by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Step aside, United States, Toronto and Sydney. Your gay parades are not even close to the biggest. Organizers and media reported that the 14th annual gay pride parade in [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The Council of Europe's human rights commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, says member nations that impede gay pride parades and celebrations are violating European law on freedom of assembly and expression. [...]

by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Same-sex marriages began taking place in Portugal June 7 when the law legalizing them took effect. The first couple to marry were Helena Pires Paixao and Teresa Paixao Pires, [...]

by Jessica Carreras For a gallery of pictures from Lansing, click here. LANSING - Temperatures soared and humidity hung in the air in Lansing on June 12, but it didn't stop thousands of LGBT Michiganders [...]

by Jessica Carreras At least three leaders of Michigan's LGBT community were invited to an LGBT Pride Month reception June 22 at the White House where they will join other leaders from across the country [...]

by Jessica Carreras The Michigan Coalition for AIDS Advocates held its first meeting on June 9, where leaders from HIV/AIDS, LGBT and community nonprofits across the state met to discuss possibilities for building not the [...]

by Lucy Hough Tim Retzloff, a Lansing resident and Yale Ph.D. student, is researching LGBT history in Detroit and is looking for people to interview to further his knowledge of what LGBT life was like [...]

LANSING - When Capt. Ray Hall of the Lansing Police Department was a patrol officer, he was assigned to Lansing's Old Town area. At the time, it was mostly a run-down commercial zone, with empty [...]

by Jessica Carreras Terri Dinsmore is a 40-year-old activist from Montrose. She now serves as the president of the Genesee County chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, which serves the Flint-area [...]

HIGHLAND PARK - Southeast Michigan's own Ruth Ellis Center, which is one of the nation's three agencies dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youth, was selected among 24 Michigan sites that were interviewed to participate in the [...]

ANN ARBOR - Riot Youth, a program for LGBT teens run out of Ann Arbor's Neutral Zone, has received a grant from the Mukti Fund for its Gayrilla Theater Troupe. The grant of $15,000 will [...]

The Washtenaw County Democratic Party will be hosting their annual dinner at 5 p.m. June 19 with a special guest: Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The host committee for the dinner includes state Sen. Liz Brater [...]

FERNDALE - U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), the only openly lesbian member of Congress, was at Affirmations June 14 to support U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) in his reelection bid. "We need Mark Schauer [...]

One group is charging toward the finish line while the other appears stuck in the starting blocks as two groups race to get their casino gaming proposal on the November ballot. The two groups, Michigan [...]

by Rex Wockner The U.S. State Department on June 9 altered its policy on transgender people and passports. State said it was "pleased to use the occasion of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month to [...]

by Rex Wockner The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced June 7 that it will require applicants for HUD funding to comply with state and local anti-discrimination laws that protect LGBT people. "We're [...]

by Rex Wockner LGBT people are much more likely than straight people to oppose Arizona's controversial new law targeting undocumented immigrants, according to a Harris Interactive poll. The statute, enacted in April, requires police to [...]

The longest-running study ever conducted on American lesbian families has found that the 17-year-old sons and daughters of lesbian mothers, all conceived through donor insemination, rate higher than their peers in social, academic and overall [...]