Inside the Trump Media Cage
The paranoia related to the media was on sure display Friday in Dimondale during the visit of GOP Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. The media, of [...]
Make America Great Again? Ain't Nobody Got Time for That Rhetoric!
Waiting in line at a popular restaurant, I overheard another patron (Caucasian male around 70) approach the hostess and say "Where's the men's room or should [...]
Transmissions: Fitting Together
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith When I was still in the process of coming out, I found that one of the friends who seemed to have the hardest time dealing with my [...]
Letter: In Time of Turmoil
In this time of ongoing turmoil, student exchange is good medicine for a world torn by terror. We want to invite the families of Livonia to help us combat [...]
RE: "How Hot Is It? Detroit Black Gay Pride Struggles In Its Third Decade"
It's disappointing that this article appears to be neither fair nor balanced. It seems to me, the only people the reporter found to interview were those who [...]
Michigan Supreme Court Lets Down LGBT Families, Again
By Jay Kaplan The verdict is in, it seems: LGBT co-parents can have their kids unilaterally taken away from them by their former partner (the legal parent) – [...]
Transmissions: Breaking conventions
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith It was one of those rare moments of kismet. I had just come downstairs and turned on the television. On it was an attractive young [...]
Mombian: The Republican Platform: Leaving Out Love
By Dana Rudolph I had a good time poking fun at the plagiarism and grandstanding of the Republican Convention, as did many of my left-leaning friends. My [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
