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 [...]
"Oh, Jesus." Zachary Quinto is aptly responding to the fact that, yes, despite establishing himself as an Emmy-nominated actor with versatility, out-of-this-world talent and some of the best eyebrows in the biz, he once starred [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Clea DuVall in the director's chair Lesbian fan favorite Clea DuVall, star of "Argo," "American Horror Story" and, back in the day, the queer indie cult hit "But I'm A Cheerleader," [...]
Across 1 Bowie's "___ Oddity" 6 Lucci in "All My Children" 10 NCAA home of the Bruins 14 Emma Stone plays a beard in this movie 15 Words after the race 16 Polished surface, for [...]
"Urinetown: The Musical!," the Tony-award-winning hit from 2001, will have its last performances by Ann Arbor's Penny Seats Theatre Company this weekend. Set in an admittedly absurd dystopian future where one must pay to pee, [...]
BY AJ TRAGER It all started 15 years ago, when April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse met at a music festival in 1999. DeBoer came out with some friends, and Rowse was on-duty as an event [...]
BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - West Michigan activist and trans advocate Amy Hunter has joined the ACLU of Michigan and begun her work with the Trans Advocacy Project, or Advocacy University. Hunter has done advocacy [...]
By BTL Staff DETROIT - The 2016 BTL Ultimate LGBT Wedding and Anniversary Expo will be moving to the MotorCity Casino Hotel March 20, 2016. The event will be spread out over the huge ballroom [...]
Caption: James Whipple and Carl Weiler were married on July 26. (BTL photo: Jason A. Michael) FERNDALE - Carl Weiler and James Whipple, both 73, got married in the middle of a Sunday morning service [...]
BY BTL STAFF SAGINAW - Saginaw Valley State University has added gender identity protections and genetic information protections to the university's nondiscrimination policy. Transgender individuals and individuals with a family history of genetic health conditions [...]
BY BTL STAFF ANN ARBOR - Jewish Family Services will present their second discussion on LGBT aging at 7 p.m. on Aug. 19 at the Jewish Community Center of Ann Arbor. "The Role of Exercise [...]
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - A 20-year-old trans female of color was found murdered Aug. 8 near Six Mile and Woodward. Equality Michigan reported Amber Monroe, a trans Wayne State University student, was found shot [...]
By Lisa Keen Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul singled out Houston's lesbian mayor for criticism, saying she had tried to "invade the church to enforce (her) own opinion on marriage." Candidate Bobby Jindal said he'd [...]
Michigan State Reps. Todd Courser, R-Lapeer, and Cindy Gamrat, R-Plainwell, two of the most right-wing and extreme members of the Legislature, have been doing it for quite some time now. Not surprisingly, Courser and Gamrat [...]
Human nature being what it is - and sometimes mostly what it isn't - those who marry in haste, straight or gay, usually repent at leisure by visiting an attorney to file for a divorce. [...]
By Myles Helfand Please don't be afraid of HIV. It doesn't deserve it, and you deserve better. Don't get me wrong: I'm not anti-fear. I've got a whole mess of fears myself - of failure, [...]
By Angie Perone Angie Perone More than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark marriage equality decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, much work remains for full LGBT equality. The decision itself represents a giant step [...]
BTL STAFF Photo courtesy of Equality Michigan. DETROIT - Equality Michigan has learned that the body of a 25-year-old trans person was found brutally murdered in a field in Detroit on July 14. Ashton [...]
