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Dating my friend's ex Q: I have a question for you, but first let me tell you what happened. I have had a good friend for as long as I can remember; his name is [...]
Dating my friend's ex Q: I have a question for you, but first let me tell you what happened. I have had a good friend for as long as I can remember; his name is [...]
Music is as much a part of Barb Barton as her surroundings on the cover of her sixth album. Nestled in a woodsy area with a guitar slung over her shoulder, the Lansing musician spends [...]
Hear Me Out Katharine McPhee, 'Unbroken' Now a blonde, you wouldn't recognize the former "Idol" frontrunner on the cover of her second album. That's probably the point. After an awful, R&B-leaned 2007 debut bombed and [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Taylor Lautner. Photo: Summit Entertainment Bryan Singer in for hot 'X-Men' prequel Of all the movers and shakers in Hollywood, no one likes to keep more projects in development than [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Sun and Venus lining up in Capricorn should point to ways we can mature more gracefully, and otherwise find value in our experiences to help build a more solid future. [...]
Across 1 Have sex with 5 Golfer's transport 9 Groups that sound like intercourse? 14 Look at a hottie in a bar 15 Dairy case buy 16 "Maurice" director James 17 Fairy-tale monster 18 Kind [...]
By Dan Woog The OutField As one decade ends and another begins, The OutField pauses to survey the GLBT sports world. We've come a long way, baby, from the days when the term "gay athlete" [...]
Kevin Young and Anne Marie Damman star in Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company's production of "The Last Five Years." Photo: Charles Nowak It's fairly unusual for a musical - or any stage production, for that [...]
By D. A. Blackburn All over town the decorations are coming down, unwanted gifts are being returned and people are relegating Christmas 2009 to the annals of memory. But at Detroit's Abreact Performance Space, the [...]
EAST LANSING - Entertainment Events will present the U.S. premiere tour of the U.K. smash hit "Girls Night: The Musical" at 8 p.m. Jan. 8 and at 2 and 8 p.m. Jan. 9 at Wharton [...]
By Andrew Collins Out of Town British Columbia's star city, Vancouver, and most famous ski town, Whistler, are hosting the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in early 2010, and from a GLBT perspective this is an [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A gay male couple legally married in Argentina Dec. 28. Activists Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Di Bello tied the knot at a registry office in Ushuaia, capital of [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Three members of GayBelarus were fined a total of about $467 Dec. 23 for picketing the Iranian Embassy in Minsk to protest Iran's treatment of gay people. Sergey Androsenko [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The gay group Inclusive Foundation was raided by police in Tbilisi, Georgia, Dec. 15 and the organization's leader, Paata Sabelashvili, was jailed for two weeks. Gay activists in Western [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Twenty-four men were arrested at a house in Saly, Senegal, on Christmas Eve for "homosexual activities," local media said. They were held overnight and may face prosecution. Evidence collected [...]
by Jessica Carreras Ryan Oliver is the youth program coordinator at Affirmations, and is a firm advocate for LGBT rights. Oliver, who currently lives in Highland Park, was also involved in the start-up of GenderSpark, [...]
by Jessica Carreras On Jan. 13, the Michigan Congress is back in session. And with the first meeting of the state House of Representatives and Senate comes the midway point for current bills attempting to [...]
The Multicultural Advisory Committee of the Affirmations LGBT community center has announced that it is looking to recruit new members. Specifically, the group is looking for individuals with a passion for diversity and inclusion looking [...]
by Eric Radar Speak Out Health care is a gay civil rights issue. With all of the heat that has been generated in the health care debate over the past several months, it is easy [...]
The Washtenaw Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network has put out a call for financial assistance in continuing its work. WIHAN works throughout the county to provide various types of assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS, including driving, [...]
By Bob Roehr The U.S. HIV travel and immigration ban was officially lifted on Jan. 4, 22 years after first going into effect. South Korea also lifted its HIV ban on the same day, leaving [...]
by BTL staff The late Don Belton. INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana University and former University of Michigan professor was stabbed to death in his Bloomington home Dec. 27 in an attack that police said [...]
By Lisa Keen Amanda Simpson starts work this week as one of the first presidentially appointed transgender persons to the executive branch of any administration. The honor as the first belongs to Dylan Orr, a [...]
In our last issue of 2009, Between The Lines took readers on a trip down memory lane through the last decade in Michigan's LGBT community. But the time for reminiscing is over. Now, we have [...]
How long does a marriage have to last before it's considered "traditional" to Karl Rove? Well, three years if you're talking about his first marriage. Twenty-four if you're talking about his second. Karl "ban gay [...]
As 2009 frantically ticks itself into soap opera eternity - good riddance, Butch! - I'm having a pleasant wind-down dinner with artist Jon Strand at Pete's Place, Ferndale. Well-known restauranteur Peter Mel's popular spot is [...]
Compiled by Howard Israel "Karl Rove is an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, citing '5,000 years of understanding the institution of marriage' as his justification. He also famously engineered multiple referenda to incorporate a ban [...]
I'm sure on Sunday, Dec. 20 at some non-affirming church somewhere in Washington, D.C., some hellfire-and-brimstone minister blamed the 16 inches of snow blanketing the nation's capital on the invitation of some 50-plus members of [...]
By Chuck Colbert TRENTON, N. J. - Even before the votes were tallied Thursday afternoon in the New Jersey Senate on a marriage equality bill, advocates of the bill knew they would fall short, according [...]
BTL Staff WASHINGTON - Beginning in 2010, the Obama administration, through the Office of Personnel Management, has started to list gender identity among the classes protected by federal Equal Employment Opportunity policies. By including gender [...]
By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON, D.C. ,Aei News on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning suggested there was little hope for keeping pro-LGBT provisions in the health care reform legislation Congress hopes to pass. But Rep. Barney Frank [...]