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, [...]
Official Selections From Outfest To Stream Online
Starting July 9, DIRECTV will present Outfest Online, which gives nationwide access to official selections from the Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival -- the nation's leading LGBT film festival. Featuring a special collection of [...]
Q&A: Hilary Duff Talks Grindr & Giving Too Many F*cks, Geeks Out For Marriage Equality (and Miley Cyrus!)
"I'm like the dorky kid on the bus who's like, ' Hiiii.'" Wait a minute. Is that you, Lizzie McGuire? Maybe? No. It's Hilary Duff, razzing on her cold-ridden, congested-sounding self as she does a [...]
Whose Liberty? Marriage Equality Decision Reinforces Divide
By Lisa Keen Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case that legalized same sex marriage nationwide, is backed by supporters of the courts ruling on same-sex marriage on the [...]
Obituary: Grace McClelland
LINCOLN PARK - Grace McClelland, former executive director of the Ruth Ellis Center, suffered a fatal heart attack on June 16. McClelland, 57, was born in Camden, N.J. After graduating from St. Joseph's High School [...]
25 Perfect Summer Songs For Your Poolside Playlist
Slip on your swimsuit, break out the blender and pump up the jams. Today you're kickin' it poolside with a freshly selected and eclectic playlist that screams fun in the sun. 'Summertime,' DJ Jazzy Jeff [...]
Why Gay Press (Still Matters)
By Keith Orr A vibrant gay literary culture requires four elements: authors, readers, publishers and bookstores. This column regularly deals with the first two, and occasionally with the last. However, the forgotten third element of [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Tom Ford speaks, gets $20 Million At the recent Cannes Film Festival, Tom Ford announced his intention to make his next feature, "Nocturnal Animals", and Focus stepped in with $20 million [...]
Vanity Fair Lady
Across 1 Tennessee Williams "Summer and Smoke" heroine 5 To ___ it may concern 9 Snatch 14 Billy Crystal played gay on this sitcom 15 "The English Patient" nurse 16 Bones below elbows 17 Bear's [...]
The OutField: Fearless Jeff Sheng
By Dan Woog There are many ways for athletes to be fearless. They can stand at the plate with the bases, in the bottom of the ninth. They can attempt a difficult dive. Rocket down [...]
All Male Production Of Wilde Play Comes To Slipstream
After a critically acclaimed and intensely bloody run of "Hamlet," Slipstream Theatre Initiative says "goodbye" to death and "hello" to marriage in the most wickedly funny way! "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, [...]
An Enchanted Evening In Dexter
By John Quinn SHOW DETAILS: South Pacific Encore Musical Theatre 3126 Broad St., Dexter June 4-July 3; check website for performance times $32-$28 734-268-6200 http://www.TheEncoreTheatre.org The "book musical" is as thoroughly American as baseball and [...]
Mason Street Warehouse Nominated For Two Wilde Awards
SAUGATUCK, Michigan -- Mason Street Warehouse (400 Culver St.) has received two Wilde Award nominations for the 2014 Mason Street Warehouse (MSW) production of "Beehive." The first nomination is for "Best Musical" and the second [...]
Michigan Artist Earns Award, Will Be Featured In ArtWorks
picture on server: S2_FerndaleCC.jpg Tony Roko was named Best Fine Artist by the readers of Hour Detroit magazine in its 2015 "Best of Detroit" contest. Roko also won the Best Fine Artist nod from the [...]
Signorile Speaks On Future Of LGTB Activism
By Gay rights activist, author and radio show host Michelangelo Signorile is not known for being a wallflower when it comes to LGBT equality issues. The former editor of Out Magazine gave birth to the [...]
The End Of Michigan For Marriage?
BY AJ TRAGER LANSING - Michigan For Marriage was organized as a collaborative public education campaign to build support for marriage equality in Michigan and has spent the last few years gathering communities together to [...]
Ingham Celebrates Marriage Equality
By the time Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum closed down her offices Friday, June 26, she had issued 26 marriage licenses and performed 16 ceremonies herself. She was definitely the first in Michigan to perform [...]
International Perspectives On Marriage Equality
BY AJ TRAGER Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to [...]
Supreme Court Upholds Health Insurance Subsidies Critical To People With HIV
By Lisa Keen The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision, upheld the right of the federal government to provide health care insurance subsidies to people with low income in states that have [...]
Creep of the Week: National Organization for Marriage
National Organization for Marriage Oh, NOM. NOM, NOM, NOM. You are so freaked out right now. And if you weren't so hateful, I might actually feel some compassion for you. Though probably not. Because you [...]
Parting Glances: Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
"Your problems can be solved with this box of amazing cure-alls," hooty hooted Exodus P. Barn Owl, Q.D., shoving a package of Miracle Elastics, Assorted Colors, Funny Farm, LTD., across his polished oak-apple desk to [...]
BTL Op-Ed: A Huge Win Towards Full Equality
Forty-six years after the Stonewall Rebellion, almost to the day, marriage equality has finally become the law of the land. In some ways it feels lightening fast. And yet it also feels that it took [...]
Transmissions: A Papal Confrontation
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Pope Francis recently released an encyclical -- a letter the pontiff sends to all the Roman Catholic Church's bishops -- addressing climate change. As you can imagine, many on the right-wing [...]