Sleigh the Holidays: Staff Gift Picks for Every Name On Your List
Looking for the perfect gift to honor your chosen family this season? Give the gift of Michigan adventure, support local LGBTQ+ businesses, and celebrate queer [...]
Shine Bright, Shop Smart: How to Nail Your Jewelry Gift Game This Holiday Season
There are reasons why jewelry is a top gift year after year: Jewelry is timeless, thoughtful and special. What’s not to love?But when money, infinite [...]
6 Michigan LGBTQ-Owned Businesses You Can Support This Holiday Season
Corporations pulled out all the stops during this year's Pride Month, elevating and profiting from the rainbow mafia through witty slogans, gleeful commercials [...]
The Ultimate Holigay Gift Guide: 14 Ideas To Make the Season Bright
Let's face it, two things are true: most of us don't need more stuff, and it's fun to give and receive presents. So shop smart and support local artists, small [...]
Giving the Gift of Giving
With fewer than two months left until the winter holidays, gift-giving, and subsequently gift-shopping, season is in full swing. However, as magical as it can [...]
BTL 2019 Gift Guide
Shopping for the holidays is an annual tradition that for most, whether they love or hate it, starts in November and lasts all the way through the end of [...]
2019 Holiday Events Around Metro Detroit
Detroit Cocktail Camp: International Holiday Drinks — Nov. 17 Take a trip around the world, learning how to make a variety of holiday drinks with the [...]
Connect, Support and Volunteer During the Holiday Season
During this divisive political era it sometimes seems like everyone has taken sides in a never-ending fight. That's why preparing for the upcoming winter [...]
Shop the All Things Detroit Online Marketplace This Holiday Season
Six years ago Jennyfer Crawford set out to build a community of entrepreneurs and makers. From her one-bedroom apartment the self-taught entrepreneur began [...]
Happy Holi-gays: Gifts By and For LGBTQ Friends and Family
Keep it in the "family" this year by giving these gifts from LGBTQ-led businesses designed with our queer brothers and sisters in mind. Furious Goose Pocket [...]
Holiday Markets & Craft Shows
Christmas Market at the Anton Art Center 125 Macomb Place, Mount Clemens Friday, Nov. 16 – Saturday, Dec. 22 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays and [...]
Stylists Beating Hunger Seek Donations for Thanksgiving Meal
photo: GIFT_BRF_HotMeal_2546.jpg Lexie Washington, owner of Salon Kinki in Detroit, started the non-profit organization, Stylists Beating Hunger, to collect [...]
Parents Inspired By Gay Son, Give Back to LGBTQ Youth
BY EVE KUCHARSKI Madelyn and Jim Cosens are known for serving up some of the best mac 'n' cheese for dinner at the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park every [...]
EQMI Gives Thanks in the Month of Thanksgiving
BY BTL STAFF Tired of all the negativity in our country, our state and our community? It's enough to create a state of depression. Since November is the month [...]
Affirmative Living
BY JONATHAN W. THURSTON In the spirit of the holiday season, it's important to think about ways to give back to the community, and helping local non-profits [...]
Voice of Volunteer Lawrence Pennymon
For those who are wondering what it's like to volunteer, Lawrence Pennymon says, "It's beautiful work." Since 2008, he has been dedicating his time, talents [...]
Love Wears On
Love loud and proud. That's the message Michigan-based clothing company Closets are for Clothes is sending with their custom T-shirt designs made to support [...]
Local Organizations Emphasize Giving, Not Getting This Holiday Season
BY BTL STAFF The Between The Lines Holiday Gift Guide is full of the best entertainment ideas and the hottest gift ideas for the LGBT community, thanks to the [...]
The Frivolist: 6 Ways To Lessen The Gut-Busting Effects Of Your Thanksgiving Binge
Thanksgiving is a holiday of gratitude and family, indulgence and indigestion. Embrace the former while ditching the latter with these actionable ways to [...]
Fashionably Festive 2015
BY AJ TRAGER BC Cabangbang TROY – BC Cabangbang came out at 25 but knew at the age of 9 that there was something a little different about himself. Faith and [...]
Don We Now Our 'Gay' Apparel... And Other LGBT Gifts This Season
It's that time again: time to either excitedly purchase gifts for your loved ones, or begrudgingly put off the holiday gift buying task until you're [...]
Detroit's AJ O'Neil Boldly Brews New Career Venture
BY AJ TRAGER AJ O'Neil, founder of Detroit Bold Coffee Co., was the owner and operator of AJ's Cafe in Ferndale until it closed in 2012. BTL photo: AJ Trager [...]
Designing Below The Belt
BY AJ TRAGER Jerome Fulton, 28, has returned to Michigan after spending eight years in NYC to launch his first comfy and sexy underwear line designed for the [...]
