Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addressed the State of Michigan after a plan to kidnap her and other Michigan government officials was thwarted by state and federal law enforcement agencies. She started by saying thank you to law enforcement and FBI agents who participated in stopping this [...]
BTL Staff Affirmations Community Center's Executive Director Dave Garcia has served since August 2011. BTL file photo: Andrew Potter FERNDALE - Antonio David Garcia, executive director of Affirmations Community Center, has announced his resignation [...]
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day to honor those who died because they were perceived to be transgender. http://www.transgenderdor.org Traverse City, Nov. 19 Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, http://www.uucgt.org 6PM for a potluck [...]
DETROIT - According to an Equality Michigan press release, a murder victim found last Friday, Nov. 8, discarded in a trash receptacle off Woodward Ave. in Detroit has not yet been identified, but is believed [...]
By Gary M. Kramer The extraordinary Cannes Palme d'Or-winning French film "Blue is the Warmest Color," about a teenage lesbian's coming of age, has become famous for its lengthy and explicit sex scenes, but this [...]
By John Quinn There are rough spots on the long road to healing. One man's journey is the subject of Amy Herzog's dramatic comedy, "4000 Miles," a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [...]
By Judith Cookis Rubens Write what you know. Young writers hear this sage advice early on. Mine your life, your travels, your family drama - all of it has slivers of truth. It's also how [...]
By Shelby Clark The holiday season is coming, and with jingle bells and huge displays of red and green comes movie season. However, until December rolls around, metro Detroiters might find themselves pining for quality [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Guinevere Turner "Creeps" up on you Guinever Turner, star and co-writer of the '90s lesbian indie classic "Go Fish," has never stopped working. Or working it. She wrote the screenplay for [...]
Across 1 It comes before sex and marriage 5 Techie workplaces, often 9 Zipper problem 13 Rainbow, to some 14 Buck heroine 15 Hair of a stallion 16 Sunday service 17 Caesar's last question 18 [...]
By Dan Woog The OutField In 1936 it was the Nazis. In 1980, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 1984 brought retaliation for 1980. This year, it's treatment of gay people. Another year, another threatened Olympic [...]
Ferndale's Affirmations hosts "Clinical Issues & Sexual Orientation - A Training for Therapists" this weekend. The event, open to both professionals and students, will give an overview of working with LGBT people. Affirmations is hoping [...]
When Bill Huffaker and his husband Darin Severns moved from San Franscisco to the Detroit area a year ago, they gave up the legal recognition of their marriage by the state. They'd been married in [...]
John Corvino and Detroit Mayor-Elect John Duggan DETROIT - Mayor-elect Michael Duggan gave a shoutout to LGBT Detroiters in his acceptance speech Nov. 5. Towards the end of his speech he said, "The way [...]
Nov. 21 The HIV/AIDS Resource Center (HARC) in Ann Arbor will hold the 2013 Wine Cellar event founded by Keith Orr and Martin Contreras of aut Bar. Proceeds benefit care, prevention and outreach programs serving [...]
Royal Oak City Commission There are three open seats and four candidates running. The one candidate, Diane Hargan who opposed the Human Rights Ordinance, publically speaking out against it in Commission meetings and online, lost [...]
There has long been a sense that LGBT people face greater health risks than their heterosexual counterparts, and studies over the years have pointed to this. But a recent review by the Williams Institute at [...]
LIVONIA - Marriage is now more equal than ever, thanks to a September ruling from the Internal Revenue Service that says the IRS will consider all marriages legal for the purpose of filing federal taxes, [...]
Michigan AIDS Coalition announced Nov. 8 it has fielded its sixteenth AmeriCorps team in the metro-Detroit area. The new team will help non-profits enhance their services in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the area. The [...]
By Chuck Colbert National gay-rights leaders are responding positively to reports that former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will lead the Boy Scouts of America. The Scouts' national executive board selected Gates late last month; [...]
Creep Of The Week Hooray for Illinois, the latest state to allow gays and lesbians to get legally married. As People for the American Way points out, that brings the grand total of U.S. states [...]
Parting Glances According to specialists in brain neuroanatomy, each of us is anatomically blessed with an amygdala. If you're gay, your amygdala is similar to that of straight women; if lesbian, to that of straight [...]
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions Fifteen years ago, in an apartment in Alston, Massachusetts, a transwoman of color named Rita Hester was stabbed to death. It was her death - as well as the death [...]
