Parting Glances: The Best of Sister Scatterpin (1 of 3)
No matter the time or the weather, there's something emotionally tingling about the cellphone vibrations whenever Sr. Serena Scatterpin, Renegade Sisters of [...]
Parting Glances: Been there! Done that!
"It's a pity that youth is wasted on the young," said George Bernard Shaw, whose play "Pygmalion" was given a fresh start, with an ongoing heart pacer as [...]
Parting Glances: A visitor from my Past
It's been 65 years since I last saw the young man who now sits across from me. He has at age 19 what a friend calls "the lyric poetry of youth:" a freshness of [...]
Parting Glances: Gay Life, Circa 1955
At 19, I went to my first gay bar, The Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. I used borrowed ID, was escorted authoritatively by [...]
Parting Glances: 9,135 days later!
This week's issue of Between The Lines marks the kickoff of our celebration of 25 years of our dedicated, meaningful, challenging, rainbow-community outreach [...]
Parting Glances: Memories of a Detroit Gay Past
For five dynamic years — 1940 to 1945 — Detroit was America's Arsenal of Democracy, a vital source of war materials and weapons. First, for England's defense, [...]
Parting Glances: Tidbits from Tan-Tam Tammy
In 1987 some 165,000 people pledged $1,000 to Muskegon-born Jim Bakker's Heritage USA, a Bible-themed vacation and so-called recreation village. For their [...]
Parting Glances: Keys! Wallet! iPhone! (Amen.)
After five years of faithful, heavy-duty service the battery in my expensive gift Shinola wrist watch expired. I should have known it was going to happen, [...]
Parting Glances: My 10 Minutes in Heaven (Pt. 3)
My out-of-body guide, Archangel Diva Deluxe tapped me three times with her magical wand of LGBTQ truth and saving grace circumstance on my D&G-designed [...]
Parting Glances Ten in Seventh Heaven (Pt.2 of 3)
It's 12:01 a.m. according to my now celestial iPhone. I have been just 60 seconds in Heaven — the result of a Michigan Republican-sponsored pothole tripping [...]
Parting Glances: Ten in Seventh Heaven (Pt. 1)
MODEST DISCLAIMER: There are several books about afterlife experiences on the New York Times Best Seller list, including one by a 5-year-old kid (with a little [...]
Parting Glances: A Fairy Tale for T and P
Once upon an evil time, when darkness began to gather, hate by political hate, at rainbow's near end of tunnel, those anointed LGBT and Q by special life's [...]
