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 Lisa Keen Keen News Service MIZEUR COMES IN THIRD IN MARYLAND: Six of 10 openly LGBT candidates won their primary races Tuesday; three lost; one race is still undetermined. Lesbian State Delegate Heather Mizeur [...]
Lisa Keen Nine of 12 openly LGBT candidates won their primary races Tuesday; but, lesbian Maryland State Delegate Heather Mizeur was not one them. In a six-person race for the Democratic nomination for Maryland governor, [...]
Lisa Keen Nine of 12 openly LGBT candidates won their primary races Tuesday; but, lesbian Maryland State Delegate Heather Mizeur was not one them. In a six-person race for the Democratic nomination for Maryland governor, [...]
Lisa Keen NATIONAL - Nine of 12 openly LGBT candidates won their primary races Tuesday; but, lesbian Maryland State Delegate Heather Mizeur was not one them. In a six-person race for the Democratic nomination for [...]
BTL Staff DENVER - The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of freedom to marry on June 25, upholding a marriage ruling out of Utah in December, calling Utah's ban on same-sex marriage [...]
BTL Staff INDIANA- Federal judge struck down Indiana's amendment to ban same-sex marriage on June 25th, ruling it unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Richard Young ruled that Indiana's state constitutional amendment denying same-sex couples the freedom [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service BIG PRIMARY DAY FOR LGBT CANDIDATES: Ten openly LGBT candidates are running in primary races today, including lesbian State Delegate Heather Mizeur in her bid for the Democratic nomination [...]
BIG PRIMARY DAY FOR LGBT CANDIDATES: Ten openly LGBT candidates are running in primary races today, including lesbian State Delegate Heather Mizeur in her bid for the Democratic nomination for governor of Maryland and Sean [...]
Long before dishing lesbian wisdom to Melissa McCarthy's mess of a character in this summer's road-trip comedy "Tammy" (out July 2), Kathy Bates had the gay community in shackles. It didn't take a sledgehammer to [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service OPM PROPOSES RULE CHANGE: In conjunction with a proposed rule change regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act announced by the U.S. Department of Labor last week, the U.S. [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service OBAMA MOVES ON FAMILY LEAVE: The Department of Labor will announce this morning that it will propose regulations on the Family and Medical Leave Act to clarify that an [...]
By BTL Staff The live art of glass blowing, portraits, face painting and information from a kayak tour company are among the more than 40 booths that will be spread throughout Centennial Park, between River [...]
SAN FRANCISCO - Top California and San Francisco officials, along with faith, LGBT and civil rights leaders, have signed an open letter to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, asking him to cancel his participation in [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus Ann Arbor Restaurant Week runs June 22-27, bringing reasonably priced gourmet and fine foods to the Washtenaw area. The biannual event (January and June) features fixed-price menus at participating establishments with [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus Andrew Bird, performing July 2. Ann Arbor Summer Festival has kept Washtenaw County busy since June 13, but the fun won't stop until July 6. The almost month-long festival features [...]
By Christopher J. Treacy Shane Bitney Crone Bridegroom 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m. June 25 Emagine Theatre 200 N. Main St., Royal Oak http://www.neptix.com We'd all like to think that if we were lucky [...]
Miranda Lambert, 'Platinum' While Miranda Lambert's restless peers stray from the purity of the country genre to achieve mainstream acclaim, the "Nashville Star" alum has been widely popularized by sticking to her guns. She's known [...]
Across 1 Secreted a fluid onto the face 5 Type of market for bears 10 Poet Broumas 14 Morales of "Resurrection Blvd." 15 Wall Street term 16 Madonna, in a creche 17 Legal wrong 18 [...]
By Carolyn Hayes Taylor Quick and Aleksandr Krapivnik as Liesl Von Trapp and Rolf Gruber in HSRT's "The Sound of Music." Photo: HSRT How do you solve a problem like "The Sound of Music" (music [...]
By John Quinn Gary E. Mitchell and Mary Beth Quillin in "My Dearest Friend." Photo courtest of The Snug Theatre They say that "behind every great man there's a great woman." That truism has [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman Late nights at Summer Circle Theatre: "The Weird" through June 28. Photo: Summer Circle Theatre It's a daunting task to attempt to pull off horror on the stage. Even on [...]
By John Quinn Arbor Opera Theater's "The Sound of Music" continues at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre through June 22. Photo: Arbor Opera Theater I read that "serendipity" means "fortuitous happenstance." The happenstance in question is [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman The world premiere of Rob Roznowski's "The Summer Circle" continues through June 28. Photo: Summer Circle Theater Sometimes the more specific something is, the more its themes become universal. Playwright and [...]
Christin Howard sustained multiple injuries, including a fractured finger. (Photo courtesy of Christin Howard) DETROIT - In this social media obsessed world we live in, there's already a hashtag for it: #justiceforchonglee. It, in this [...]
AJ Trager CANTON-On June 10, Canton Township became the 35th municipality in Michigan to adopt an anti-discrimination human rights ordinance that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of groups protected against wrongful [...]
BTL Staff GRAND RAPIDS-The 26th Annual Grand Rapids Pride Festival packed Calder Plaza this past weekend, filling downtown GR with rainbow flags and loving couples. The LGBT Network, who took control of Pride planning after [...]
AJ Trager View more pictures from Kalamazoo Pride KALAMAZOO- Pride month continued its parade through Michigan this past weekend with the Seventh Annual Kalamazoo Pride. West Michigan brought its love to the Zoo, a love [...]
by Chuck Colbert A growing number of national and statewide LGBT organizations are coming out against the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act, saying that while it bans workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and [...]
BTL Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama, responding to years of pressure from national LGBT organizations, signed an executive order Monday barring federal contractors from discrimination against LGBT employees. "This is a major step [...]
GRINNELL, IOWA - Nearly 200 advocates interested in the growing battle against criminalizing people living with HIV converged on this small college town last week to begin the process of forming a national movement. Michigan [...]
DES MOINES, IOWA - The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday threw out a 25-year sentence handed down to Nick Rhoades in 2009 under the state's HIV-specific criminal law. The ruling sends the case back to [...]
Keen News Service Here's something genuinely radical: a transgender candidate won a Republican primary for a Nevada assembly seat June 10. Lauren Scott, who was a Democrat until three years ago, won 58 percent of [...]
When I was a little kid I really wanted a rock tumbler. I remember looking through the JC Penney catalog and telling my mom that I hoped Santa would bring me one for Christmas. My [...]
This is the story of Dorian Lavender who has vanished from the party scene of music, stimulants, sex and is now ironically beyond the saving grace of suddenly discarded friends of which there were many. [...]
By Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy Legal Director for Lambda Legal Q: My university's LGBT center was recently approached by a group that said by law we have to carry materials that promote "ex-gay therapy." Is this [...]
The first time I saw Judy Collins in a live setting I was struck by her hair - with those long, silvery locks, she could've been an angel. That magical night three years ago at [...]
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By Lisa Keen Keen News Service PENNSYLVANIA IS SAFE AS NUMBER 19: A federal judge in Pennsylvania denied a petition Tuesday from a county clerk who asked to serve as intervenor in an appeal to [...]
By BTL Staff DETROIT - In 31 unique amicus briefs submitted Tuesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the 6th Circuit, scores of Republican leaders, businesses, military, faith leaders and religious institutions, child advocacy [...]
BTL Staff Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan became Michigan's 19th Mayor to sign on to the Freedom To Marry pledge this week. DETROIT- Mayor Mike Duggan joins with many other Michigan and national mayors in [...]
By BTL Staff WASHINGTON - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, released a statement Thursday after the State Department announced new and additional steps [...]
DETROIT - The largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States voted today to allow their clergy perform same-sex marriages. The vote took place at Cobo Hall. The 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), [...]
