Photo: Big Hassle When the Backstreet Boys dropped their latest album's title track, "In a World Like This," they did something special with the video: They ended it with a victorious moment in LGBT [...]
By RACHEL ZOLL The intensifying battle over gay marriage in the United States is energizing religious groups that oppose same-sex relationships - but also dividing them. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court gave married gays [...]
By BTL Staff LANSING — Eight Thomas M. Cooley Law School professors recently filed a joint amicus brief in the marriage equality case DeBoer v. Snyder, which challenges the legality of both the 2004 constitutional [...]
FERNDALE - The landmark case of the Hazel Park couple that is suing the State of Michigan and Oakland County for the right to jointly adopt their children and to be married is making its [...]
By Emanuella Grinberg CNN (CNN) - Sophia Banks says she has been a woman since birth, but for most of her life, people knew her as Daryl, her given name. The Canadian photographer started asking [...]
By Mariano Castillo CNN (CNN) - Standing on the spot where 50 years earlier the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made "I have a dream" the clarion call of the civil rights movement, a broader [...]
By Dana Casadei Anne Frank once said, "I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." For Alex Kip, that quote couldn't ring more true. Enter his autobiographical show, "My [...]
The Civil Wars, 'The Civil Wars' Nitty-gritty details are few concerning the highly publicized drama between The Civil Wars twosome Joy Williams and John Paul White, but the fallout was at least intense enough to [...]
LANSING - A yearlong review of Michigan's controversial HIV disclosure law has been put "on hold" a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Community Health says. "This review was put on hold due to the [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Anthony Rapp has new jobs to make the rent Original star of "Rent" Anthony Rapp has joined the cast of the new musical "If/Then," from the creative team behind "Next to [...]
By Jerome Stuart Nichols When dance-floor mainstay Dev first hit the scene with her minimalist, bass-heavy, club-thumper "Booty Bounce" in 2010, she told the world, "I ain't yo average bitch." Some listened, but most didn't, [...]
The DIY Street Fair, running Sept. 13-15, is a free two-day, three-night event in Ferndale where local artists, crafters, businesses, groups and organizations, musicians, restaurants, brewers and others who live and work with a do-it-yourself [...]
Across 1 One of the motorist's aids 8 ___ Records (Etheridge label) 14 Artist Robert 15 Loch name 16 Pope who recently spoke in Rio about gay priests 17 Cobbler containers 18 Uses the keyboard [...]
By Sue Merrell The old adage "too close for comfort" doesn't apply to musical revues. The more a song mirrors the listener's feelings and experiences, the more comfortable and appreciative the audience becomes. And "Closer [...]
TROY - Ousted Troy Mayor Janice Daniels is back in the political ring, this time running for Troy city council. Daniels was recalled in November 2012 after bringing the city into the national limelight by [...]
Ferndale Mayoral Candidates from left: Ferndale Mayor Dave Coulter, Sherry Wells, Linda Parton and Craig Covey will be running Nov. 5. FERNDALE - The Ferndale election has already garnered international attention. USA Today ran [...]
Jessica Bassing of Germany with Zephry Gossett and Dawn Huaman of Harrisville.BTL photo: Crystal Proxmire. HARRISVILLE - Way up north along the Lake Huron shoreline is a town of less than 500 people called [...]
LANSING - The Lansing City Council voted 7 to 0, with Councilmember Kathie Dunbar absent, to adopt a resolution condemning anti-gay violence and laws in Russia, and calling for an end to the Lansing Regional [...]
ROYAL OAK - The fight to protect Royal Oak's Human Rights Ordinance is in full swing as both sides have launched their websites and social media pages. Just Royal Oak, the group opposed to the [...]
U.S. Cong. Gary Peters addresses the Harrisville gathering Saturday. BTL photo: Crystal Proxmire. Congressman Gary Peters is expecting a tough battle as he vies for the U.S. Senate seat that will be left vacant [...]
LANSING - Stoli has been in a tough place lately. With LGBT people around the world looking for ways to protest against Russian human rights atrocities against gays, some have taken to the idea of [...]
OAK PARK - There are those in the LGBT community who spend their lives working tirelessly behind the scenes that make the small steps and big strides possible. Perpetual volunteer Tom Zerafa of Oak Park [...]
On Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. at 7275 West Main Street, the second reading of Oshtemo Township's nondiscrimination ordinance will take place. Anti-equality supporters voiced their opinions against the ordinance at the first reading, and [...]
Sandusky, OH - Cedar Point, a theme park well-known to LGBT Michiganders who flock to their unofficial Gay Day each June, has decided to cancel a wedding day contest rather than open it up to [...]
The Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center, in partnership with Area Agency on Aging IIIA, will launch the Guide to Long Term Care Planning, Resources and Services for the LGBT Community Aug. 27, along with a [...]
Donate blood and receive a discounted ticket to Riverwalk Theatre's production of M*A*S*H. That's what the Great Lakes Region of the American Red Cross and Riverwalk Theatre are encouraging people to do on Aug. 27. [...]
By BTL Staff The http://outandequal.org/summit-2013 Out & Equal Workplace will bring together 3,000 business leaders in human resources and diversity professionals, employee resource group leaders, executive sponsors, LGBT employees and allies for a four-day conference [...]
By Sonya Hamasaki and Greg Botelho (CNN) - Those trying to reinstitute Proposition 8 - the voter-backed referendum to ban gay marriage in California - lost once again in court on Aug. 14, meaning no [...]
By Chuck Colbert Alex McNeill is the new leader of More Light Presbyterians. Photo Courtesy Alex McNeill An LGBT advocacy organization within one of the nation's foremost Christian denominations announced its new executive director, [...]
Creep Of The Week How do you solve a problem like a tranny? How do you catch a gender and pin it down? Those are the questions keeping Russell D. Moore up at night. And [...]
Parting Glances There's a new genre of book that's been on the New York Times Best Seller List for weeks. And weeks. And weeks. I'm not sure whether so-called first-hand accounts of Heaven and the [...]
Viewpoint Whether you participated in the historic March on Washington in 1963, weren't even a twinkle in your parents eyes or fall some where in between, it behooves each of us - black, white, brown, [...]
