by Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE- Tom Hitchman never planned to be a community activist. Then came Proposal 2's limitation of marriage to one man and one woman. "It wrote discrimination into the state Constitution," said Hitchman, [...]

Capitol Correspondent LANSING- Last week, the announcement from the City of Kalamazoo that it would end its non-union domestic partner benefits program, cracked open the flood gates. Soon after, Ann Arbor Public Schools and Farmington [...]

by Sharon Gittleman FERNDALE- Two things have kept Mark Campau singing with the Detroit Together Men's Chorus for 23 years. "The camaraderie and the joy," he said. "It helped me through a lot of troubled [...]

By Lisa Keen The United States and Sweden are the only countries in the world that collect data on gay-related hate crimes on a national basis. That is one finding of the first comprehensive study [...]

by Rex Wockner Western European officials denounce Russia Western European officials have denounced Russia over the May 27 gay pride rally in which hundreds of police officers watched anti-gay thugs violently beat gay activists, visiting [...]

By Lisa Keen Between The Lines Online BOSTON - When Massachusetts Senate Press Therese Murray gaveled the joint session to order and then moved immediately to a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, gay marriage [...]

Capitol Correspondent EAST LANSING- The website for an ex-gay ministry is under scrutiny by officials at Michigan State University. The site, msu.edu/user/~cstone, came to the attention of Between The Lines when staffers visited the ex-gay [...]

by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - There is growing political concern over the nomination of James R. Holsinger to be U.S. Surgeon General, because of his views on gays and lesbians. That in turn has [...]

by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - Peter W. Pace, the Marine Corp General who has served a two-year term as the Pentagon's top soldier, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will not be renominated [...]

by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House subcommittee that handles health and education appropriations has increased funding for abstinence-only education programs by 25 percent, despite a heavy lobbying effort by AIDS and reproductive health [...]

Capitol Correspondent Lisa Keen has created an important, vibrant book that will serve as both a guide for LBGT youth looking to make sure they know their legal rights, and as an historical document for [...]

Second parent adoption: Capitol Correspondent LANSING-- Marie Wolfe prefers a quiet, private life. She never imagined herself as an advocate for LBGT issues. But circumstances have a way of changing one's life perspective, and Wolfe's [...]

With the recent decisions by several public employers in Michigan to take steps to rescind benefits for employees' domestic partners, many in our community are wondering what we can do to fight back against the [...]