BTL Staff
Auditions for 2nd annual Motor City Pride Idol contest April 14
Auditions for the Motor City Pride Idol contest will be held at Detroit's Rainbow Room April 14 at 8 p.m. Twenty finalists will be selected to perform at the competition itself April 16. Judges for the event will include Barbara Payton, last year's [...]
Birmingham eatery gets five stars
By Sharon Gittleman Big Rock Chophouse provides a necessary function for hard-working Birminghamites – a place to slip away for a bit of non-politically correct fun in the middle of the afternoon. Red meat and lots of it is the star on the Chophouse [...]
Lesbian couple forbidden by Catholic parish
By Dawn Wolfe ST. CLAIR SHORES A lesbian couple has been turned away from St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church because they are in a committed same-sex relationship. On their first visit to St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in February, Cheryl Mathers and [...]
Anti-gay speaker to visit CMU campus during Pride week
By Dawn Wolfe MOUNT PLEASANT – On April 6, Alan Chambers, president of the anti-gay group Exodus, will be giving a talk at the Lutheran Missouri Synod chapel on Central Michigan University's campus. According to the Exodus website, the [...]
Blues festival a success, says MAPP
Midwest AIDS Prevention Project's Annual Ferndale Metro Blues Festival raised over $13,700 in 2005. After expenses, $11,000 will be presented to Ferndale Youth Assistance and MAPP on April 11. During the festival, nearly forty concerts were held [...]
ComedyFest offered a countrified good time!
Comedians Dana Austin from Cleveland and Chantal Carrere from San Francisco flank the Triangle Foundation's event coordinator, Stephanie Newman, on a break between shows at Saturday's ninth annual Lesbian and Gay ComedyFest. Newman co-produced the [...]
E. Lynn Harris coming to Wayne State April 1
Gay author E. Lynn Harris will be speaking at Wayne State University in Detroit about life as gay man while being a minority on Friday, April 1. Author of "Invisible Life," "Just As I Am," "And this Too Shall Pass," "If This World Were Mine" and [...]
Meet Garfield the BTL pet of the week
Garfield is a handsome 18-month-old German Shepherd/Labrador Retriever mix. He is at the shelter looking for a new home because his previous family did not have time for him. Garfield is an active dog that needs daily exercise and time to play. He [...]
Progressive, political drag show to raise funds for tsunami relief
LANSING – On March 31 at 10 p.m. a progressive and politically-focused drag show will take place at the Temple Club. The show is called "Kiss My Gender" and is organized by Drag King Rebellion, a local drag troupe that combines pop and dance [...]
The Birmingham-First Concert Series presents soprano Adele Crawford April 2
BIRMINGHAM – The Birmingham-First Concert Series will present soprano Adele Crawford in Concert on Saturday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. Adele Crawford made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2001. She has received international acclaim for performances around [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Eve gets "Unstuck" Eve ("Barbershop") is a lesbian now. Well, on camera at least. The rapper-actor soon will star in and executive-produce the Showtime original movie "Getting Unstuck," based on the real-life story of an [...]