BTL Staff
The OutField: A Show of Gratitude
By Dan Woog It's the time of year when we show gratitude -Â and LGBT folks (and their allies) have a lot to be thankful for. Not as much as if the presidential election had gone the other way, of course. From a gay point of view a Vice [...]
The Road Ahead
BY STEPH WHITE I know a lot of you are worried about the recent election and what this means for all of us in the LGBTQ movement. Many people are rightly concerned about the rights that we've fought so hard for and won over the past eight years. [...]
Why We Need Safe Spaces
By Keith Orr My husband and I are the owners of the aut BAR, a gay bar and cafe. We work hard to provide good food and drink. We strive to provide good, or even exceptional, customer service. In general we are pretty successful at achieving those [...]
Old Woodward Upgrade Project to Begin in March
BY BTL STAFF BIRMINGHAM – Birmingham is getting a facelift. The city is ready to launch a $3.5 million plan to upgrade a key section of Old Woodward in the downtown shopping district. A complete reconstruction of the road between Willits and Brown [...]
Orr and Contreras Honored at Unified's Wine Cellar Benefit
BY BTL STAFF YPSILANTI – Dozens of wine lovers gathered on Nov. 30 at Bona Sera Cafe in Ypsilanti for the 13th Annual Wine Cellar benefit for Unified – HIV and Beyond. Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the merger between AIDS Partnership [...]
Top 35 LGBTQ Christian Books of 2016 Named
BY BTL STAFF Lesbian Christian author Kittredge Cherry announced a diverse list of LGBTQ Christian books to include queer theology, Biblical history, memoir, fiction and church life for all ages. Cherry shared the top 35 on the Jesus in Love Blog at [...]
Trump Met Dec. 7 with NC Gov. McCrory
BY BTL STAFF CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory flew to New York City Dec. 7 to meet with President-elect Donald Trump, according to Trump's transition team. The pool of news reporters who follow Trump reports that McCrory [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente 'American Gigolo' Is Coming, Eventually Back in 2014, before the world began falling apart in earnest, there were rumblings about a TV series based on the 1980 classic glamour-noir film "American Gigolo." And then… nothing. [...]
Brothers & Sisters
Across 1 Style of Marcel Duchamp 5 Showing a tiny opening 9 " ___ of the Dead" 14 Aware of 15 "If I ___ a Rich Man" 16 Three-card hustle 17 Anna Madrigal's daughter 18 Responds to Marc Antony 20 Like X-rated fare 22 Start of a definition of [...]