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, [...]
Bianca Del Rio Talks Life After Winning ‘Drag Race’
By Jerome Stuart Nichols Bianca Del Rio, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 6. The sixth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" featured the densest well of talent to ever grace its main stage. While [...]
Report Outlines Discrimination, Abuse of LGBT People In Judicial System
BTL Staff Report A newly released 84 page report, ÒA Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People with HIV,Ó is one of the first reports of its [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know May 27, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service LOG CABIN ADS ATTACK JARED POLIS: The national gay Republican group Log Cabin Republicans has aired three "attack ads" against openly gay U.S. Rep. Jared Polis. According to a [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know May 22, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service PENNSYLVANIA IS FINAL; NO APPEAL: Republican Governor Tom Corbett announced Wednesday that his administration will not appeal a federal district court decision Tuesday that declared the state ban on [...]
Daily Speed Read: News You Should Know May 23, 2014
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service LAWSUIT COMES TO MONTANA: The ACLU on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Montana, challenging that state's ban on same-sex couples marrying. That leaves only two states [...]
Stringfellow To Be Installed As New MCC-D Senior Pastor
MCC-D's Rev. Roland Stringfellow. BTL photo: Jason A. Michael FERNDALE - It's been a few months since he stepped into the position, but Rev. Roland Stringfellow will be officially installed as senior pastor of [...]
Mayor, Judges Set To Open Gay Marriage Era In PA
By MaryClaire Dale PHILADELPHIA Ñ The Memorial Day weekend will get off to a festive start as gays and lesbians begin to marry across Pennsylvania. The state could see scores of weddings following a federal [...]
Mississippi City Passes Resolution Favoring LGBT Community
Associated Press The Human Rights Campaign says the Waveland City Council has passed an anti-discrimination resolution recognizing the dignity and worth of all city residents -- including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. [...]
Feds Approve Broad New Clinical Guidance On PrEP
comprehensive clinical guidance On May 14 the CDC released a comprehensive clinical guidance for use of the anti-HIV drug Truvada in preventing new HIV infections. The new guidance is the most comprehensive clinical guidance issued [...]
Spike Lee, Cinetopia Come to Ann Arbor
By Shelby Clark Petkus The Cinetopia International Film Festival is coming to both Detroit and Ann Arbor this June, with a special appearance by Spike Lee. The well-known festival was created for southeastern Michigan and [...]
Hear Me Out: Lykke Li, Lily Allen
Lykke Li, 'I Never Learn' Because it's Lykke Li, heartache is the obvious impetus for "I Never Learn," a ceaseless outpouring of dire, pillow-soaked woe inspired by the Swedish singer's very public post-breakup brokenness. Though [...]
Lady Gaga, After a Fashion
Across 1 "Billy Elliot" epithet 5 Sound of oral enjoyment 10 Come quickly 14 In two parts 15 Singer Reagon 16 Part of San Francisco's BART 17 Regarding 18 Husband of a Duke 19 Misfire [...]
Ixion Launches With Four Original Works
By Bridgette M. Redman Ixion debuts with the original production "The Four Disgracers." Photo: Ixion It's hard to go through eternity with the rap of "disgracer." And it takes, perhaps, more than a little [...]
The New Little Blue Sex Pill
In broad new guidelines, federal health authorities say nearly every person at risk for HIV-infection should consider using a once-a-day pill to prevent getting the virus. Greg is a sexually active 24-year-old gay man in [...]
LGBT And Traveling: International Students Come To Michigan
By Shelby Clark Petkus International student exchange program, International Exchange-USA (IE-USA), is bringing LGBT students from around the world and families together. With their recent renewal from the U.S. State Department, the organization is hoping [...]
Transgender Community Comes Together To Organize And Plan For The Future
By Paulette Niemiec LANSING - More than 70 people filled the AFL-CIO of Michigan on Saturday for the first ever Transgender Grant & Planning Summit. Transgender leaders Allison VanKuiken and Jay Maddock organized, produced, sponsored [...]
Help Ozone House Celebrate 45 Years Of Youth Services
ANN ARBOR - Join the thousands of community members and Michigan youth as they celebrate the 45 year anniversary of Ozone House and its efforts towards helping youth lead safe, healthy and productive lives. The [...]
MCCD Officially Welcomes New Senior Pastor
FERNDALE -Installation services for Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit Senior Pastor Rev. Roland Stringfellow will take place 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 24 at the Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church Main sanctuary. The church is located [...]
By Lisa Keen
Keen News Service The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals hearing Tuesday was, as Judge Paul Niemeyer characterized it, just one step along the way to an eventual U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether states, [...]
Oregon Becomes Number 18, Openly Gay Judge Rules Ban ‘Completely Irrational’
By Lisa Keen On Monday Oregon became the 18th state to allow same-sex couples to marry, bringing the population of the U.S. now living in marriage equality states to 39 percent. Misha Isaak, one of [...]
Oregon Strikes Ban
Oregon on Monday became the 18th state to allow same-sex couples to marry. In a 26-page ruling that shared some of his personal experience with anti-gay sentiments, U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane (an Obama [...]
Federal Judge Rules PA Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
Today U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled in Whitewood v. Wolf that Pennsylvania's ban on marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional. Judge Jones is the 14th federal judge in recent months to rule [...]
Federal Judge Says Utah Marriages Count
U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball (Clinton appointee) granted a preliminary injunction Monday afternoon requiring that Utah recognize the marriages of an estimated 1,300 same-sex couples that took place before a U.S. Supreme Court issued [...]
Charles Van Zant
It used to be if you wanted to make a right-wing conservative freak out all you had to do was show them a photo of two dudes kissing. Granted, that still does the trick, but [...]
Parting Glances: My 10 Minutes in Heaven (Pt. 3)
Footnote: Following BTL publication of Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, several big time book publishers called me with contractual offers. Modestly, I said that as a renegade Christian of ecumenical moral standards and far-reaching readership [...]
BTL Editorial: An Epidemic Solution After 30 Years Should Be Embraced
Let's be perfectly clear: The announcement last week expanding who should be able to access the HIV prevention technology PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a watershed moment in the history of this epidemic. Not only did [...]
Pride Calendar
] Kalamazoo Pride June 13 & 14 Kalamazoo http://www.kglrc.org/pride ] Rocking the Calder for Equality June 14 Grand Rapids http://www.grlgbt.org/pride-2014/ ] World Pride Toronto June 20-29 Toronto http://www.worldpridetoronto.com ] Holland Area Pride June 28 Holland [...]