By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - Some came to enjoy community. Some came to support each other, or to support a cause. For others, it was a chance to make friends, or a chance to [...]

By John Quinn CHICAGO, IL - One and a half minutes of original verse might have been his key to victory as Michael Egdes took first place at the International Mr. Leather competition in Chicago [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman SOUTHFIELD - An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That's the new philosophy of Michigan AIDS Fund, which will concentrate its funding on prevention programs alone during the [...]

Considering Pope Benedict's recent ranting against gays and lesbians (basically the same old "gay marriage=the destruction of family" tune), I was considering crowning the pope Creep this week. But then I read that Texas Governor [...]

ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan/Ann Arbor Office of LGBT Affairs will offer a nine-week coming out group beginning June 16. The group will help participants explore a variety of coming out issues, and [...]

"Today's various forms of dissolution of marriage, free unions, trial marriages as well as the pseudo-matrimonies between people of the same sex are instead expressions of anarchic freedom which falsely tries to pass itself off [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - On again, off again. That's the story of the attempted American Family Association boycott of Ford Motor Company. One week after announcing the boycott, on June 6 the AFA [...]

UofM to host spring/summer LGBTQ Coming Out Group ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan/Ann Arbor Office of LGBT Affairs will offer a nine-week coming out group beginning June 9. The group will help participants [...]

LANSING - TransGender Michigan has joined the Lance Armstrong Foundation, AIDS Partnership Michigan, and other organizations that are using brightly-colored silicone bracelets to raise funds and awareness. TransGender Michigan's orange bracelets say, "Transgenerator," and the [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman HOLLAND - Speaking up for gay rights is detrimental to your career, at least if you're a professor at Hope College. That's the message that Dr. Miguel De La Torre says [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman CLARKSTON - Divine Peace Metropolitan Community Church will host a day-long series of free workshops on June 11 to help participants get their financial, personal and relationship "houses" in order. Individual [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - Roughly thirty-five to forty thousand business people, artists, activists, organizers and revelers made downtown Ferndale their temporary home on June 5 for Motor City Pride 2005. Sean Kosofsky, policy [...]

By Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE - Motor City Pride 2005 painted a true picture of the many faces of Michigan's LGBT and gay-friendly communities. Thousands of people passed under the rainbow balloons arching over Nine Mile [...]

BY SHARON GITTLEMAN FERNDALE - Suzanne McNeil and Wanda Durland's lifelong love affair seems to have been written in the stars. The couple met when Durland was 11 and McNeil was just 13. "We fell [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - A protest by anti-gay parents in Troy has backfired. Rather than stopping a message of tolerance, that message has proliferated beyond Michigan. The poster, which was created by Ferndale's [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - After thirteen years, Ferndale's women's bookstore will be closing its doors this month. "My first priority was to find someone to keep the store open as 'A Woman's Prerogative [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Pride means hugs. New and old friends hug each other, partners hug each other - in public - and PFLAG parents hug everyone. Pride means activism, from the Human Rights Campaign [...]

DETROIT - The year was 1999; the place Oakland, Calif. Alice McKeage was attending a Creating Change conference and dropped in a session sponsored by The Color Triangle, a Chicago-based group that examined racism in [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman BOSTON - Three people. Three cities. Three hours. Just like that, a website responding to the American Family Association's attempted boycott of Ford Motor Company was born. The site was the [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman National Security Gay Purple Heart honoree discharged SANTA BARBARA, Ca. - Sgt. Robert Stout, the Army sergeant who came out after being awarded the Purple Heart for bravery in Iraq, [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman California: A bill to legalize equal marriage rights died June 2 after it failed to gain the simple majority needed to pass the state Assembly. The bill lost by four [...]