Parting Glances: Pages from a book (Pt. 11)
There was a time - oh, so long ago - when I would stand on the Hub Grill corner in downtown Detroit - and within five flattering and exciting minutes be offered a lift by [...]
There was a time - oh, so long ago - when I would stand on the Hub Grill corner in downtown Detroit - and within five flattering and exciting minutes be offered a lift by [...]
By Sean Kosofsky Courtroom reality television shows typically show an angry, animated or sometimes funny judge presiding over some pathetic situation where ridiculous people are made fun of and are shamed by the judge. Although [...]
Architecture/Design/Garden Tours: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Special interest tours include "The First Great Modern American Landscape" (Wed., June 21) and "Modernism Style" (Fri., Jun 23). Open Tue.-Sun. Detroit: 313-884-4222. http://www.fordhouse.org. Arts & Summer Festivals: [...]
Professional Theater/Opera: The Aboriginal Treatment Center Poet/playwright Ron Allen's examination of the archetypical black man's mind. The Thick Knot Rhythm Ensemble at the former Furniture Factory, Detroit. Fri.-Sun., through July 2. $20. 734-576-9547. Additional Particulars [...]
This Week: Ani DiFranco Fri. 6/23/06 Power Center, Ann Arbor Cherish The Ladies Fri. 6/23/06 Interlochen Arts Festival The Constantines Sat. 6/24/06 Mac's Bar, Lansing Rory Block Sat. 6/24/06 The Ark, Ann Arbor Michael Feinstein [...]
Dear BTL, I just finished watching "A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story," and I must say I was appalled. It even made me cry. It was absolutely HORRIBLE what they did to Gwen. [...]
Dear BTL, There's not much I can say that hasn't already been said about "A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story," but this world is getting so bad that I'm very scared to bring [...]
Dear all, Many of you know you know I lost the love and shining light of my life, Jamie Marie Phillips-Fox. She was a proud member of the transgender, lesbian, gay, and bi community and [...]
Dear BTL, Though I abandoned the Republican Party back in 1992 (when they did verbal gay-bashing from the convention) I was a bit annoyed with J. Dietrich's letter in the June 15 Between The Lines. [...]
Dear BTL, I just finished watching "A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story," on Lifetime Television. I was very anxious to watch this film because I remember watching the news one day and learning [...]
Dear BTL, The article "When worlds collaborate" in the June 15 issue of BTL about the YMCA camp during the Memorial Day weekend for Detroit's Ruth Ellis Center kids was beautiful. It was a lot [...]
Professional Theater News from Around Town: Acclaimed playwright to give keynote speech at Michigan Theatre Festival ROCHESTER - On Friday, June 23 at 6:30 p.m., Allan Knee, the acclaimed playwright of "The Man Who Was [...]
Review: 'Additional Particulars' Comedy with heart opens at Williamston I suspect that for the most part, the employees we encounter at our local Farmer Jack and Dollar General stores are simply nameless, faceless people we [...]
When Hurricane Katrina sent New Orleans residents fleeing for safety, folk singer Ani DiFranco did the same. As she watched from her Buffalo, N.Y. home, the storm surged feelings through DiFranco that she chronicles, like [...]
LANSING - When Marilyn Gard watched as Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, separating friends and family, she felt obliged to help out. "Hurricane Katrina hit and drove home the sad fact that we, as individuals, [...]
ROYAL OAK - It's one thing to have a sale in a garage; it's another to hold it in a parking structure. But for 30 years, local antique and knick-knack collectors have sold handmade and [...]
Jeffrey Willets and Jay Kaplan present cabaret fundraiser June 26 & 28 ROYAL OAK - What do you get when you mix a classically trained and "proudly out" Ann Arbor music educator with a crusading [...]
DECK 'God's Waiting List' is latest release targeted for 'post hip-hop' culture Two adult siblings - Solomon and Teresa Corbin - share more than just a common parent: Both believe in The American Dream and [...]
Having two gay men tie the knot and lock lips in Head Automatica's "Graduation Day" video, a before and after look at high school graduates, wasn't a difficult decision for lead vocalist and guitarist Daryl [...]
Kathy Griffin doesn't regret driving Gay, er, Clay Aiken out of L.A. "He's on the cover [of TV Guide] talking about how he just wants to get married and have kids, and how he can't [...]
LANSING - The 2006 Michigan Pride Festival on Saturday, June 24 in Lansing's Riverfront Park will feature a slew of musical acts to keep patrons dancing. Here's a preview of the festival's line up. Cherri [...]
After Canadian-born Nelly Furtado's mainstream overexposure at the onset of the millennium, many hoped that she'd actually metamorphsize into a bird, like the song, and flutter away. In a way, she did. Her 2003 failure [...]
June 19, 2006 NEW THIS WEEK: A Prairie Home Companion Folksy G.K. (Garrison Keillor) hosts another episode of the radio show A Prairie Home Companion with special guests: singing sisters Yolanda (Meryl Streep) and Rhonda [...]
June 23. 8 p.m. The comedy show will feature Dan DeCapua, Leslie Thompson, Crystal P. and Phenecia Banks. Tickets are $15. Dinner will also be served at the event at an additional cost. To make [...]
An estimated 250,000 people in the United States are HIV/AIDS positive and donÕt even know it. National HIV Testing Day is critical to the fight against HIV/AIDS because it presents an opportunity for people nationwide [...]
The Pentagon No matter what your opinion on the Iraq war, you've got to admit it's a good thing we're not fighting it with slingshots and pots of boiling tar. The Pentagon consumes a gluttonous [...]
"We are making progress, but we have a hell of a long way to go." - Allan Gilmour on the advancement of gays, minorities and women in the corporate world, as quoted by the Denver [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Ask David Hecker why the LGBT civil rights movement is important to him, and the answer comes easily and forcefully. "It's civil rights," he says, "and there is no difference in [...]
By Cornelius A. Fortune Jackie Washington has one goal and one goal only: to fight for minority's rights, including those of the LGBT community. "I'm a very strong supporter of the issues of that community, [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FARMINGTON - In many ways, Trisha Stein is a social conservative's nightmare. Raised by a single mother, Stein has not only done all right, she has excelled. And, worst yet from [...]
ROYAL OAK - Do you have an LGBT employee resource group at work? Are you interested in forming one, or looking at expanding your current group? Would you enjoying networking with others who have forged [...]
WYANDOTTE - This year PFLAG will be celebrate its chapter's 10 year anniversary by again participating in Wyandotte's 4th of July Parade at 10 a.m. July 4. At the parade, there will be a float [...]
LANSING - The Michigan State Board of Education called for stronger legal tools to prevent bullying in Michigan's public schools on June 13, but some Republican representatives don't believe a currently-proposed legislative tool is necessary. [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - Current and former members of Michigan Equality will be on hand to address the legal rights of LGBTs and their families at "Sexual Orientation and the Law: LGBT Law [...]
By B.J. Reichert Special to Between The Lines GRAND RAPIDS - Sarah Hunt gazed into McKenzie Hill's eyes as if they were the only people on earth. Little did it matter that more than a [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - How do you keep a candle lit on a windy evening? You protect it with great care and attention, moving your hand to shield that small, gentle light from [...]
By BJ Reichert Special to In Between The Lines MUSKEGON - A continuous rainstorm didn't prevent more than 30 people from gathering on the beach Sunday to celebrate Muskegon's first Gay Pride event. Earlier in [...]
By Bob Roehr WASHINGTON - The Pentagon listed homosexuality as a "mental illness" among the reasons for separation or retirement for physical disability, in an 88-page set of instructions issued in November 1996. The document [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - On June 3, the Michigan chapter of Pride at Work showed their commitment to the wider community with donations of $250 to Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center and [...]
DETROIT - Triangle Foundation recently released the final Proposal 2 results, which break down votes by city and county and show that 48 Michigan municipalities and two counties voted against the ban on marriage equality. [...]
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman YPSILANTI - The foundation walls are in, and $50,000 has been raised. Now, the volunteers of the Rainbow House Project need three things: volunteers, donated goods, and more money. Volunteers are [...]
EAST LANSING - When Lauren Beach received word that she had won the 2006 Point Scholarship, which is granted to students marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, she jumped up and down [...]
By BTL Staff DETROIT - It was all glitter and glitz at the 2006 Time Warp June 10 at the Roostertail. Co-Chairs Florine Mark, President and Chairman of Weight Watchers, and Marcie Brogan, owner of [...]
by Rex Wockner Warsaw gays march legally After banning Warsaw's gay pride parade in 2004 and 2005, officials allowed it to take place this year. Police said 3,000 people marched on June 10. Organizers said [...]
If you were ever bullied in school, you know that it didn't matter whether the kids who were insulting or attacking you did so because you wore the wrong clothes, had the wrong hair style, [...]
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