HAVEN to host Take Back the Night event in Auburn Hills
PONTIAC – HAVEN, Oakland County's only 24-hour emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, will host Take Back the Night on [...]
Onward, LGBT soldiers!
We know that small-minded people calling themselves "Christians" are on the march. We see that trend every week here at BTL, and this week's news is no [...]
Scarab Club to host poetry reading April 13
DETROIT – April is National Poetry Month and D'Anne Witkowski, BTL's managing editor by day, poet by night, will be reading during the Second Thursday Poetry [...]
Swordfighting Demonstration to be held at UofM April 7
ANN ARBOR – Students from Aegis Consulting will hold a demonstration of Western European Swordfighting on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Diag from 4-6 [...]
Community building through the arts
ROYAL OAK – Do you ever feel like you spend more time in front of a computer or a television than you do interacting with people in your community? Do you feel [...]
Curtain Calls
Review: 'Fiddler on the Roof' Sun sets on season as 'tradition' finally finds its way to JET If there are two things in the world that would seem to be a [...]
Curtain Calls XTRA
TIDBITS: Fundraisers around town Bring out the tropical attire for Stagecrafters' fundraiser ROYAL OAK – Stagecrafters will host a South Pacific Beach Party [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Halle Berry is 'Watching God' Fans of Zora Neale Hurston, writer and folklorist of the very queer Harlem Renaissance, have Oprah Winfrey [...]
Hundreds stand up against Bush
By Sarah Mieras KALAMAZOO – A tight line of more than one hundred state and local police cross Sprinkle Road on Kalamazoo's southeast side. Behind them police [...]
In Times of War
By Michael Gibson-Faith {HEADER "I am not suggesting we sit back and do nothing, but does disagreement mean we must go to war over those differences? The call [...]
Family Lobby Day set for May 11
LANSING – Michigan families will take to the Capitol on Tues. May 11 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to lobby their legislators on behalf of LGBT families. Bev [...]
Lesbian couple married at courthouse
PONTIAC – On April 29, holding the hand of their 21-month-old son Paul, Heidi Barnette and Angela Kurtz of Clarkston were married by the Rev. Deb Dysert, [...]