She is large and in charge, chunky yet funky. Yes, the one and only Latrice "Mother Fucking" Royale is coming to town. The drag diva - and "RuPaul's Drag Race" favorite - will be hosting [...]
BY AJ TRAGER LANSING - The House Committee on Commerce and Trade has voted to approve House Bill 4052, the "Local Government Employer Mandate Prohibition Act," that seeks to limit the units of local government [...]
LGBT Detroit Leadership Academys Spring 2015 graduating class consists of DeVon Weatherspoon, Stoyan Francis, Ahya Taylor and Anthony Hibbler (not pictured). BTL photo: Jason A. Michael DETROIT - It's the place where young leaders [...]
BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - Motor City Pride has been Michigan's largest pride festival for the last 25 years. This year, in anticipation of an affirmative ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality [...]
BY BTL STAFF ANN ARBOR - The Older Adult Services Program of the Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County will hold a conversation June 17 on social, political, legal and medical issues that affect the [...]
By BTL Staff A special session of the Jewish Gay Network's Annual Meeting will be held at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills on Wednesday, June 3. Zooey Sophia Pook will speak about "Transgender [...]
Angie Martell, J.D., M.S.W. and doctoral student in social work and sociology at the University of Michigan, is conducting a research project examining love, sex and intimacy among LGBT adults. The little researched area will [...]
By BTL Staff Tickets are now on sale for the Motown Invitation Classic (MIC) Eighth Annual Detroit River Boat Cruise and Tea Dance that will set sail -- rain or shine -- on the Detroit [...]
BY AJ TRAGER DEARBORN - In anticipation of the 2016 presidential election, the pressure is on for all elected officials to start gathering support for their campaigns, especially prospective candidates for state office. State House [...]
BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - DETROIT - Just in time for Pride, the Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce will host a Pride Night June 3 when the Tigers play the Oakland Athletics. Nearly 400 [...]
On May 12 the Department of Health and Human Services published draft guidance on their proposal to move from a lifetime blood donation ban for all gay and bisexual men to a one-year deferral period. [...]
As the LGBT community continues to make strides toward marriage recognition across the United States, many homosexual men are taking alternative approaches to finding "the one." Date-auction site http://WhatsYourPrice.com collected member data to discover the [...]
Newsflash: Jeb Bush has finally weighed in on the plight of anti-gay Christian wedding vendors. In an interview with David Brody for "The Brody File," a Christian Broadcasting Network program, Brody asked Bush about so-called [...]
"Let's go to the Hub Grill for a bowl of chili and a trick," was our weekend rallying cry as gay teenagers. A dollar or two -- and our youthful, reasonably innocent good looks -- [...]
The Republican controlled state legislature is so upset at the prospect of marriage equality that they have abandoned their legislative responsibilities and instead have focused on attacking LGBT people and their rights -- again! State [...]
By BTL Staff Two of the six plaintiffs, Codie Stone and Tina Seitz presenting their first statements during the press conference held May 21 at the ACLU of Michigan. BTL Photo: AJ Trager DETROIT [...]
Photo: 20th Century Fox Rose Byrne is up to no good again. After driving Kristen Wiig further into cupcake-consuming meltdown mode during 2011s "Bridesmaids," the Australian actress goes full-on diva in "Spy" (out June [...]
Photo: 20th Century Fox Rose Byrne is up to no good again. After driving Kristen Wiig further into cupcake-consuming meltdown mode during 2011's "Bridesmaids," the Australian actress goes full-on diva in "Spy" (out June [...]
? DETROIT - On Thursday the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Michigan filed a federal lawsuit in Detroit against the Michigan Secretary of State challenging a department policy that makes it impossible for [...]
It was little surprise when HBO's "Looking" - a critically acclaimed but poorly rated TV series about gay men in San Francisco - introduced an HIV-positive character in season two. After all, the city was [...]
"Tori Amos who?" My dear friend, then boyfriend, must have been dumbfounded when I - a gay man - uttered these words that, in retrospect, are among the most naive of my life. I rolled [...]
Across 1 Lie beside 5 Gold Olympic award for Megan Rapinoe 10 "My stars!" 14 Kelly McGillis' "The Monkey's ___ " 15 Shelley in "Popeye" 16 Stow, as cargo 17 Start of a quote from [...]
Rep. Jeremy Moss, D-Southfield. BTL photo: Rita Deibler LANSING -- LGBT activists breathed a sigh of relief when a provision that could have invalidated all 38 LGBT inclusive anti-discrimination ordinances in Michigan was removed [...]
By Norm Kent On July 17, 2013, Major League Baseball held its 84th annual All Star Game at Citi Field in Queens, New York, the home park of the New York Mets. It was a [...]
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