Between the Lines (newspaper)

{{Short description|American LGBT newspaper}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Between the Lines | logo = Between the Lines logo|200px | image = 175px|Front page of ''Between the Lines'', January 3, 2013 | caption = Front page of ''Between the Lines''<br />January 3, 2013 | type = Biweekly newspaper | format = Tabloid | owners = Pride Source Media Group, LLC.<ref name="btl-about">{{cite web | url=http://www.pridesource.com/about_us.html | title=About Us | work=Between the Lines | access-date=February 7, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427113725/http://www.pridesource.com/about_us.html | archive-date=2014-04-27 | url-status=dead }}</ref> | publisher = Benjamin Jenkins<ref name="btl-about" /><ref name="wdet-expo">{{cite news | url=https://pridesource.com/about-pride-source/ | title=About Pride Source | work=WDET-FM | access-date=January 20, 2022 }}</ref><ref name="qs-contact">{{cite web | url=http://www.qsyndicate.com/contact.html | title=Contact | publisher=Q Syndicate | access-date=February 8, 2013 | archive-date=July 1, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701194212/http://www.qsyndicate.com/contact.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> | founder = Mark Weinstein <ref name="btl-52908">{{cite news | url=http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=30618 | title=Looking back, moving forward | work=Between the Lines | date=May 29, 2008 | access-date=February 8, 2013 | author=Carreras, Jessica | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050318/http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=30618 | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> | managing_editor = Sarah Bricker Hunt <ref name="btl-about" /> | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | seniorstaff = | staff_writers = | founded = 1993 | political_position = | language = English | ceased_publication = | relaunched = | headquarters = Ann Arbor, Michigan<ref name="btl-about" /> | circulation = 18,652 {{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = 1080-7551 | oclc = 28202161 | website = [http://pridesource.com pridesource.com] }} '''''Between the Lines''''' is an LGBT newspaper in the Michigan area.<ref name="kompes-50">{{cite book | title=Fifty fabulous gay-friendly places to live | publisher=Career Press | author=Kompes, Gregory A. | year=2005 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwkybpDc5O0C&q=%22between+the+lines%22+gay&pg=PA194 | access-date=February 8, 2013| isbn=9781564148278 }}</ref><ref name="lp-usa">{{cite book | title=USA | publisher=Lonely Planet | year=2004 | pages=406 | author1=Campbell, Jeff | author2=Chilcoat, Loretta | author3=Derby, Susan}}</ref><ref name="baim-obama">{{cite book | title=Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage | publisher=CreateSpace | author=Lamb, Vince | year=2010 | pages=82}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Between The Lines newspaper in Farmington Michigan|url=https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/22/7640/25301|access-date=2020-12-26|website=www.mondotimes.com}}</ref> It is headquartered in Livonia, Metro Detroit.<ref>"[http://www.pridesource.com/about_us.html About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427113725/http://www.pridesource.com/about_us.html |date=2014-04-27 }}." ''PrideSource''. Retrieved on April 14, 2014. "Mailing address Pride Source Media Group Between the Lines Newspaper 20222 Farmington Road Livonia, Michigan 48152"</ref> It is a member publication of the National Gay Media Association and is affiliated with Q Syndicate, an LGBT content provider founded in 1995.<ref name="qs-contact" />

==Voters guide== During election years, the newspaper publishes a voters guide with endorsements of political candidates running for office in Michigan.<ref name="examiner-72612">{{cite news | title=Stabenow, Irwin, Kuhnke endorsed by Between the Lines | work=Examiner.com | date=July 26, 2012 | author=Lamb, Vince}}</ref>

==Community activities== The newspaper sponsors a number of LGBT events in the area.<ref name="btl-52908" /> ''Between the Lines'' also organizes a Same-Sex Couples Wedding Expo, coordinated by one of the paper's publishers, Jan Stevenson.<ref name="wdet-expo" />

==History== ''Between the Lines'' was founded by Mark Weinstein in 1995.<ref name="btl-52908" />

In the summer of 1995, Susan Horowitz and Jan Stevenson purchased the paper during a meeting Horowitz had with Shannon Rhodes, then the editor of ''Between the Lines''. At the time of the sale, the publication was a 12-page monthly LGBT newspaper.<ref name="btl-52908" />

Horowitz, an activist from New York City, had a background in publishing as founder of Pride Publishing, Inc., and also served as the first executive director of New Festival.<ref name="qs-contact" /> She took over the editorial aspect of the paper.<ref name="btl-52908" /> Stevenson, a former corporate banker and first executive director of Affirmations Community Center,<ref name="qs-contact" /> took over advertising.<ref name="btl-52908" />

Since the sale, the paper has utilized writers that have included artist Charles Alexander, Oakland University communications department chair Shea Howell, and John Burchett, who would go on to serve as Governor Granholm's chief of staff. Horowitz and Stevenson released their first issue as co-publishers in December 1995.<ref name="btl-52908" />

At the time, many LGBT people in Michigan remained closeted and the fight for LGBT rights was one that was often fought by individuals rather than organizations. As a result, few people wanted to give the paper their full name and fewer were willing to be photographed.<ref name="btl-52908" />

''Between the Lines'' has covered such events as the discovery of protease inhibitors, the decision by the Michigan-based auto makers to offer domestic partnership benefits to their employees, and passage of the Michigan constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex relationship recognition in the state, Proposal 2.<ref name="btl-52908" />

As of the end of 2020, Horowitz and Stevenson retired. New publishers, Benjamin Jenkins and Thomas Wesley, took over on January 1, 2021.

==See also== * LGBT community of Metro Detroit

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.pridesource.com/ ''Between the Lines'' Online]

Category:Newspapers published in Michigan Category:LGBTQ culture in Michigan Between The Lines Category:Newspapers established in 1995 Category:1990s LGBTQ literature Category:1995 establishments in Michigan