Kim Worthy listens as Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer talk about their case to an audience gathered at Affirmations Community Center Sept. 26. The gathering raised $20,000 to help the couple fight their case. BTL [...]
By Lisa Keen The high-powered legal team that brought down California's ban on same-sex marriage announced Monday (Sept. 30) it will now seek to strike down a ban enacted in Virginia in 2006. Ted Olson [...]
Photo: Kareem Black Big Freedia likes big butts and she cannot lie - but, for the purpose of the dirty dance du jour known as twerking, size ain't no thing. "You just gotta know [...]
Behind the Candelabra Looking beyond the razzle-dazzle - though plenty of sequins shake out in this Emmy-loved HBO telepic - director Steven Soderbergh evades camp kitsch for a sexually fearless and captivating expose on the [...]
Elton John, 'The Diving Board' The advantage of being an aging icon is the artistic freedom to do whatever the hell you want. And when you're Elton John - legend, diva, grand master of pop [...]
Across 1 Place for a rubber duckie 5 Land of the city in the 4th row, where a 53-hour swim began 9 Lavish party 13 K through 12 14 "When ___ said and done ..." [...]
By Carolyn Hayes People conform to certain accepted behaviors, they appear outwardly normal, but there's no telling what diabolical contradictions are bubbling in them under the surface. This is a key component of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," [...]
By John Quinn "You had to be there" arises to confirm that a situation beyond description actually exists. It is a condemnation of society that such a phrase is the last resort of the men [...]
By Judith Cookis Rubens Opening its sixth season, Farmers Alley Theatre continues a tradition of celebratory musical tributes to great artists. Past seasons have honored Patsy Cline and Frank Sinatra. This year, it's a nod [...]
By Dana Casadei Detroit is known for its sports teams. We root each year for the Wings as they make it to the playoffs time and time again, scream at the TV as the Lions [...]
ACLU attorney Jay Kaplan of Michigan Consumers for Healthcare discuss the impact of recent rulings on LGBT people With the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) soon to be fully implemented and recent changes in [...]
Linden Mayor David Lossing wants Michigan to protect its LGBT citizens.Linden is also the outgoing President of the Michigan Municipal League where the Board of Trustees recently passed a resolution to join the Unity Michigan [...]
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is demonstrating the state's desire to regulate bedroom relations, with his most recent filing in the case of the Hazel Park women seeking to marry and jointly adopt their children. [...]
BTL Staff Report ROYAL OAK - Thirty-five business leaders in the City of Royal Oak announced Sept. 24 that they urge citizens to vote YES on A, the proposal to uphold the Royal Oak Human [...]
By Shelby Clark Detroit Vegan Soul owners Erika Boyd and Kirsten Ussery hope vegans and non-vegans gravitate to familiar foods that are tweaked to drop animal based products. Photo courtesy of Detroit Vegan Soul. [...]
Reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS is a top priority of the CDC according to its website. National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a national effort founded by the National Association of People with AIDS [...]
Dillon Ptaszek, left, with partner Chris Kitley. Photo courtesy of Chris Kitley Dec. 13, 1987 - Sept. 13, 2013 Dillon Ptaszek, 25, was killed instantly in a one-car rollover accident Sept. 13 on I94 [...]
In August The Michigan Partnership for Animal Welfare launched a new resource called Lost and Found Pet Map on their website, http://www.mpaw.org, to help people around the state find the animal shelters in their area [...]
ROYAL OAK - Michael Chetcuti and Kyle Evans will open their famous home in downtown Royal Oak for a cocktail party to benefit One Royal Oak, the campaign to retain the city's inclusive non-discrimination ordinance. [...]
The annual transgender health fair continues to grow, with one-stop shopping for transgender health care professionals, service providers and supportive organizations specifically for the "T"s in the LGBT family. The event takes place Sept. 28 [...]
Crossing Over: The Spirituality of Transformation, is a one day conference taking place Oct. 5 from 2 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. at Eastern Michigan University's Student Center, 900 Oakwood St. in Ypsilanti. "The conference will [...]
by Chuck Colbert For the second time in fewer than two months, Pope Francis has spoken kind words of encouragement, indicating a new tone from the Vatican and giving gay Catholics hope for an LGBT-friendly [...]
By Lisa Keen The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 24) to confirm openly gay nominee Todd Hughes to serve on the U.S. Circuit Court for the Federal Circuit. The 98 to 0 vote makes [...]
OTTAWA - Amendments to the federal Civil Marriage Act effective Aug. 14 provide a process for a Canadian court to grant a divorce to non-resident spouses who were married in Canada, and reside in a [...]
Creep Of The Week Want to be horrified? Do a Google image search for "anti-gay attacks in Russia." Scroll through the photos of gays, lesbians, and pro-LGBT rights protesters being arrested, harassed, and beaten. Let's [...]
Parting Glances Footnoted in the pages of Civil War history is the intriguing story of a "Mrs. Nash." First name unrecorded. She's listed in 1878 U.S. Army military records to have had "a succession of [...]
"There's no change on the Catholic Church's view on homosexuality. He may have had his own Pope Francis way of putting it, different from maybe the way Pope Benedict would put it, but they're saying [...]
By Kenny Rose I am writing while listening to angry riot grrrl music at a coffee shop just like the closet queer kid I was at 14. Twenty years later, there is a part of [...]
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