Compiled by Dawn Wolfe Gutterman Court ducks constitutional marriage question SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court sidestepped whether it was unconstitutional under federal and state law to deny gays and lesbians the right to [...]

Mary Cheney Mary has been taking some heat in the wake of the publication of her new memoir and last week's "tell-all" interview with Diane Sawyer (now there's a reporter who knows how to grab [...]

"You can leave this show and say, 'I think this guy is an arrogant jerk,' or think, 'This band is better than this one,' because these are your opinions. The only thing we consider unacceptable [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - On April 28, AIDS Consortium of SE Michigan, the first AIDS service provider in Detroit to receive funding for case management services, closed its doors after 16 years. Board [...]

ANN ARBOR - The next meeting of the Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project's re-formed Men's group will be Saturday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the WRAP offices in Ann Arbor's Braun Court. The group is [...]

The Peninsula Group, a volunteer strategic planning team formed in Michigan following the passage of Proposal 2 in 2004, has created an online survey to learn about the values and beliefs of Michigan's LGBT community [...]

LANSING - TransGender Michigan is seeking new board of directors members to help the organization with fundraising, program development and representing and assisting Michigan's transgender community. TransGender Michigan's mission states: "Because transgender individuals and significant [...]

BY SHARON GITTLEMAN BERKLEY - When the four people stepped away from the podium at Our Lady of La Salette Parish's meeting room in Berkley last week, many in the audience were daubing tears from [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING - In Michigan, it's legal for an employer to fire you or deny you employment if you smoke, have the wrong bumper sticker on your car or drink the wrong [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WASHINGTON - The push against homophobic bigotry can, at times, feel like as big and as hopeless a task as the one faced by Sisyphus. Human rights activists achieved equal marriage [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman {URL KALAMAZOO - On April 29, Western Michigan University hosted FTM North, a conference for male to female transgender individuals and allies. Organizer Eric Fleming of Kalamazoo said that 65 individuals [...]

PONTIAC - Amidst cocktails and a strolling dinner, this year's HAVEN Promenade of Hope fundraising event, themed The Art of Healing, will showcase artwork from abuse survivors and local community members. "It's an event that [...]

By Tom Fleischmann GRAND RAPIDS - Only a few weeks before graduating from Hope College with a dual degree in Sociology and History, student Jason Burns was assaulted while leaving his campus library. After a [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman HOWELL - Angered by the start of a Christian club at their school, a few Howell High School teachers took an action that has some conservatives fuming. On May 2, the [...]

by Rex Wockner Planned Moscow Pride escalates confrontations Despite a threat from Mayor Yuri Luzhkov that he "will not permit such parades," GLBT people are expected to stage Moscow's first gay-pride march May 27. In [...]

ANN ARBOR - As the La Comunidad Spring Retreat ended on April 23 in Ann Arbor with a group photo shoot, arms flew open as the men embraced each other and said goodbye. "I had [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WASHINGTON - On May 2, the Log Cabin Republicans of Michigan formed the Republican Pride Political Action Committee to assist in the election of fair-minded Republican candidates to local and statewide [...]

Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, dodged hypothetical questions, presented her opinion on President Bush and confessed to feeling inferior as a teenager during a rare interview on ABC's "Primetime" on [...]

FERNDALE - On Saturday, May 6, the Gerry Kulick Community Center in Ferndale was hopping with 130 young people dancing and throwing back soda pop at the largest Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center Prom [...]

Rosie O'Donnell has been the "Queen of Nice," a co-founder of a gay cruise line and this fall she will be the first lesbian to grace the set of ABC's "The View." O'Donnell, who stayed [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT - Triangle Foundation, Michigan's statewide anti-hate crime and LGBT advocacy organization, has announced plans to be the first LGBT advocacy organization to host a summer camp for youth. Camping.OUT, which [...]

By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman WASHINGTON - For the fourth year, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays took to Capitol Hill with family photos in hand as part of their Bringing the Message Home [...]