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 [...]
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, [...]
