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, [...]
Outings: Ice Cream Social for PFLAG
Love ice cream? Care about the LGBT community? Then the Genessee County chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays has the event for you. At 12 p.m. Aug. 23, the group is holding [...]
Editor’s Pick: Traverse City Wine and Art Festival
The Traverse City area is filled with wonderful wineries. Come get a taste of what they have to offer at the Traverse City Wine and Art Festival from 5-10 p.m. Aug. 22. Sponsored by the [...]
Dear Jody: Partner caught in sex sting
Partner caught in sex sting Q: I can't tell you how upset I am, Jody. My partner, "Dan," and I have been together for 10 and a half years. I had the shock of my [...]
Queeries: The Great Oral Sex Dilemma, Swallow or Spit?
By Steven Petrow The Great Oral Sex Dilemma: Swallow or Spit? What do you do when a guy unloads in your mouth? It's an age-old predicament and one with no simple answer. Of course, it [...]
SOS! TOM-TOP QT.Com
Parting Glances I don't look gay. I don't act gay. Ever since I discovered at age six that I was "that way" - odd, different, light in my loafers - I've made it a badge [...]
S/he said: Rev. Jerry Prevo, President Barack Obama, Brad Pitt
compiled by Howard Israel "I am happy to see that the mayor realizes that the majority of the people of Anchorage do not feel that this is a necessary ordinance, which it is not. This [...]
Creep of the Week: Nassau County School Board
In many places across the country, Gay-Straight Alliances are old news. I don't mean "old news" as in "not needed," I mean "old news" in that they hardly raise an eyebrow anymore. Sometimes being a [...]
Dar to be different
If ever a boundary, Dar Williams has crossed it. She's turned interfaith into a pop song - the mid-'90s single "The Christians and the Pagans" - and addressed her tomboy childhood on "When I Was [...]
Soul singer turns us on, Sugarland does live covers
Hear Me Out Ledisi, 'Turn Me Loose' Turning this - Ledisi's third LP on Verve Music - loose would be a big no-no. There are oodles of reasons why this New Orleans-bred soul-stress nabbed a [...]
The ‘American’ Dream
By Joshua Miller 'American Idol Live! Tour 2009' 7 p.m. Aug. 26 The Palace of Auburn Hills 3 Championship Drive, Auburn Hills $40.50-$69.50 Every TV you turn on, every magazine you read and everywhere [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Jane and Mulcahy 'Give 'Em Hell' While he's currently starring as a well-endowed-but-down-on-his-luck basketball coach on HBO's "Hung," Thomas Jane will soon be seen wielding another weapon entirely in the violent [...]
Aim strategically, Taurus!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury lining up with Saturn in Virgo brings everyone toward more serious, critical thought, but aspecting Venus in Cancer draws the focus to family integrity. Jupiter and Eris are adding [...]
Just As He Was
Across 1 Foam at the mouth 5 A cock does it 10 Early AIDS play 14 Double reed instrument 15 The sound of music? 16 Skimpy skirt 17 E. Lynn Harris novel about the gay [...]
Gay Soccer: The World’s Sport
By Dan Woog The OutField Though soccer is the world's most popular sport - and the International Gay and Lesbian Football (Soccer) Association boasts more than 80 teams in over 20 countries - this year's [...]
Fall health calendar
Don't wait for health to come to you this fall. Find workshops, support groups, sporting events, walks and more for the LGBT community - wherever you are in Michigan. Alpena Out of the Darkness Walk [...]
Front Runners big fundraisers
By Caitlin M. Foyt GRAND RAPIDS - It's difficult getting yourself motivated to exercise. That's why the experts often recommend a workout buddy - a friend who relies on you to show up every day, [...]
Confronting health disparities among LGBT youth
BOSTON, Mass. - Research indicates that the social stigma that surrounds LGBT teens leads to a variety of health risks such as substance use, risky sexual behaviors, eating disorders, suicidal ideation and victimization. An editorial [...]
Quit – with some help from Affirmations
FERNDALE - Affirmations is now offering free nicotine patches and smoking cessation counseling for individuals making a commitment to go smoke free in their lives. The nicotine patches were provided by the Michigan Department of [...]
Out at the doc?
by Jessica Carreras Torii Hamilton of Auburn Hills has always been out to her doctor - and sees it as a necessity more than a choice. "I was planning to tell him anyway just because [...]
The light is back on
KALAMAZOO - The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention will be hosting Out of the Darkness Community Walks throughout September and October in locations across the United States. The events aim to raise awareness of depression [...]
Top 10 Things Gay Men Should Discuss with their Healthcare Provider
From GLMA,(Gay & Lesbian Medical Association, http://www.glma.org) 1. HIV/AIDS, Safe Sex That men who have sex with men are at an increased risk of HIV infection is well known, but the effectiveness of safe sex [...]
Top 10 things lesbians should discuss with their healthcare provider
Created by GLMA (Gay & Lesbian Mediacal Association,http://www.glma.org) 1. Breast Cancer Lesbians have the richest concentration of risk factors for breast cancer than any subset of women in the world. Combine this with the fact [...]
Top 10 Things Transgender Persons Should Discuss with their Healthcare Provider
1. Access to Health Care Transgender persons are often reluctant to seek medical care through a traditional provider-patient relationship. Some are even turned away by providers. A doctor who refuses to treat a trans person [...]
Viewpoint: LGBTs must join health care debate
By Jennifer Vanasco Health care is a gay issue. It is a transgender issue. It is a lesbian issue. But you wouldn't know it from reading the mainstream media. The national debate on health care [...]
Letters to the Editor
'RENT' was a success I attended the opening night of RENT at state fairgrounds and it is excellent ("It finally pays to 'Rent,'" BTL July 16). The youth did an amazing job and no jitters. [...]
Argentine attorney general supports same-sex marriage
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Argentine Attorney General Esteban Righi recommended Aug. 8 that Congress consider legalizing same-sex marriage, saying the nation can't ignore gay people's "reality." Righi's determination came in a brief filed [...]
Croatia condemned for homophobic textbooks
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The European Committee of Social Rights, which monitors compliance with the Council of Europe's European Social Charter, ruled Aug. 11 that Croatia's sex education curriculum discriminates on the basis [...]
Gays march for marriage in Dublin
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Some 5,000 people marched from Dublin City Hall to the Justice Department on Aug. 9 demanding that the Irish government abandon a proposed civil partnership bill and instead legalize [...]
Many Israelis think homosexuality is perverse
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A Haaretz-Dialog poll has found that 46 percent of Israelis "see homosexuality as a perversion." Forty-two percent don't see it that way and 12 percent don't know what they [...]
Moscow gay bar raided
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Moscow gay bar Body & Soul was raided Aug. 7 by police, prosecutors, anti-drug officers and the prefect of Moscow's Northern Administrative District, Oleg Mitvol. They were accompanied [...]
Polish woman punished for anti-gay slurs
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A Polish court has ordered a woman to pay her gay neighbor $5,200 for repeatedly calling him a "fag" ("pedal") in public, local media reported. The verbal assaults injured [...]
Fewer UK gays, lesbians tie the knot in 2008
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Same-sex couples formed 7,169 civil partnerships - 3,824 male and 3,345 female - in the United Kingdom in 2008, a decline of 18 percent compared with 2007, the Office [...]
Affirmations surpasses halfway mark for HOPE Fund Challenge
FERNDALE, Mich. - Affirmations community center in Ferndale has raised over half of the funds needed to complete the HOPE Fund challenge. The HOPE Fund has pledged $25,000, challenging the organization to raise an additional [...]
Between Ourselves
by Jessica Carreras Leo Romo Leo Romo of Saginaw is heavily involved with the local LGBT community in his area. From working with PFLAG to advising Perceptions to just getting the word out about [...]
Ordinance battle in Jackson
By Caitlin M. Foyt JACKSON, Mich. - People of the city of Jackson will just have to continue to wait for full protection from bias in areas of housing and employment. The anti-discrimination ordinance aimed [...]
Wayne Law School to host Women in the Law panel
Being successful in law school and in one's legal career is no easy feat. Individuals must be focused, determined and dedicated to the study of law - and they must succeed in balancing the demands [...]
Room for everyone
by Jessica Carreras When Between The Lines calls new Michigan AIDS Coalition CEO Helen Hicks, she is working from home, watching her youngest son, Anthony. Though she now heads up one of the largest HIV/AIDS [...]
Pride in the Park
When Rachel Crandall and Susan Crocker started Transgender Michigan in 1997, they began with a vision of a world where transpeople could be themselves while feeling completely safe, welcome and not alone. Last year, for [...]
DOJ acknowledges DOMA discriminates
By Lisa Keen In a dramatic turnaround, a brief filed by the U.S. Department of Justice Aug. 17 states emphatically that the Obama administration "does not support DOMA as a matter of policy, believes that [...]
Groups split on Prop. 8 repeal timing
by Rex Wockner Equality California said Aug. 12 that it does not support returning to the ballot to try to repeal Proposition 8 until 2012. Other groups are preparing for a 2010 ballot fight. They [...]
Good health – for you and your community
Between The Lines wants to wish Michigan's LGBT community a happy, healthy and politically active fall and winter. This is why, in our Fall 2009 Health and Wellness Guide, we urge you to not only [...]
The buzz is building for The Wilde Awards
By BTL Staff It's hard to believe, but The Ninth Annual Wilde Awards are less than a week away. Yes, the best productions and performances of Southeast and Mid-Michigan's 2008-09 professional theater season will be [...]
Rain rarely stops (except for laughs)
Dyan Bailey fights with Tommy Simon, while Pete Jacokes and Jeff Mansk watch in a scene from 'Douche Douche Bhang Bhang' Photo: SMyers With a title that makes newspaper editors nervous, one might assume [...]
A gender-bent Albee examines marriage
A gender-bent adaptation of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is part of art4artillery's 'The Marriage Play(z) by Edward Albee' at Detroit's Russell Industrial Center beginning Aug. 21. After the personal and professional success of [...]