Then there was a switch around in 1995 and Jan Stevenson, who had been the executive director of Affirmations, took over the paper with her partner Susan Horowitz, who had recently moved to Michigan from New York.” I helped Shannon some but ultimately we parted ways. “So Shannon Rose came in and later Julie Enser and the two of them were owners of the paper for about year. “I didn’t want to do it,” said Rosenberg. Then he published the paper for about 11 months.”īy this time, Weinstein was looking to move to a radical faerie community, so he sought out someone to take over his publishing responsibilities.
“I also helped provide some seed money to help print the first edition and helped him secure some advertising.
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“I helped out until Mark got his footings on using the software and then he really is the one who made the paper what it was,” said Rosenberg. The first edition came out in April 1993, and the two commenced a monthly publishing schedule. So I helped him use the PageMaker software and we crafted the paper together.” We were able to go to the University of Michigan computer center, which at that time you didn’t need any ID to get into. My skills were that I was able to use PageMaker software and that’s what we used to make the newspaper. So in terms of writing and editorial he was a natural fit for a newspaper. “He was very good and he was a great thinker and an excellent writer,” said Rosenberg of his friend. Rosenberg was friends with Mark Weinstein, a writer just back from an extended tour of Europe who needed to find a job. “I needed a newspaper to advertise in because back in those days that was the only way people found out about you,” Rosenberg recalled. There had been LGBT publications in the area before, most notably 10 Percent, which was later renamed the Michigan Tribune before it had stopped publishing almost 25 years ago.Īfter two years, Rosenberg, a Long Island, New York native, had called it quits at the University of Michigan Medical School and was working as a certified massage therapist.
David Rosenberg’s involvement with Between The Lines dates back to 1993 when there was no LGBT newspaper in circulation in Michigan.