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 [...]
By Jerome Stuart Nichols Bianca Del Rio, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 6. The sixth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" featured the densest well of talent to ever grace its main stage. While [...]
BTL Staff Report A newly released 84 page report, ÒA Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People with HIV,Ó is one of the first reports of its [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service LOG CABIN ADS ATTACK JARED POLIS: The national gay Republican group Log Cabin Republicans has aired three "attack ads" against openly gay U.S. Rep. Jared Polis. According to a [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service PENNSYLVANIA IS FINAL; NO APPEAL: Republican Governor Tom Corbett announced Wednesday that his administration will not appeal a federal district court decision Tuesday that declared the state ban on [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service LAWSUIT COMES TO MONTANA: The ACLU on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Montana, challenging that state's ban on same-sex couples marrying. That leaves only two states [...]
MCC-D's Rev. Roland Stringfellow. BTL photo: Jason A. Michael FERNDALE - It's been a few months since he stepped into the position, but Rev. Roland Stringfellow will be officially installed as senior pastor of [...]
By MaryClaire Dale PHILADELPHIA Ñ The Memorial Day weekend will get off to a festive start as gays and lesbians begin to marry across Pennsylvania. The state could see scores of weddings following a federal [...]
Associated Press The Human Rights Campaign says the Waveland City Council has passed an anti-discrimination resolution recognizing the dignity and worth of all city residents -- including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. [...]
comprehensive clinical guidance On May 14 the CDC released a comprehensive clinical guidance for use of the anti-HIV drug Truvada in preventing new HIV infections. The new guidance is the most comprehensive clinical guidance issued [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus The Cinetopia International Film Festival is coming to both Detroit and Ann Arbor this June, with a special appearance by Spike Lee. The well-known festival was created for southeastern Michigan and [...]
Lykke Li, 'I Never Learn' Because it's Lykke Li, heartache is the obvious impetus for "I Never Learn," a ceaseless outpouring of dire, pillow-soaked woe inspired by the Swedish singer's very public post-breakup brokenness. Though [...]
Across 1 "Billy Elliot" epithet 5 Sound of oral enjoyment 10 Come quickly 14 In two parts 15 Singer Reagon 16 Part of San Francisco's BART 17 Regarding 18 Husband of a Duke 19 Misfire [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman Ixion debuts with the original production "The Four Disgracers." Photo: Ixion It's hard to go through eternity with the rap of "disgracer." And it takes, perhaps, more than a little [...]
In broad new guidelines, federal health authorities say nearly every person at risk for HIV-infection should consider using a once-a-day pill to prevent getting the virus. Greg is a sexually active 24-year-old gay man in [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus International student exchange program, International Exchange-USA (IE-USA), is bringing LGBT students from around the world and families together. With their recent renewal from the U.S. State Department, the organization is hoping [...]
By Paulette Niemiec LANSING - More than 70 people filled the AFL-CIO of Michigan on Saturday for the first ever Transgender Grant & Planning Summit. Transgender leaders Allison VanKuiken and Jay Maddock organized, produced, sponsored [...]
ANN ARBOR - Join the thousands of community members and Michigan youth as they celebrate the 45 year anniversary of Ozone House and its efforts towards helping youth lead safe, healthy and productive lives. The [...]
FERNDALE -Installation services for Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit Senior Pastor Rev. Roland Stringfellow will take place 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 24 at the Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church Main sanctuary. The church is located [...]
Keen News Service The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals hearing Tuesday was, as Judge Paul Niemeyer characterized it, just one step along the way to an eventual U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether states, [...]
By Lisa Keen On Monday Oregon became the 18th state to allow same-sex couples to marry, bringing the population of the U.S. now living in marriage equality states to 39 percent. Misha Isaak, one of [...]
Oregon on Monday became the 18th state to allow same-sex couples to marry. In a 26-page ruling that shared some of his personal experience with anti-gay sentiments, U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane (an Obama [...]
Today U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled in Whitewood v. Wolf that Pennsylvania's ban on marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional. Judge Jones is the 14th federal judge in recent months to rule [...]
U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball (Clinton appointee) granted a preliminary injunction Monday afternoon requiring that Utah recognize the marriages of an estimated 1,300 same-sex couples that took place before a U.S. Supreme Court issued [...]
It used to be if you wanted to make a right-wing conservative freak out all you had to do was show them a photo of two dudes kissing. Granted, that still does the trick, but [...]
Footnote: Following BTL publication of Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, several big time book publishers called me with contractual offers. Modestly, I said that as a renegade Christian of ecumenical moral standards and far-reaching readership [...]
Let's be perfectly clear: The announcement last week expanding who should be able to access the HIV prevention technology PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a watershed moment in the history of this epidemic. Not only did [...]
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