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The Nov. 6, 2012 elections are fast approaching. Here at Between The Lines we are researching the candidates who will be asking for your vote. Our questionnaires to both incumbents and candidates have been mailed. [...]
Dating Diet: Words with Friends
By Anthony Paull There's one cool thing about accepting friend requests from random people you don't know - when you meet them, you already know if they're crazy. And if they're not - why waste [...]
Dear Jody: Making her mine
Q: This is pretty embarrassing to admit, but I have never really had a "normal" relationship. I mean, a relationship where two people date or have a real life together. I did have a long, [...]
Scene Check @ Rainbow Room …
1. Mickie, Christy and Lorie 2. Cory, Trish and Nick 3. Christy and Sable BTL photos: Danielle
Book Marks: I Came Out for This?, Krakow Melt, Cockeyed
by Richard Labonte "I Came Out for This?," by Lisa Gitlin. Bywater Books, 294 pages, $14.95 paper. Love comes late for Joanna Kane, who denied her sexual self well into her 40s. For a spell, [...]
Jason Mraz: He’s Ours
Jason Mraz 7 p.m. Sept. 16 EMU Convocation Center 799 N. Hewitt Road, Ypsilanti $22-$42 http://www.emutix.com Jason Mraz is all love, because even when the wordplay-toying troubadour isn't singing about it, he's spreading it. To [...]
Lady Gaga’s Monster Balls
World domination hasn't de-gayed Lady Gaga's shows. The pop queen, unlike some who've used us as a stepping stone to mainstream fame, has yet to abandon the crowd that crowned her, just as she insisted [...]
Dancing Queen
Of all the dance queens claiming the fame, Robyn's our best queer-kept secret. But the Swedish stunner wasn't always this exclusive - in the '90s, the world did exactly what her teen-pop megahit "Show Me [...]
Two eateries join Detroit Restaurant Week lineup
Detroit Restaurant Week Participants 24Grille/Westin Book Cadillac Detroit Andiamo Detroit Riverfront/GM Ren Cen Atlas Global Bistro/Midtown Caucus Club/Penobscot Building Coach Insignia/GM Ren Cen Cuisine/New Center Da Edoardo Foxtown Grille/Foxtown Detroit Seafood Market/Paradise Valley Forty-Two Degrees [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood: Stephen Collins, Sondheim, Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah
By Romeo San Vicente Stephen Collins goes gay for 'Brothers & Sisters' Stephen Collins played a Protestant clergyman and family man on the long-running "7th Heaven," but he's about to get his gay on in [...]
Q Scopes: You’re too sexy for your own good, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig As Jupiter backs into Pisces and bumps into Uranus, Venus will quincunx both, inspiring brilliant attempts at reconciliation and harmony. Then Mars follows Venus, energizing those ideals, which might help - or [...]
Geographical Orientation
Across 1 Their fruits are acorns 5 Take by force 10 Sushi ingredient 14 Buck heroine 15 Where Bruce Wayne kept Dick Grayson 16 "Like ___ not" 17 Start of a straight man's reply to [...]
Thursday is ‘Date Night’ at Go Comedy!
FERNDALE - Go Comedy! is taking dating to a new level with its fully improvised show, "Date Night," at 8 p.m Thursdays in September and October. Go Comedy! is set to tackle love and relationships [...]
Castro: I’m responsible for past anti-gay persecution
In an Aug. 31 interview with the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, Fidel Castro accepted responsibility for Cuba's persecution of homosexuals decades ago. From 1959, when the previous government was overthrown in an armed rebellion, until [...]
Conservative British MP comes out; foreign Minister denies being gay
Conservative British Member of Parliament Crispin Blunt, the government's minister for prisons and probation, announced Aug. 28 that he has separated from his wife of 20 years so he can embrace being gay. A statement [...]
California Senate condemns Ugandan bill and U.S. religious groups
The California Senate passed a resolution Aug. 30 condemning the pending bill in Uganda that would jail gays for life and punish some with the death penalty. The vote was 21-14. Introduced by Sen. Mark [...]
Tasmanian Parliament moves to recognize foreign gay unions
The Australian state of Tasmania's lower house of Parliament, the House of Assembly, voted Sept. 1 to recognize official same-sex unions and marriages that take place elsewhere in the nation or world. The measure now [...]
New South Wales passes gay adoption bill
The Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales, where Sydney is located, passed a bill to legalize adoption by same-sex couples Sept. 2. The vote was 46-42, following two days of debate. [...]
Derry sees first pride parade
Some 5,000 people took part in the first gay pride parade in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Aug. 28. The procession traveled from Waterside Railway Station to Guildhall Square. About 20 people gathered around Duke Street [...]
Kalamazoo LGBTs celebrate growth, collaborative spirit
by Jessica Carreras LGBTA Fall Welcome Picnic 1-6 p.m. Sept. 11 Kalamazoo Gay/Lesbian Resource Center, 629 Pioneer, Kalamazoo http://www.kglrc.org Kalamazoo Gay/Lesbian Resource Center Executive Director Dave Garcia has been on vacation. And it was deserved, [...]
Kalamazoo gay activist Terry Kuseske dies
by Jessica Carreras KALAMAZOO - Longtime educator, Kalamazoo City Commissioner and LGBT rights advocate Terry Kuseske passed away the afternoon of Sept. 2 after a nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 61. "Kalamazoo has [...]
A night of Wilde surprises
by Jessica Carreras The ninth annual Wilde Awards, held Sept. 1 at Detroit's Gem Theatre, were full of surprises. Aside from the usual slew of astonished and appreciative awardees, there was an unexpected appearance made [...]
The performance of a lifetime
by Jessica Carreras The biggest show of this theater season didn't win any Wilde Awards. It didn't make any money, and didn't get any rave reviews. Well, at least not from critics. But leading up [...]
Between Ourselves: Shawn Brier
by Jessica Carreras hawn Brier is the founder and executive director of the Kalamazoo GLBT Professionals Network. Over the past year, the 34-year-old Kalamazoo resident and Navy veteran has been juggling developing the new organization, [...]
Serving the under-served
Michael Menachem Kniespeck is well known for his charitable community activity. As the founder of Operation: Kid Equip, he helps ensure that thousands of less fortunate children receive backpacks full of school supplies each year. [...]
Affirmations to hire interim CEO, begin search for permanent replacement
The Affirmations board of directors announced Sept. 2 that they were reviewing options to hire an interim CEO to replace current CEO Leslie Thompson, who announced her resignation last month. Though originally planning to exit [...]
Kick to hold two focus groups
Kick, the Detroit-based agency for LGBT African Americans, has announced two focus groups to be held this month, and is looking for community involvement. The focus groups will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 9 [...]
Thousands rally against gay marriage, abortion
By Judy Lin The daylong religious event, titled "TheCall to Conscience," was led by Lou Engle, as well as other pastors and speakers, to protest gay marriage, pornography and abortion. Many of those attending slapped [...]
Kalamazoo keeps climbing
For weeks, we at Between The Lines had planned to run an article updating our readers on all of the great things happening in Kalamazoo and all of West Michigan. Within the past week, we've [...]
Creep of the Week: Tim Ravndal
Shepard's murder is the exact kind of thing that seems so terrible at the time but you think, "One day we're all gonna look back on this and laugh." If you're a total shit-for-brains asshole, [...]
Parting Glances: DQ4J Gatorade (Pt. 3)
GATORADE, Ariz.: I'm a skeptic concerning things supernatural; but the wonder-working weekend I spend reporting on the Drag Queens for Jesus confab is, well, miraculous - awe inspiring. It's also ecumenical, as the three-day drama-queen [...]
S/he said: Bullying, Texas and David Arquette
Compiled by Howard Israel "Too often the face of young Black masculinity is violent or associated with drugs and prison. Very rarely do we see Black men loving each other and showing concern for each [...]
The Gay Moralist: Back to School
by John Corvino It's the first day of class, and I enter my lecture hall as I usually do, skirting the periphery until I reach the door that leads me discreetly backstage. The room is [...]
Mombian: Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic and Reaching Out
by Dana Rudolph Back-to-school time is upon us once again, and LGBT parents are busy buying pencils and notebooks, rulers and knapsacks. We're not that different from any others. For many LGBT parents, however, the [...]
Life and death close season at Ledges
 A young woman, sitting in her bleak New York apartment, is watching television when the door buzzer sounds. To her surprise, it's her deceased husband's identical twin brother with whom she's been out of [...]
At the Abreact: Hot summer in the city
By John Quinn It's the Labor Day holiday and after the torturous dry spell, most humans are yearning for one last fling of sand, surf and sun. Is it crazy for a theater company to [...]
Birch, Davies heat up ‘Red Hot Lovers’
By D. A. Blackburn  If "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" sounds like a romantic comedy, think again. The reality is that there's very little romance in the Tipping Point Theatre's season opener. But [...]