Senator Alan Cropsey As the rock band Judas Priest is "Hell Bent for Leather," so is Michigan Senator Alan Cropsey (R-Dewitt) hell bent for homos. He just can't stop thinking about them, specifically about how [...]

"There's so much shame attached to all forms of sexuality in America, let alone homosexuality. You have to say, 'It's great being gay. I'm great. The person I am is good enough and absolutely as [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - Despite beautiful weather and an increase of one thousand walkers over 2004, AIDS Walk Michigan has raised about 14.5 percent less than the event collected last year, according to [...]

FERNDALE Ð Emotions Anonymous is forming a new chapter that will meet at Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Meetings will begin at 7:30 p.m. Emotions Anonymous offers a twelve-step [...]

ANN ARBOR - A diverse group of people from the Washtenaw County LGBT and allied community is organizing with a goal of building a Habitat for Humanity house in the county in the spring of [...]

FERNDALE - In an effort coordinated by Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center, students from around the metro Detroit area and the state will gather together to create a Regional Gay Straight Alliance at a [...]

LANSING - TransGender Michigan has announced the appointment of Raynard 'Toney' Campbell and Sabrina J. Arbour to the organization's Executive Board. Campbell, nineteen, is from Detroit, and is in his second year with AmeriCorps through [...]

LANSING - TransGender Michigan is in the process of creating a scholarship fund for college and university students in Michigan who are actively working to counter transgender oppression. TransGender Michigan's T.J. Jourian Scholarship is named [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman HUNTINGTON WOODS - PFLAG volunteer Barbara Lee Christiansen passed away on Monday, Sept. 19 in her Huntington Woods home. According to her obituary in the Sept. 21 Daily Tribune, Christiansen "enriched [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - The anti-gay industry has responded as expected to Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Joyce Draganchuk's Sept. 27 ruling protecting domestic partner benefits for the partners and families of state [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FLINT - Flint City Council President Johnnie Coleman forgot to look for cameras on Sept. 21 when he made remarks that have outraged members of the LGBT community. According to Triangle [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman According to http://www.nlaad.org, the Web site for National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, "in 2001, over 150,000 Latino AIDS cases have been reported and Latinos comprise 14 percent of the population [...]

DETROIT - City Council President Maryann Mahaffey, who has served the citizens of Detroit for 31 years, announced last week that she plans to retire at the end of the year. The announcement put an [...]

By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON - There was plenty of cause for gays to experience whiplash as the U.S. Supreme Court opened its 2005-06 session this week. First was the sight of the court's most liberal [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Have you always wanted to come out, but didn't want to take that step alone? Never fear - on Tuesday, Oct. 11, LGBTs will be coming out all over on [...]

By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON - The confirmation last Thursday of federal judge John Roberts Jr. to become the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court said some things about the status of gay civil [...]

Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Marriage Schwarzenegger vetoes equal marriage bill, signs other pro-gay bills SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger followed through Sept. 28 on his promise to veto a bill to legalize equal marriage [...]

WASHINGTON - The anti-gay group Focus on the Family took out ads in fourteen papers across Michigan on Oct. 2, including the Detroit News and Free Press, criticizing Michigan's U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow for her [...]