BTL Staff
Chasing Tina
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Ed Mulak looks pretty much like an average, healthy gay man. Granted he hasn't been able to find a job – but Michigan's economy is rocky even for people who aren't on probation. The 23-year-old's gums have stopped bleeding, [...]
Correction
A story in the Aug. 17 issue of Between the Lines should have stated that Judge Rudy Serra received the second-most votes in the primary for 36th District Court. He will be on the ballot in November. We at Between The Lines strive for accuracy in [...]
Eight states to consider gay marriage
By Lisa Keen A federal appeals court this month agreed to hear, on an expedited basis, an appeal from an anti-gay marriage group which failed to collect sufficient signatures to put an initiative on the ballot in Illinois this November. Meanwhile a [...]
Vaccines, treatment focus of International AIDS conference
By Rex Wockner TORONTO Some 24,000 delegates from 170 nations attended the 16th International AIDS Conference Aug. 13-18 in Toronto. In an opening-session address, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, co-chairs of the Bill & [...]
Dysert resigns from Divine Peace MCC
By Jillian Bogater The Rev. Deb Dysert has announced she will step down from her position as pastor of Divine Peace Metropolitan Community Church in Pontiac after eight years with the church. "Sometimes we have people in our lives just for a [...]
Meth promotes HIV infection
By Bob Roehr Meth, crystal, Tina — regardless of the name, folks have long known that use of the street drug creates a kind of euphoria that can lead to increased risky behavior and contribute to the spread of HIV infection. Now, researchers have [...]
Outreach program enriches local participants
By Jillian Bogater When Steph Maxson sat down last week to eat with a group of children in the Dominican Republic, she watched in wonder as they sat quietly, not touching a morsel of food, until someone said grace. The children recited a prayer in [...]
The price of Tina mounts within gay community
John Leone watched helplessly as his young cousin, a successful engineer at Ford Motor Co., was consumed by a crystal meth addiction. Within six months, the drug took his life. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon tale, and Leone is reminded of [...]
There's nothing pretty about Tina
Despite using crystal meth for about two years, Ed Mulak – who has been clean for eight months – suffered no lasting effects to his appearance. This woman, though, who was photographed by a Multnomah County, Oregon, Sheriff, used meth for two and a [...]
Health a social justice issue for Larkin
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE – "Health is a social justice issue," according to Knoll Larkin, the new health services coordinator for Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center. "It's our living situation, it's the air we breathe, it's our [...]
Newly svelte marathon man to raise money to fight HIV-AIDS
BY SHARON GITTLEMAN HARRISON TOWNSHIP – When Tim Smith crosses the finish line at the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., his daughter Destiny Smith will be right there rooting him on. That should come as no surprise to the people who know [...]
Discrimination at fest needs to end
Between The Lines' portrayal of the trans-womyn's purchase of a ticket to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival as "moving the debate forward" sounded much more like business as usual. So MWMF will take our money but still not admit us to the [...]