BTL Staff
Comprehensive online college scholarship database unveiled
WASHINGTON. D.C. – This week the Human Rights Campaign Foundation released a comprehensive database of more than 160 scholarships available to LGBT and allied students. The list, which includes national, statewide and school-specific scholarships, [...]
In Michigan City, Language Matters
by Dan Woog The OutField A couple of years ago, a Michigan City, Ind., teacher paired two 10-year-old boys together on a science project. One was an excellent athlete; the other was a bit effeminate. The athlete's friends teased him about the [...]
Milk of Human Kindness
Q Puzzle Across 1 Heavenly balls 5 "Six Feet Under" character of Peter Krause 9 Tennessee Williams' lover Frank 14 Lahr of "The Wizard of Oz" 15 Greek 16 "Pussy, King of the Pirates" author Kathy 17 "A Streetcar Named Desire" director Kazan 18 [...]
Gays march in Hong Kong for first time
by Rex Wockner International News Hong Kong saw its first gay pride parade Dec. 13. About 1,000 people marched, including many who came from Taiwan and mainland China. The two-mile procession traversed Hennessy Road in the city center. Attendance [...]
Michigan Scholarship Listings
Along with many national scholarships, the following four are listed for Michigan universities: Eastern Michigan University EMU Stonewall Scholarship Funds scholarships for undergrad or grad EMU student who has demonstrated leadership and/or [...]
Living Life Out Loud
By Taras Berezowsky Even with a wintry mix outside, chatting with Lori Michaels is enough to get anyone thinking warm – even hot – thoughts. Michaels, a modern-day renaissance woman who sings and dances her way across the country with her own show [...]
Rick Warren's invocation options
by Leslie Robinson General Gayety Poor Rick Warren. After President-elect Obama selected the evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, gays and liberals kicked up a ruckus. I bet the California megachurchster hasn't had a [...]
The Rick Warren whirlwind
by Wayne Besen Anything But Straight It could be that Barack Obama is simply smarter than the rest of us. The first black president of the Harvard Law Review has made a career of turning conventional wisdom on its head. When people said that [...]
Try something new, Cancer!
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Uranus and Chiron offer much needed healing inspirations. Venus and Mercury are triggering those slower planets, helping to ground that inspiration. Those two inner planets move on to join the current aspects of Saturn, [...]
Why won't they STFU already?
By Jasmyne A. Cannick The following article is Chapter Four in Jasmyne Cannick's ongoing series "A White Gay's Guide to Dealing with the Black Community for Dummies." At a time when gay leaders should be apologizing to and trying to build bridges [...]
A dangerous game at The Ringwald
FERNDALE – What happens when a has-been playwright's protege comes up with a new play that's good enough to kill for? Find out when Who Wants Cake? presents Ira Levin's classic comedic-thriller "Deathtrap." Opening Jan. 9 and playing for an [...]
Border barriers to love
by Jessica Carreras MADISON HEIGHTS – On July 4 of 2005, a day when most Americans celebrated their unsurpassed freedoms and rights, Anton Anderssen was in Canada getting married – a right not afforded to him by U.S. federal law. Anderssen and his [...]