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, [...]
Full disclosure: ‘Addams Family’ is sweet fun at Wharton Center
Yes, they're still creepy and kooky and all together ooky - and we wouldn't want Charles Addams' lovable family of eccentrics any other way. And that's exactly what Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice and Andrew Lippa [...]
Rumer talks ‘boring’ pop music, gay fans and porn name
Rumer is used to standing out. Her grade-school years were spent in clothes other girls weren't wearing, and now, as the U.K. crossover hits America, her life hasn't changed all that much: She still wants [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Houdini is happening with Hugh Hugh Jackman can't stay away from Broadway. The part-time "Real Steel/Wolverine" tough guy is, apparently, incapable of curing his song-and-dance lust. So now that "The Boy [...]
Care for yourself first, Pisces!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Neptune coming home to Pisces this Feb. 3 brings 14 years of heightened mysticism, romanticism, sensitivity, passions and decadence. The last time around (1848-1862) was the height of the "Romantic [...]
Hear Me Out: ‘Joyful Noise’ or awful noise?
Kathleen Edwards, 'Voyageur' Her songs have generally been outside herself, but Kathleen Edwards isn't writing about other people anymore. She's writing about herself. "Voyageur" is the Canadian alt-folkie's most personal work, a 10-song musical catharsis [...]
Jim Provenzano explores sports, sex and paraplegia
By Dan Woog The OutField It may not be the traditional format for a winning novel: cross-country running. Lacrosse. Wheelchair basketball. Gay romance. But Jim Provenzano's "Every Time I Think of You" works. The author [...]
PRTC pulls no punches with ‘A Stone Carver’
As we grow to adulthood, we begin to see our parents through the eyes of an adult rather than through the fantasies of a child. At some point during that process, the relationship between a [...]
A sweet date comedy at Stormfield
By Bridgette M. Redman There is no comedic food so rich as the feast provided by the tension and attraction between the sexes. The topic has been providing meat for comedians, authors, playwrights, screenwriters and [...]
Girlyman plays new album, ‘Supernova,’ at The Ark
The Brooklyn-to-Atlanta transplants of Girlyman, performing at 8 p.m. Feb. 8 at Ann Arbor's The Ark, scheduled their first rehearsal for Sept. 11, 2001. After that, says vocalist-songwriter Nate Borofsky according to http://www.TheArk.com, "We realized [...]
Historic HUD milestone for LGBT people
An important milestone has been reached by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announced Monday new regulations intended to ensure that HUD's core housing programs are open to all [...]
Couples standing up for justice
In Doak Bloss's lifetime, the biggest advances in the civil rights of gay and lesbian people have come in reaction to adversity - the Stonewall riots in the late 60s, Anita Bryant's anti-gay referenda in [...]
Rev. Lynch comes out of retirement to shepherd MCCD
By Crystal Proxmire FERNDALE - The Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit is ready to move forward with the appointment of Interim Pastor Rev. Jim Lynch. The 63 year-old Lynch has served as interim pastor for [...]
Forum Foundation looking for love to give scholarships to gay students
by Crystal Proxmire WARREN - Love is not just about the romantic kind expressed on Valentine's Day. It's about the warmth in the heart that is felt when seeing someone else accomplish their dreams. It [...]
KICK to host voter engagement forum
DETROIT - Election season is starting and KICK-The Agency for LGBT African Americans, is hoping to get voter involvement kick-started with the first ever Voter Engagement Forum on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m at the [...]
REC advocacy work funded for second year
Highland Park - The Ruth Ellis Center will be able to continue the advocacy work begun in 2011 through a second $100,000 grant from the Arcus Foundation. The grant will fund REC's work in the [...]
Obama: ‘Leaving no one behind’
By Lisa Keen While there was only one direct reference to anything gay in President Obama's third State of the Union address, the speech and a large number of White House activities surrounding it was [...]
Stacey Campfield
Creep of the Week There are a lot of things wrong with State Senator Stacey Campfield (R-Tennessee). Mainly mouth things and brain things, as in the thoughts he has and the things he says out [...]
Obama is in Ann Arbor today to talk about college affordability at University of Michigan. If you’re over there, let us hear from you!
Heard on Facebook I'm here with 5 other gay men! We have waited 10 hours between yesterday morning and now for this!! -Philip Smith This is a joke. College affordability won't come until they get [...]
Chicken Little no more!
Parting Glances I rarely write about straight guys. I've known a few in my life. I find them to be, well, somewhat flighty. But in the interest of civility to all God's web-footed creatures let [...]
Moving forward
Compiled by Howard Israel S/He Said "The born-this-way approach carries an unintended implication that the behavior of gays and lesbians needs biological grounding to evade condemnation. Why should it? Our laws safeguard religious freedom, and [...]
Fallacies and prejudice
Compiled by Howard Israel S/He Said "Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community - it was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It [...]
You are invited
By Leslie Robinson General Gayety I'm thinking of starting a new career. With the state of Washington on a path to legalize same-sex marriage, it's the right time here in the Evergreen State to get [...]
Ads call on Snyder to ‘be the one tough nerd we elected’
Sign on to a letter telling Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder treating all families equally is good for our state. {URL http://talkbacktorick.com} LANSING - In response to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's recent signing of House [...]
GOP gays backed Romney in Florida
By Lisa Keen AP photo R. Clarke Cooper, head of the national Log Cabin Republicans group, said Mitt Romney won an "informal vote" among the leaders of Florida's three chapters on the Saturday before [...]
Poll showing most Michiganders oppose partner benefits comes under scrutiny
A poll released last week showed significant voter opposition among Michiganders to giving health benefits to unmarried partners of public employees. But poll experts and LGBT activists in the state are accusing the pollsters of [...]
Prop 8 declared unconstitutional
By Lisa Keen Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, said a divided federal appeals court panel in San Francisco Feb. 7. The highly anticipated ruling also rejected a motion from Proposition 8 proponents to vacate the district [...]