BTL Staff
Romantic trips for two
By BTL Staff FARMINGTON HILLS – Looking for a special gift for the love of your life? Give the gift of time. Joe Gagnon, who arranges travel for LGBT singles and couples for Gateway Travel in Farmington Hills, says that a trip is one of the most [...]
Sweetheart Messages
BTL readers send messages of love to their sweethearts for Valentine's Day Rob,I still can't believe it's been 11 years. Thank you for every moment spent wrapped safely in your arms. I am looking forward to the rest of our journey. Happy Valentine's [...]
The fight isn't over yet in Massachusetts
By Mubarak Dahir Soon after Massachusetts' Superior Judicial Court ruled 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 18, that the state could not deny civil marriage rights to same-sex couples, my e-mail box began getting flooded with exclamatory declarations from [...]
The New Negresses
One of the special programs at AAFF is the The New Negress Film Society (newnegressfilm.org.) The NNFS is a NY-based collective of black women filmmakers whose priority is to create community and spaces for support, exhibition and [...]
The Year We Fight Back
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith By now, the crowds have dispersed from Times Square, leaving behind heaps of confetti, deflated balloons and the odd, broken pair of "2017" sunglasses. College bowl games and tie-in parades are now a memory. Even my neighbor [...]
Time to Close the Immigration Loophole: End Illegal Profiling
BY BTL STAFF At critical moment, as Obama Administration dismantles Muslim special registry, guidelines to end profiling in immigration enforcement gains urgency and momentum. On Dec. 29, the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance submitted [...]
Where to pick up Between The Lines
To pick up a free copy of Between The Lines, stop by any one of these hundreds of distrbution sites: Ann Arbor, Berkley, Birmingham, Dearborn/Redford, Detroit, Downriver Detroit Area, East Lansing, Farmington, Ferndale/Hazel Park, Grosse Pointe, [...]
Voices from an Urban Bush Sistah!
By Imani Williams Out of respect for my Native American brothers and sisters I don't celebrate Thanksgiving based on the traditional story line. It amazes me how as Americans we alter reality with made up stories that serve to obliterate our guilt [...]
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) is a format based on XML, created to easily share web content, and is particularly suitable for news items. You can use it to display headlines on another site or you can use a programme called a [...]