Photo 1: This billboard sponsored by Until Love Is Equal will be posted in and around the Grand Rapids area. Photos 2-8: Holland-based activist group Until [...]

BTL staff UPDATED: 2 p.m. Oct. 20, 2011 LANSING- The Michigan Senate Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing approved House Bills 4770 and 4771 Wednesday. The bills would eliminate health care benefits for unmarried partners [...]

DETROIT- On Monday Equality Michigan Pride PAC "Nominate a Pro-Equality Candidate" campaign announced the endorsement of three additional candidates for office this November. Earlier in the month, Equality Michigan Pride PAC endorsed 16 pro-equality candidates [...]

Captions: 2: EM Executive Director, Denise Brogan-Kator with U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, 3: Hank Winchester,openly gay WDIV Local 4 anchor with U.S. [...]

WASHINGTON, DC - Michigan Senator Carl Levin on Thursday became the 31st co-sponsor of a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The 1996 law bars federal agencies and the military from recognizing [...]

BEVERLY HILLS- The GSA Alliance of Southeastern Michigan and GLSEN of Southeastern Michigan are jointly presenting an LGBT Summit on Saturday, Oct. 29, aimed at uniting student leaders across the state and helping them strengthen [...]

By Beth Greenapple West Bloomfield- Jay Michaelson, an author whose new book will be featured at the Jewish Community Center's Jewish Book Fair Nov. 6, is a Biblical scholar and a gay activist. Michaelson's appearance [...]

By Crystal Proxmire TROY- It was a chance conversation at a gay bar on a Friday night while in college, that prompted Jacob Reitan to start the Soulforce Bus Tour, which brings gay students and [...]

DETROIT - The Community Health Awareness Group recently announced an $800,000 loss of funding which will necessitate substantial staff reductions and cuts in services to people with HIV/AIDS. CHAG had an operating budget of almost [...]

FERNDALE- The annual Ferndale Youth Assistance Bowl-A-Thon will be held Oct. 30, from 1 - 4 p.m. at Luxury Lanes, 600 E Nine Mile. The event is described by organizers as "one of the two [...]

DETROIT- Promising friendship, fun and information, PFLAG Family Reunion Detroit Chapter for People of Color announced it will be reactivating the group. The first meeting will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 - [...]

FERNDALE- Affirmations is looking for a new logo and is inviting input from the public to submit their version of what a new logo might look like. The deadline to submit logo ideas is Friday, [...]

by Dana Rudolph WASHINGTON, DC-In a blow to activists seeking to stop anti-gay bullying, two proposals to address the issue in schools were left out of an education reform bill approved by a U.S. Senate [...]

By Lisa Keen It was one of only four questions posed to each Republican presidential hopeful Oct. 22 at Knapp Animal Learning Center in Des Moines, during a conservative forum: "What, specifically, would you do [...]

By Lisa Keen Keen News Service WASHINGTON, DC - The ACLU called it "one of the most important religious liberty cases in years" and said the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the matter would determine [...]

Original article here. Earlier this year, Chick-fil-A became embroiled in a controversy surrounding its donations to anti-gay groups. Though Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy denied having an "agenda against anyone," an Equality Matters investigation discovered that [...]

Former Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell seen here in spring of 2010 protesting Chris Armstrong on the UofM campus. BTL photo: Jessica Carerras ANN ARBOR- In a bizarre twist, the former Michigan assistant attorney [...]

Grammy-award winning artist and cultural icon Lady Gaga (who we recently interviewed) proudly announced today the launch of the Born This Way Foundation (BTWF), which will support programs and initiatives that deal with all aspects [...]