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, [...]
Dear Jody: Find a new job first?
Q: My mom and I are having a big argument. I am writing to you because you seem to be level-headed and I respect your opinion. My mom and I are fighting about whether I [...]
Cocktail Chatter: The Return of the Screw
by Ed Sikov Dan and I opened our house in Fire Island Pines in March, when it was still frigid. We drank Jamesons for a few weeks, no ice. (You know it's cold when Dan [...]
Kylie Queers It Up
That sex-talk makes Kylie Minogue shy isn't something anyone who's seen her hoisted to the top of an orgy in her video for "All the Lovers" would think about the ever-sweet Aussie. But you're probably [...]
Hear Me Out: Scissor Sisters’ sweet, slutty third album. Plus: Robyn keeps the comeback hits coming
Scissor Sisters, 'Night Work' Since rolling out the high-camp glam on their six-year-old debut, Scissor Sisters have been irresistibly cheeky. Seriously - check out that clenched ass close-up on the cover of the New York [...]
Michigan-shot series finds home on Logo
If you were vacationing at Campit Resort in Saugatuck two summers ago, you might remember a pink trailer. With flamingos. And a film crew? The gay getaway hot-spot was the site for the reality show [...]
Showgirls: 15 Years Later
I only remember tits, er, bits and pieces of "Showgirls." Some ass there, some boobs here, while watching it through non-subscriber HBO static. Little gay 12-year-old me hadn't even hit puberty, but it was already [...]
A Single Man
Tom Ford's heartbreakingly poetic film debut "A Single Man," a cinematic high-point of this year now available on DVD, has almost nothing to do with being gay. It does, however, have everything to do with [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Will Heather Matarazzo go Helter Skelter? It's been more than 40 years since members of the Charles Manson "family" committed the horrifying Tate/LaBianca murders, but it's a story that continues to [...]
Q Scopes: It’s good to talk, Aquarius!
By Jack Fertig With outer planets hanging out near the cusps, Mercury entering Leo and Venus into Virgo kick off a lot of issues. Being cute, outspoken and constructively critical (let's hope!) will have broad [...]
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Across 1 Dumbledore might cast one 6 Butt 9 Mixed-up fruit 14 One to ten, e.g. 15 Maugham's "Cakes and ___ " 16 Woodworker's tool 17 Playful mammal 18 Hansberry's "A Raisin in the ___ [...]
The OutField: Hudson Taylor wrestles for gay rights
By Dan Woog Hudson Taylor - one of the top 197-pound college wrestlers in the country - chastises his University of Maryland teammates whenever they use anti-gay language. He wrestled with a Human Rights Campaign [...]
ACT Trilogy: Parting is such sweet sorrow
By D. A. Blackburn The Force (of friendship) takes center stage in Joseph Zettelmaier's "The All Childish Things Trilogy," but never more than in the final installment. And while initiated audiences may think they've got [...]
Those dirty rotten scoundrels in Saugatuck!
By Bridgette M. Redman I'd like to file a complaint against Saugatuck's Mason Street Warehouse. I went to their opening night performance of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and discovered that they're simply not following the rules. [...]
Seasoned vets return for anniversary show
Once upon a time, and not too many years ago at that, theatergoers couldn't escape the musical "I Do! I Do!" by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Budget-conscious producers and dinner theater operators alike were [...]
High-flying farce at The Purple Rose
By Martin F. Kohn While airplanes are critical to its plot, the early 1960s farce "Boeing-Boeing" must pack sufficient boing! or neither play nor title will realize its humorous potential. And yes, the title was [...]
Exploring Coastal Maine
by Andrew Collins Maine's classically quaint seaside towns and breezy beaches seem tailor-made for a relaxing vacation and sure enough, the state's coastal sections are invaded by pleasure seekers all summer. Prestigious, blue-blood retreats like [...]
Lesbian Icelandic prime minister gets married
by Rex Wockner International News Openly lesbian Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurardottir got married to her partner, writer Jonina Leosdottir, on June 27, when the nation's law legalizing same-sex marriage took effect. Since the couple [...]
Ireland passes civil-partnership law
by Rex Wockner International News The lower house of Ireland's parliament passed a civil-partnership bill for same-sex couples July 1. It is expected to pass the upper house easily and take effect early next year. [...]
Slovenian gay venue vandalized
by Rex Wockner International News The gay/lesbian bar Cafe Open in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was vandalized twice in late June. Local activists said a Molotov cocktail was placed at the entrance and that the building was [...]
LGBTs march in Sofia, Helsinki
by Rex Wockner International News Several hundred people marched in the third gay pride parade in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 26, under protection of hundreds of police officers. Anti-gay protesters rallied earlier in the day [...]
Marchers arrested at banned St. Petersburg, Russia, pride parade
by Rex Wockner International News Twenty-five gays and lesbians staged a pride parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 26 although the city government had banned the march. Police broke up the gathering and arrested [...]
Breakdown: Gay & aging by the numbers
Eighteen percent of Michigan's population is currently over 60. By 2030, seniors will number 1 in 4 in the state. Over 60 percent of today's adult population either is or expects to become a family [...]
Golden Gays
by Jessica Carreras Alice McKeage is painting her garage. It's just one of the many projects she hopes to complete now that she has finally retired from Ford Motor Company, where she founded the company's [...]
A Penny For Her Thoughts: Bringing LGBT aging to Michigan’s forefront
by Penny Gardner We can do something. A door is cracked open. "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender," "Sexual orientation" - the actual words are in the State Plan on Services to Michigan's Older Adults, Fiscal [...]
JGN, conservative synagogue to host LGBT conversation
The Jewish Gay Network of Michigan and Congregation Beth Ahm, a Conservative synagogue in West Bloomfield, will co-host "Being Jewish, Being Gay: A Conversation" at 7:30 p.m. July 15, at Congregation Beth Ahm, located at [...]
Between Ourselves: Charles Alexander
by Jessica Carreras Artist, activist, Detroiter - Charles Alexander wears many hats in Michigan's LGBT community. At age 74, the lifelong artist regularly attends gay events and is curator of Affirmations' Pittmann-Puckett Art Gallery. 1) [...]
Speakout: Where they stand
by Eric W. Rader Though the campaign for governor of Michigan has been underway for almost two years, most voters are only now beginning to pay attention. However, before citizens decide whom they want to [...]
Arcus releases research on relationship between black, LGBT communities
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On June 22, the Arcus Foundation hosted a panel discussion at the Center for American Progress focused on fostering a more meaningful and strategic relationship between the LGBT and black communities. Panelists [...]
Wanda Sykes visits Ruth Ellis Center
HIGHLAND PARK - Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes took time out of her busy schedule while touring in Detroit on June 12 to visit with residents, youth, alumni and employees of Ruth Ellis Center. Sykes [...]
Ruth Ellis Center Receives Grant from the Metro Health Foundation
HIGHLAND PARK - Ruth Ellis Center, one of the nation's three agencies dedicated to homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth, is receiving a $10,000 grant from the Metro Health Foundation to support a Health Care Navigator [...]
Genesee PFLAG to host picnic
FLINT - Genesee County PFLAG will hold a picnic as part of its 2-5 p.m. July 11 meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Flint, located at 2474 S. Ballenger Highway. The county chapter will [...]
Reward offered in Royal Oak murder case
Justice For Jeremy has announced that they are now offering a cash reward in the amount of $5,000 in exchange for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the murder of Jeremy Brent [...]
Pride around the country
NEW YORK - Thousands of marchers and a rainbow of floats filled the streets of New York and other U.S. cities on June 27 as people celebrated gay Pride, part of a weekend of events [...]
Hundreds attend White House Pride reception
By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON, D.C. - It was not exactly the same rousing, sustained cheer of last year that greeted President Barack Obama as he entered the East Room on the evening of June 22 [...]
American Lung Assn. releases LGBT tobacco use report
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Released June 29, the American Lung Association's latest health disparity report, Smoking Out a Deadly Threat: Tobacco Use in the LGBT Community, examines the trend of higher tobacco use among the LGBT [...]
Washington public disclosure law upheld by highest court
by Lisa Keen WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a ruling hailed by gay activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 upheld a law that requires public disclosure of the names of people who signed a [...]
We’re here! We’re queer! We’re senior!
There's a trend happening in our community right under our noses, though most of us probably don't even see it: We're getting older as a population, and by 2030, one in every four of us [...]
Creep of the Week: Bryan Fischer
You know, it's really a shame that so many gays and lesbians spend so much time in closets when really it's the bedroom they aren't supposed to come out of. Granted, that's still not a [...]
Parting Glances: Rubbing Peter to lay Paul(a)
It's crossed my mind - what with the purported success of ex-gay outreach ministries - there has been no attempt at X-ing out bisexuals, T persons, or asexuals. Someone is being, in my humble opinion, [...]
S/he said: Androgyny, bisexuality and Father’s Day
compiled by Howard Israel "Coming out as bisexual is a safe thing for a woman to do. For a woman to say she is bisexual today brings about as much stigma as saying she had [...]
The Gay Moralist: Why Weddings?
by John Corvino I'm at a wedding for a same-sex couple, in the chapel anteroom before the service, and the grooms are sweating profusely. It's not because they're nervous. It's because they're wearing black wool [...]
Viewpoint: Acting Like Winners
by Richard J. Rosendall This Viewpoint originally ran in Bay Windows, a New England-based LGBT newspaper. The LGBT community has a long, hot summer ahead. The last election put avowed allies at both ends of [...]
Same-sex marriage victory: Federal judge rules DOMA “unconstitutional”
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service BOSTON - In an enormous victory for same-sex marriage, a federal judge in Boston Thursday, July 8, ruled - in two separate lawsuits - that a critical part of [...]