BTL Staff
Arrest at Notre Dame as Equality Ride pays visit
South Bend, IN – Six young adults were arrested today for walking onto the Notre Dame campus in a show of support for gay and lesbian equality. The arrestees are members of the Soulforce Equality Ride, a nationwide mission of 50 gay and straight [...]
Equality Rider diary
by Rachel Loskill The first sign through the door at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Springfield, Mo., read: "We are a Welcoming Congregation to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) persons, as well as to all persons – from all [...]
Who is getting infected with HIV?
by Bob Roehr LOS ANGELES – "The AID epidemic in the United States is appreciably worse than the epidemic in any Western European country," said Harold Jaffe. The former head of HIV programs at the CDC is now a resident scholar at Oxford University. [...]
Fired Spring Arbor University Transgender Prof reaches settlement
Online update from Between The Lines Newspaper DETROIT– Julie Marie Nemecek has reached an agreement with the conservative Christian University that fired her last month. The federal mediation resulted in a "mutually satisifactory" resolution. Exact [...]
MSU's badge of dishonor
Michigan State University now has the dubious distinction of being the first and only U.S. college or university with an official hate group on its campus. In April, the Southern Poverty Law Center will issue its 2006 Hate Group list, and MSU's [...]
Season finale moves from Schubert, to Gershwin and Stravinsky
Orchestra Canton presents the season finale of their 2006-2007 "Classical Canton" season, under award-winning Plymouth Canton Symphony Society Music Director and Conductor Nan Washburn, with "Sunday Serenade" on April 1, at 4 p.m. at the Village [...]
Billy Masters on 'Boy Culture'
"Marilyn Monroe was Anna's idol. But I bet you if the two of them lived during the same time period and they met, Marilyn would be flocking toward Anna, not the other way around. And that's no disrespect to Marilyn. It's just that Anna was that [...]
Book Marks: March 12, 2007
by Richard Labonte "The IHOP Papers," by Ali Liebegott, Carroll & Graf, 248 pages, $14.95 paper. Serving mushy pancakes to weird men for lousy tips is not the life aspiring writer Francesca envisions when she relocates from Southern California [...]
Jewish lecture series targets LGBT kids' safety
By Sharon Gittleman WEST BLOOMFIELD- The gathering last week had one aim. "Our goal for all of this is to save a life," said Judy Lewis, president of the Jewish Gay Network of Michigan. "Alll of this," was the second of six presentations of the [...]
Parents need to honor whole family, not just grandchildren
Dear Jody: Parents need to honor whole family, not just grandchildren March 15, 2007 Q: I have two lovely, biological children, ages 1 and 3. My partner "Sandy" and I chose to become parents and used a sperm donor for me to conceive. Her parents [...]
Q Scopes: Take big risks, Aries!
by Jack Fertig March 12, 2007 Venus in Aries turns up the flirtatious heat, and Mercury in Aquarius can make tongues move faster than brains. Pluto aspects both, pouring warm, greasy lube all over the slippery slope. ARIES (March 20 – April 19): [...]
Q Crossword Puzzle: Body Work
March 12, 2007 Across 1 Protector of k.d. lang and Janis Ian 6 Comes out on the beach 10 Rainbow shape 14 Gay ___ (anti-Gay Pride group) 15 Miss, to Mme. de Stael 16 "Oliver!" request 17 Hung like a ___ 18 Baseballer Billy, or kind of ball 19 On an [...]