becomes the new home for recently separated Dahlia (Jennifer Connolly) and her young daughter, Ceci (Ariel Gade). The ceiling leaks, faucets spew black [...]
Q Puzzle Clues
Love for Sale Across 1 Movie in which Orlando Bloom played a rent boy 6 Supporter of bedroom activity 10 Kiki's partner 14 "Give it ___!" ("Cut it out!") 15 Actor Peter of "QAF" 16 [...]
Community Connections
Need more Connections? See the complete list online at www.pridesource.com! Get connected! Non-profit organizations are encouraged to send listings of ongoing events to Community Connections via email at dawnwolfe@pridesource.com, fax at 248-615-7018 or postal mail: [...]
Meet Buddy the BTL pet of the week
Buddy is an adorable two-year-old German Shepherd/Chow Chow mix. He was brought to the shelter because his previous guardian had too many animals. Buddy is a sweet and affectionate dog. He is compatible with children [...]
Transmissions: HRC’s tiger can’t change its stripes
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith A little more than one year ago, I had the dubious pleasure of visiting the offices of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C. It was hardly a social call: I [...]
Couple weds at Michigan Pride
Detroit native Wykeia C. Patmon, 26, celebrated her commitment to Saginaw native Bridie M. Johnson, 33, on June 25 during Michigan Pride. Patmon works as a personal training director and Patmon works as a homeless [...]
A protest, a festival, and more: Camp Trans – it’s not just a reaction to MWMF
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman HART, Mich. - From Aug. 7-14, transgender activists and allies from all over the country will descend on Camp Trans, the transgender community's answer to the "womyn-born-womyn" policy of the Michigan [...]
Community Foundation’s HOPE Fund awards $25,000 grant to Affirmations
DETROIT - The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan has announced a grant of $25,000 from the Foundation's HOPE Fund to Affirmations Lesbian/Gay Community Center in Ferndale. The grant will enable Affirmations to hire a special [...]
Creep of the Week: Pennsylvania Rep. Daryl D. Metcalfe
Pennsylvania Rep. Daryl D. Metcalfe Everyone loves a vacation, and if marketing information is any indication, the gay community is quite the sizable travel market. In today's economy it makes good fiscal sense for cities [...]
Man kills three year old son in attempt to keep him from being ‘gay’
TAMPA - According to a July 14 Planet Out report, a Tampa, Florida man has been accused of abusing his three-year-old son to death in efforts "to prevent him from being gay." According to the [...]
From ‘passive activism’ to state leader: Jim Ciccone is a positive force for change
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman BEVERLY HILLS, Mich. - Jim Ciccone is a very nice man. His kindness is apparent in everything from the now-relaxed and joyous dog, Sydney, that Ciccone adopted from a shelter a [...]
2005 Ryan White funding – CBOs lose, medical centers gain
DETROIT - A BTL analysis of Ryan White funding provided through the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion finds that community-based organizations, once the backbone of AIDS service providers, have once again lost substantial [...]
Hotter Than July! to host transgender summit July 29
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - Detroit's Black Gay Pride celebration isn't forgetting the "T" in LGBT. On July 29, two prominent members of the transgender community will discuss, explain and dissect the Henry Benjamin [...]
Protest planned at anti-gay pastors’ summit in Jackson
JACKSON - At press time, BTL has received a report from Michael Gibson-Faith of the American Friends Service Committee that an anti-gay pastors' summit is scheduled to take place in Jackson on Monday, July 25. [...]
Ann Arbor pizza place at center of anti-gay controversy
ANN ARBOR - On July 18, the Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan's student newspaper, reported that a member of a student-oriented Catholic parish had sent out an email protesting a gay pride sticker on [...]
Court to hear anti-Prop 2 case
LANSING - On Thursday, July 21, a Michigan Circuit Court will hear a Motion for Summary Disposition in National Pride at Work v. Granholm and City of Kalamazoo, the court case seeking to limit the [...]
A strategy to fight the right
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FARMINGTON - Someday, the LGBT community just might look back and thank the right-wingers who pushed Proposal 2. At least, that's the dream of a new group that has come together [...]
Rev. Tod Ekloff guest speaker at First Unitarian Universalist Church
DETROIT Ð The Rev. Todd Ekloff will be a guest speaker at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit this Sunday July 24 at 11a.m. From the pulpit of his home church in Clifton, Kentucky [...]
International News Briefs
Compiled by Rex Wockner First same-sex couple wed in Spain Spain saw its first marriage marriage of a same-sexu couple July 11. A law extending ordinary marriage to same-sex couples and legalizing adoption by gays [...]
National News Briefs
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Politics Bush calls Falwell on Supreme Court pick WASHINGTON - According to a July 13 New York Times report, the virulently anti-gay Rev. Jerry Falwell has been among the people [...]
Conservative pushes for review of adoptions by gays
TOPEKA, Kan. - A conservative legislator wants to review policies allowing gays and lesbians to adopt children in foster care, an issue gay rights advocates feared eventually would arise after voters approved a constitutional ban [...]
State lawmaker eyeing challenge to firebrand Musgrave
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Democratic state Rep. Angie Paccione says she has raised at least $20,000 through a committee exploring the possibility of a challenge to two-term GOP Rep. Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado's 4th Congressional [...]
Ground broken on nation’s first low-income gay retirement home
LOS ANGELES - Celebrities, local leaders and residents gathered July 14 for the groundbreaking of the nation's first large-scale, affordable housing facility designed for LGBT adults. The center, expected to open in 2006 in Hollywood, [...]
Howard Dean speaks in Utah
Quotes from Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean, who spoke to more than 500 people Saturday at Westminster College. On government power: "The Republicans say they want small government - just small enough to fit inside [...]
Lesbian cycling group continues to fight patent office about ‘Dyke’ term
SAN FRANCISCO - Many lesbians have taken a term once commonly used to insult them and made it something of a badge of honor - but they're having a tough time persuading the federal government [...]
Study: a third of same-sex couples include Hispanics
SAN FRANCISCO - A third of all same-sex couples in California include at least one Hispanic, according to a University of California, Los Angeles study shows. In addition, more Hispanic same-sex couples raise children than [...]
The longest ride
By Mubarak Dahir In light of the london bombings, a gay New Yorker worries about riding the subway - as an easily identifiable Arab. New York - Even before Omar passed his yellow metro card [...]