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, [...]
Supreme Court rules in favor of Westboro Baptist Church
By Lisa Keen The U.S. Supreme Court ruled March 2 that the First Amendment protects an anti-gay protester's demonstrations in close proximity to a private funeral service. The case, Snyder v. Phelps, arose out of [...]
HUD gives 1.2 million to fight housing discrimination in Michigan
By BTL staff The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded more than $1.2 million to fair housing organizations and non-profit agencies in Michigan to educate the public and combat housing and lending [...]
“Queer & Career” conference addresses workplace hurdles
by Tara Cavanaugh LANSING- Michigan State University's LGBT Resource Center and Career Service Network will hold a "Queer & Career" conference on Saturday, April 2 from 12:30 to 6. The conference will help "prepare LGBT [...]
Dating Diet: Eat Gay Love
By Anthony Paull Fine, I'm going public with it - I have no idea what I'm doing with my life. Therefore, I update my Facebook status with positive self statements just to make it look [...]
No more (daddy) drama
Dear Jody Q: Jody, I think I need to tell you some background stuff so you can understand where I'm coming from. My mother used to tell me that my father was killed in a [...]
Book Marks: The Case of the Missing Boyfriend, The Lover’s Dictionary
by Richard Labonte "Angels and Manners," by Cynn Chadwick. Bywater Books, 300 pages, $14.95 paper. Carrie Angel is a working-class mother scraping by in Section 8 housing while apprenticing for her carpentry license, dueling with [...]
Morgan Fairchild: Her Gay Love Story
It's no stretch really that Morgan Fairchild's latest role in the queer-themed "eCupid" has her trying to connect two gay men. She's been connecting with gay people her whole life, even before the bombshell-with-brains went [...]
Oh Land is Our Land
Nanna Oland Fabricius is in her own world again. That's where the Danish artist - who goes by Oh Land, a play on her middle name - imagines a mystical, anything-goes life for herself. And [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Lee Daniels eyes Bradley Cooper What movie will Lee Daniels ("Precious") make next? It seems like he has a new potential project every few weeks. Will it be "Selma" like we [...]
Q Scopes: Indulge, Libra!
By Jack Fertig Spring fever hits early with Venus sextile Jupiter tempting us to new friends, fun, and flirtation. Then she aspects Mars, eager to realize the dreams inspired by Jupiter. Venus and Mars will [...]
That’s a Fact, Jack
Across 1 Bride and bride's vehicle 5 The d. of k.d. lang 9 Rock costar 14 Declare openly 15 Nastase of the net 16 Standing up straight 17 Character in 63-Across 19 Kind of blitz [...]
‘The Godfadda’ hits Novi! Ba-da-bing!
By John Quinn Now that another Academy Award season is over and that pale period piece "The King's Speech" has gobbled up the goodies, I find myself missing the good old days - 1972, to [...]
Savagely dark comedy lights up Ann Arbor
ANN ARBOR - The University Musical Society presents the Druid and Atlantic Theater Companies in four performances of Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan" from Thursday, March 10 through Sunday, March 13 in Ann Arbor's [...]
Report: Int’l AIDS Conference shortchanges at-risk populations
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS A new report charges that the biennial International AIDS Conference, the premier gathering for people working in the HIV field, shortchanges groups most likely to become infected with HIV, including [...]
Belarus LGBTs hope to march in May
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Gay activists in Minsk, Belarus, applied to the city government March 4 for permission to hold a "March of Equality" on May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. [...]
Cuban TV airs Glee
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Cuba's Cubavision channel is airing the uebergay U.S. television series Glee, each Saturday at 5:45 p.m. State TV also recently aired Six Feet Under.
Honduras special unit to investigate LGBT hate crimes
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Honduras is creating an investigative unit and task force to tackle hate crimes against LGBTI people, women, youth and journalists. The government ministers of human rights and public security will [...]
Immigration Equality to sue federal government
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS The LGBT group Immigration Equality is planning to sue the federal government over the Defense of Marriage Act. The group says DOMA prevents married U.S. citizens from bringing their foreign [...]
Open gays elected to Irish Dail
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Two gay men made history by being elected to Ireland's lower house of Parliament, Dail Eireann, on Feb. 25. Dominic Hannigan will represent Meath East, a parliamentary constituency in the [...]
LGBT group forms in Montenegro
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS An LGBT organization has formed and been officially registered in Podgorica, capital of the former Yugoslav republic of Montenegro. The group, LGBT Forum Progress, is pressing for a law granting [...]
Mozambique LGBT group still unregistered
by Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS Mozambique's only LGBT group, Lambda, said March 1 that it has been waiting three years for the government to complete its official registration. The group, also known as the Mozambican [...]
Gay marriage safe in New Hampshire for now
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS New Hampshire's Legislature will not vote in 2011 on either of two bills aimed at repealing the two-year-old law that made same-sex marriage legal. Members of the House judiciary committee [...]
Wyoming Senate kills anti-gay-marriage bill
by Rex Wockner U.S. NEWS Wyoming's Senate voted 16-14 March 2 to kill a bill banning recognition of same-sex marriages entered into in other states and nations. The bill was designed to counteract a state [...]
A campus in transition
LGBT students at Central Michigan University walk a fine line between acceptance and rejection. While they know they can take solace in supportive student organizations, they're also wary of a vocal opposition that sometimes lashes [...]
Between Ourselves: Mike Wallace
by Tara Cavanaugh Mike Wallace is a member of the Americorps AIDS Team Detroit. As part of his Americorps service, he works at the HIV/AIDS Resource Center in Ypsilanti as a prevention specialist. 1. What [...]
Art with heart
By Jack VanHecke The AmeriCorps/National AIDS Fund Team Detroit members are raising money to make an HIV/AIDS awareness statue in the Heidelberg Project in Detroit. Detroit is one of only eight cities nationwide that has [...]
Peace Prom March 19
JACKSON- The second annual Peace Prom, a dance for LGBTQ youth in southeast Michigan, will take place Saturday, March 19 from 8-11:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 each and are available at the door. The theme [...]
Affirmations annual gala supports LGBT community
FERNDALE- Equal rights supporters across metro Detroit will enjoy a unique and theatrical experience at the area's largest fundraising event for LGBTs on Saturday, March 19th. Affirmations' 12th annual Big Bash has a reputation for [...]
Unitarian church votes to welcome LGBT community
GROSSE POINTE- The Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church, the only church located within the borders of the city of Grosse Pointe, voted on March 6 to be recognized as a "welcoming congregation." This designation defines the [...]
Boehner calls for House group to defend DOMA
By Lisa Keen House Speaker John Boehner announced March 4 that the House would take some action to defend the federal law that prohibits recognition of same-sex marriages. Meanwhile, at least three bills were introduced [...]
Republicans hold up gay nominee confirmation
By Lisa Keen Republican members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee have been holding up the nomination of President Obama's only openly gay nominee to a federal appeals bench. President Obama nominated Washington, D.C., attorney [...]
Rev. Peter J. Gomes dies after stroke
WASHINGTON - The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, theologian, author, Harvard professor of christian morals and minister at Boston's Memorial Church, died Feb. 28 from complications arising from a stroke. Dr. Sharon Groves, director of the [...]
We’ll leave regressive Republicans in the dust
In the past few weeks, we have seen progress vehemently opposed and hastily unraveled. President Obama stopped supporting the Defense of Marriage Act and told his legal department to stop fighting for it in court; [...]
Rick Santorum
Creep of the Week I'm sure glad my last name isn't Santorum. For one thing, I wouldn't want to be related to Rick Santorum. For another thing, his name means "The frothy mix of lube [...]
What do you think of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church? It says the WBC’s protests at soldiers’ funerals are protected speech.
I hate the Westboro Baptist Church as much as the next guy, but if I am allowed to say hateful, degrading things toward them, then they should have the right to say what they want [...]
Time marches on, and on
Parting Glances I recall a cartoon that appeared in The New Yorker magazine a goodly while ago. It appeals to old timers. Like myself. Two or three Walt Disney animals are gathered deep in a [...]
Propaganda and Rights
S/he Said "Some of these radical gay groups are willing to do anything in the world to have their way of doing sex legitimized by this country. They'll tear down any institution in order to [...]
Born This Way?
By John Corvino I am about to commit an act of gay heresy. It wouldn't be my first time. But it is the first time I will be challenging, not just an Article of Faith, [...]
Westboro thrives on publicity
BY Keith Orr I have a history with the Westboro Baptist Church. They picketed me. I was not the first. Their first pickets go back to the 1980s. They would show up at funerals of [...]
Respect for Marriage Act introduced in Congress
By Lisa Keen Congressman Jerrold Nadler waves at the 2010 New York City Gay Pride March. When U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, introduced the Respect for Marriage Act in 2009, he conceded there was [...]