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, [...]
Prop 8 is Unconstitutional …Imagine. Video by Sean Chapin
The moment when we found out Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. 9th District Court of Appeals on the steps of the court house in San Francisco, February 7, 2012. The speech was [...]
The Gay with the Skinning Knife
By Anthony Paull Dating Diet Did I mention I write in a park now? It's organic and therapeutic until the old people and middle school kids start fighting over which homeless person smells the worst. [...]
Cocktail Chatter: The Rob Roy: A Wee Tale
by Ed Sikov "A Rob Roy," Chipper announced much too loudly. He looked around the table at our stunned expressions and seemed quite pleased with himself. As we stared - Chipper is a devout martini [...]
Biography investigates secret gay relationships
by Richard Labonte Book Marks "Jack Holmes & His Friend," by Edmund White. Bloomsbury USA, 400 pages, $26 hardcover. One of the many charms of White's latest novel is that there is nothing pretentious about [...]
Raunchy for a reason
Be open-minded for a moment. Imagine a gay man on all fours decked out with head-to-toe leather horse gear. On his back, riding him around the stage, is a large-breasted straight girl who is playing [...]
Boys do ballet…as girls
By Bridgette M. Redman EAST LANSING - Five years after the Stonewall riots, a group of professional male dancers gathered in New York and decided to take drag performance to a new level. They formed [...]
Q Scopes: Don’t hold back, Aquarius
By Jack Fertig Venus is entering Aries, good for sports and trashy fun, not so much for emotional and financial investments. But then she aspects Uranus and Jupiter, so be open for some very fun [...]
UDM’s ‘Dogman’s Last Stand’ is a howl
By John Quinn The savvy gardener will tell you that a little bovine excrement makes for a fertile field. I don't know what kind of fertilizer playwright Rick Cleveland used to enrich his imagination before [...]
‘Burn the Red Banner’: an ‘absurdist romp’
By John Quinn Frannie Shepherd-Bates, artistic director of Magenta Giraffe Theatre, introduced the works of local playwright Franco Vitella when her company hosted its 2010 Staged Reading Festival. His zany vignettes were so well received [...]
Mamet’s ‘Race’ a sobering commentary on ethics and morals
By John Quinn In troubled times, society needs prophets to set it back on track. Jeremiah saw a nation sliding into idolatry and preached a return to principles of absolute justice and morality. The idols [...]
Walk a mile in ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’
By Michael H. Margolin A deeply twisted comedy by Joseph Zettelmaier has just opened at Williamston Theatre, and it steals your heart - after breaking your ankles, punching you in the gut and puncturing your [...]
Murder, mayhem and laughs in Eastpointe
"I keep losing track of what crime we're committing," gasps Lois Shields, an exasperated book editor in "Cahoots," the comedy thriller now playing at Eastpointe's Broadway Onstage Live Theatre. And she's not the only one, [...]
Popular tunes of the ’50s celebrated at The Encore
The music of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller comes to life in "Smokey Joe's Cafe" at The Encore Musical Theatre in Dexter. The songwriting team met in 1950 at the age of 17, and together [...]
The dont’s of dating
Being on the market has its advantages: friends love stories that are sick, strange and full of you-gotta-be-kidding-mes. I've had my share of those (see below) - enough, anyway, to question my life as reality [...]
V-Day in Michigan
By Jeremy Martin Unlike most major holidays, Valentine's Day is not based on any ancient Pagan rituals. It holds no links to the solstice, the sewing or harvesting of crops, nor does it fall on [...]
The nurturing kind
By Desiree Cooper DETROIT LGBT LEADER: ROYALE THEUS from Model D TV on Vimeo.DETROIT LGBT LEADER: ROYALE THEUS When he was only 20-years-old, Detroit native Royale Theus discovered he was going to be a father. [...]
LGBT issues taught to teachers at OU conference
Nearly 150 people gathered on Feb. 3 for the first ever Michigan SOGI Education Conference: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Education at Oakland University in Rochester. The statewide one-day conference, sponsored by OU's [...]
Troy Mayor calls ‘homosexual lifestyle dangerous’ on released tape
TROY - Troy Mayor Janice Daniels is not having a very good start to 2012. According to a recent poll of voters in the city conducted by Lansing-based political consulting firm Main Street Strategies and [...]
Knight Foundation grant to help train tomorrow’s African American leaders
By Crystal Proxmire DETROIT - Coming up as a young black gay male, Curtis Lipscomb had a hard time finding longstanding training and mentorship. "When I was younger, the HIV/AIDS epidemic wiped out everyone older [...]
Ruth Ellis Center to receive Love Award
SOUTHFIELD - Northwest Unitarian Universalist Church in Southfield will present the Love Award on Feb. 12 to The Ruth Ellis Center for its work with homeless LGBT youth. "This year in the Detroit area 2,000 [...]
HIV/AIDS Alliance of Michigan reactivates
BY BTL staff The HIV/AIDS Alliance of Michigan (HAAM), originally founded in 1985, has been reactivated by its core member AIDS service organizations around the state and have contracted with Wiener Associates, a Lansing based [...]
BTL Editorial: The arc of justice is long
It's been a good week here at BTL reporting on the LGBT news. Ground-breaking court cases, emerging new leadership, recognition and awards for jobs well done are all covered in this current issue. After weeks [...]
One Million Moms
Creep of the Week Lest there be any confusion, this week's Creep is not just a million random ladies with kids. One Million Moms is an affiliate of the American Family Association. So you can [...]
What did you think of Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show?
Heard on Facebook I absolutely loved it. I think it was one of the best halftime shows ever. -Jerome Brown It sucked ass, you could obviously see that she was out of breath for being [...]
Ystrad Mynach. Where?
Parting Glances "Fairy tales can come true, if you're young at heart," so go the lyrics of one of Frank Sinatra's biggest hits. Sing along mentally with me to this truth-is-stranger-than friction, er, fiction fairy [...]
Allies in business, politics and Hollywood
Compiled by Howard Israel S/he Said "Today, I appeal once again to you and to all Member States. We must adopt a preventive approach to human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a [...]
Planned Parenthood, Chinese culture
Compiled by Howard Israel S/he Said "There may be as many as 16 million women on the Chinese mainland who are married to homosexual men. Due to traditional family values in China, about 90 percent [...]
Washington takes big leap, but marriage equality still pending
By Lisa Keen Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, center, is congratulated by Dave Upthegrove, D-Des Moines, left, and Drew Hansen, D-Kitsap County, after the House voted to legalize gay marriage in Washington state Wednesday, Feb. 8, [...]
‘The Vow’: A Forgettable Movie About Memory
A moment of impact. Channing Tatum, as loving hubby Leo, has many of them - relayed in philosophizing, Hallmark-regurgitated voiceovers - through the course of the emotionally flat, love-conquers-all rom-com "The Vow." Some are in [...]
HealthCare.gov helps same-sex couples find coverage
Americans are now able to use HealthCare.gov to search specifically for insurance plans that include coverage for domestic partners, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Feb. 7. The Health Plan Finder tool on HealthCare.gov allows consumers [...]
Google’s sponsorship of CPAC stirs controversy
WASHINGTON, DC -- SInce Friday, over 97,000 people have joined a popular campaign on Change.org http://www.change.org/petitions/google-dont-sponsor-bigotry calling on Google to unequivocally and publicly reject the viewpoints of speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference with [...]
Washington gov signs law; NJ Senate passes bill
By Lisa Keen Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire signed the freshly passed marriage equality bill, telling a crowded gathering at the State House, that same-sex couples "will no longer be separate but equal" in Washington but [...]
It’s true, Whitney: I will always love you
Where do broken hearts go? Whitney Houston asked that very question in the midst of a career-high, in the '80s when she secured her spot as a premier pop diva for her inimitable voice and [...]