by Rep. Gary Peters The April 8 issue of Between The Lines contained poignant and timely coverage on the problem of bullying in our schools. Bullying is a very real and very serious threat to [...]
LATHRUP VILLAGE - Dr. Kathryn Wright died at home April 26. An adolescent pediatrician, Wright was committed to the treatment of HIV/AIDS in teenagers in Detroit, and was the founder of The Horizons Project, a [...]
Q: I am writing you because I am a nervous wreck. My partner of 20 years lost her job recently, about six months ago. We weren't worried because we had a good savings and thought [...]
By Richard Labonte "Union Atlantic," by Adam Haslett. Doubleday, 304 pages, $26 hardcover. The great promise of Haslett's 2002 short story collection, "You Are Not a Stranger Here," is more than realized with this mesmerizing [...]
What a ride it's been for Nervous But Excited. Not just the one where the folk duo open for Ani DiFranco and become the only local band to play the 2010 Ann Arbor Folk Festival, [...]
If Melissa Etheridge's music has seemed mellow lately, she's about to show you. Back to her rock-out roots, the tough-and-gruff musician/mother/activist makes a roaring return with the uplifting "Fearless Love," her follow-up to 2007's sociopolitical-powered [...]
The world might just end for those who feed off Sia's sad songs. She's happy! And she knows it! And she's clapping her hands! In fact, she's making everyone do it on her forthcoming CD's [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Ron Weasley explodes in 'Cherry Bomb' Turn kids into movie stars and soon enough they'll want to start acting in movies about hookers and drugs to show you how grown up [...]
By Bebe Zahara Benet Wasn't it great to see me on the special episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race" this week? Well, it was wonderful to sit down with RuPaul and my season one sisters Ongina [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Saturn is in Virgo aspecting Uranus in Pisces, Neptune in Aquarius - triggering persnickety criticisms that could easily miss the mark - and Venus strong in her own sign, Taurus, [...]
Across 1 Able to bend over 6 Big swallow 10 Poke with a stick 14 Fruit sliced in 55-Across 15 "Hi" to Lorca 16 Round dance 17 Split from between the sheets 19 Fail to [...]
By Dan Woog The OutField Last November, the 21-year-old manager of a college hockey team came out as gay. Two months later, he was killed in an automobile accident. The hockey world may never be [...]
By Jenn McKee One of the best creative writing workshop teachers I ever had used a graphic that looked like car's gas gauge to address a key point in storytelling - namely, that an author [...]
In these financially troubled times, a theater risks its very existence every time it decides to be the first to produce a brand new play. Yet here in Michigan - the state hardest hit by [...]
I'm not the critic who was supposed to review "Palmer Park" at The Jewish Ensemble Theatre - and to be honest, that was by design. I grew up only a few miles west of that [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Cyprus' governmental ombudsman has urged the government to legally recognize same-sex partnerships, and Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Lazaros Savvides said April 10 that the government will "seriously" consider doing [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs An Indian languages professor at Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh, India, who was driven from his job in mid-February after a TV news crew burst into his house and [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Gay activists and the European Union criticized Macedonia April 9 for failing to include sexual orientation protections in the nation's new anti-discrimination law. An EU representative said Macedonia stands [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Philippines' Supreme Court on April 8 overruled the nation's Elections Commission and ordered that the gay group Ang Ladlad can register as a political party and run candidates [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Poland's National Museum will mount an exhibition of gay erotica from June 10 to Sept. 5. "Ars Homo Erotica" will include more than 200 works dating from antiquity to [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs An AIDS activist in Uzbekistan, psychologist Maksim Popov, reportedly has been sentenced to seven years in prison because a brochure he was distributing allegedly encouraged immoral behavior and drug [...]
As part of their year-long bicentennial celebration, the Central United Methodist Church of Detroit is bringing Grammy-nominated artist Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir to the church at 7 p.m. April 25. The church [...]
Detroit [email protected], southeastern Michigan's only community-based LGBTQ organization for and by the Latino community, is hosting an early Cinco de Mayo celebration at Affirmations with comedian Mimi Gonzalez at 7:30 p.m. May 1. Mimi Gonzalez [...]
Unbeknownst to many Americans, some areas in the Middle East actually enjoy more LGBT rights than we do in the U.S. Israel is one of those countries. However, although rights are more common, acceptance is [...]
by Jessica Carreras "Jerusalem is really a city of borders ... between east and west, between Jews and Palestinians, between secular and ultra-Orthodox, between straight and gay." These words, spoken by Sa'ar Netanel, owner of [...]
LANSING - The chair of the Senate Education Committee says efforts to pass anti-bullying legislation in the state are stalled because lawmakers can't define what bullying is - yet he expects local school districts to [...]
by Jessica Carreras John Sutton, 29, and his boyfriend Jorge, 31 had an unexpected surprise in 2009: the Ann Arbor couple began taking care of Jorge's niece, who was sent to them to have a [...]
FERNDALE - When Chazzano Coffee Roasters opened last November, it was one of the largest ribbon-cutting ceremonies in Ferndale Area Chamber of Commerce history. Over two dozen supporters crammed into the quaint coffee shop to [...]
FERNDALE - The Michigan AIDS Coalition has embraced the offer of local HIV/AIDS support group Open Arms to become a permanent part of MAC's programs. While MAC has an array of programs that serve those [...]
Have you ever wondered how religion and LGBT communities can support one another? Have you ever wanted to learn more about what LGBT-affirming faith leaders in your community are saying today? Do you want to [...]
Several Lansing-area restaurants are participating in Dining Out for Life on April 29, a fundraiser for the Lansing Area AIDS Network. As a condition of participation, several restaurants have agreed to give a generous portion [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Obama on the evening of April 15 called on the Department of Health and Human Services to order all hospitals that participate in Medicaid and Medicare to allow patients to designate [...]
by Bob Roehr The Office of National AIDS Policy released a 76-page report on April 9 but it was not the long-awaited national strategic plan on HIV/AIDS. The report, Community Ideas for Improving the Response [...]
By Lisa Keen The White House has begun floating trial balloons for candidates President Obama might appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. It's a well-known ritual, played by [...]
by Lisa Keen Tension in Washington continues to mount as protesters - namely from recently formed activist group GetEQUAL - have grown increasingly demanding of the president and Congress in regard to repealing "Don't Ask, [...]
What's more desirable: to have full equality in our laws but be hated by our neighbors, or to have social acceptance but no rights? Moreover, what comes first? "There has to be both," AL GAMEA [...]
With Supreme Court Justice John Stevens announcing his retirement, speculation about whom President Obama will nominate to replace him is running rampant. Some have even speculated that Obama's nominee could be a homo. Sen. John [...]
There's a guy named Eric Sprague, age 37, whom you're not likely - thankfully - to meet up with in a bar, restaurant, or church. To begin with he's straight. (Don't get me wrong: some [...]
compiled by Howard Israel "Two years ago, on the way to school, I noticed a piece of duct tape stuck to one child's shirt. I dropped them off at their school and said goodbye and [...]
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