FERNDALE - A cutting edge, youth-oriented HIV/AIDS education and prevention program dropped two years ago because of funding cuts will return next week with a fresh, new look and approach. "And none too soon," said [...]

By Jim Larkin Flint's Out'N About project inspiring other cities around state FLINT - Greg Fiedler had had enough. It was 2004, sometime after Gov. Jennifer Granholm had introduced her Cool Cities concept and her [...]

LANSING- Candice Risner just wanted her band Bridgewater to play the Michigan Pride Festival last year. So she made phone calls and sent emails and in her words, she "finally" got a return call. She [...]

DETROIT - Activists and supporters from all over the greater Detroit area will gather April 25 to celebrate and honor women who have fought against the AIDS epidemic in Michigan. The luncheon event will be [...]

FERNDALE - Nominations are now being accepted for the 23rd Annual Pride Banquet and Awards Ceremony which will be held on June 19 at the Ukranian Cultural Center in Warren. Each year the event celebrates [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Veteran Melbourne, Australia, TV anchorman Peter Hitchener, 62, came out April 6 in an interview with the Sunday Herald Sun. "Given that we are on private issues of private life, [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Egypt sent five more men to prison April 9 for "habitual practice of debauchery." The men, arrested in an ongoing crackdown mostly on HIV-positive people, will spend three years in [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Lithuania must implement a process for allowing and funding sex-change operations or pay 40,000 euros ($63,600) to transsexuals who seek the surgery so they can go to another country to [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Far-right groups in Serbia reportedly have threatened to harm the throngs of gay people who typically travel to attend the campy Eurovision Song Contest. The 53rd extravaganza will be in [...]

by Rex Wockner International News A dozen plainclothes police officers raided the Lambda Istanbul Cultural Center April 7. They stayed for two hours, rummaged through everything, and took away documents containing financial and membership information. [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Several hundred people marched through central Oslo April 12 in opposition to the Norwegian government's plan to legalize same-sex marriage. Norway has had a registered-partnership law that gives gay couples [...]

by Rex Wockner National News Briefs New York Gov. David Patterson said April 7 that he supports legalization of same-sex marriage. Speaking by video link to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's awards dinner [...]

by Rex Wockner National News Briefs PlanetOut Inc. is selling The Advocate and Out magazines = as well as The Out Traveler, HIVPlus, three porn magazines and book publisher Alyson Publications = to an affiliate [...]

by Jessica Carreras Last Tuesday, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force underwent a significant change when Matt Foreman had his last day as the gay rights organization's executive director. Foreman has served in the [...]

by Bob Roehr Gay and lesbian Catholics were among those who flocked to events during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, but there were few smiles upon their faces. They came to protest [...]

by Jessica Carreras Redford- On a peaceful spring morning, as Redford locals headed off to church, one group was determined to create a religious learning experience of their own. Last Sunday, just before the Covenant [...]