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, [...]
Sarah Brightman Q&A: On Trendy Gay Fans, Getting High
Sarah Brightman knows what it means to "shoot for the stars." A one-of-a-kind soprano, the "Phantom of the Opera" singer, who originated the iconic role of Christine 27 years ago, has a voice that can [...]
The Wizardry Of ‘Oz’
Somewhere over the rainbow exists fantastical fairies, diva witches and flying monkeys (oh my!), but friends of Dorothy will have to do without the optimistic dreamer and her dog. Neither follow Sam Raimi's yellow-brick road [...]
Amicus Brief In Prop 8 Case Filed By Obama Administration
By Lisa Keen President Obama speaks at a rally. Photo: Max Hodgson The Obama administration continues to back up its words of support for marriage equality with action, this week taking the seldom used [...]
Royal Oak City Commission Approves Human Rights Ordinance
Unity Michigan team delivers 2,397 signed petitions asking the Royal Oak City Commission to pass a human rights ordinance, which it did with a 6-1 vote. BTL photo: Crystal Proxmire Readers wishing to thank [...]
Mich. Health Dept. Denies Media Access To Training On Controversial HIV Database
Report for American Independent Network LANSING - Dozens of agencies and local health departments will be attending a mandatory meeting Wednesday, March 6 in Lansing to review grant-fulfillment requirements related to HIV funding, but the [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente The sun'll come out tomorrow for Jane Lynch And that sun will stay out for exactly eight weeks. That's how long "Glee"'s mercurial Sue Sylvester, aka Jane Lynch, will star as [...]
Screen Queen: Perks of Being a Wallflower, Cabaret
The Perks of Being a Wallflower First-time director Stephen Chbosky sensitively explores high school self-discovery and outsider hardships in his big-hearted teen drama about the pains of youth and the people who help us through [...]
The Butler Did It!
Across 1 "Les Miz" list 5 Two of a kind 9 Jane of the cloth 14 "Desert of the Heart" novelist Jane 15 Craig Claiborne's gumbo pod 16 Weather conditions 17 Thames college 18 Life [...]
US Soccer, And All That Trans Jazz
By Dan Woog The OutField Born a male, Jazz began to live as a girl at a young age. Thanks to supportive parents, she was well-adjusted and happy - except for one thing. For more [...]
‘Good People’ Is Good, Indeed
By Martin F. Kohn There's a rueful old joke about how people in Harlem in the 1930s never knew there was a Depression. Substitute Recession for Depression and the same might be said of South [...]
‘Potted’ Is A Love Song To ‘Harry Potter’
By Dana Casadei I discovered the "Harry Potter" series when I was in the fourth grade. It was an instant obsession that would follow my friends and I not only through the rest of elementary [...]
‘Phoenix’ Rising
By Carolyn Hayes On paper, playwright Scott Organ's "Phoenix" is a sleek little nugget of a play. The plot encompasses just two characters; their story takes scarcely more than an hour to tell, or a [...]
Phoenix and Scottsdale
By Andrew Collins Out of Town Few cities have grown faster and more dramatically in the past half century than Phoenix (pop. 1.4 million), which currently ranks as the sixth-largest city in America. It's also [...]
Not-So-Confidential HIV Testing
Since 2003, the Michigan Department of Community Health has been secretly collecting the names, dates of birth, risk categories, and other demographic information of people submitting for confidential HIV testing at grant-funded locations throughout the [...]
Federal Law Is On Our Side
By Dawn Wolfe DETROIT - On Feb. 7 the U.S. Justice Department made Michigan history when Everett Avery plead guilty under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, for [...]
Equality Michigan Joins With 27 LGBT organizations In Prop 8 Amicus Brief
On Feb. 28 Equality Michigan joined a broad nonpartisan coalition of equality organizations which have filed amicus briefs in support of the plaintiffs in the landmark Perry v. Hollingsworth and Windsor vs. United States cases. [...]
Training in Non-Violent Resistance Planned
YPSILANTI - On April 13 Inclusive Justice will present a training opportunity for people interested in non-violent resistance. Activities run from 1 - 7:30 p.m. at Eastern Michigan University Student Center with registration beginning at [...]
Spring Break In New Orleans
If you or someone you know between the ages of 12 and 19, is interested in an alternative spring break experience in New Orleans Lower 9th Ward, then Dedicated To Make A Change wants to [...]
Inclusive Violence Against Women Act Passes House
By Lisa Keen In a major victory for Democrats, the U.S. House voted Thursday (Feb. 28) to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act with a bill that includes language to ensure that victims of domestic [...]
Richard Land
Creep of the Week I've been critical of anti-gay folks for a long time. I've even been known to call them names ("creep," for example), but for as long as I've been writing this column [...]
A Voice For The Youth And A Challenge
Letters To The Editor Dear Editor, I'm going to be honest with you - I'm not a professional. In fact, I'm the opposite: I'm a fifteen year old kid who steals her parent's Metro Times [...]
A Paine In The T-party
Parting Glances If one person can be truly said to have single-handedly pushed this country into a War of Independence from England it was patriot and pamphleteer Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809). His book "Common [...]
We Can Make It There
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions The City Council of Phoenix, Arizona recently voted on a bill to add sexual orientation as well as gender identity and expression to the city's existing anti-discrimination bill. The bill [...]
Dido Q&A: On Anger Issues, Gay Following
It would be easy to mistake Dido as being as mellow as her music - but don't. In our chat, the British singer-songwriter - promoting her first album in five years, "Girl Who Got Away," [...]
Judge Decides To Wait On Adoption And Gay Marriage Decision
The couple will have to wait until June for U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman to make a decision in their case. BTL Photo: Crystal Proxmire Hazel Park couple Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer will [...]