Dear Jody: Dating my friend’s ex
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 [...]
‘Dove’ Tale
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: ‘Idol’ frontrunner finds her voice, Mary J. Blige weaker with ‘Stronger’
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 [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
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 [...]
Sharpen your brain, Aquarius!
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. [...]
Washington Woman
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 [...]
A new decade for GLBT sports
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" [...]
Magenta’s beautiful music sings sad tune
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 [...]
Abreact wishes all a (belated) ‘Happy Season’
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 [...]
The smash hit ‘Girls Night: The Musical’ Coming to Wharton Center
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 [...]
Celebrating the Winter Olympics and WinterPride in Vancouver and Whistler
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 [...]
Gay couple marries in Argentina
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 [...]
Belarusian activists fined for picket at Iranian Embassy
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 [...]
Georgian gay group raided, gay leader held for two weeks
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 [...]
Christmas Eve homosexuality arrests in Senegal
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 [...]
Between Ourselves
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, [...]
The 2010 push
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 [...]
MAC needs more members
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 [...]
The LGBTs of health care
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 [...]
WIHAN asks for aid
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, [...]
HIV travel ban fully lifted
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 [...]
English professor found stabbed to death in home
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 [...]
Obama makes first trans appointments
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 [...]
Making resolutions we can keep
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 [...]
Creep of the Week: Karl Rove
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 [...]
Parting Glances: Pete’s, Jon & the JWs
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 [...]
S/he said: Karl Rove, Desmond Tutu
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 [...]
Viewpoint: We really were invited to the White House. Really!
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 [...]
With NJ Senate rejection, marriage fight turns to courts
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 [...]
Administration adds gender identity to Equal Employment Opportunity policies
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 [...]
Health care bill’s LGBT provisions at risk
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 [...]