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, [...]
Marriage Decision Day Across Michigan And U.S.
**UPDATE The Supreme Court has announced that DOMA is unconstitutional.** All across the country, over 100 "Decision Day" rallies are scheduled to respond to today's Supreme Court rulings on DOMA and Prop 8. Just after [...]
Matthew Morrison Q&A On His Gay Following (Vs. Adam Levine’s) & Worst Theater Experience
"Glee" made Matthew Morrison (and his unruly curls) a star, but his success started long before his role as do-gooder teacher Will Schuester. Morrison originated the studly Link Larkin during the Broadway run of "Hairspray," [...]
NY high school yearbook spotlights ‘Cutest Couple’ — Dylan and Bradley
By Erinn Cawthon CNN (CNN) - It's typical for high school students to encourage their classmates in competition with "you guys are going to win." What makes it different in the case of Carmel, New [...]
Gay Marvine: The Disco King
By Christopher J. Treacy Disco aficionado Chuck Hampton (aka Gay Marvine) Photo: Andrew Potter When we talk about trimming fat, normally we're dispensing with it in favor of something leaner and, perhaps, healthier. But [...]
Woman Seeks Vagina …
By Dawn Wolfe What do an African-American transwoman working as a homeless LGBT youth worker and a 5-year-old "Snotty Boy" who grants wishes for cookies have in common? They're both fictional characters, and both are [...]
From Bowties To Briefs
By Jerome Stuart Nichols The White Party is a time-honored tradition that celebrates the LGBT community's ability to come together and work for a common goal. And drink, and wear as little clothing as possible. [...]
The Other Pride Queens
Host Sabin is heading to Motor City Pride, but these other drag performers are set to appear during the first-ever Miss Motor City Pride Pageant, too: Yara Sofia Even if you couldn't understand whatever was [...]
The Story Of Sabin
By Jerome Stuart Nichols The world of drag is tough. One day you're fierce and the next you're getting smacked in the dressing room by a jealous queen in a bad wig. To survive in [...]
Straight & Glamorous
By Jerome Stuart Nichols Tunde Olaniran makes it hard to not like him. Equal parts David Bowie and Aaliyah, with a splash of Lauryn Hill and a sprinkling of Kanye West, he's an intoxicating mixture. [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente 'Into The Woods' casting gets ensemble-ier Stephen Sondheim's "Into The Woods" is a big show with a lot of characters. And the film adaptation of this dark, musical fairy tale (to [...]
Hear Me Out: ‘Kinky Boots,’ The National
'Kinky Boots' (Original Broadway Cast Recording) "The world seemed brighter six inches off the ground." So goes the drag-inspired fabulousness of the British indie-turned-Broadway hit "Kinky Boots," a love letter to anyone who's ever felt [...]
South Park Saying
Across 1 "South Park" co-creator Stone 5 Cosby's "I Spy" costar 9 Crack the whip at, e.g. 13 Precollege ed 14 First shepherd 15 Club for Spencer-Devlin 16 Supporter of two plastic brides 17 Mall [...]
A Tale Of Two Coming-Out Stories
By Dan Woog The OutField When Jason Collins came out last month, Helen Carroll was furious. The longtime sports project director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights had nothing against the 7-foot basketball center, [...]
Still Plenty Of Life In The Old Girls
By Michael H. Margolin In a career that lasted from 1965 ("Flora, the Red Menace") until 2010 ("The Scottsboro Boys"), John Kander and Fred Ebb made Broadway history with "Cabaret," "Chicago" and "The Kiss of [...]
To Be Or Not To Be – Uh, What Was The Question?
By John Quinn Some artists have a gift of finding inspiration in the most mundane of coincidence. In the case of playwright-novelist-screenwriter Paul Rudnick, renting the Greenwich Village apartment that had once been the home [...]
Integrity, Truth Telling Inspire Priest’s Coming Out
by Chuck Colbert A priest in the St. Louis Archdiocese has come out, grabbing headlines and generating considerable buzz within Catholic circles and beyond. While many LGBT laypersons struggle to reconcile their sexuality with anti-gay [...]
New Funding Campaign Sees AIDS Service Agencies Come Together
APM Chief Operating Office William VanHemert and MAC Chief Operating Officer Terry Ryan both recently moved into the leadership positions at their respective organizations. They are collaborating on a fundraising project launched this month. BTL [...]
Sticking Up For LGBT Victims Of Violence
Yvonne Siferd is Director of Victim Services and Sara Spurgeon is a Victim Services Advocate at Equality Michigan. (On June 5, 2013 the NCAVP Annual Report was issued. You can download the report here: [...]
Whole Foods Comes Out In Detroit
Tiana Oldford getting ready for Whole Foods Detroit opening June 5. BTL Photos Andrew Potter DETROIT - When Whole Foods Market opens in the Midtown Detroit area June 5, the team intends to put [...]
Detroiters Contemplate Creating LGBT Business District
DETROIT - Chicago has Boystown, San Francisco has the Castro and Washington, D.C. has Dupont Circle. So what's Detroit got? Well, nothing at the moment, but maybe someday soon it will if Detroit City Council [...]
The Willis Show Bar May Live Again
DETROIT - It has a storied past, but if current owners Norman Silk and Dale Morgan have anything to say about it, there are still chapters to be written. The Willis Show Bar, former jazz [...]
Detroit Softball League Hits Homerun For Community
The way the world thinks about LGBT professional athletes is changing. Although high-profile athletes are making headline news for publicly coming out - like the recent announcement made by NBA basketball player Jason Collins - [...]
The LGBT Press In Michigan
Compiled By Tim Retzloff With its 20th anniversary, Between The Lines continues as the longest published LGBT newspaper in Michigan. The Gay Liberator lasted for six years. Ten Percent a.k.a. the Michigan Tribune, later renamed [...]
Delta Township Begins Ordinance Consideration Process
The Delta Township Board of Trustees heard comments from residents June 3. BTL photo: Todd Heywood DELTA TWP. The Delta Township Board of Trustees Monday heard from residents about a proposed comprehensive non-discrimination ordinance [...]
Dems Go For Marriage In Michigan With Three New Bills
LANSING - Democrats Rebekah Warren of Ann Arbor, Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer of East Lansing, Bert Johnson of Highland Park and Virgil Smith of Detroit have introduced legislation May 29 into the State House that [...]
Duke University to Publish First Transgender Studies Journal
By BTL Staff If all goes well with fundraising, in 2014 Duke University will begin publishing the first nonmedical journal dedicated to transgender studies in the country. Headed up by Editor Susan Stryker, associate professor [...]
Setting Captives Free
Creep of the Week There's an app for that. It doesn't even matter what "that" is, because there's an app for everything. You want the photos you take with your $300 phone to look like [...]
Sirens At A Distance Sound
Parting Glances This Motor City Pride 2013 I am closing my eyes - I invite you to mentally close yours as you read - and counting back 44 years, 35 years, 20, 10, five years, [...]
Pride, 80s Style
By Abby Dees Thinking Out Loud The motto of my first Pride parade was "Unity and More in '84." If you think this is ancient history, I can assure you it's not. Pride in '84 [...]
For The Love Of Michigan. For The Love Of Love.
By Emily Dievendorf I left the "strictly political" world in 2010, without hesitation, to join Equality Michigan. I brought with me the assertion that we must be at the table to weigh in on social [...]
Historic Progress, More Work To Be Done
By Congressman Gary Peters Since first being elected to Congress in 2008, I have fought for a better future for the people of Michigan and for the principles I believe in. I fought to save [...]
BTL@20: Looking Back At The Early Years
By Tim Retzloff See Also: The LGBT Press in Michigan I became involved with BTL at the outset thanks to David Rosenberg. I met David at his portable massage table at what was then called [...]
Why Michelle Obama got heckled
By LZ Granderson CNN Contributor (CNN) - I'm a big fan of Michelle Obama's, but if she's going to be hitting the circuit to raise money for Democrats, she has to be prepared for heckling. [...]
HIV discovery ‘will change your life forever’
By Jen Christensen CNN (CNN) - French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi almost didn't get the chance to make one of the greatest medical discoveries of the 20th century. She shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology [...]
Ferndale Pride Pictures
By Andrew Potter