Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Politics Equality foes turn focus to marriage ban AUGUSTA, Maine - A day after Maine voters decided to keep the state's gay rights law on the books, the losing side [...]

Attorney General Mike Cox On Nov. 9, Attorney General Mike Cox held a press conference to announce that he had cheated on his wife. He said, in essence, that it was stupid, all his fault, [...]

"I don't want to be part of some club that doesn't include everybody." - Comedian Sarah Silverman on why she doesn't want to get married as quoted in the Nov. 17, 2005 issue of Rolling [...]

FLINT - The Flint Faith Action Network has rescheduled its Nov. 5 Non-Violent Dialogue Training for Saturday, Nov. 19. The training will be held at Woodside Church, 1509 E. Court St. in Flint from 1-5 [...]

YPSILANTI - LGBT community members will come together on Sunday, Nov. 20 to congratulate and thank Michael Gibson-Faith, former head of the American Friends Service Committee's LGBT Issues Program, for his service. As reported by [...]

ANN ARBOR - The following events have been added to planned University of Michigan events in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20. For more information about these events visit http://www.umich.edu/~lgbta, or contact [...]

FERNDALE - On Oct. 22, 150 members and friends of Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit ordained and installed Rev. Kevin Kinsel as their Associate Pastor of Congregational Life. Kinsel, an openly gay minister, just completed [...]

GRAND RAPIDS - Reconciliation Metropolitan Community Church will hold a weekend-long 25th anniversary celebration Dec. 2-4. The weekend's events will begin with a concert by Christian artists Judy Cassidy and Danny Riddle on Dec. 2 [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. - Over 60 LGBT activists from Michigan joined more than 2,300 other radical, elderly, young, black, Asian Pacific, button-downed, outrageous, experienced, newly exposed and otherwise diverse activists at the 18th Annual Creating Change [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - On Nov. 4, two local experts on domestic partner benefits addressed the afternoon session of "Gender and Corporate Citizenship," a forum sponsored by Wayne State University's Center for the [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman FERNDALE - Despite the passage of the anti-gay family ban on equal marriage rights in Texas, 2005 also held bright news for LGBT voters. Twenty-four out of thirty-eight candidates endorsed by [...]

By the Associated Press WASHINGTON - A push by extremists to ban equal marriage rights through a constitutional amendment gained renewed momentum Nov. 9 after a Senate panel led by Kansas Republican Sam Brownback narrowly [...]

By Cornelius A. Fortune WARREN - The Michigan Human Rights Campaign 2005 Gala Dinner Evening of the Stars was held Saturday, Nov. 12 at Andiamos Celebrity Showroom in Warren. A crowd of about 400 gathered [...]

By Lisa Keen After 28 years of trying, Maine civil rights supporters finally won statewide protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Activists have won passage of the law through the legislature four times only [...]

By Cornelius A. Fortune DETROIT - As the cold wind crept across the street and ruffled the clothes of the well-bundled gatherers, signs of protest held high, a woman leaned out of her car to [...]

By Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE - Last March, Christine Hughes finally told her parents and siblings what she had discovered about herself. "He invited me out to breakfast," said Hughes' mother, Lois Hughes. "I said, 'Are [...]

By RJ Beaumia ANN ARBOR - Last Friday night the Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project paid tribute to those whose outstanding public service to the greater community has included a commitment to the cause of LGBT [...]