Ferndale Kicks Off Michigan’s Pride Season
BY AJ TRAGER FERNDALE - Nine Mile Road in [...]
Mich. House Legislation Could Gut Local Human Rights Ordinances
LANSING - In a one upsmanship with the state Senate, a group of 20 Republican lawmakers in the House have introduced an even more draconian piece of legislation revolving around access to bathrooms. The new [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente 'After Louie' wants to turn back time LGBT film has moved past the moment when virtually all the stories produced were about AIDS, but that doesn't mean that there aren't many [...]
Grace and Frankie – Portrait on a Chair
Across 1 Start of a favorite holiday 6 Drag queen on the make 10 Orchestra section 15 Stroke your boa, e.g. 16 "La Traviata" solo 17 Porno film " ___ 69" 18 Spanish painter, with [...]
Genders Bend in Unique, Gay-themed ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Two couples walk into a bar. Yes, that's a familiar opening to many a tale, but when the couples are Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius, and the bar is a gay nightclub with [...]
‘Are You a Heather?’
FERNDALE -- The Ringwald Theatre continues its Season of Classics with the Detroit premiere of "Heathers the Musical" by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe. Based on the classic 1989 film, Westerberg High is ruled by [...]
In Focus: Michael C. Lary and Ferndale’s 2015 Municipal Equality Rating
BY AJ TRAGER FERNDALE - Over the past four years city employees in over 400 municipalities nationwide have gone through and reported their list of policies and regulations that extend discrimination protections for LGBT individuals [...]
Sick of Sarah Ready to Rock Out Ferndale Pride
Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles said they are "hilarious and wild" with a charisma and chemistry she found to be "utterly charming," and Nancy Wilson of the legendary rock band Heart called them "the real [...]
Ferndale Pride Volunteer Receives Good Neighbor Award
FERNDALE - For Alyssa Atkinson, volunteering is therapeutic. "I've had problems in the past with depression and anxiety and I sometimes will find it hard to go out and do things with people because I [...]
MotorBall Ready to Rev its Engine Again
DETROIT - Get your motor runnin' and get ready to head out on the dance floor because MotorBall is back. An official after party of Motor City Pride, the main event will take place Saturday, [...]
Hotter Than July 2016
Detroit's Black Gay Pride is here! The 2016 Hotter Than July celebration will feature nearly a week of activities for the LGBT community beginning July 26 stretching to July 31. The week kicks off with [...]
Michigan LGBT Health Summit: Meeting the Primary Care Needs of the LGBT Population
The Michigan Primary Care Association will host its first Michigan LGBT Health Summit June 13 at the Doubletree Hotel in Bay City, Michigan. The summit will include panels and breakout sessions that will focus on [...]
BTL Columnist’s Art to be Displayed in Detroit’s Scarab Club
An LGBT Pride Month exhibit of the art of well-known Detroit artist and Between The Lines columnist Charles Alexander will be held in the Scarab Club Second Floor Gallery, June 8-25. Meet-the-artist reception with refreshments [...]
Busted at the Seams In Detroit
BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - "I have a commitment to humans. They come in all different shapes or sizes or whatever and if you want to wear a bra, who am I to say you [...]
LGBT Friendly Dessert Bar to Open in Downtown Farmington
The popular micro-batch creamery Browndog Creamery & Dessert Bar is preparing to open its second location in Downtown Farmington. The new Browndog will be known as Browndog Dessert Bar and will be a combination of [...]
Schuette Writes Letter to Obama Administration on LGBT Student Guidance
LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette issued a letter May 26 asking the Obama administration, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Secretary of Education John King to retract the recent directive issued May 13 [...]
Henry Ford Health System Again Named Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has recognized four acute-care hospitals in the Henry Ford Health System as leaders in healthcare equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, as [...]
House Chants
By Lisa Keen While the nation rivets its attention to the increasingly bizarre presidential campaign or eagerly counts down the calendar to when the livin' is easy, Congress has returned to a business as usual [...]
Poll Finds More Americans Accepting Gender Fluidity
Americans divide about how society should define gender, according to an Exclusive Point Taken-Marist Poll, commissioned by WGBH Boston for its new late-night, multi-platform PBS debate series "Point Taken." Most Americans do, however, recognize greater [...]
Creep of the Week: Louie Gohmert
A few months ago I watched "The Martian" starring Matt Damon as an astronaut who crash lands on Mars and is left for dead. Only he isn't dead, everybody just thinks he is. I was [...]
WWJD: Number One or Number Two?
An offshoot of concern for so-called spiritually inappropriate transgender use of restrooms is what might be best called "a biblical bowel movement," that for the first time in scriptural exegesis -- doctrinal commentary -- touches [...]
Much to Celebrate, and Much to Do
By Dave Coulter As we begin another month of Pride in Michigan, it's impossible to ignore the significant change that has occurred since we met a year ago. Then, I carried on the tradition of [...]
HIV in America: Hatred and Acceptance
By Myles Helfand "If you have a deadly disease, it is only proper that other people be warned against getting infected by you," the comment began. It went quickly downhill from there. "The HIV infected [...]