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, [...]
Creep of the Week: Peter LaBarbera
The topic of health care is on everyone's lips, and Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, "a group dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda," is no exception. Granted, most folks are [...]
Parting Glances: But not on the hole
October 11 - Coming Out Day - will roll around this year with challenges from a new organization for ex-gays and their therapists: Parents & Friends Advocating Reparative Religion. Like it or not, the LGBT [...]
The National Pratfall
By Diane Silver Political IQ An LGBT march on Washington should be a great idea. It should energize the pro-equality community and rally the nation. It should move the president and push Congress into repealing [...]
Viewpoint: Remembering E. Lynn
It was early 1995. I was living in Miami and taking a leisurely perusal through the bookshelves of Lambda Passages on Biscayne Boulevard, looking for books with black faces on the cover. There were few. [...]
Book Marks
by Richard Labonte "The Show That Smells," by Derek McCormack. Akashic Books/Little House on the Bowery, 112 pages, $15.95 paper. This tenth title in a sublime literary imprint, curated smartly by Dennis Cooper for Akashic, [...]
Breaking from the ‘Bible’
By Peter Galvin Diane Birch hung out with a lot of gay people when she was younger, and 'it was so liberating for me to be accepted for who I was.' Diane Birch may [...]
Thank you for being a friend
By Rohin Guha Behind every formidable LGBT television hero is their straight ally. No, not someone whiny and histrionic like Grace Adler. These are unlikely allies - you wouldn't peg them to frequent the company [...]
Still breathing
Sia is the friend you never knew. Lexapro, butt sex, compulsively lying - she doesn't even know us, and we heard it all, oftentimes laced with thunderous bursts of shrill laughter. It's way cute. Best [...]
Finally ‘Home’
By Andrea Bonaventura The Michigan Womyn's Festival, held every August since 1976, has created a sanctuary for thousands of women to gather on private land and proudly unleash their lesbian. For the past few years, [...]
The Wonderful World of Whisk(e)y
By Camper English Cocktail Chatter No matter where you are in the world, whisk(e)y is a pain in the butt to spell, because it is spelled differently in the other parts of the world from [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Bradley Cooper McDreamy and McSteamy hit the big McScreen For "Grey's Anatomy" fans, the fact that Garry Marshall's new ensemble romantic comedy "Valentine's Day" features both Patrick Dempsey and Eric [...]
Keep it light, Sagittarius
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury in Leo trine to Eris provokes bold partisan assertions. There's healthy room for that, but it can go overboard. Mercury then opposes Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius, leading [...]
Q Puzzle: Hot to Trot
Across 1 Sweaty guys get pinned to them 5 Sites for three women in a tub 9 It's a bust 14 Need a massage 15 Whitman's "When Lilacs ___ in the Dooryard Bloom'd" 16 Gertrude's [...]
LGBTs must defeat stigma, create dialogue to gain black acceptance
In reading "On the Same Side," I had a reaction (BTL July 23). I'm familiar with arguments typically used by black Americans to express opposition to gay civil rights. I identify as an African-American same [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Colette Beighley serves as assistant director of the LGBT Resource Center at Grand Valley State University. The Spring Lake resident and mother of a gay son started out as a PFLAG mom [...]
Courting season
by Jessica Carreras Detroit City Council primary elections happen Aug. 4, and candidates are wasting no time trying to gather supporters - including the LGBT vote. Over the past week at events for Detroit's black [...]
Pride and politics
DETROIT - Thousands of men and women gathered in Palmer Park on Saturday, July 25 for the 14th annual Hotter than July picnic celebrating black gay pride. Among them were several Detroit politicians, including Detroit [...]
MAC hires new CEO
The Michigan AIDS Coalition announced Monday, July 27, that the organization has hired a new chief executive officer. Helen Hicks comes to the agency with more than two decades of executive-level experience in the non-profit [...]
LGBT Caucus to hold meeting, march
The Michigan Democratic Party's LGBT and Allies Caucus will host a general meeting on Saturday, August 1, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Teamster Union Local 243 Hall. The hall is located at 39420 [...]
Famed author E. Lynn Harris dies
By BTL staff LOS ANGELES - Flint native and New York Times best-selling author E. Lynn Harris died suddenly of an apparent heart attack on the night of July 23 while on a business trip [...]
Ruth Ellis to be inducted into hall of fame
Ruth Ellis, along with author Edna Ferber and Native American activist Margaret Mary Chandler, have been selected for induction to The Michigan's Women's Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Michigan Women's Studies Association. The induction [...]
The Ultimate Gay Male
DETROIT - About 50 people came out July 23 for a town hall meeting called The Ultimate Gay Male: Mind, Body and Soul. The event was sponsored by Young Brothers United, Mpowerment Detroit and the [...]
Arcus gives Triangle $500,000 grant
by Jessica Carreras DETROIT - The LGBT advocacy organization the Triangle Foundation announced on July 21 that it is the recipient of a $500,000 grant from the Arcus Foundation. The Kalamazoo-based organization is one of [...]
Electing Pugh will offer more than a political win
When Charles Pugh announced his run for Detroit City Council in April of this year, we at Between The Lines admit: We got a little giddy. Not only has Pugh long been an icon in [...]
A2CT announces its 2009-10 mainstage season
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre will stage three musicals and three non-musicals, plus two Junior Theatre productions and three Studio Series shows, during its 2009-10 season. "We wanted to create a season that had some comedy [...]
There will be blood (and a few mosquitoes)
By D. A. Blackburn The record books will likely remember the summer of 2009 as one Metro Detroit's coldest, but the unseasonable chill that seems to have lingered through July has done nothing to cool [...]
A women’s world at The Furniture Factory
What two pioneering women birthed in Ann Arbor over a four-day period in August 2004 has since moved east, changed leadership, added other art forms to the mix and expanded to three weekends. But the [...]
‘No Excuses’ campaign demands equality
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Human Rights Campaign has launched a national, grassroots campaign called "No Excuses" to demand action from Congress on key issues of equality. Designed to take advantage of the congressional summer recess, [...]