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Foreign Exchange Students Seek LGBT Host Families In Michigan
By BTL Staff International Experience USA (iE-USA) is recruiting Michigan families to host foreign nationals, ages 14-18, during the 2014-2015 academic school year. These students, which include LGBT adolescents, are looking for Michigan families - [...]
Viewpoint: No PrEP For Me!
By Al Cunningham For some time now, I've been doing a not-so-slow burn as the last phase of a remarkable revolution takes place. With the recent release of the CDC's (U.S. Centers for Disease Control [...]
State Rep. Zemke Chats With Craig Fahle About Conversion Therapy Bill
BTL Staff State Representative Adam F. Zemke (D-Ann Arbor) sponsored legislation on July 16 to outlaw conversion therapy in Michigan. The bill would prohibit mental health professionals from attempting to change a minor's sexual orientation. [...]
News You Should Know July 30, 2014
BTL Staff NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals panel on July 29 blocked a Miss. Law that would have shut down the last remaining abortion clinic in the state by requiring the doctors to obtain [...]
Hotter Than July Conference Focuses On Past, Future Of Detroit’s African American LGBT Community
Hotter Than July presented Milestone Awards to Bre' Campbell, Royale Theus, Hank Millbourne, Rev. Darlene Franklin and Kofi Adoma. (BTL photo: Jason A. Michael) DETROIT - Nearly 60 people attended Hotter Than July's annual [...]
Q&A: Panic! Frontman Talks Westboro Protest: ‘It Was Pathetic’
Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie is on the Westboro Baptist Church's shit list - who isn't? - and he couldn't be happier about it. Laughing off the recent protest that took place during [...]
When A Lesbian Becomes A Man
By Shelby Clark Petkus Diana and Jacob Anderson-Minshall {BLURB What happens to a lesbian couple when one of them becomes a man? That very scenario was experienced by Diana and Jacob (nee Suzy) Anderson-Minshall [...]
When A Lesbian Becomes A Man
By Shelby Clark Petkus Diana and Jacob Anderson-Minshall What happens to a lesbian couple when one of them becomes a man? That very scenario was experienced by Diana and Jacob (nee Suzy) Anderson-Minshall and [...]
News You Should Know July 29, 2014
BTL Staff INDIANA - Announced on Friday the Indiana chapter of the ACLU will not file a lawsuit to compel the state to recognize same-sex weddings that were performed when marriage equality was briefly legal. [...]
LGBT Church Leader Meets At White House
PASADENA, Calif. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A White House meeting with LGBT leaders from around the nation to discuss {URL healthcare issues https://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=65099} was "an incredible event, absolutely remarkable," said Rev. Rick Eisenlord, the openly gay [...]
LGBT Church Leader Meets At White House
PASADENA, Calif. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A White House meeting with LGBT leaders from around the nation to discuss {URL healthcare issues https://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=65099} was "an incredible event, absolutely remarkable," said Rev. Rick Eisenlord, the openly gay [...]
LGBT Activists Attacked In Toronto
By BTL Staff Pink News reports that LGBT rights activists were attacked and told to leave a recent Toronto event held by Rob Ford. The activists had been protesting the controversial Toronto mayor's alleged homophobia. [...]
Hotter Than July Film Festival In Midtown
The Hotter Than July Film Festival took place Thursday night at Cinema Detroit in Midtown. Film Festival committee co-chairs Darius Baty and Alvina Bursey took time out to pose for a photo between screenings. Over [...]
Viewpoint:Why Trans Exclusion At Michfest Must Finally End
By Emily Dievendorf "We have said that this space, for this week, is intended to be for womyn who were born female, raised as girls and who continue to identify as womyn. This is an [...]
Viewpoint: Boycott MichFest Till Trans Inclusion A Reality
By Zoe Steinfield Camp Trans organizers from 2006 Our culture hates transgender women like me. If a TV is on I can expect to be demeaned as disturbing and laughable, deceptively attractive and tellingly [...]
Equality Michigan Starts Petition To Change Michfest Trans Exclusion Policy
By BTL Staff Twenty-three years ago Nancy Burkholder was asked to leave the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival because she was not a "womyn-born-womyn." Since then, debate has taken place with festival owner Lisa Vogel and [...]
U.S. 4th Circuit Court Of Appeals Overturns Va. Same-Sex Marriage Ban
BTL Staff VIRGINIA -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today [July 28] affirmed a district court ruling striking down Virginia's ban on marriage for same-sex couples. The decision will not take effect [...]
Breaking Through The Bro Code
By Emell Derra Adolphus Stronger than a "man crush," and somewhere between a love affair and fist bump, is a "bromance," explains author Michael DeAngelis. The term is meant to describe a bond between two [...]
MAC Hosts Annual Pub Crawl
By Shelby Clark Petkus Ready to party? Michigan AIDS Coalition hosts its much anticipated 18th Annual Ferndale Pub Crawl on Friday, July 25. The "Original Crawl" or "the BIG ONE," as MAC refers to it, [...]
Biking For Equal Rights
FERNDALE - Affirmations, Michigan's community center for LGBTs and their allies, are biking from Detroit to Ann Arbor on Saturday, Aug. 23, beginning at 10 a.m., to educate and encourage others to take action in [...]
Rue De Fleurus
Across 1 Perfect serves from Mauresmo 5 Popular variety of nuts 10 Sucker or suckee? 14 Kid needing a butt-whipping 15 "___ ear, and out the other" 16 Meat that goes in your boxers 17 [...]
A Tiny Musical Miracle
By Carolyn Hayes To bring in top tourist dollars, Broadway producers need something that must be seen to be believed. But how does such a show even get to the stage, when investors must believe, [...]
Quirky Musical Pleases Eye, Ear
By John Quinn Caitlin Lester-Sams, Mary Teutsch, Stephen Guarino and Eric Potter in "[title of show]." Photo: Farmers Alley Theatre Here's to the exciting life of the drama critic. This one drove five hours, [...]
‘Matchmaker’ Ends Hope Season With Laughs
By Sue Merrell Susan Erickson and David Colacci in HSRT's "The Matchmaker." Photo: HSRT "The Matchmaker," the final show of Hope Summer Repertory Theatre's season, is a great match for the directing talents of [...]
HTJ Pride Picnic Preview
It's the centerpiece of Detroit's weeklong black gay pride celebration. The pride picnic, which takes place Saturday in Palmer Park, has been a crowd favorite since Hotter Than July began in 1996. It's attracted tens [...]
Progressive Detroit Talks On The National Level: Netroots Closeup
By AJ Trager From left, Abdulla Alhassani, Ryan Covert, Garrett Arwa, Al Williams II and Josh Pugh from the Michigan Democratic Party. BTL photo: AJ Trager DETROIT - Last week, Netroots Nation brought thousands [...]
LGBTs Connect At Netroots Nation
By Chuck Colbert More than 120 LGBT activists, bloggers, organizations, funders and journalists from across the U.S., Canada and Mexico gathered in Detroit this past week for a day-long discussion about the future of the [...]
HTJ Schedule: Warming Up Detroit
By Shelby Clark Petkus Hotter Than July, Detroit's black gay pride festival, continues its 19th anniversary this week with further celebrations. HTJ's famous Film Festival runs from 5:30 p.m. to 12:20 a.m. on July 24 [...]
Michigan Healthcare Providers Discuss LGBT Focus Initiatives
By AJ Trager FERNDALE - Over 30 healthcare and LGBT professionals from around Metro Detroit met on July 15 at Affirmations to discuss how the healthcare industry can better improve itself, specifically on being more [...]
Study: PrEP, Taken Regularly, 100 Percent Effective
By BTL Staff Scientists at the International AIDS Conference in Sydney, Australia, released the results of an open label study of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis this week, which found that regular dosing of the drug Truvada is [...]
Creep of the Week: D.J. Dolce
Did you hear the news? Just over two percent told the CDC that they're gay, lesbian or bisexual. And people are freaking out. Some people are arguing that the number is too low. After all, [...]
Parting Glances: Bavel’s Rolero Redux
At my age, I fidget after five minutes exposure to certain quote/unquote cultural happenings. Harpsichord recitals. Accordion extravaganzas. Art song evenings. "Gilligan's Island" reruns. Lower body piercing demos. Televised Irish flaming feet of anything dancing. [...]
Transmissions: The Long, Hot Summer
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith On the 3rd of June, the body of Kandy Hall, a 40-year-old transgender woman of color, was discovered in a field on the northeast side of Baltimore. While the police have [...]
Lesbian Couple In Kalamazoo See Home Ruined
By AJ Trager KALAMAZOO - A West Michigan lesbian couple came home to a hate crime coating their house. The Kalamazoo Gay and Lesbian Resource Center (KGLRC) reminds the Kalamazoo community that a state amendment [...]