School Officials Mistake Graduation Ceremony for Gender Reveal Party, Exclude Trans Student and Girl In Pants
It’s graduation time! Kids across the country will be donning caps and gowns and walking across stages to get their diplomas.It’s a weird ritual, [...]
Coming Out as Mentally Ill
I was 17 in 1989 when I came out to my mother, or rather when she found my collection of Playgirl and Blue Boy magazines. I moved out of my parents' house, got [...]
Conservatives Apply Maximum Spin to Jordan Neely Killing by White Marine, Blame Him for His Own Murder Because… Pronouns?
On May 1, Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old white man, put Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black man, in a chokehold on the subway in New York and killed him.Neely, who [...]
Final Show For Late Artist, Pride Source/Between The Lines Columnist to Open This Week
He left us in December but his memory will always linger on in metro Detroit’s queer community.The work of artist and longtime Between The Lines columnist [...]
Florida Republicans Working Overtime to Make the State a Hellscape for Trans People
Things for trans and non-binary people in Florida, especially kids, are just getting worse and worse by the day.Republicans have a supermajority in Florida [...]
That Night I Posed with Billy Porter
I like to think I’ve always been ahead of the times. Contemporary. Progressive. In the know. And I certainly was when it comes to the multi-talented star [...]
Hero Lawmakers Stand Up Against GOP Anti-Trans Obsession
A shout out and a “Hell yeah!” to Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr, Nebraska State Sen. Megan Hunt and Nebraska State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh who are [...]
Sybil Offen, My Late-in-Life Lesbian Friend, Was the Best Jewish Mother a Baby Dyke Could Have
The nametag stopped me in my tracks. I immediately swung around to talk to the gray-haired woman with a friendly face sitting in the author booth at the March [...]
Fox News Fires Tucker Carlson As If Nothing Is Even Sacred Anymore
It’s almost 4 in the morning and I can’t sleep. A fun part of getting older. And so I’m up reading about white nationalist Tucker Carlson [...]
The Year of Opal
It is with humility, pride and a bit of awe that I celebrate my 24th year with Between The Lines and Pride Source this month. The traditional theme for a 24th [...]
The Complicated Reasons Why the Fisting Scene in Detroit Is So Downlow
A few weeks ago, I almost went to my first live fisting show.A popular tweeter and OnlyFans performer casually announced on Twitter that he’d be fisting a [...]
Equality Florida: Get Out While You Still Can as State Gears Up for Hot Fascist Summer
Things are heating up in Florida, and I’m not just talking about the weather. The state is gearing up for one hell of a Hot Fascist Summer.On April 16, [...]
