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Affirmations Could’ve Saved My Sister’s Life. Now That They’ve Fully Reopened, They Can Still Save Others. 

By Jackie Jones|2021-08-03T14:37:56-04:00August 3rd, 2021|Michigan, News, Personal Stories|

While most open spaces exude an emptiness, Affirmations’ 17,000-square feet in Ferndale doesn’t feel like that at all. It feels like a safe space the moment I enter it.  Like many there for Affirmations’ reopening [...]

GoFundMe Campaign Launched for Lesbian Detroit Rapper Miz Korona

By Jason A. Michael|2021-05-24T09:44:57-04:00May 14th, 2021|COVID-19, Michigan, News|

Detroit-based rapper Miz Korona is best-known for her role in the movie "8 Mile," for being named Female Artist of the Year at the Detroit Music Awards and last year’s "The Virus" EP. In recent [...]

At Royal Oak’s Cafe Muse, Fine Dining Dates Are Back on the Menu This Valentine’s Day

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2021-02-07T12:24:08-05:00February 6th, 2021|Community Impact, COVID-19, Guides, Michigan, News, Romance|

A traditional wine pairing dinner at a favorite restaurant may seem out of bounds right now due to the constraints brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic, but Royal Oak’s Café Muse has found a [...]

Carmen Vázquez, Longtime LGBTQ Activist, Dies at 72

By Michael Lavers|2021-01-29T09:54:07-05:00January 29th, 2021|COVID-19, National, National COVID-19 News, News|

Carmen Vázquez, a longtime LGBTQ activist, died on Wednesday from coronavirus complications. She was 72. A press release that the National LGBTQ Task Force and SAGE released on Thursday notes Vázquez was born in Puerto [...]

‘We’re Here, We’re Accessible and We’re Dedicated’: Jim Toy Center President Talks 2021 Goals

By Eve Kucharski|2021-01-27T11:52:31-05:00January 27th, 2021|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

The Jim Toy Community Center has gone through a lot of changes in recent weeks. Simultaneously came the news that it would be forced to close its doors because of the novel coronavirus pandemic and [...]

Thousands of COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments Booked at Suburban Collection Showplace

By BTL Staff|2021-01-21T12:24:08-05:00January 21st, 2021|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

PONTIAC — More than 100 Oakland County Health Division employees will provide the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines by appointment only to about 3,000 residents from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 23, at the [...]

Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Daniels Among Performers Featured in 44th Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival At Home

By Jason A. Michael|2021-01-18T12:12:57-05:00January 18th, 2021|Community Impact, COVID-19, Entertainment, Music|

Like most entertainment venues in the state and, indeed, across the country, The Ark in Ann Arbor has struggled to find its footing in the midst of a pandemic that continues to rage. “Ever since [...]

Groundwork Laid, Dave Coulter Starts First Full Term in 2021 With Clear Vision

By Eve Kucharski|2021-01-13T11:47:19-05:00January 13th, 2021|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

While most politicians running for their first full term in office can boast related experience and background, few can say they have firsthand experience. That's the case with Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter, who, long [...]

Jim Toy Community Center Announces Closure of its Physical Office Space, Launches GoFundMe Campaign

By BTL Staff|2021-01-27T10:13:48-05:00January 5th, 2021|Community Impact, Michigan, News|

ANN ARBOR — Today the Jim Toy Community Center announced plans to close its physical office space, located at 319 Braun Court, at the end of the month. The organization, which will continue to operate [...]

COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives in Oakland County EMS Vaccinations Begin Tomorrow

By BTL Staff|2020-12-18T13:45:56-05:00December 17th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

PONTIAC — The first 1,950 doses of the novel coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech arrived today at Oakland County Health Division. Initial vaccinations will begin by appointment only on Friday, Dec. 18, in Waterford for emergency [...]

Church Militant, Other Anti-LGBTQ Groups Receive Millions in Pandemic Relief Funds

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-12-18T13:46:08-05:00December 14th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, National COVID-19 News, News|

Millions in Loans Seven hate groups with explicitly anti-LGBTQ ideologies were awarded nearly $2.5 million combined in Paycheck Protection Program loans, according to Dec. 9 and Dec. 12 analyses by NBC News. Established by the [...]

Affirmations Updates Public on Programs, Finances and the Future

By Crystal A. Proxmire|2020-12-18T13:45:46-05:00December 7th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

FERNDALE — When Dave Garcia came back to his old job as Executive Director of Affirmations community center after five years working for the nation’s largest LGBTQ community center in the nation, his return was [...]

Michigan Physicians Support Governor’s Response to COVID-19, Urge Legislature to Support her Measures

By Jason A. Michael|2020-10-09T13:11:59-04:00October 9th, 2020|COVID-19, News, Statewide COVID-19 News|

Following last week’s Michigan Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers in response to the novel coronavirus crisis, a group of Michigan physicians spoke to the media via Zoom Wednesday, Sept. [...]

President Trump, First Lady Test Positive for COVID-19

By Brody Levesque|2020-10-02T08:47:25-04:00October 2nd, 2020|COVID-19, National, National COVID-19 News, News|

In a tweet late Thursday evening, President Donald Trump announced that he and the First Lady, Melania Trump, had tested positive for the coronavirus. “Tonight @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin [...]

From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter, how Bingo Pet Salon is Navigating 2020

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-09-30T14:02:29-04:00September 30th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, News, Personal Stories|

Following the Rules The third time it happened Brian Lane notified the police. An angry client, likely drunk, was calling Lane in the middle of the night to curse him out for refusing to schedule [...]

Transgender Michigan Hosts its Health Fair Virtually

By Eve Kucharski|2020-09-28T00:54:12-04:00September 25th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

In light of the novel coronavirus pandemic, many nonprofits and community organizations have been forced to cancel regularly scheduled programming and events to adhere to social distancing guidelines. In the case of organizers at Transgender [...]

The Trevor Project Talks COVID-19 Impact on Services

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-09-23T05:57:44-04:00September 22nd, 2020|COVID-19, National, National COVID-19 News, News|

As the novel coronavirus pandemic has developed over the last several months, organizations both big and small have been affected by its impact. Between The Lines caught up with Rob Todaro, the press secretary of [...]

Affirmations LGBTQ Center Expands COVID-19 Food Help Program

By BTL Staff|2020-09-14T15:08:28-04:00September 14th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

Affirmations has announced the expansion of its ‘Lettuce Help’ Food Program and will be offering a second pickup date in light of the novel coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesdays, from 4 to 7 p.m., those in [...]

Fauci: Politicization of COVID-19 Pandemic is ‘Really Unfortunate’

By Michael Lavers|2020-09-18T13:12:09-04:00September 11th, 2020|COVID-19, National COVID-19 News|

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday described the politicization of the coronavirus pandemic as “really unfortunate.” “The politicization, the hostility, back and forth is something — I’ve been through multiple outbreaks over the last 35, 40 [...]

LGBTQ Progress Update on Michigan’s Racial Disparities Task Force

By Eve Kucharski|2020-09-18T13:12:24-04:00September 4th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

Having met regularly since spring, now that summer is almost at its end, the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities has been working in an advisory manner with both Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt. [...]

Lesbian Detroit Rapper Miz Korona Riffs on COVID-19 with her ‘The Virus’ EP

By Eve Kucharski|2020-09-03T15:42:46-04:00August 25th, 2020|COVID-19, Entertainment, Features, Music, Personal Stories|

Developing, writing and recording an album is no easy feat, but sometimes, when the environment is just right, one new idea can set off a creative chain reaction — one strong enough to pull a [...]

COVID-19 Redraws 2020 LGBTQ Travel Roadmap

By BTL Staff|2020-09-09T13:45:41-04:00July 17th, 2020|COVID-19, Entertainment, Features, National COVID-19 News, News|

By Scott Stiffler When Dorothy returned from Oz and declared, “There’s no place like home,” that tribute to domesticity made sense, coming from a Kansas farm girl recently abducted by flying monkeys and repeatedly threatened [...]

Nurse Asineth Little Talks Work During COVID-19, Care for LGBTQ Community

By Jason A. Michael|2020-07-09T09:28:53-04:00July 9th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, News, Personal Stories|

It’s not easy to be a certified nurse assistant in the midst of a pandemic. But four months into the novel coronavirus crisis, and Asineth Little is continuing to get by. “When it first started [...]

Coulter: $10 Million Nonprofit Recovery Fund to Aid COVID-19-Impacted Organizations

By BTL Staff|2020-06-04T22:38:54-04:00June 4th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

Today Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter held a press conference that announced a $10 million Oakland Together Community Response & Recovery Fund "specifically designed" to help the county's nonprofits during the novel coronavirus pandemic. "We're [...]

2 Detroit Activists Seek Help Handing out Care Packages to Fight COVID-19

By Jason A. Michael|2020-06-04T18:13:55-04:00June 4th, 2020|COVID-19, News, Personal Stories|

For Ka’Juan Hill, doing HIV/AIDS advocacy and outreach is not just a job. It’s a calling. By day, he’s a community outreach specialist for Unified HIV Health and Beyond, and, whenever free time allows, he [...]

Ferndale Mayor Melanie Piana on Pride Month, Coronavirus and Being an Ally

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-09-09T13:47:08-04:00May 29th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News, Pride|

Pride During a Pandemic While this is the 19th consecutive year that Ferndale is recognizing June as Pride Month, for a number of reasons it will be quite different from years past. Certainly, the obvious [...]

Ypsilanti Pride Festival Virtual Livestream at 5 p.m. on June 5

By Benjamin Decker|2020-05-31T22:45:21-04:00May 29th, 2020|Community Impact, Michigan, News|

The Ypsi Pride festival is far from being canceled. But this year, rather than the traditional block party that takes up most of downtown Ypsilanti and South Washington Street, the festival will be held on [...]

Detroit to Host Drive-By Census Kick-Off

By BTL Staff|2020-07-01T13:31:35-04:00May 28th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

DETROIT — The extent to which Detroit can quickly recover from the novel coronavirus pandemic directly depends on how many Detroiters fill out their 2020 census form, Mayor Mike Duggan said. As of today, Detroit’s [...]

COVID-19 Crisis Care: Michigan Nurse Weighs In

By Eve Kucharski|2020-05-27T12:48:11-04:00May 27th, 2020|COVID-19, News, Personal Stories|

In a seemingly positive trend overall, Michigan headed into Memorial Day 2020 with the fewest reported novel coronavirus deaths since March. And while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been called "cautiously optimistic" about those results, she's [...]

Be Queer Be Counted: LGBT Detroit’s Census Project Airs June 16

By BTL Staff|2020-05-27T12:06:30-04:00May 27th, 2020|Community Impact, Michigan, News|

DETROIT — LGBT Detroit is a nonprofit organization that serves Detroit's LGBTQ community. It has announced the rollout of a series of “Get Out The Census 2020” during COVID-19, and the inaugural Be Queer Be [...]

Campaign to End Michigan LGBTQ Discrimination Falls Short on Signature Collection, Changes Course

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-05-27T11:44:22-04:00May 26th, 2020|Michigan, News, Statewide COVID-19 News|

Far short of the 340,000-plus signatures required to put its ballot initiative before the voters in November, Fair and Equal Michigan, the campaign to secure equal rights for LGBTQ Michiganders by expanding the Elliott-Larsen Civil [...]

LGBT Detroit Addresses Intimate Partner Violence and Healthy Relationships Amid Pandemic

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-05-26T10:41:22-04:00May 25th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

Increased Risk Stay-at-home orders designed to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus have had some unintended victims: namely, those at risk of intimate partner violence who are forced to isolate with their abuser. And [...]

Donating Blood in the Time of Coronavirus: Activists Say Gay Men Still Face Discrimination

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-05-21T12:30:36-04:00May 21st, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, News, Statewide COVID-19 News|

The Need is Great Only about 38 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood. That’s because of various restrictions like age and physical health of the potential donor plus factors intended to [...]

Stagecrafters Community Theater Virtually Covers ‘RENT’

By BTL Staff|2020-05-19T15:48:55-04:00May 19th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, News|

In light of the isolation brought upon by the new coronavirus, members of the Royal Oak-based nonprofit community theater Stagecrafters presented a song from the popular LGBTQ musical "RENT." The featured singers include Justin Noroyan, [...]

Black LGBTQ Community Innovates Black Pride in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

By BTL Staff|2020-05-19T15:26:34-04:00May 19th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

LGBT Detroit, the city’s premier black LGBTQ service provider and producer of Hotter Than July, the world’s now longest-running, uninterrupted Black LGBTQ Pride celebration for the last 25 years, is taking its 2020 festivities digital. [...]

Detroit Gallery Hosts Virtual Exhibit to Benefit Ruth Ellis Center

By Jason A. Michael|2020-05-22T14:48:09-04:00May 19th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

In a blend of the virtual and tangible, the Detroit-based gallery Library Street Collective has created a new digital exhibition platform called SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space. Set in Detroit’s historic State [...]

Motor City Pride to Host June 6 Virtual Pride Celebration

By Eve Kucharski|2020-05-25T18:03:20-04:00May 18th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

While summer Pride festivals are a great opportunity for celebration, they're also annual reminders of LGBTQ history and the important strides that activists have made in the fight for full equality. In that spirit, Motor [...]

South Korea Activists Form Task Force to Fight Coronavirus-Fueled Discrimination

By Michael Lavers|2020-09-09T13:49:16-04:00May 18th, 2020|COVID-19, International, National COVID-19 News, News|

A group of activists in South Korea have formed a task force to fight anti-LGBTQ discrimination related to the coronavirus pandemic. Sung-Uk So on Thursday told the Washington Blade in an email that seven LGBTQ [...]

Affirmations LGBTQ Community Center Offers Free Food Box Pick-Up and Delivery Service

By Benjamin Decker|2020-09-09T13:49:34-04:00May 15th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

The Affirmations LGBTQ community center has teamed up with Gleaners Food Bank and Wayne State University to offer free food box pickup every Friday for any LGBTQ person in need. From 10 a.m. to 2 [...]

LGBT Detroit Executive Director Appointed to Statewide COVID-19 Racial Disparities Task Force

By Eve Kucharski|2020-09-09T13:49:54-04:00May 13th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, News, Statewide COVID-19 News|

LGBT Detroit’s Executive Director Curtis Lipscomb said that when he learned that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was putting together a Task Force on Racial Disparities to help fight the novel coronavirus pandemic he was thrilled. But he was honored [...]

Planned Parenthood: ‘Care. No Matter What’ — Even During a Global Pandemic

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-09-09T13:50:19-04:00May 13th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, National COVID-19 News, News, Statewide COVID-19 News|

Tried and True It’s more than a slogan. “Care. No Matter What” is Planned Parenthood’s guiding principle and a mandate now more than ever as the organization faces its latest external threat: the novel coronavirus. [...]

BTL Awarded $100,000 From Facebook

By BTL Staff|2020-09-09T13:50:33-04:00May 12th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, News, Personal Stories|

LIVONIA - On May 8, Between The Lines received a $100,000 grant from Facebook to support the paper’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on Michigan’s LGBTQ community. “We are thrilled to receive this support [...]

Over 300,000 Transgender People at Heightened Risk for COVID-19

By Eve Kucharski|2020-09-09T13:52:06-04:00May 11th, 2020|COVID-19, National, National COVID-19 News, News|

It's no secret that the health impacts of the new coronavirus are not yet fully understood. In fact, it's still uncertain what makes different populations more susceptible to the virus than others, but scientists do [...]

How the COVID-19 Outbreak and Quarantine is Affecting Local Queer Entertainment 

By Benjamin Decker|2020-09-09T13:52:29-04:00May 11th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

The novel coronavirus has swept the nation clean of any summer 2020 plans, and with 2020 Pride events being canceled, too, many local queer entertainment groups in Southeast Michigan are now out of work and [...]

Corktown Health Center to Host May 9 Condom Distribution Event for Safer Sex Practices During COVID-19

By BTL Staff|2020-09-09T13:52:46-04:00May 8th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

DETROIT – Corktown Health Center, Michigan’s first LGBTQ-focused medical home, announced it will host a contactless condom distribution event called “Safer Sex in the Time of COVID” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, [...]

‘Stay Home, Stay Well’ Initiative Aims to Address Mental Health Challenges During Pandemic

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-09-09T13:53:01-04:00May 8th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, News, Statewide COVID-19 News|

Stress from the stay-at-home order, growing fears of the unknown about one’s livelihood or life itself — those are just some of the reasons the coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on the emotional well-being [...]

Transgender Michigan Helpline Continues to Take Calls Amid Pandemic

By Ellen Shanna Knoppow|2020-09-09T13:53:13-04:00May 8th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, News, Statewide COVID-19 News|

Rachel Crandall-Crocker is a licensed master social worker and the executive director of Transgender Michigan. In addition, she's the primary volunteer for the Transgender Michigan Helpline. She explained its function and that it serves a [...]

Kalamazoo Pride 2020 Canceled

By Jason A. Michael|2020-09-09T13:53:26-04:00May 6th, 2020|Community Impact, COVID-19, Michigan, News|

The organizers of Kalamazoo Pride, OutFront Kalamazoo, recently announced that the annual summer event would be canceled this year. While it was initially expected that the June celebration would be merely postponed till April, OutFront [...]

Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault Activists Call for Stricter Prison Release Guidelines During COVID-19

By Eve Kucharski|2020-09-09T13:54:42-04:00May 6th, 2020|COVID-19, Michigan, News, Statewide COVID-19 News|

As the novel coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, the respiratory illness' hit to dense population areas has been especially devastating. And while rural areas are impacted, too, it's clear that maintaining ideal social [...]

Nina West Hosts COVID-19-Inspired Broadway Week on ‘DragCast’

By Jason A. Michael|2020-09-09T13:54:57-04:00May 4th, 2020|COVID-19, Entertainment, Features, Personal Stories|

"RuPaul’s Drag Race" alum and all-around humanitarian Nina West is hosting a series of online interviews with famous Broadway stars this week via "DragCast with Nina West." Available from dragcast.net or Spotify, this podcast will [...]

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