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, [...]
My 11 Minutes with Dolly Parton: How She’s Helped Her Gay Mountain Family & Her Plan If She Were President
There are no angel wings. Instead, Dolly Parton scoots into a drab backstage garage on her own two legs like a unicorn dream: knee-length canary yellow dress, rhinestones, more rhinestones, and a glow that can [...]
Evan Rachel Wood Talks Orlando Tragedy, Co-Star Ellen Page & Bisexual Label
By Lawrence Ferber Openly bisexual actress Evan Rachel Wood is fired up lately about the Orlando massacre, misconceptions about bisexuality, and her role in the post-apocalyptic indie, "Into The Forest." Led by queer female dream [...]
4 Scientific Reasons You Should Laugh More in Bed
This may sound odd to you, but I love laughing during sex. No, I'm not laughing _at_ my partner (well, maybe sometimes I am), but rather, we're usually laughing together. Maybe we missed each other's [...]
SAGE Metro Detroit Requests Affirming Service Providers for Rainbow Resource Guide
How many times have we heard the story about the older lesbian who felt uncomfortable when the furnace repairman came to her house and asked her where her husband is? She is someone's mother, grandmother, [...]
Michigan Pride Off to Late Start, Relocates Amid Tension
This years festival will be held in Lansing's REO Town. BTL file photo: 2015 Rally by AJ Trager Officials with Michigan Pride admit this year's Lansing pride events got off to a late start, [...]
LGBT Community Center in the Works for Traverse City
AJ TRAGER Members of Polestar and Executive Director of Equality Michigan, Steph White, on stage at the June 13 Town Hall meeting. Polestar: noun, a thing or principle that guides or attracts people. Polestar [...]
Court Ruling in Transgender Discrimination Case Sets Dangerous Precedent
U.S. District Judge Sean Cox ruled on Aug. 18 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 his ruling, [...]
Ruth Ellis Health and Wellness Center Announces Partnership with Henry Ford Health System
REC Executive Director Jerry Peterson, REC Board Chair Elliott Broom, HFHS CEO Nancy Schlichting, HFHS Pediatrician Maureen Connolly, M.D., and REC Behavioral Health Director Monica Samson come together to announce their partnership. BTL photo: Kate [...]
Creep Of The Week: Peter LaBarbera
It's always strange to me to hear people talk about the "gay agenda." Because undoubtably anyone who uses this term is anti-gay. First of all, it's important to remember that having an agenda isn't necessarily [...]
Parting Glances: Wrinkle, Wrinkle ‘little star’
There's nothing quite as ho-ho-hum as other people's sex lives. Unless, of course, they're young, pretty, age legal and available of their own good-natured free will (or by tax-free monetary inducement.) In the course of [...]
Make America Great Again? Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Rhetoric!
Waiting in line at a popular restaurant, I overheard another patron (Caucasian male around 70) approach the hostess and say "Where's the men's room or should I just use the ladies' room? That's what they [...]
Inside the Trump Media Cage
The paranoia related to the media was on sure display Friday in Dimondale during the visit of GOP Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. The media, of course, was the enemy: "They don't tell the truth, [...]