SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP - They could well be the poster family for domestic partnership benefits in Michigan; and, indeed, they are co-plaintiffs with 20 other families in the ACLU lawsuit that seeks to ensure that state-funded [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman BANGOR, Mich. - A lesbian couple have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down Proposal 2, the anti-marriage amendment passed in November 2004. However, the couple is also in talks [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WASHINGTON - He thinks gays and lesbians should be sent to jail for having sex in the privacy of their own homes. As Alabama's Attorney General, he filed briefs trying to [...]

by R.J. Beaumia YPSILANTI - Cristy Cardinal had a long day at Washtenaw Pride. She was drenched from the last of three rainstorms happening within four hours. It seemed that every time she'd attempt to [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Politics Texas Gov. slams gay veterans FORT WORTH Ð Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry on June 5 insinuated the state's lesbian, gay and bisexual war veterans should leave the state [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Maine: A proposed constitutional amendment seeking to ban equal marriage rights in the state is dead for the current legislative session following a Senate vote June 8. The amendment needed [...]

By BTL Staff TRENTON - A New Jersey appeals court issued a 2-1 ruling on June 14 in favor of that state's law against equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. The case will now move [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WASHINGTON - Free Press reports that a U.S. congressional subcommittee has slashed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget by $100 million and voted to "zero out" all federal money for CPB [...]

Rev. Bill Banuchi Competition for Creep this week was steep. Word must be getting around about this column. First there was Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who earned the title of Creep last week for signing [...]

"Texans have made a decision about marriage and if there is some other state that has a more lenient view than Texas then maybe that's a better place for them to live." - Texas Gov. [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman HOLLAND - He's straight. He's a conservative Christian. And he supports full civil rights, including marriage, for gays and lesbians. In an era when Christians are generally linked with oppression of [...]

HOWELL - Draped in green satin robes and mortarboard hats, a group of 35 Howell High School seniors walked proudly down the track at the athletic field in a local park June 11. The sound [...]

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 [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman HOLLAND - The latest thrust on behalf of equal marriage rights hasn't come from the liberal left. It has come from the conservative right - the Christian conservative right. No, James [...]