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 [...]
Photo: Mark Schaffer / HBO Andrew Rannells won't soon be living down the handjob he gave to a boy in a bathroom. Thanks to Lena Dunham and the other writers turning out sharp social [...]
By ED English While it's become a standard to lead the genre of pop-rap with ass and attitude - think Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea - relative newcomer Cakes Da Killa brings up his rear [...]
By Christopher Treacy Not only was revered Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky gay, he also wasn't ashamed. At least, not nearly as much as historians and biographers had always led us to believe. That Tchaikovsky [...]
Fifth Harmony, 'Reflection' Raise your glass to girl-group power. It's returning thanks to music-maven Simon Cowell, who understands the need to resurrect this abandoned, gay-celebrated American tradition, where female voices unite for the purposes of [...]
Across 1 Bunch of stallions 5 People in flaming pants? 10 Seeks answers 14 Lube ingredient 15 Ganges country 16 Like a virgin 17 Character of 27-Across 20 U.K. member 21 Prominent cock 22 Slinger's [...]
By BTL Staff "Spring Awakening," the edgy, pop/rock musical that took Broadway by storm and captured the 2007 Tony Award for Best Musical, sizzles with immediacy today thanks to the raw and electrifying pop score. [...]
Who doesn't love wine, chocolate and cheese? Ozone House will host the 2nd annual "Home Sweet Home" at Vinology on Feb. 18 to support LGBTQ youth. Tickets are $75 and available online. Proceeds go directly [...]
BY BTL STAFF FLINT - "Pioneering Voices: Portraits of Transgender People," a traveling art exhibit including photographs and interviews with trans people of all ages, their partners and their children, is coming to Metro Detroit. [...]
AJ TRAGER MICHIGAN - Public opinion on LGBT rights in Michigan has shifted over the years and as grassroots groups do more community outreach, members of the LGBT community are beginning to see a shift [...]
AJ TRAGER CEO of DRLGBTCC James Felton Keith introducing the chamber board members to over 120 attendees at the first Michigan Membership Mixer meeting of the 2015 year. The event was sponsored by General Motors [...]
In 2013, the CDC reported that U.S. cases of syphilis had increased 10 percent. Three quarters of those cases were among men who have sex with men (MSM) -- which directly accounted for the significant [...]
Former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell seen stalking Chris Armstrong. BTL File Photo 2010 The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 2 that a federal jury correctly found former Michigan Assistant [...]
BY AJ TRAGER ANN ARBOR - A University of Michigan professor has begun the editing phase of his full length feature film. The movie, filmed, directed, written and produced all in metro Detroit, tells a [...]
BY AJ TRAGER DEARBORN HEIGHTS - Maddie Adams, 22, is a regular volunteer at Affirmations, answering phones and assisting members of the staff. She has been interested in LGBT activism for many years, including working [...]
By BTL Staff MICHIGAN - A new report from the Williams Institute at UCLA confirms that 184,000 LGBT workers in the state are vulnerable to employment discrimination absent explicit statewide legal protections. Adding sexual orientation [...]
After years of arguing that being gay is not a choice and that gay people can't magically become straight via a wish and a prayer, I now have to admit that I was wrong. On [...]
When Detroit-born, Cass Tech graduate Bernard Johnson died of pneumonia in January 1997 at age 60, the New York Times carried a quarter-page obit celebrating his life as "a Renaissance man in dance." Little bigger [...]
This June the U.S. Supreme Court will finally decide whether to extend full marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, and it will be Michigan's DeBoer v. Snyder case that will help determine the outcome. Anticipation, [...]
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith This January President Barack Obama ascended to the speaker's rostrum in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to deliver the 2015 State of the Union address to the [...]
BY BTL STAFF KALAMAZOO - February 12 is the last day to sign up for a free two-day training seminar for trans activist leaders in Michigan. Spread out over two weekends, participants will learn about [...]
DEARBORN - Corporate leaders increasingly recognize that a diverse workforce provides them with a competitive edge. These leaders and their corporate recruiters want LGBT people to join their talent pool. Connecting corporate recruiters with Michigan's [...]
