Jan Stevenson
You're Invited! Come Celebrate Marriage Equality at Sunday's Expo
All of us at Between The Lines are totally excited about the Ultimate LGBT Wedding & Anniversary Expo at the MotorCity Casino Hotel from noon to 5 p.m. this Sunday, and we are hoping that you will join us for this fabulous celebration of [...]
Schlichting Talks Leadership And Being An LGBT Role Model
Nancy Schlichting, CEO of Henry Ford Health System, discussed her new book with Linda Forte, SVP Comerica Bank. The event was sponsored by Inforum, a professional womens networking organization, and attracted over 300 people to The Gem Theatre in [...]
Polling v. Modeling: Can A Ballot Initiative Win In 2016?
Radically different polling and modeling numbers were reported at an LGBT community forum Dec. 7 on the topic of a ballot initiative for LGBT and women's civil rights. Polling data from Fair Michigan, the ballot question committee led by civil [...]
Siver Seeks Mayoral Office Via The High Road
SOUTHFIELD – What was supposed to be a routine afternoon fundraiser for a local politician instead became an animated discussion on slurs and the vandalism of Kenson Siver's campaign signs with anti-gay graffiti. Siver, who is openly gay and [...]
Backlash Fought With Power And Love At Religious Symposium
Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Rev. Roland Stringfellow, senior pastor at Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit, encouraged people to celebrate victories but stay vigilant in fighting the backlash. [...]
Obituary: Sharon Hope Gittleman
Sharon Hope Gittleman, 56, had been a writer for Between The Lines until she became disabled eight years ago due to kidney disease. After two failed kidney transplants and an extended illness, she ultimately succumbed to complications of dialysis [...]
Lawmakers Voice Support For LGBT Community
From left to right in back: Michael Freeman (an elected Trustee for Mott Community College), Mark LaChey (MDP LGBT&A Caucus Chair), U.S. Congressman Dan Kildee, State Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, State Rep. Sheldon Neeley, Flint Mayor [...]
BTL Op-Ed: A Huge Win Towards Full Equality
Forty-six years after the Stonewall Rebellion, almost to the day, marriage equality has finally become the law of the land. In some ways it feels lightening fast. And yet it also feels that it took way too long, with decades of struggle, setbacks, [...]
1958: Gay Press Wins In SCOTUS' First-Ever Pro-Gay Ruling
On Jan. 13, 1958, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its first ever pro-gay ruling in ONE Inc. v. Olesen, a landmark decision that allowed a magazine for gays and lesbians to be sent through the U.S. mail. ONE, Inc. was founded by four Los Angeles [...]
BTL Op-Ed: A Huge Win Towards Full Equality
Forty-six years after the Stonewall Rebellion, almost to the day, marriage equality has finally become the law of the land. In some ways it feels lightening fast. And yet it also feels that it took way too long, with decades of struggle, setbacks, [...]
38 Local Non-Discrimination Ordinances Saved
Rep. Jeremy Moss, D-Southfield. BTL photo: Rita Deibler LANSING — LGBT activists breathed a sigh of relief when a provision that could have invalidated all 38 LGBT inclusive anti-discrimination ordinances in Michigan was removed from the final [...]
Legislature's Agenda Full Of Potholes
The Republican controlled state legislature is so upset at the prospect of marriage equality that they have abandoned their legislative responsibilities and instead have focused on attacking LGBT people and their rights — again! State legislators [...]