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 [...]
Keen News Service http://Keennewsservice.com 'BAD FOR MISSISSIPPI' BILL ADVANCES: The Mississippi House Judiciary Committee Tuesday advanced a religious bias bill to the House floor. Committee Chairman Andy Gipson told reporters he didn't think the original [...]
Keen News Service Miss Kentucky 2010, Djuan Trent, put it clearly: "I am queer." http://Keennewsservice.com 'BAD FOR MISSISSIPPI' BILL ADVANCES: The Mississippi House Judiciary Committee Tuesday advanced a religious bias bill to the House [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus Plan your perfect day at the Ultimate LGBT Wedding & Anniversary Expo, April 12 at the Southfield Civic Pavilion. One of the most talked about things after a wedding is the [...]
April DeBoer with Linda Lombardini outside the courthouse. Day One - Opening Statements The courtroom was packed to overflow to hear opening statements and initial testimony in the DeBoer v. Snyder federal court case [...]
Keen News Service http://Keennewsservice.com MISSISSIPPI DEADLINE TODAY: The Mississippi House Judiciary Committee must decide today whether to advance a religious bias bill or it will be dead for this legislative session. The Mississippi Religious Freedom [...]
Keen News Service A national poll released Wednesday indicates that the general publics support to allowing same-sex couples to marry has gone from 32 percent in 2003. http://Keennewsservice.com MISSISSIPPI MUDSLIDE: The Mississippi Religious Freedom [...]
Keen News Service http://keennewsservice.com RELIGIOUS BIAS IS PRO-GAY? Proponents of a stalled religious bias bill in Kansas are sending out letters claiming the bill helps LGBT people. According to the Wichita Eagle, a group called [...]
UPDATE: By 8:30 there was expected to be as many as 200 Baptist ministers outside protesting at the DeBoer trial. Instead, only a handful of protesters against marriage equality came out. There were also about [...]
FARMINGTON HILLS - On March 5 at 7 p.m., the Holocaust Memorial Center will present Be in the Know: A Briefing on the Rights of the Worldwide LGBT Community in conjunction with a current special [...]
By Shelby Clark Fresh off Equality Cabaret, the benefit for the Michigan Marriage Challenge, Ann Arbor's Jim Toy Community Center continues its LGBT support and activism into the spring and beyond. JTCC has been serving [...]
Lea Michele, 'Louder' The business of turning a theater-born star into a bona fide pop act isn't as easy as it looks, and Lea Michele knows this from seeing her "Glee" co-stars, Matthew Morrison and [...]
Across 1 You can get a bang out of its head 5 "Stupid me!" 9 Tending to stick in one's proboscis 13 Fruit ___ (gay district) 14 He took on a pair of bears 15 [...]
By Martin F. Kohn The millennium Tony Kushner refers to in "Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches" is the one we're living in now, not the one that will approach in 900-and-something years. Kushner [...]
By Tracy Baim Liz Marshall explores animal rights in The Ghosts in Our Machine. Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur "The Ghosts in Our Machine" is a powerful 2013 feature documentary about animal rights, made accessible through [...]
By Liz Marshall Someone should do a survey to actually see how many queer vegetarian/vegan women are out there. I suspect a very large percentage. Ever since I came out in the early '90s, I [...]
Animal Defenders International (ADI), based in California, is celebrating a number of successes for animals throughout 2013. 1. Colombia bans wild animals in circuses. In June, some six years after ADI launched its damning undercover [...]
Jihannh Jones knows the comfort that having a pet can bring. After a long day of work helping service clients at the Michigan AIDS Coalition, Jones goes home to his adorable Shih-Poo named Buddy. "Sometimes [...]
Illustrated by Lili Chin. www.Doggiedrawings.net Some dogs need their space. Whether it's because they are recovering from an injury, still in the stages of being trained, or simply not that social, some dogs are [...]
DETROIT - Unity, collaboration and getting things done were themes at Equality Michigan's 2014 Annual Dinner Feb. 22. The elegant event at Motor City Casino's Amnesia Lounge attracted about 200 [...]
DETROIT - Farmington Hills attorney Bill Seikaly, representing former Frederick Douglass Academy student and Charles Pugh mentee Khody Sanford, made it clear Feb. 20 that he intends to bring a civil suit on behalf of [...]
LGBT activists and allies joined Robert Ficano, center, as he signed an executive order extending employment protections to LGBT employees of Wayne County. From left: Emily Dievendorf, executive director of Equality Michigan; Summer Foster, field [...]
After 13 years working in the nonprofit world, 36-year-old Angela Gabridge has landed her dream job as the Director of Development for Affirmations Community Center. She joins at a time when ally involvement is becoming [...]
By Shelby Clark Affirmations' Faith Alliance, Supportive Families and PFLAG are looking for individuals to speak up for true acceptance, love and equality for LGBTQ people by holding vigil outside of a two day Catholic [...]
FERNDALE - ACCESS' Affordable Care Act healthcare enrollment navigators will answer questions and schedule appointments for in-person assistance March 1, from noon to 4 p.m. at Just4Us in Ferndale. All services are open to the [...]
Applications for The Pride Scholarship and Stephen P. Pougnet and Christopher J. Green Endowed Scholarship at Michigan State University are now available online for the 2014-2015 academic year. The applications are due by March 31. [...]
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Feb. 20 that she will not defend the state's ban of marriage between dedicated same-sex couples. The ban "cannot withstand a federal constitutional challenge under any standard of review," [...]
Scott Lively announcing CFV What do you do when you're losing your ideological battle at the national level? Why, you go global! Which is why a group of A-List anti-gay folks have gone and [...]
I rarely write about straight guys. I find them to be, well, rather flighty. But in the interest of LGBT civility to all God's web-footed creatures, let tell you about my oddball neighbor Glen. A [...]
By Kary L. Moss I recently spoke with a group of law students about life as a civil rights advocate and we soon veered onto the topic of marriage equality. They could not understand how [...]
"We are very excited today and happy people could join us at this historic occasion, and this trial's been a long time coming. We are very much looking forward to presenting the evidence and the [...]
By Lisa Keen Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed legislation that would have essentially legalized discrimination against LGBT citizens, allowing for religious exemptions if business owners did not want to serve gay people. Pressure grew [...]
Keen News Service http://keennewsservice.com ARIZONA GOVERNOR VETOES BIAS BILL: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced at about 6 p.m. MST Wednesday that she had vetoed Senate Bill 1062, which sought to allow people to discriminate based [...]
By John Quinn John Patrick Shanley's "Italian American Reconciliation" continues through March 8. Photo: The Box Theater If we were to believe poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Miles Standish, military advisor to the Plymouth Colony, [...]
By Martin F. Kohn Miles Boucher as Paul, Brent Griffith as George Hay in "Moon Over Buffalo." Think of Ken Ludwig's comedy "Moon Over Buffalo" as "Cyrano de Bergerac" meets "Private Lives." Actually, in [...]
By Carolyn Hayes Katie Lietz as Lisa Morrison and Linda Rabin Hammell as Ruth Steiner in Matrix Theatre Company's "Collected Stories." Photo: Megan Buckley-Ball The two characters of playwright Donald Margulies's "Collected Stories" are [...]
By John Quinn Rick Mason as Al Lewis and Dennis Wickline as Willie Clark in Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys. " Photo: Broadway Onstage Live Theatre The Critic's first love was not the theater, [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service {URL A federal judge in Kentucky today ordered the state to recognize marriage licenses obtained by same-sex couples from other states. U.S. District Court Judge John Heyburn (a nominee [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service A federal judge in San Antonio, Texas, ruled Wednesday that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution and demeans the dignity of gay couples "for no legitimate [...]
