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, [...]
Pioneering Ruth Ellis Center Takes Visionary Next Steps
REC Executive Director Jerry Peterson, who shared REC's passion with Henry Ford Health System CEO Nancy Schlichting in the fall of 2013. BTL photos: Andrew Potter. LGBTQ youth and young adults living in one [...]
Disappointing Ruling Allows Discrimination Against Transgender People
Updated Thursday, Aug. 18 U.S. District Judge Sean Cox ruled today that R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Home's Owner Thomas Rost did not discriminate against Aimee Stephens, formerly Anthony Stephens, when he fired her. In [...]
Q&A: Hugh Grant Talks Gender-Bending Youth, Why Monogamy Doesn’t Work & His Hope for a Gay Leading Man
Photo: Paramount Pictures For more than 20 years as a leading man, rom-com vet Hugh Grant has been the object of many actresses' (and, yes, even some actors') affection. But get this: He's also [...]
Upcoming Author Reading Will Introduce Exciting New 40s Gay Detective
By Keith Orr I discovered Agatha Christie in the sixth grade. A friend's parents had an enormous library which included about 60 of Christie's mysteries. The books are puzzles. All of the clues are present. [...]
The Queering of Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara 7 p.m. Oct. 26 Royal Oak Music Theatre 318 W. 4th Street, Royal Oak http://royaloakmusictheatre.com "The world has changed a lot," Tegan Quin says, knowingly speaking to the queer choir. And who [...]
See The Queens Rock The Catwalk
Gurl, do not miss your favorite contestants from Season 8, RuPaul's Drag Race on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m. at DeVos Performance Hall at 303 Monroe Ave. in Grand Rapids. Murray & Peter promise fabulous [...]
The Frivolist: 5 Pieces of Financial Advice for Living With a Roommate
Splitting rent with a roommate saves money - and it can be the ticket out of your parents' house (which means no more sneaking those Grindr tricks in through the basement window, much to his [...]
Hear Me Out: Lori McKenna, Tegan and Sara
Lori McKenna, 'The Bird & the Rifle' Music Row's renowned wordsmith Lori McKenna doesn't exactly bury this casual burn, but still, you might miss it. You might because Lori McKenna's exceptional 10th studio album teems [...]
The Bishop’s Wife
Across 1 What guns shoot off 5 "West ___ Story" 9 Pub order 14 Be plenty hot 15 Boob, to a Brit 16 Start of a Sappho title, perhaps 17 He played an angel in [...]
Michigan Pride 2016 Floats On Without Parade
Like many 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, Michigan Pride operates on the kindness of volunteers. If volunteers are lacking or there is a decline in participation for a particular event, as a result, the organization chooses not [...]
‘I Am Arrested by Ugandan Police’ -@FrankMugisha
By TJ Rogers Last Thursday, Aug. 4, in the midst of the "Mr. and Ms. Pride" event of Pride Uganda 2016, police raided Venom nightclub and arrested at least 15 attendees, including two prominent international [...]
U.S. Attorney General Launches Justice Forum Series with First Stop in Detroit
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara McQuade, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Detroit Police Chief James Craig address community policing concerns during the first Justice Forum Series [...]
OUTfest Honors And Remembers Pulse Nightclub Victims In Orlando
Photos courtesy of Vincent Krauzowicz Several thousand people gathered on the streets of Ann Arbor's historic Kerrytown neighborhood to enjoy the 22nd annual OUTFest Aug. 5-7. The three-day festival celebrates LGBT pride and benefits the [...]
Detroit Police Department Holds LGBT Community Chat
BY AJ TRAGER The 2nd Annual LGBT Community Chat took place in Palmer Park Aug. 3. LGBT Liaison to the Detroit Police Department, Dani Woods, addresses the crowd of over 100 attendees. BTL Photo: AJ [...]
How Hot is It? Detroit Black Gay Pride Struggles in its Third Decade
By Jason A. MIchael In its heyday, Hotter Than July - Detroit Black Gay Pride - offered a jam packed week full of action and events. There were parades and marches, poetry nights, authors' events, [...]
Pugh Update: Case Moves Forward Following Preliminary Hearing; Defense Request to Lower Bail Granted
DETROIT - Judge Deborah Langston from the 36th District Court had some harsh words to say about former Detroit City Council President and Fox 2 news anchor Charles Pugh at his preliminary hearing last Thursday. [...]
Five Michiganders among Most Amazing HIV Positive People of 2016
By BTL Staff Five Michiganders are among HIV Plus Magazine's "Most Amazing People Living with HIV in 2016." Among the honorees are Brian KillsCrow of the Grand Rapids area, Patricia Clark of the Kalamazoo area, [...]
LGBT Detroit Receives Donation to Benefit LGBT Latinos/as
By BTL Staff Former board chair of Detroit Latin@z Tony ORourke-Quintana presents Curtis Lipscomb, executive director of LGBT Detroit with a donation to facilitate LGBT Latino/a programming in Detroit. The only LGBT organization in [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Issues Stay in Pro-Trans Decision
By Lisa Keen LGBT legal activists were surprised and disappointed last week when two of the U.S. Supreme Court's most reliably pro-LGBT justices joined with conservatives on the bench to stay on a significant lower [...]
Creep of the Week: Ben Kinchlow
It has come to the attention to many people, including and especially many Republicans, that Donald Trump is a Looney Tunes character come to life who would probably throw a fit and blow up the [...]
Parting Glances (Remembering Jeff #3 of 3)
I've had two occasions -- as an innocent bystander, I assure PG readers -- to meet former Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, now living as a rather restricted, extended-care resident in Arizona until 2041. (Reservations fully [...]
Michigan Supreme Court Lets Down LGBT Families, Again
By Jay Kaplan The verdict is in, it seems: LGBT co-parents can have their kids unilaterally taken away from them by their former partner (the legal parent) - and the highest court in Michigan has [...]
Shining Star: Local Performer Inspires Orlando Community to Keep On Dancing After Pulse
Photo: Amanda Voisard Dance can heal, we know that. It can be a cathartic soul-soother, as it's been, ironically, in Orlando after the recent June 12 Pulse Nightclub shooting claimed 49 lives and left [...]