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Mayor Dobies Declares June LGBT Pride Month in City of Jackson
Announces LGBT Liaison, Plans For Policy Changes Jackson – Mayor Derek Dobies announced a proclamation earlier this month declaring June the city's first LGBT Pride Month and made other announcements to advance the city's outreach to the LGBT [...]
Flint Hosts 8th Annual Pride Festival June 23
LGBTQ and allied Flint Residents are gearing up for a day in the sun on Saturday, June 23, for the eighth annual Flint Pride. The festival will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. in the city's Riverbank Park in the city's downtown. The event will be held [...]
The Jewish Fund Supports Brother 2 Brother Program to End AIDS
DETROIT — The LGBT Detroit End AIDS program expanded in June with the newly-developed and funded social group Brother 2 Brother, largely because of support from The Jewish Fund. The goal of Brother 2 Brother is to create safe and secure [...]
Ann Arbor Summer Festival Lineup
This year marks the 35th consecutive Ann Arbor Summer Festival, a longstanding tradition that showcases some of the best of Ann Arbor's art and music scenes — with its fair share of national acts, too. And though the event got started on June 8, it [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
'It' girl Sophia Lillis cast as Ellen's 'Nancy Drew' Franchise alert! Ellen Degeneres' A Very Good Production and Warner Bros. are teaming up to produce something that sounds very much like the template for a series of films reviving the character [...]
Dazzling Event Celebrates BTL's 25th Anniversary
DETROIT – Between The Lines celebrated 25 years of continuous publication at a gala party June 8. Over 250 people attended – advertisers, writers, current and former staff members, graphic artists, ad sales representatives, consultants, supporters [...]
Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation Funds 51 Projects with $2.2 million
DETROIT — The Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation has announced that in the second round of their 2018 grant cycle, funding for 51 projects totaling 2.2 million dollars has been awarded. While the Foundation remains committed to supporting [...]
Flashing Back to the Past: the '90s
1994 Click to View. Requires Chrome or Adobe PDF Reader Alternate Link December – The Black Press 1 – KICK! magazine, published by Kick Publishing Company, hit newsstands on Dec. 1. As the third black LGBT media company established in America, the [...]
18 neighborhood groups share $1.5 million from Kresge for projects across Detroit
The Kresge Foundation announced last month that it has $1.5 million in grants for 18 new projects and is planning efforts to revitalize neighborhoods across Detroit. The grants are the first to be awarded in the $6 million, three-year relaunch of [...]
Meet Affirmations Volunteer Noah Cohen
This article was submitted by Kyle Taylor, development coordinator at Affirmations. Noah Cohen has been a volunteer at Affirmations since April of 2016. The LGBT community center has been receiving the support of volunteers like Cohen since [...]
AT&T 'Turns Up the Love' to Celebrate Pride with a $1M Commitment to The Trevor Project
For Pride Month, AT&T has announced a $1 million donation and a multi-year partnership with The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ [...]