BY AJ TRAGER ANN ARBOR - June 26 will officially be known as a day of love, devotion, sacrifice, fidelity and above all else family. In an [...]

Political Hors D'oeuvres {Gamrat And Course Rumors} The rumors about Reps. Cindy Gamrat and Todd Courser have been flying fast and furious around the Capitol City. Rumor has it the two tea party darlings and [...]

BY AJ TRAGER ? LANSING - Michigan For Marriage was organized as a collaborative public education campaign to build support for marriage equality in Michigan and has spent the last few years gathering communities together [...]

LANSING - Within hours of the release of a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriages across the country, Michigan politicians on both sides of the issue were commenting on it. "Same-sex marriage [...]

Forty-six years after the Stonewall Rebellion, almost to the day, marriage equality has finally become the law of the land. In some ways it feels lightening fast. And yet it also feels that it took [...]

Less than an hour after the Supreme Court of the United States released an opinion making marriage equality the law of the land, Ingham County Clerk Barb Bryum married the county's first post ruling couple. [...]

At 10:30 Friday morning, less than 30 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that marriage equality was the law of the land, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services release a marriage guidance [...]

BY AJ TRAGER HAZEL PARK - April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse describe "actively stumbling" into their lawsuit against the state of Michigan. The case launched Michigan into the center of the marriage equality debate. The [...]

BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - In 2011, when April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse approached Dana Nessel for legal counsel they primarily sought to change Michigan's adoption code, one of the most restrictive in the country [...]

BY BTL STAFF LANSING - In the past year, throughout the marriage equality movement, Michigan for Marriage has provided countless LGBT stories, maintained an up-to-date website full of reference material and community activism and served [...]

On Jan. 13, 1958, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its first ever pro-gay ruling in ONE Inc. v. Olesen, a landmark decision that allowed a magazine for gays and lesbians to be sent through the [...]

Compiled By Shelby Clark Petkus The consolidation of four same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court is not the first example of LGBT issues making it to Washington D.C. Those cases -- Obergefell v. [...]

By Lisa Keen Jim Obergefell was the named lead plaintiff on the same sex marriage case that affirmed marriage equality in all 50 states June 26. AP photo In a widely expected yet stunning [...]

LANSING -- As the nation awaits a decision by the United States Supreme Court as to to whether or not same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle [...]

BY AJ TRAGER Michigan State License Template DETROIT - State Rep. Brian Banks, D-Harper Woods, introduced legislation June 18 that would create a process for individuals who need to change the gender marker on [...]

Last week was especially bad for anyone in Michigan who cares about children, equality, justice, fairness and economic progress. Here is a litany of backwater, intolerant, anti-economic development bills passed in Michigan's legislature in just [...]

A new poll by Glengariff group and released by WDIV in Detroit has found that the majority of Michigan citizens support legalizing marriage equality, recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states and amending the state's [...]

Editor's Note: The anti-adoption bills were not the only regressive legislation signed and introduced. The Republican majority government was busy at work on a number of issues you can read here LANSING -- Gov. Rick [...]

BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - Following a trend that is affecting AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) around the country, AIDS Partnership Michigan and HIV/AIDS Resource Center decided to work toward a formal merger of their organizations [...]

By Carol Tanis When the ongoing story of gay music teacher Gerry Crane was in the media back in 1995, it had a chilling effect on gays and lesbians in West Michigan. Then when Crane [...]

BY AJ TRAGER TRAVERSE CITY - The Second Annual Up North Pride comes to Traverse City for a week of LGBT-centric events. Up North Pride and The Michael Chetcuti Foundation will host Up North Pride [...]

BY AJ TRAGER MOUNT PLEASANT - A recent analysis conducted by a Central Michigan University professor has indicated that prejudice and discrimination can lead to health issues for LGBT young adults. CMU associate professor of [...]

The Fifth Annual LGBT Older Adult Summit will be held this weekend in downtown Detroit. The free event, being held under the motto of "Let The Good Times Roll," will feature community and social gathering [...]

LANSING - The Michigan League for Public Policy issued the following statement on the House vote to eliminate the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Senate's approval of a package of bills allowing agencies [...]

The Seventh Annual LGBT and Ally Pride Awards Banquet will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, at the Andersen Enrichment Center, 120 Ezra Rust Drive in Saginaw. The evening includes a garden [...]

The late Shelly "Treasure" Hilliard is the subject of a new documentary, "Treasure: From Tragedy To Transjustice, Mapping A Detroit Story," by filmmaker dream hampton. The film revisits the gruesome tale of Hilliard's demise and [...]

The ring Patch Harrison, 27, bought Jessi Fox, 23, to firm up their engagement. ADRIAN, MICHIGAN -- Patch Harrison and Jessi Fox are in love. If, sometime this month, the U.S. Supreme Court rules [...]