BTL Staff
OUTfest Honors And Remembers Pulse Nightclub Victims In Orlando
Photos courtesy of Vincent Krauzowicz Several thousand people gathered on the streets of Ann Arbor's historic Kerrytown neighborhood to enjoy the 22nd annual OUTFest Aug. 5-7. The three-day festival celebrates LGBT pride and benefits the Jim Toy [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Issues Stay in Pro-Trans Decision
By Lisa Keen LGBT legal activists were surprised and disappointed last week when two of the U.S. Supreme Court's most reliably pro-LGBT justices joined with conservatives on the bench to stay on a significant lower court decision that said federal [...]
Upcoming Author Reading Will Introduce Exciting New 40s Gay Detective
By Keith Orr I discovered Agatha Christie in the sixth grade. A friend's parents had an enormous library which included about 60 of Christie's mysteries. The books are puzzles. All of the clues are present. Often the area of the crime is finite and [...]
Michigan Supreme Court Lets Down LGBT Families, Again
By Jay Kaplan The verdict is in, it seems: LGBT co-parents can have their kids unilaterally taken away from them by their former partner (the legal parent) – and the highest court in Michigan has essentially said it doesn't give a damn. In denying [...]
See The Queens Rock The Catwalk
Gurl, do not miss your favorite contestants from Season 8, RuPaul's Drag Race on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m. at DeVos Performance Hall at 303 Monroe Ave. in Grand Rapids. Murray & Peter promise fabulous live performances from Kim Chi, Naomi Smalls, Chi [...]
The Bishop's Wife
Across 1 What guns shoot off 5 "West ___ Story" 9 Pub order 14 Be plenty hot 15 Boob, to a Brit 16 Start of a Sappho title, perhaps 17 He played an angel in "The Bishop's Wife" 19 With 60-Across, he played the bishop in "The Bishop's Wife" 20 [...]
Fun Home Contest to Benefit Ruth Ellis Center
DETROIT – Between The Lines has launched a contest to win a fantastic Fun Home theater package that includes a crowd funding campaign to benefit the Ruth Ellis Center, the Detroit-based youth social services agency with a mission to provide [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Latifah is taking a 'Girls Trip' If we have one complaint about Queen Latifah's career, it's that everything she does isn't "Set It Off." Not only is it our favorite film featuring her, it's our favorite her: a butch, badass, [...]
Detroit Discusses LGBT Workplace Equality at Out and Equal Event
BY AJ TRAGER Bill Huffaker, Amanda Shelton, Kevin Heard, Marlin Page, Nikki Pardo and Amy Hunter presenting at the opening presentation for the Out and Equal Midwest Learning Series. BTL Photo: AJ Trager DETROIT – Five Detroit professionals [...]
Leader in Adolescent Sexual Health Honored for Helping Build GSAs
BY BTL STAFF EAST LANSING – The Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health, the statewide leaders on adolescent sexual health, was honored at the 2016 Lake Effect Pride event for their work in building Gay Straight Alliances. On July 29 [...]
Is Being Gay in Your Genes
Across 1 Straight, to mixologists 5 Lindsay of "Liz & Dick" 10 Cut 14 Composer Thomas 15 Commandment word about coveting thy neighbor's ass 16 Whom Lincoln showed malice toward, in a speech 17 Enterprise helmsman 19 Cho, who plays 17-Across as [...]