Atty Gen. Bill Schuette's Lawsuit Ignores the Facts: Transgender Students Thrive in Safe, Affirming Schools
By Charin Davenport, Coleen Young, Rebecca Jayne Veal, Lisa A. Goyette, Ginger Clifton, Sara Jacobs, Jayne Locke At some point during the typical school day, [...]
Courts Decision Harms Kids of LGBT Parents
By Jay Kaplan Last week's decision in the ACLU's equitable parent case, Lake v Putnam, was definitely a step backward for LGBT rights in Michigan. A panel of [...]
Creep Of The Week: Mike Pence
Was anyone really surprised that Donald Trump picked Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his co-captain for the most terrifying boat ride since the Titanic? Pence [...]
Parting Glances: My Nearly Forgotten Gay Twenties
I went to my first gay bar, the Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. Just 19, I used borrowed ID, escorted authoritatively by two [...]
Creep Of The Week: Raul Labrador
With the massacre of men and women at a gay club in Orlando barely behind us, one could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that this horrific hate crime had [...]
Parting Glances: A Parade to Affirm 49 Times
CHICAGO: This is my tenth trip to the Windy City to take part in its Annual Pride Parade gathering. Since I first started to visit the city in 1959, I've seen [...]
Transmissions: Running The Numbers
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Roughly twenty years ago, in the mid 1990s, I was managing the first public transgender community space on the then-nascent Internet. [...]
Viewpoint: After Orlando
By Jenny Suidan Just before Pride in 2004, I received a phone call from Between The Lines, telling me that I had been selected as a rising star for being an [...]
Viewpoint: Fluidity for All
by Heather Aymer The dichotomy of either/or, male this, female that, is so built into our society we readily assume it a natural course, a categorical [...]
