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March 4: ‘Bad For Mississippi’ Bill, Kentucky Complications …
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 [...]
March 5: ‘Bad For Mississippi’ Bill, Kentucky Complications …
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 [...]
Five Ways To Gay Your Wedding Cake
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 [...]
Michigan Marriage Equality Trial Begins Second Week
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 [...]
March 4: Mississippi Deadline, Georgia Bill Fails …
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 [...]
March 3: Boston Gay Contingent, Religious Support For Marriage Equality …
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 [...]
Feb.24: Illinois Begins To Issue Marriage Licenses, Ugandan Pres. Delays Again …
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 [...]
100 Pastors Plan Marriage Protest March 3
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 [...]
Upcoming Holocaust Center Program To Look At Worldwide LGBT Rights
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 [...]
A Group For Every Kind At JTCC
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 [...]
Hear Me Out: Lea Michele, Amy Ray
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 [...]
It’s Pronounced Gay Lick
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 [...]
A Stunning ‘Angels in America’ At The Ringwald
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 [...]
Powerful Documentary Focuses On Animal Rights
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 [...]
Why We Should Care (More) About Animals
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 [...]
International Victories For Animals In 2013
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 [...]
WAGS Program In Need Of Support
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 [...]
Yellow Means Doggies Need Space
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 [...]
Gala Celebrates Progress, Mourns Founder
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 [...]
PUGH UPDATE: Civil Suit Coming, Seeks $1 Million In Damages
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 [...]
Wayne County Adds LGBT Protections
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 [...]
Between Ourselves: Meet Affirmations Development Director Angela Gabridge
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 [...]
LGBTQ and Allies to Peacefully Protest Catholic Conference
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 [...]
ACCESS Opens Healthcare Enrollment Assistance To Public
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 [...]
MSU 2014 LGBT Scholarship Applications Available
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 AG Will Not Defend Ban On Same Sex Marriage
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," [...]
Creep of the Week: Coalition for Family Values
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 [...]
Parting Glances: 3:16 Gets Flicked Out!
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 [...]
Court Of Public Opinion Has Decided, Leads Way For Justice System
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 [...]
Quotes from Day 1 Of DeBoer V. Snyder, Inside And Outside The Federal Courthouse
"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 [...]
VETOED: Arizona Religious Bias Bill Falls
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 [...]
Feb. 27: Texas Ban Falls, Ugandan Paper IDs Gays …
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 [...]
Love, Italian-American Style
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, [...]
Do Shuffle Off To ‘Buffalo’
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 [...]
‘Collected Stories’ Benefits From A Careful Read
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 [...]
‘Boys Will Be Boys’ In American Comedy Classic
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, [...]
Federal Judge Orders Kentucky To Recognize Same-Sex Marriages From Other States
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 [...]
Federal Judge In Texas Strikes Down Marriage Ban
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 [...]