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, [...]
President Obama completes ‘evolution’ on same-sex marriage
{Washington D.C. –} President Obama said in a White House-arranged interview Wednesday afternoon that “same-sex couples should be able to get married.” The statement, in an interview with ABC, marks a significant and long expected [...]
Ray of light
By Andrea Poteet On her sixth solo album, "Lung of Love," Amy Ray takes listeners to church with confessional lyrics about faith, life and love in her honest, soulful voice. But Ray, half of iconic [...]
Hail Sharon
In a drag world of pretty feather boas, bedazzled attire, full-face makeup and voluptuous body shapers, Sharon Needles is embracing her scary side as the controversial Queen of Darkness. This earned her the title of [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Conservative 'Butler': Jane Fonda Jane Fonda has spent her entire life working for liberal causes when she wasn't busy building a career as one of our most acclaimed actresses. And if [...]
Get wild and crazy, Capricorn!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury conjoining Eris triggers battles of wits and verbal one-upmanship. That can easily lead to silly arguments. Fortunately, Venus is in Gemini sextile to both, bringing charm and affection to [...]
Costanza on Lesbians
Across 1 Change positions, in volleyball 7 Shakespeare's Ariel, for one 13 What "bottom's up" is to "pub's motto" 15 "The Double Man" author 16 Start of an explanation 18 Betty of cartoons 19 In [...]
Texas A&M tackles diversity
By Dan Woog The OutField A school on the list of America's 10 least inclusive colleges for LGBT students would seem an unlikely host for a conference called "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Sport." [...]
‘Little Voice,’ big dreams at the Ant
Back in the 1990s, one of Metro Detroit's most highly regarded directors had a dream - a dream to stage "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright. Life-altering experiences, however, caused Annette [...]
‘Red’ comes through with flying color
By Martin F. Kohn You may have had one great professor in college - or two, if you were lucky - who knew so much about so many things and spun them together so creatively [...]
Matrix romp bears bountiful fruit
By John Quinn There are odd or unusual plays in every theatrical season, some because of their scripts, and some because of their staging. Matrix Theatre Company doubles the oddity by presenting "Raven's Seed," Stephen [...]
Let Dominic speak: Mt. Pleasant school un-invites former student to speak at graduation
By Crystal Proxmire MT. PLEASANT - Dominic Sheahan-Stahl and his family are "shocked" after learning that Sheehan-Stahl has been un-invited from giving the speech at his younger brother's graduation from Sacred Heart Academy in Mt. [...]
Wake-up call
By Jim Larkin GRAND RAPIDS - Read the political blogs and you can sense the intrigue in the Democratic race for the 3rd District Congressional seat. Can a young gay man (Trevor Thomas) win a [...]
Same-sex wedding expo gives gays great ideas
By Crystal Proxmire LIVONIA - The Detroit Marriott Livonia was overflowing with love on April 29 as over 300 people came out for Between The Lines' second annual Same-Sex Wedding Expo. The event, which was [...]
Stonewall Bar Association president shares passion for LGBT law
GROSSE POINTE - The law is a complex, ever-changing puzzle, the nitty-gritty details of which intrigue attorney Timothy Cordes. Though he is married to a lovely woman and labels himself a straight guy, Cordes is [...]
LGBT teen suicide to be focus of Farmington ‘conversation’
FARMINGTON - In response to an alarming increase in Oakland County teen suicides, the Farmington Area Suicide Prevention Task Force is hosting a community conversation on suicide prevention in LGBT youth May 23. The event [...]
Annual Women’s Golf OUTing coming up
The 2012 Annual Women's Golf OUTing will be held June 9 in Plymouth. Join more than one hundred golfers competing for terrific prizes. Organizers want you to "ooooh and ahhhhh" while golfers challenge each other [...]
Affirmations kicks off pride season with 5th annual All-Media Pride Exhibition
Affirmations is kicking off the start of pride season with their 5th annual All-Media Pride Exhibition this May in the community center's Pittman-Puckett Art Gallery. The All-Media Pride Exhibition is an opportunity for LGBT and [...]
Lesbian Scout leader ousted in Ohio; parents upset
BY JOHN SEEWER The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian - at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over [...]
State Rep. Jeremy Faison
Creep of the Week Suicide is one of those things with no positives. I mean, no one kills him or herself because things are going well. Even assisted suicide, intended to have the positive outcome [...]
Oakland A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy blasted baseball stadium’s “kiss cams” for selecting two men to spark laughter as immature and homophobic. What do you think? Homophobic, or all in good fun?
Heard on Facebook Brandon McCarthy proves that attitudes in the United States are moving in the right direction. -Keith Hewitt I go to a lot of baseball games and never liked the "kiss cam." Gay [...]
Pages past tense #8
Parting Glances Fifty years ago Detroit's Washington Boulevard was a busy setting for exclusive shops, upscale restaurants, elegant bistros, stretching sedately from Grand Circus Park's popular Statler Hotel to Michigan Avenue's prestigious Sheraton Cadillac. Both [...]
North Carolina, diversity, Ellen
Compiled by Howard Israel S/he Said "While the president does not weigh in on every single ballot measure in every state, the record is clear that the President has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts [...]
Presidential progress
By Eric W. Rader SpeakOut In his three years as president, Barack Obama has taken a number of actions to advance LGBT equality in the United States. Only one other chief executive, Bill Clinton, made [...]
Our Civil Rights Paradox
By Abby Dees Thinking Out Loud I've often thought I should write a column called, "Weird Things Lawyers Do," to explain to normal people why attorneys, like me, spend so much time arguing about meaningless [...]
The rues have changed
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions If you happen to be transgender, then you have a reason to celebrate: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently ruled that an employer who discriminates against a transgender job [...]
Subtext 2012: What is America to Me?
Viewpoint Now that we officially "know" who the two candidates will be on this November's presidential ballot, it looks likes the games have officially begun - well, according to the media. But for those of [...]
Brogan-Kator leaves Equality Michigan, Motor City Pride will go on
By BTL Staff DETROIT -Equality Michigan's Board of Directors announced that its executive director, Denise Brogan-Kator, has decided to step down from that position effective May 4. She was appointed by the board just 10 [...]
When crisis calls, time to unite as one
This editorial is in response to this story BTL has learned that Equality Michigan's Executive Director, Denise Brogan-Kator, has resigned effective May 4 and that the organization is in serious financial trouble. Given the importance [...]
North Carolina approves constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
By Lisa Keen For those in the LGBT community who have watched state after state pass constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage, the results in North Carolina were expected: Voters approved the ban by a [...]
President Obama completes ‘evolution’ on same-sex marriage
By Lisa Keen {Washington D.C. —} President Obama said in a White House-arranged interview Wednesday afternoon that Òsame-sex couples should be able to get married.Ó The statement, in an interview with ABC, marks a significant [...]
President Obama completes ‘evolution’ on same-sex marriage
By Lisa Keen Washington D.C.- President Obama said in a White House-arranged interview Wednesday afternoon that "same-sex couples should be able to get married." The statement, in an interview with ABC, marks a significant and [...]