By Chris Azzopardi
Jillian Banks is a long way away from being a gay icon, but she's off to a good start. Like Madonna and Cher, the moody Los Angeles songstress is a one-name phenom: Banks. A touchstone [...]
Jillian Banks is a long way away from being a gay icon, but she's off to a good start. Like Madonna and Cher, the moody Los Angeles songstress is a one-name phenom: Banks. A touchstone [...]
Jillian Banks is a long way away from being a gay icon, but she's off to a good start. Like Madonna and Cher, the moody Los Angeles songstress is a one-name phenom: Banks. A touchstone [...]
BTL Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. legislators from four states have signed a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell expressing a continued concern regarding current policies governing [...]
BTL Staff CHICAGO - The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down same-sex marriage bans on Sept. 4 for Wisconsin and Indiana, upholding lower court decisions that the ban on marriage is a violation of [...]
BTL Staff WASHINGTON D.C. - Thirty-two states that either allow same-sex marriage or have banned it asked SCOTUS on Sept. 4 to settle the issue that is occupying many of the States' courts. The signatories [...]
BTL Staff WASHINGTON D.C. - Well-known and highly respected lesbian is to be appointed to an executive role within the White House Staff, the Washington Post reported on Sept. 4. President Obama created the U.S. [...]
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer and running mate Lisa Brown sat down with BTL publishers Jan Stevenson and Susan Horowitz prior to the Michigan Democratic Convention for a wide-ranging conversation about their campaign, what a [...]
A record number of candidates spoke to those gathered at the LGBT Caucus at the Michigan Democratic Convention on Aug. 23 in Lansing. Oakland County Clerk and candidate for Lt. Governor Lisa Brown addressed the [...]
The final 2013 report from the Michigan Department of Community Health on the HIV epidemic in Michigan is out. And while there are glimmers of hope in the report, there are also concerning trends appearing. [...]
By AJ Trager DETROIT - On Sept. 12, the Ruth Ellis Center (REC) will present its Voices 2014 gala to celebrate 15 years of services to LGBT runaways and homeless youth. Mark Erwin, the director [...]
By Tim Retzloff Betty Leonard (right) with Melva Earhart in a 1981 photo from Metra magazine. Photo caption: Betty Leonard (right) with Melva Earhart in a 1981 photo from Metra magazine. Mary E. "Betty" [...]
Montrell Delicious Jackson and Isiah Tweedie filed a video on YouTube after they experienced anti-gay verbal harassment last month. They are currently planning a fundraiser for the The Trevor Project that will take place on [...]
By BTL Staff Dr. Paul Benson will host a workshop on the latest PrEP news and updates on HIV prevention and treatments from the 20th World AIDs Conference that was held in Australia. The program [...]
I was in tenth grade when Bill Clinton was running for President. One day during French class, somebody made a comment about how they hoped he would win. A handful of other students mumbled their [...]
Among five digit numbers in high demand for Spain's $1.2 - Madre de Dios! - billion dollar Christmas lottery was 11901, the standard European dating for the World Trade Center devastation. The year of Spain's [...]
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BTL Staff Mark Schauer is the democratic nominee for the 2014 Michigan Governor's race. Him and his running mate, Lisa Brown, have come out in support of the LGBT community and will fight for an [...]
BTL Staff CALIFORNIA - The University of La Verne is seeking participants for an online study to evaluate how emotions like shame and guilt impact unprotected sex for men who have sex with men. Participants [...]
By BTL Staff NEW YORK - AP reports that Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed [...]
By BTL Staff GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan State Bar members will assemble this month to honor and present awards to top legal professionals in the state. State Bar of Michigan members will gather Sept. 17 [...]
By BTL Staff With Labor Day behind us, we can expect to be bombarded with political ads, emails and robo-calls. It's so easy to become numb, to tune out - to feel like it is [...]
Eliza Doolittle (Sara Rydzewski) and Henry Higgins (Steve Tadevic) in the abso-bloomin-lutely loverly musical masterpiece, "My Fair Lady." Photo: by Lance Luce ROYAL OAK - Few stage productions can lay claim to be "the [...]
Lea DeLaria and Natasha Lyonne in Orange Is the New Black. Photo: Netflix While summer 2014 is cooling down, the fall TV season is just starting to heat up. Bittersweet, ain't it? At least [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Anderson Cooper! Meets! Avengers' Black Widow! Not that anyone was really expecting this team-up, but wasn't it time for Anderson Cooper to appear in a Marvel comic book? I think we [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus Michele Norris, the award-winning journalist famed for her work on National Public Radio, comes to East Lansing this month. She will be a part of the Wharton Center's "World View Lecture [...]
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BTL Staff LOUISIANA -For the first time since Windsor v. United States, striking down DOMA in 2013, a federal judge has ruled a state's ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Martin [...]
BTL Staff KINGSTON, JAMAICA - Young Jamaican gay rights activist who brought a legal challenged to the Caribbean island's anti-sodomy law has withdrawn the claim after multiple threats and violent backlashes, advocacy groups and colleagues [...]
BTL Staff ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Rams have cut the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team. However, the Dallas Cowboys confirmed Sept. 3 that they will assign him to the [...]
BTL Staff BEREA, KY. - The city of Berea has scheduled two meetings in September to discuss a proposed city law that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The proposal is [...]
BTL Staff East Lansing Approves Equal Benefits Ordinance Ram's Cut 1st Openly Gay Player Drafted, Cowboys Pick Him Up Washtenaw Residents To Rally Or To Protest Kentucky City Considers Nondiscrimination Law Jamaican Ends Legal Challenge [...]