As we await more scandals and gratuitous butt pics in 2015, comedian Kathy Griffin weighs in on some of the biggest pop-culture stories of last year: from "Peter Pan Live!" to Madonna's boobs and Taylor [...]
Photo: Daniel Sannwald From bed in her Los Angeles home, Gwen Stefani insists she doesn't mind doing her first gay press interview in a decade on her day off. "I love talking about myself," [...]
BY BTL STAFF LANSING - Newly elected House Rep. Jeremy Moss of the 35th District, representing Southfield, Lathrup Village, Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms and Franklin, has been named the assistant Democratic floor leader of the [...]
Kathy Griffin isn't kidding when she says, "If I can get serious for one second..." Putting aside her usual biting assault against all things celebrity, the comedian gets candid about her dear friend and idol [...]
BY BTL STAFF Gay Pride flags flying outside the 6th Circuit Court in Cincinnati. WASHINGTON D.C - The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) finished issuing orders without any word on whether or [...]
By BTL Staff Mart Crowley's landmark play "The Boys in the Band" will finally get its Ringwald Theatre debut, in association with Five15 of Royal Oak, beginning on Jan. 9. Promised last season, but the [...]
By Amy J. Parrent Kevin Remington (Fred Mertz), Thea Brooks (Lucy Ricardo), Lori Hammel (Ethel Mertz) and Euriamis Losada (Ricky Ricardo) in the national tour of I Love Lucy Live on Stage. Photo: Justin Namon [...]
Across 1 Figure out in your head 5 Big Peter Benchley book 9 Hung loosely 15 "Otello" villain 16 Body of soldiers 17 Composer Debussy 18 With 22-Across, public display about a private part 20 [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus In protest of the ever-bitter Michigan cold, The Magic Bag hosts the "Anti-Freeze Blues Festival" this month in Ferndale. The two-day long festival features a variety of local and national blues [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Tom Toon (L) and Anthony Shakeshaft (R) showing off their marker from Fall of 2013 in Washtenaw county after the initial DeBoer ruling. They would have been second to marry had same-sex [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus The founder of the Gay Connection and Jewish Gay Network activist, Howard N. Baver, has passed away at the age of 89. Baver died on Dec. 20 in Farmington Hills. He [...]
BY AJ TRAGER MICHIGAN - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released its third annual municipality index for LGBT equality in December 2014, highlighting 353 cities throughout the nation. Municipal Equality Index (MEI) is the only [...]
By Chene Koppitz Bruce Harknessas aHalloween Party, Verdias Bar, Sibley Street, 1977a Despite having a verifiable population under one million residents, Detroit has been in the forefront of national and international news for the [...]
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - A group of LGBT professionals from around the state have gathered to create a Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce (DRLGBTCC) that will host an upcoming event open to the [...]
BY AP DETROIT - The state of Michigan won't appeal a decision that struck down a law barring local governments from offering benefits to same-sex partners. The American Civil Liberties Union says the state signaled [...]
BY BTL STAFF SOUTHFIELD - With the start of the new year and a new Michigan legislative term, newly elected members for the state have begun swearing in for the 2015 cycle. Jeremy Moss, openly [...]
BY BTL STAFF WASHINGTON D.C - On Jan. 9, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is scheduled to consider whether to take up the issue of same-sex marriage during the Court's current term [...]
Well, it's 2015 and would you look at that, Christmas came and went, surviving yet another war against its very existence. A war raged by atheists (a.k.a. godless heathens), Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and any [...]
It took me a while to get the hang of learning a foreign language. During my undergraduate study at Wayne State University, I tried Spanish, German and Italian, dropping out after half-hearted samplings of the [...]
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith In the early morning of Dec. 28, a 17-year-old transwoman by the name of Leelah Alcorn was struck and killed by a semi-truck on Interstate 71 near Union Township, Ohio. At [...]
BY JASON MICHAEL Kevin Rogers (April 1, 1957 - January 4, 2015) with Glenn LeBoeuf. Kevin Rogers (April 1, 1957 - January 5, 2015*) FERNDALE - Longtime community activist and owner of Just 4 [...]
BY BTL STAFF A recent study from The Fenway Institute has suggested that primary care clinicians routinely screen transgender youth for mental health concerns. With recent high-profile suicides of transgender teens, like Leelah Alcorn, the [...]
BY BTL STAFF FERNDALE - Affirmations will host MI Health Answers, ACCESS and Get Covered America for a community presentation on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) followed by a hands on enrollment for individuals in [...]
BY BTL STAFF LANSING - Newly elected House Rep. Jeremy Moss of the 35th District representing Southfield Lathrup Village, Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms and Franklin, has been named the assistant democratic floor leader of the [...]
