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, [...]
Cleveland Domestic Partnership registration to open
CLEVELAND, Ohio - On Thursday, May 7 at 8 a.m. when the doors of Cleveland City Hall open, any unmarried couples that share a residence will be able to register as domestic partners. Large numbers [...]
BREAKING: Maine to recognize marriage for same-sex couples
Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed legislation recognizing marriage equality for same-sex couples under state law Wednesday, May 6. Last week the state Senate voted 21-14 and the state House of Representatives voted 89-57 to pass [...]
Creep of the Week: Matt Barber
Ever since Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced that he is retiring, the blogosphere has been abuzz about whom President Obama will appoint to replace him. Much buzz in particular has been surrounding the names [...]
Parting Glances: Turning Sister’s other cheek
I don't know how she does it. I hadn't more than stepped one minute out of my morning ice-cold, therapeutic shower - my designer shower cap in hand - when my iPhone Big Ben Bell [...]
Political IQ: Undermining the Religious Right
by Diane Silver The ghost of Jerry Falwell must be howling as his successors absorb one body blow after another. The movement pioneered by the late cofounder of the Moral Majority isn't near collapse, but [...]
Samantha Ronson column ‘trenchant, yet entertaining’
It was terrific how you took absolutely nothing as far as access to SamRon was concerned ("Who's that girl?" by Chris Azzopardi, Between The Lines, April 30), and still turned out a sweetly sardonic piece [...]
The Dating Diet: He’s Just Not That Into Flu
By Anthony Paull Is it just me or do gay boys turn into the biggest sissies when they get sick? I mean, hello! It's just the flu; it's not the end of your entire shiny, [...]
Uncovering Columbine
We thought we knew what happened: Two teens terrorized their Colorado high school in 1999, killing 13 people. Right. Then we speculated. The killers, part of the "Trench Coat Mafia," were bullied. They were goth. [...]
Hear Me Out
Peaches, 'I Feel Cream' Who said getting older meant a lower libido? At 40, Peaches' is inflated to the point of being one balloon away from a kid's birthday party. "I Feel Cream," the Toronto [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
by Romeo San Vicente Lucy Lawless to imprison "Spartacus" A perfect storm of gay TV is on the horizon, thanks to ancient Rome and Xena. The upcoming Starz series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" was already [...]
UConn athletes have class
By Dan Woog The OutField Sports fans know the University of Connecticut for its men's and women's basketball teams. It's a fine academic institution too. But one day soon it may be famous for its [...]
A queer ‘Idol’?
Maybe Adam Lambert's already packed his bags - and eyeliner - last night (at press time he was still chugging along in the competition), leaving Kris Allen and Danny Gokey to duke it out on [...]
You need down time, Gemini!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes The Sun in Taurus leads us to sensuality and stubbornness. The latter is being shot to hell by aspects from Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Find ways in which flexibility and [...]
Straight Women, Gay Roles
Q Puzzle Across 1 Porter's regretful miss 5 Pulls out one's shooter 10 Star of "Hello, Dalai"? 14 Neighbor of Ida. 15 Jazzman Blake 16 Clay Aiken was almost one 17 2006 Judi Dench film [...]
Kyle Holton goes to war – and starts a theater
DETROIT - From the outside, the Russell Industrial Center on Detroit's east side seems to mirror much of Detroit's once-fabulous, but now-decaying manufacturing infrastructure. But a walk through the main gate and onto the complex [...]
Affirmations’ Youth Program under construction
Affirmations' youth program is in the midst of a significant re-structuring in an effort to best meet the needs of today's LGBTQ youth. The currently leaderless section of Ferndale's LGBT community center, and all its [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Nicholas Kobel is a 20-year-old is from Tawas City, a small town on the east coast of Michigan, about 50 miles north of Saginaw. Though he has since begun college and will [...]
Rock and rah rah for FernCare
FernCare Free Medical Clinic is holding another FernCare(s) for Music fundraiser from 7 p.m.-2 a.m. on May 16. The event will be held at New Way Bar, located at 23130 Woodward Ave. in Ferndale. FernCare [...]
Foundation looking for Ferndale grant proposals
Last week, the Ferndale Community Foundation announced the beginning of its 2009 solicitation for grant proposals. The invitation is open to any area non-profit organization. The Ferndale Community Foundation is a non-profit 501(3)c volunteer organization [...]
Substance abuse recovery program targets neglected demographic
DETROIT - It's a program for a population that is often dismissed and disenfranchised. Since 2006, Guiding Light Sober Living has been providing recovery services for MSMs who are HIV-positive or at risk for HIV. [...]
British Muslims think gay sex is immoral
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A new Gallup poll of Muslims in the United Kingdom, Germany and France found that not one of 1,001 Muslims questioned in the UK thinks gay sex is morally [...]
Lesbian named British national poet laureate
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Queen Elizabeth II named openly lesbian Carol Ann Duffy as Britain's national poet laureate on May 1. She is also the first woman to hold the post. The job [...]
Gays march in Kirov, Russia
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A group of GLBT people marched in Kirov, Russia, May 3 to protest discrimination in the workplace. Organizers said it was "the first action of LGBTs in Kirov." They [...]
Phelpses, Michael Savage banned from UK
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A Home Office list of people banned from entering the United Kingdom includes U.S. anti-gay activists Fred Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper, as well as U.S. talk radio host Michael [...]
COE calls on Serbia to protect GLBT people
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in late April strongly urged Serbia to protect GLBT people. "We reiterate our call to the authorities to condemn and investigate [...]
Spanish gay man jailed under Franco regime compensated
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A Spanish gay man who spent 94 days in prison during the Franco era for allegedly posing a danger to society has become the first such victim to be [...]
St. Petersburg activists stage ‘silent flash mob’
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs About 70 GLBT activists staged a "silent flash mob" on Nevsky Prospekt, in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 25. Members of the group Coming Out and the Russian LGBT Network [...]
Same-sex marriages begin in Sweden
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Sweden's new law allowing gay couples to marry took effect May 1. "It means that our love is worth the same as everybody else's," said Alf Karlsson who, in [...]
Taking it to the next level
by Jessica Carreras A new leader has taken the helm at the Jewish Gay Network of Michigan, and her plans for the future are big. Kim Phillips-Knope, who was hired as the organization's first-ever paid [...]
New England nears regional marriage equality
by Lisa Keen The momentum for allowing gay couples to obtain marriage licenses surged dramatically again last week with two more state legislatures passing bills to provide for such equality, one of those governors immediately [...]
Photos deemed ‘too sexual’ for Affirmations
by Jessica Carreras Debate has erupted over the postponement - or possible cancellation - of an exhibit scheduled to open Friday, May 15 at the Affirmations Pittmann-Puckett Art Gallery. The body of work by local [...]
Art is meant to provoke, so don’t censor it
The LGBT community has long dealt with issues of censorship and hiding who they are. Don't talk about your sexuality. Don't dress like a woman when you are born a man. Don't kiss your girlfriend [...]
Prentiss’ ‘Glass’ is more than half full
By D. A. Blackburn The administrators at Lansing's BoarsHead Theater know how to capitalize when they find a winning formula, and their latest production, "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams, is proof positive. Taking a [...]
Songs aren’t the only victims in ‘Karaoke’
By D. A. Blackburn In my travels as a theater critic, there's an unusual phenomenon I've had the displeasure of encountering only twice: sitting in an audience that is outnumbered by a show's cast. In [...]
An Everyman’s journey through 18 songs
Alone in our beds in the dark of night, thoughts of past loves and losses, fears and dreams often drift in and out of our consciousness. And like the wrinkled sheets and fluff-less pillows scattered [...]
Michigan Bias-crime protections bill for sexual orientation, gender identity clears committee
LANSING -- On May 13 after nearly an hour and half of testimony, the Michigan House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send a two-bill package on bias crimes to the House floor for [...]
Michigan Bias crime legislation vote put off by state House
filed 5/15/09 LANSING -- Democratic leaders in the state House Thursday, put off any action on bias crime legislation which was passed onto them for action by the House Judiciary Committee the day before. The [...]