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, [...]
Q&A: Jillian Michaels on Her Madonna-Influenced Coming Out, LGBT Community’s Pressure to Marry & Why She Uses the Word ‘Fag’
The "shred" will put you through the sweat fires of hell, but despite her extreme workouts, Jillian Michaels wants you to know she is no monster. To set the record, ahem, straight, the out fitness [...]
Remembering the History of Michigan’s LGBT Ballot Fights
By Tim Retzloff In recent months, the group Fair Michigan launched an effort to guarantee protections for sexual orientation and gender identity within the Michigan constitution by means of a statewide initiative slated for the [...]
Confessions of a Superfan: Why a Self-Proclaimed ‘Front-Row Bitch’ Wrote 581 Pages on Madonna
Photo: Gregory Pace Matthew Rettenmund is only kidding, but his enduring commitment to Madonna isn't lost on him when he jokes, "She has me on speed hang-up." It's a statement that couldn't ring truer [...]
BREAKING: Rep. Bob Dold Becomes First Republican to Co-Sponsor the Equality Act
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) hailed Illinois Rep. Bob Dold, who today became the first Republican member of Congress to co-sponsor the Equality Act — landmark federal legislation that would guarantee explicit, permanent [...]
The Frivolist: Chug-A-Lug 2016: TV Drinking Games to Keep You Warm And Toasty All Winter Long
'Round my parts in New York City, winter's been a breeze so far. Seventy degrees on Christmas Eve? I'll take it. But I don't expect the New Year to be as cooperative. When the post-holiday [...]
Hear Me Out: Best of 2015
10. Madonna, 'Rebel Heart' In 2015, it was strange hearing Madonna sound so... human. A cluster of cuts from the queen's 13th studio album imparted a rare authenticity and striking vulnerability typically not ascribed to [...]
Happy Anniversary
Across 1 Part of an actor's pay between parts? 5 R.E.M. frontman Michael 10 Israeli statesman 14 Give a good beating to 15 Fable fellow 16 Building manager, briefly 17 How some chatter 18 Jeremy [...]
Love, Passion and Political Intrigue Played Out at Grosse Pointe Theatre
BY BTL STAFF WHAT: Grosse Pointe Theatre presents "Chess, The Musical" WHEN: 2p.m. matinees on Jan. 17 & 24; 8 p.m. evening performances on Jan. 21-23, 28-30 WHERE: Grosse Pointe War Memorial Theater, 32 Lake [...]
Audience Definitely ‘Buying’ What Ringwald is ‘Cellaring’
By Tanya Gazdik You've got to really like someone to spend nearly two solid hours with them talking to you. Thankfully, Richard Payton is instantly likeable in the latest production at The Ringwald, "Buyer & [...]
New Parents of Trans Youth Support Group Launches
BY BTL STAFF LAKE ORION - A new group to help the guardians of trans youth better understand the realities and experiences of trans identities is set to launch next week. The group will be [...]
Triplett Joins Equality Michigan Senior Staff
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - Equality Michigan, the statewide LGBT anti-violence and advocacy organization, appointed former East Lansing mayor Nathan Triplett, M.A., J.D., as its new political director. Triplett spent seven years as a staffer [...]
LGBT Icon David Bowie Dies at 69
BY BTL STAFF British musician David Bowie died of cancer at 69 on Jan. 10. The artist reportedly had been quietly fighting cancer, believed to be of the liver according to early reports, for the [...]
Community Foundation for SE Michigan Receive Award
Detroit - The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan announced Monday it has been awarded a grant of $2.5 million from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to support initiatives that improve access to healthy food for [...]
Local LGBT Softball League Opens Spring Registration
BY BTL STAFF The Metro Detroit Softball League/MDSL LGBT is opening registration for its 2016 season. The all inclusive league plays from May through August, with all skill levels encouraged to join. Two games are [...]
Accepting Idiosyncrasies and Showing Love Often
BY AJ TRAGER MACOMB COUNTY- It was important for Clare Coughlin and Barbara Hardison to get married after being together for nearly 30 years. Their relationship has weathered many [...]
Suit Against Planet Fitness Dismissed
BY BTL STAFF MIDLAND COUNTY, MICH. - WNEM reports that the suit against a Midland Planet Fitness following a locker room controversy has been dismissed. The controversy over a transgender member using the female locker [...]
Remembering the History of Michigan’s LGBT Ballot Fights
By Tim Retzloff In recent months, the group Fair Michigan launched an effort to guarantee protections for sexual orientation and gender identity within the Michigan constitution by means of a statewide initiative slated for the [...]
Revisiting Discrimination
LANSING -- A decade after the Lansing City Council first approved its local human rights ordinance, it is being reviewed and is now up for some changes. A committee of the city council, lead by [...]
New PrEP Studies Offer Hope, Caution
Newly released studies are offering more hope for the efficacy of the once-a-day HIV prevention pill, but also ringing a sour note of concern. PrEP was approved by the FDA in 2012. It is the [...]
Strength and Longevity of Legal Gains May Change in 2016 Politics and Lawsuits
By Lisa Keen Coming off another high achievement year, the LGBT community can relax and take it easy for a while now, right? The federal Defense of Marriage Act is gone. Same-sex couples can obtain [...]
LGBT-U Now Accepting Applications For 2016 Training Program
BY BTL STAFF PHILADELPHIA, PA - Freedom for All Americans is currently accepting applications through Feb. 7 for the second round of LGBT-U apprentices. The innovative training program will equip participants with all of the [...]
Creep of the Week: Ben Carson
Ben Carson Whether you call them "special rights" or "extra rights," it has long been the argument of the anti-gayers that what LGBT people want goes above and beyond the rights of "normal" people. It [...]
Parting Glances: Our Forgotten Transgender Hero
Tamara A. Rees is 92. She leads a quiet, uneventful, grandmotherly life with her adopted children's children somewhere in Los Angeles, California. In 1954 -- two years after serving as a Bronze Star wounded and [...]