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, [...]
Sept. 10: Gay news from the presidential campaign trail…
By Lisa Keen SURROGATE SINS: Keen on the trail Keen News Service LEADER IN TRUST: A poll just out this week shows that more registered voters trust Democrat Barack Obama on the rights of gay [...]
Palin, Pregnancy and Principles
by John Corvino The Gay Moralist I admit it: I was fascinated by the announcement that Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. It's no surprise that teenagers have sex - even evangelical Christian teenagers, and [...]
Love, Family, Friendship, and the Voting Booth
By Vic Basile It is hard to imagine an election more important to the future of our community than the one we face in November. That is why we must do all that we can [...]
The 70 percent solution
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions A recent survey by Out & Equal Workplace Advocated held a somewhat surprising number: roughly seven out of 10 straight adults feel that performance, not gender identity or expression, should [...]
Creep of the Week: Log Cabin Republicans
I used to think that the Log Cabin Republicans took their name as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln or maybe even that brand of maple syrup. But now I'm thinking that the "log cabin" in [...]
‘The Nanny’ fights for our rights – with her gay ex-husband
Billy Masters "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup." - Daniel Radcliffe tells "Details" his secret dream. [...]
Parting Glances: Birds do it. Bees do it.
Even educated fleas do it. Let's buzz . . . Last week's New Scientist, Britain's popular science reportage magazine, is an eye-opener about kinky animal sex. "(Animals) participate in kissing, hugging, oral sex, masturbation and [...]
‘What it Feels Like for’ … Madonna’s brother
"I don't hate my sister," Christopher Ciccone - commonly, as he says, introduced as Madonna's brother - so candidly tells us, as if his tell-almost-all memoir would lead us to believe otherwise. And it probably [...]
Gay teens and high (school) drama at WWC?
By By D. A. Blackburn Who Wants Cake? kicked off its second full season Saturday night with an acclaimed new work, Stephen Karam's "Speech and Debate," hot on the heels of a twice-extended run at [...]
‘The Nanny’ fights for our rights – with her gay ex-husband
Billy Masters "I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup." - Daniel Radcliffe tells "Details" his secret dream. [...]
The Dating Diet: Rum is the answer. What was the question?
By Anthony Paull There was the most fascinating report on NPR not too long ago that talked about the current climate of dating and how, across the country, college campus women were fed up with [...]
Mostly a Jem
Jem, "Down to Earth" Jem's sophomore disc is a reflective genre-skipper that does two things remarkably well: establishes the Welsh-born singer as more than an airy-voiced Dido clone while also boasting multiple personalities. The latter [...]
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NEW THIS WEEK Disaster Movie What do a saber-toothed, gasoline-swilling Amy Winehouse (Nicole Parker); a smart-mouth pregnant teenager name Junie (Crista Flanagan); those cute, singing Chipmunks (now turned rabid); and teen idol Hannah Montana (Flanagan), [...]
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NEW THIS WEEK Disaster Movie What do a saber-toothed, gasoline-swilling Amy Winehouse (Nicole Parker); a smart-mouth pregnant teenager name Junie (Crista Flanagan); those cute, singing Chipmunks (now turned rabid); and teen idol Hannah Montana (Flanagan), [...]
Book Marks
By Richard Labonte "So Many Ways to Sleep Badly," by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. City Lights Books, 252 pages, $14.95 paper. The unnamed narrator of this fabulously flamboyant novel turns tricks for money and, on client-free [...]
Horoscopes: Hang out and schmooze, Capricorn!
By Jack Fertig QScopes Is everybody fabulous? Mercury, Venus, and Mars are together in Libra, drawing out everyone's social side, lighting up parties, and drawing us to the arts. All three planets are trine to [...]
Mich. gays organize for Obama
Between The Lines Newspaper, Sept. 11, 2008 FERNDALE - Dave Noble is on a mission. He is driven to get LGBT voters to come out strong for Barack Obama, and he is concentrating his efforts [...]
Transgender leader Rachel Crandall to receive prestigeous community award
by Jessica Carreras Just over ten years ago, Rachel Crandall was married, living as a man and unhappy. Then, she made the choice to be true to herself and lost her marriage, her job, her [...]
Hamtramck discrimination ordinance battle rages on
by Jessica Carreras The heated fight over the anti-discrimination ordinance in Hamtramck continues, leaving the city's LGBT community in uncertainty as to whether or not they will be protected come November. The ordinance was originally [...]
Project Light joins prevention walk to raise awareness about LGBT youth suicide
by Jessica Carreras One in every three LGBT youth will attempt or commit suicide, and Kalamazoo-based nonprofit organization Project Light intends to do something about it. That's why just over a year ago, Director Adam [...]
Local United Way chapter gives $135 thousand grant to Affirmations for youth programming
Last week, the United Way for Southeastern Michigan announced it would be giving close to $135,000 over a three-year period to Affirmations in a grant to support its nationally-acclaimed Youth Services Program. Since moving into [...]
Ryan White’s mother to speak at Bay City AIDS walk
by Jessica Carreras The Bay City AIDS Walk, part of AIDS Walk Michigan, will welcome a very special guest to their area in the 24 hours leading up to their fundraising event on Sept. 27: [...]
Republican National Convention culture wars
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service Several political pundits this week say the 2008 Republican National Convention launched a second "cultural war," but it is unclear, as yet, just how much a target the LGBT [...]
Log Cabins endorse McCain, Palin ticket
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The Log Cabin Republicans group announced Tuesday that it is endorsing Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and a top McCain campaign official showed up at the organization's "big tent" [...]
Come ‘Tie’ it on
BIRMINGHAM - Ties Like Me, the premier LGBT business networking group is hosting their 2nd Annual Business Expo on Wednesday, Sept. 17 from 5 - 8 p.m. at Big Rock Reserve. From florists to upscale [...]
New photography exhibit to open at Affirmations Gallery
On Sept. 12, the newest exhibition of photos will open at the Affirmations Community Center's Pittmann-Puckett Art Gallery. The exhibit will open with a viewing from 7-9 p.m. "Gods and Goddesses: The Embracing of Self" [...]
BTL Editorial: We need to elect Obama
Unlike four long years ago, the Michigan LGBT vote is being strongly courted outloud and proud by the National Democratic party this year with the leadership of Barack Obama. Back in 2004, when we were [...]
A new ‘chapter’ begins JET’s 20th season
It seems like it was only a few short years ago that The Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company debuted. But no: The West Bloomfield-based professional theater opened its 20th season Sept. 6, and for that alone [...]
A production with permanent value at the BoarsHead
By Robert Bethune "Permanent Collection" by Thomas Gibbons, now on stage at Lansing's BoarsHead Theater, is beautifully designed to be inflammatory. Nothing stirs passionate controversy like clashing rights, and Gibbon's play accomplishes that in multiple [...]
Obama talks, McCain balks
By Mark Segal September 18, 2008 Gay History Project In this election season, the Gay History Project attempted to bring you the views of both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president â just as [...]