It's Baaaaaaack! Michigan State Senator Mike Shirkey (R-Clark Lake) has re-introduced the Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act (MiRFRA). That's legislation lovingly dubbed "license to discriminate" by activists because it justifies nearly all discrimination, as long [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Participants in the 2014 March walk through Downtown. Photo Credit: Daymon J. Hartley. Published with permissions. DETROIT - The 12th annual MLK Day Freedom Rally and March comes to Detroit Jan.19 [...]
BY AJ TRAGER April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse outside the 6th Circuit Court steps on Aug. 6., awaiting the Appellate court trial. BTL Photo: AJ Trager WASHINGTON D.C - The Supreme Court of the [...]
By Christopher Treacy Photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Alison Bechdel has raised the bar rather significantly. She's expanded her craft well beyond simple cartooning to become a graphic memoirist. She's also [...]
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Two separate weeks of culinary celebration come to Birmingham this January and February with Birmingham's Annual Restaurant Week. The city's 2015 event will run Jan. 26-30 and Feb. 2-6. The Monday through Friday festivities feature [...]
BY AJ TRAGER MICHIGAN - Three years ago, when the plaintiffs in the Michigan same-sex marriage case decided to petition the state's law on second-parent adoption, they had no idea that their story would travel [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Annette Burgan with her three children. MICHIGAN - A custody case filed against a local lesbian woman will soon be presented before a Wayne County Judge, as the children's biological father [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Suspenseful literature, like that of writers such as Dan Brown, brings intense scenes and a fast trajectory to the narrative. "Assault with a Deadly Lie" is one such work of fiction sure [...]
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - The Detroit LGBT Chamber will host a Black History Month Town Hall, presenting a documentary and engaging in a discussion about marriage equality in the mitten state. To celebrate Black [...]
In celebration of its 20 years as an LGBT singing group, Out Loud Chorus will present its January concert, "As Time Goes By," this weekend. Out Loud Chorus is a non-auditioned community chorus. Most of [...]
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - Actor and producer Jon Imparato will present a topic on queer art at Sphinx Con 2015, an upcoming convention to be held in the Westin Book Cadillac in Downtown Detroit. [...]
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 Lisa Keen The U.S. Supreme Court put off until at least this Friday (Jan. 16) a decision on whether it will hear appeals challenging a 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that said [...]
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and these are desperate times for anti-gay "marriage defenders" like Randy Thomasson of Save California, an organization dedicated to children and families, just not gay ones. On Jan. 7, [...]
Parting Glances A few years ago I was invited by one of BTL's many creative editorial associates to attend what might best be labeled as an exclusive "Kink Collective Party." It was being held during [...]
As LGBT people across the country, and especially in Michigan, wait to learn if the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the remaining same-sex marriage cases, people have taken to Facebook to express their frustrations - [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Plaintiffs Marsha Caspar and Glenna DeJong in front of the Eastern Michigan District Court in Detroit on Aug. 21. BTL Photo: AJ Trager DETROIT - A Federal District court judge ruled [...]
BY JAY KAPLAN On Jan. 15, Federal District Judge Mark Goldsmith held that the state of Michigan's refusal to recognize the legal marriages of more than 300 same-sex couples who legally wed on March 22, [...]
