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New generation finds ways to spread equality
Sure, we can mope about how we don't have marriage rights. Or, on a smaller level, how we risk getting starred at when we kiss our partner as we stroll through the mall. Instead, why [...]
Creep of the Week: Bob Allen
In other words, Allen, a publicly elected official, would rather the public see him as a racist than as a homo. While it may seem like only yesterday that Florida Rep. Bob Allen was Creep [...]
Double-dipping in the marriage pool
by Leslie Robinson General Gayety In this period of expanding gay rights, individuals have the chance to be the first to do a number of things. You can be the first in your state to [...]
Parting Glances: The cause, three alarm . . .
The occasion, too good to resist. Media at the ready. TV channel cameras nearby. Reporters handy. Well, why not? Ready for my close up . . . Sunset Boulevard redux . . . 15 Minutes [...]
All Politics is Loco: Duck eat duck world
by Sean Kosofsky In July, my partner, my parents and I went to Traverse City for the annual Cherry Festival. I hadn't gone since I was a boy so I was excited to see this [...]
Super Mommy!
'Bam Bam & Celeste' B- Now available on DVD Here comes super Mommy. She's here to help save the day - and Margaret Cho's vehicle "Bam Bam & Celeste" from suffering an unfunny demise. Too [...]
Book Marks
by Richard Labonte August 13, 2007 "First Person Plural," by Andrew W. M. Beierle. Kensington Books, 336 pages, $15 paper. One twin, Porter, is an athletic extrovert and straight. The other, Owen, is an intellectual [...]
Drunken chatter opens doors for QueerFest
QueerFest Aug. 17-19 NorthStar Community Center, 106 Lathrop Street, Lansing http://www.myspace.com/queerfest07 Funny how a night of drunken chatter can lead to momentous ideas. Like QueerFest, a three-day radical festival in East Lansing that is dedicated [...]
Etheridge’s ‘Message’ is (totally) gay
Melissa Etheridge is la-la-la-ing her way from hell's breast cancer highway to a profound awakening. Quite literally. On "Message to Myself," the first gleeful single from her ninth studio album "The Awakening," due Sept. 25, [...]
Now Playing
August 20, 2007 NEW THIS WEEK: Daddy Day Camp Charlie Hinton (Cuba Gooding Jr.) attempts to resurrect the "Driftwood" summer day camp he attended as a child, a facility that's now near bankruptcy and in [...]
YouTube video blames ways of the gays
'It's All Because (The Gays Are Getting Married)' Oded Gross http://www.myspace.com/odedgross Lindsay Lohan: It's. Not. Your. Fault. Blame us. Non-queers everywhere can now sleep sound knowing life's earthquakes - coke addictions, stubbing a toe, divorce, [...]
Makin’ racquet
By Jessica Carreras Motor City Tennis Classic Aug. 17-20 Bloomfield Tennis and Fitness Club Franklin Fitness and Racquet Club A banquet will be held for all participants on Saturday night An after-tournament party will be [...]
Watch Me! Or Not!
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World (Paramount Home Video) Sure, this Logo-produced TV show will hit DVD (on Aug. 28) faster than "Glitter," but don't let that — especially with [...]
Billy Masters
"It's not that hard to attract hot guys. All you need is one of two things — beauty or bucks. You've got beauty. But I've got bucks!" — Michael Huffington (former spouse of Arianna) tells [...]
Dear Jody: Man’s iPhone overrules partner’s problems
Q: Before I even get started telling you my problem, I want you to know that I am no 60-year-old person who is tech ignorant or set in my ways! Also, I, myself, own and [...]
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
by Rex Wockner Netherlands to examine gay rights in nations it aids The Dutch government has launched an effort to study the situation for gay people in 36 countries to which it provides routine aid. [...]
Logo TV forum ‘Visible Vote 2008’ puts six Democratic candidates in spotlight on gay rights
By Lisa Keen There was one drop-jaw moment in Thursday night's presidential forum on gay issues - and several lean-in-close moments. A joint effort of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and MTV Network's Logo cable [...]
Megachurch Bars Memorial Service for Gay Vet
by Bob Roehr DALLAS - A nondenominational Christian megachurch near Dallas at the last minute withdrew permission to host a memorial service for an openly gay Navy veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Reactions have [...]
Wheelin’ for our rights
An Inspiring Journey: Rachel Loskill 7 p.m. Aug. 23 Affirmations Lesbian & Gay Community Center, 290 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale Rachel Loskill had never been arrested. Until the spring, when she was put in [...]
Unusual increase of new HIV infections in Ingham County noted
BTL Staff and Wire Reports LANSING - Sources in the Ingham County Health Department confirmed there has been an unusual increase in the number of reported cases of new HIV infections in the county. The [...]
Local reaction to national presidential debate
By Cathy Markes FERNDALE - Jeffrey Montgomery stood in a small circle of potential voters who were sipping brightly-colored martinis and cold drinks. They gathered to watch Democratic presidential candidates in the Human Rights Campaign's [...]
Michigan Political Round-Up
Capitol Correspondent LANSING - Sen. Wayne Kuipers (R-Holland) continues to stall the progress of Matt's Safe School Law. The plan, which passed the State House in March, generally is referred to as the Anti-Bullying Legislation. [...]
MSU documents reveal preparations for Simcox event
Capitol Correspondent EAST LANSING - A stack of documents nearly five inches thick, obtained under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, has been provided to Between the Lines. The hundreds of pages show a consistent [...]
Perceptions volunteer found murdered in his home
Capitol Correspondent SAGINAW -- A beloved member of the Perceptions community group in Saginaw was found murdered in his home August 7. Det. Sgt. Mark Lively of the Saginaw Police Department said officers were dispatched [...]
Protestor at MSU event committed ‘crime of conscience,’ judge rules
Capitol Correspondent EAST LANSING - The two men charged with felonies for their participation last April in a protest against nativist extremist leader Chris Simcox at Michigan State University pled guilty on Aug. 7 to [...]
Art & Around for the period Aug. 16-25
EDITOR'S PICK: The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts will hold its first "Art Out Loud!" benefit concert on Wednesday, Aug. 22 from 6-10 p.m. Presented by Rob Brandt from 97 LAV-FM Classic Rock, two local [...]
EncoreMichigan.com to premiere this fall
By BTL Staff Pride Source Media Group, publisher of Between The Lines, announced Aug. 9 the creation of EncoreMichigan.com, a new, weekly Web-based publication that will serve as the premier source for up-to-date news and [...]
At Stratford: The virtues of patience
By Robert W. Bethune Don't be misled by the publicity surrounding Stratford's production of Derek Walcott's "The Odyssey," which focuses on peripheral and intellectual aspects of the play - colonialism, cycles of history, turning tides [...]
The script, the show and the incredible actress
By Robert W. Bethune In Robert Hewett's "The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead," Lucy Peacock plays all three and a disturbed child, a scummy husband, a grieving doctor and a bitter old woman [...]
It’s not just laughs at The Second City
NOVI - When executives at the Chicago offices of The Second City went searching for a new producing artistic director for their Detroit theater, it's doubtful the want ad read, "Looking for a musician and [...]
Theater Events for the period Aug. 16-25
EDITOR'S PICK: An insightful comedy about the bonds that unite five women will be presented in August by Oakland University theatre students. Written by Alan Ball and set at a wedding reception, "Five Women Wearing [...]