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, [...]
Parting Glances: Dogs, cats, rats’ winkies
A $10.5 million, GOP-funded study undertaken by the Institute for the Regionalization and Redistricting of Dogs, Cats, Kittens & Pups sheds new - and controversial - light on how we humans treat our wagtail friends. [...]
All Politics is Loco: SOS MOM
By Sean Kosofsky At age 30, I am only now fully realizing that nearly everyone I know has a love/hate relationship with their mother. Although I have never been in therapy, I was talking to [...]
The Masculine Critique
By R.J. Beaumia Like many gay men, I've been flummoxed my entire life by anything to do with team sports, at least outside of their homoeroticism. Various balls given to me throughout childhood languished in [...]
Art & Around for the period July 6-15
Architecture/Design/Garden Tours: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Summertime Behind the Scenes tours include "Staff Life on the Estate," "The Secrets Behind the Paintings" and "Cotswold Architecture"; plus Special Interest Tours "Modernism on the Cutting Edge" [...]
Theater Events for the period July 6-15
Professional Theater/Opera: Additional Particulars A comedy about four employees at the Save-A-Bundle Discount Store. Williamston Theatre, Williamston. Thu.-Sun., through July 16. $15-$22. 517-655-7469. http://www.williamstontheatre.org. All Childish Things It's "Star Wars" fanaticism gone too far when [...]
New year, new artists
ANN ARBOR - When you already hold one of the largest outdoor art fairs in the country, there's not much else you can add, except new artists. "There's always a sense of change every year," [...]
Pardo deserves award
Dear BTL, I cried so much during "A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story." It really moved me. I am very upset at the ignorance that surrounds us. There are so many people just [...]
Moved by Gwen’s story
Dear BTL, I thought Gwen Araujo's story was extremely powerful and moving. I found myself in tears during the last half of "A Girl Like Me" and I felt that the characters were real. I [...]
Greetings from Orlando
Dear BTL, I lived in Detroit for several years after 2000 and always attempted to get my hands on this publication. Now I reside in Orlando and continue to check in through the Web portal [...]
Curtain Calls ONLINE
Professional Theater News from Around Town: Mayor and City Council reaffirm commitment to BoarsHead Theater LANSING - Mayor Virg Bernero and members of the Lansing City Council recently reaffirmed their strong commitment to the BoarsHead [...]
Curtain Calls
Preview: 'Oz' We're off to meet the playwright, Patrick Shanahan It all began innocently enough with an e-mail. "Thank you for mentioning my play - OZ - being presented at the Hilberry Theatre through July [...]
New year, new artists
ANN ARBOR - When you already hold one of the largest outdoor art fairs in the country, there's not much else you can add, except new artists. "There's always a sense of change every year," [...]
Concert Connections
This Week: Ryan Cabrera Thurs. 7/6/06 Saint Andrews Hall, Detroit John Waters Fri. 7/7/6 Power Center, Ann Arbor Suzanne Westenhoefer Sat. 7/8/06 The Ark, Ann Arbor Bo Bice Sat. 7/8/06 Meadow Brook Music Festival, Rochester [...]
‘Gay-2-Zee’: ABC/PDQueer summer reading
Cell phone conversation between a "cafeteria" queen and a "slut hut" boytoy, recorded word for word by a "wrinkle room" writer. Namely yours truly. (My wrinkles have wrinkles.) QUEEN: "Well, girlfriend, for a Stepford fag, [...]
Q Scopes: Be ready for adventure, Cancer!
By Jack Fertig Mars opposing Neptune makes chemical overindulgence easy and dangerous, especially when you're showing off. Venus in Gemini encourages flirtations, but she's square Uranus in Pisces, so confused signals can build false expectations. [...]
Ikea business still booming
CANTON - After scoring one of Michigan's largest grand openings - 5,000 people rushed into the department store before 11 a.m. on opening day - Canton Ikea store manager Mark McCaslin didn't know what to [...]
One pedal at a time
Evidence legal pads. Check. Black, thick pens. Check. Clear, green plaid Scotch tape. Check. "When I'm writing I have very much a ritual that I follow," says John Waters as he takes a break from [...]
Spreading God’s love for all
Gospel singer-songwriter Shawn Thomas used to believe a correlation existed between a gay person and a child molester. "I knew that wasn't me," Thomas says from his home in West Palm Beach, Fla. "So I [...]
A ‘Secret’ better kept
Don't be fooled. Madonna's DVD/CD combo "I'm Going To Tell You A Secret" isn't groundbreaking, rather it's a promotional ploy to get you to fork over 300 bucks to see her strut her stuff live [...]
Now Playing
July 10, 2006 NEW THIS WEEK: The Devil Wears Prada Brainy but frumpy Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) hopes to jumpstart a journalism career when she becomes Runway magazine editor Miranda Priestly's (Meryl Streep) assistant. What [...]
SHe Said July 6, 2006
"You weasel your way out of it while trying not to be offensive. If that had been my inclination, I could've been a great trophy boyfriend. A kept man, a cabana boy. Alas, that's not [...]
The face of AIDS in Michigan growing younger
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - According to a press release issued by the Michigan Department of Community Health on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the discovery of HIV/AIDS, the face of AIDS [...]
Ask the librarian
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - Who set up the first public computer at the Detroit Public Library and created the first-ever Web page at Wayne State University? It wasn't Comcast, Bill Gates or even [...]
First Proposal 2, now the governor’s seat
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING — On June 18, the Detroit Free Press published two articles about presumed Republican candidate for the governorship, Dick DeVos. On the front page, the Freep reported that DeVos has [...]
Triangle, U-M team up for domestic violence survey
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - Triangle Foundation and the University of Michigan are teaming up to do a survey of domestic violence among same-sex couples. Triangle, one of the leading advocacy, civil rights, and [...]
LGBT workers unite on the job
BY SHARON GITTLEMAN ROYAL OAK - The boardroom and the water cooler can be intimidating spots for LGBT people. Will your chances of becoming a senior executive be thwarted if people knew you were gay? [...]
Horizon’s Project rocks the park
By Imani Williams DETROIT - 'Rock the Park Jam' was going down, rain or shine, on Belle Isle as Horizon's Project stepped up to reach youth on National HIV Testing Day, June 27. As HIV/AIDS [...]
‘Old boys’ network’ shuts out lesbian cop
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman ROYAL OAK - Thanks to what she claims is an "old boys' network" headed by current Chief of Police Theodore Quisenberry, Royal Oak police officer Karyn Risch is suing for the [...]
Raising the roof
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman YPSILANTI - On June 24 and 25, volunteers working during the first full weekend build of the Rainbow House got something they hadn't bargained for. At noon, they were served a [...]
Appeals Court: State Dept. HIV discrimination case can go forward
By Bob Roehr WASHINGTON - A unanimous three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled that the State Department must stand trial for failing to hire a qualified [...]
Local student awarded LGBT scholarship
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 [...]
Remembering our founding ideals
First of all, happy belated 4th of July from Between The Lines! We at BTL hope your weekend was relaxing, rejuvenating and full of pride in both our community and our country. Yes, it can [...]
Creep of the Week: Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney
Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney In politics it pays to be handsome. It helps you appeal to voters. And Lord knows Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is handsome (really - just ask Him). He's also a Republican [...]