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, [...]
Art & Around for the period Aug. 11-20
Architecture/Gardens/Tours: The Gardens & Grounds Specialty Tour Explore the nationally acclaimed, award winning landscape of the Ford House's 86 acres of woods, flowers and lagoon. The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores. Sat., [...]
Concert Connections
This Week: Chris Isaak Thurs. 8/11/05 Meadow Brook Music Festival, Rochester Hills Clay Aiken Fri. 8/12/05 Meadow Brook Music Festival, Rochester Hills Clay Aiken Sat. 8/13/05 Clio Area Amphitheatre Patti LaBelle Sat. 8/13/05 8 p.m. [...]
Curtain Calls
Review: 'Detroit Neutrino Project' Guerilla comedy invades Ann Arbor, film at 8 It's a Saturday evening in August. You and a date - or a friend, it really doesn't matter; heck, you could even be [...]
Gay director takes fictional look at death of Kurt Cobain
By BTL Staff ROYAL OAK - In April 1994, rock and roll artist Kurt Cobain's death shook the music world. The front man for the seminal grunge band Nirvana was found dead in his home [...]
Detroit ‘River Rave’ to sail Aug. 12
DETROIT - The Detroit River will once again be the scene of the annual riverboat fundraiser for the Midwest AIDS Prevention Project on Friday, Aug. 12 beginning at Hart Plaza at 8 p.m. Called the [...]
Celebrate summer with Triangle at the Whitney
With summer in full swing, what better way to begin a weekend than to join your friends at the Whitney for the Triangle Foundation Garden Party? On Friday, Aug. 12 from 6 to 10 p.m. [...]
Dream Cruise party invites LGBTs
By Sharon Gittleman BIRMINGHAM - The Exhibitionists' High Holy Day is almost here. Some may think the Dream Cruise is about cars - or t-shirt sales, but those in the know would disagree. The Dream [...]
Out of Black history’s closet
By Leah Samuel John D'Emilio's new book, "Lost Prophet," a National Book Award finalist published by the University of Chicago Press, chronicles the political and personal life of Bayard Rustin. An activist and philosopher, Rustin [...]
To ‘Homonomo’ and back: Peterson Toscano to bring humor and healing to metro Detroit
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman SAN FRANCISCO - Peterson Toscano spent seventeen years in a "Biblically-induced coma." Toscano tried everything from a Jamaican exorcist to the "ex-gay" group Love in Action to try to "cure" him [...]
Community Connections
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: 20793 Farmington Rd., Ste. 25, Farmington, MI 48336. FORTY WORD [...]
Meet Tiki the BTL pet of the week
Tiki is an adorable one-year-old black and grey medium hair cat. She is at the shelter looking for a new home because her guardian passed away. Tiki is a bit shy at first but will [...]
Spirituality and activism intersect at Together In Faith Conference
YPSILANTI - Over 300 people flocked to Eastern Michigan University to attend the second annual Together In Faith Conference last weekend. The conference, hosted by Faith Action Network, a project of the American Friends Service [...]
Creep of the Week: Paul Cameron
Paul Cameron When it comes to the anti-gay industry, statistics don't have to be accurate, they just have to be controversial. Facts are for losers. Also working in the anti-gay industry's favor is the main-stream [...]
Domestic partner benefits hearing Aug. 16
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - The first hearing in National Pride at Work v. Granholm, the suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBT Project to protect domestic partner benefits for gay and [...]
SHe Said Aug. 11, 2005
"I think when people see someone in drag they recognize the sense of self and the personal freedom in it. I sometimes like to go to Borders Books or the supermarket in drag. It's wonderful. [...]
Johnson and Price wed
Detroit couple Kalimah Johnson and Keisha Price exchanged vows at their wedding Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005. The wedding was held at Johnson's sister's home in Detroit's Boston Edison district. Judge B. Pennie Millender of Michigan's [...]
Laura Kane-Witkowski hired as Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Community Center ED
CHARLOTTE - The Lesbian & Gay Community Center of Charlotte, North Carolina has hired Michigan native Laura Kane-Witkowski as the new executive director. The center's Board of Trustees made the announcement Aug. 3. Kane-Witkowski relocated [...]
APM board member Daniel Lee Stoepker dies
SOUTHFIELD - Daniel Lee Stoepker, 56, died Friday, Aug. 5. He was a long time board member of AIDS Partnership Michigan in Detroit and an active member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Detroit. He [...]
Pride PAC endorsees to head for Detroit City Council election
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - Six candidates who were endorsed by Triangle Pride PAC, the political action arm of the Triangle Foundation, advanced to the general election during Detroit's Aug. 2 primary. On the [...]
Triangle Foundation tapped for NGLTF capacity building project
WASHINGTON -- On Aug. 4, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force announced that Michigan's Triangle Foundation is one of three LGBT advocacy organizations to be selected as partners in an ongoing capacity building project. [...]
Time to register for Creating Change
WASHINGTON -- Registration is now under way for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's 18th Annual Creating Change Conference, which will be held in Oakland, Calif. from Nov. 9-13. LGBT activists and allies are [...]
Lesbian comic ‘survives’ comedy competition
DEARBORN - On Friday, Aug. 5, Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center Executive Director Leslie Thompson was a true survivor. A comedy survivor, that is. Thompson survived to take second place at the second Michigan [...]
Pride in the Park with TransGender Michigan
In celebration of Transgender Awareness Day, TransGender Michigan will host a picnic at Bendemer Park in Ann Arbor on Saturday, Aug. 20. The event, from noon - 6 p.m., will feature barbecued food, outdoor activities, [...]
Roberts tied to landmark gay rights case
By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON - The news was startling but the reaction has been decidedly cautious on both sides. The Los Angeles Times reported Aug. 4 that U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. provided [...]
APA approves marriage equality resolution
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman BALTIMORE, Md. - During the weekend of July 30, the American Psychiatric Association's Board of Trustees made the APA the first major U.S. medical organization to support equal marriage rights for [...]
Iranian teens were hanged for rape, not gay sex
by Rex Wockner The two male teenagers hanged in Mashad, Iran, July 19 were executed not for having sex with each other, as has been reported, but for raping a 13-year-old boy, Human Rights Watch [...]
Marriage News from Around the Country
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Arizona: Arizona Together Coalition, a group opposing the state's anti-marriage amendment, said it's well on its way to raising $2 million for a TV and radio ad campaign. The group [...]
Report finds lifting gay ban could ease military recruiting crisis
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WASHINGTON, D.C. - With enlistment lagging way behind the estimated need, the U.S. military is easing standards, considering raising the enlistment age and even resorting to tactics that have brought recruiters [...]
All Politics is Loco: Kwame v Freman
By Sean Kosofsky The Heat is On. That is now the political situation between incumbent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and challenger Freman Hendrix. "Heat is On" is also a song from the soundtrack of "Beverly [...]
Parting Glances: There’s no tool like . . .
I've come to realize I really don't exist. With the exception of the IRS, my creditors, my column's faithful fans, my friends -- and that novena knockout, beloved Sister Serena Scatterpin -- I'm a N-O-B-O-D-Y, [...]
Letter: Falwell’s folly
Dear BTL, Thanks for your very enlightening column on that preacher who thinks he may be God ("Jerry Falwell's latest" by John Corvino in the Aug. 4 issue of BTL). I was appalled at the [...]
Letter: From the Detroit Health Department
The following letter was prompted by recent coverage in BTL of the Detroit Health Department and HIV/AIDS funding. Dear BTL, The City of Detroit, Department of Health and Wellness Promotion (DHWP) HIV/AIDS Programs administers Title [...]
Letter: Equal sign no substitute for inclusion
Dear BTL, In response to Michelle Brown's July 28 Viewpoint "On transgender inclusion," I would like to quote Martin Luther King Jr. from the "I Have a Dream" speech: "...we have come to cash this [...]
Letter: GOP apologies
Dear BTL, It is ironic that the Republicans have finally confessed to their racial divisiveness for the last 30+ years, and apologized to the NAACP for it now. They continue to spread hatred and fear [...]
Corrections
BTL incorrectly reported the dates of two upcoming events sponsored by TransGender Michigan in last week's issue. The organization is holding a speakers bureau training in Grand Rapids on Aug. 27, not Aug. 28 as [...]
Editorial: Supreme indecision
Before anyone from the U.S. Supreme Court had even officially resigned, the battle over the Supreme Court had already begun. The right and the left had their scripts written and were following them verbatim before [...]
All Politics is Loco: Kwame v Freman
By Sean Kosofsky The Heat is On. That is now the political situation between incumbent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and challenger Freman Hendrix. "Heat is On" is also a song from the soundtrack of "Beverly [...]
Parting Glances: There’s no tool like . . .
I've come to realize I really don't exist. With the exception of the IRS, my creditors, my column's faithful fans, my friends -- and that novena knockout, beloved Sister Serena Scatterpin -- I'm a N-O-B-O-D-Y, [...]
Ask The Debt Free Diva
By Dee Dee Sung Swimming in debt Q: I'm deeply in debt and falling behind on my payments. I need to find some relief and my problem is that I don't understand all the options [...]
Theater Events for the period Aug. 11-20
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. through [...]
‘Lawrence’ lawyer discusses Roberts nomination
By Bob Roehr Paul M. Smith is an openly gay lawyer who argued and won the landmark 2003 case of Lawrence v. Texas in which the US Supreme Court struck down the remaining state sodomy [...]
National News Briefs
Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Politics Poll shows increased support for equal marriage rights WASHINGTON - The Pew Research Center released a poll Aug. 3 which shows an increase in the numbers of Americans who [...]