By Howard Israel I strongly oppose any sort of LGBT-related ballot initiative in Michigan! History shows, we are the losers when gay rights are put to a popular vote. Civil rights protections should NEVER EVER [...]
BY AJ Trager LANSING - On Oct. 30, Dana Nessel, one of four attorneys in the Michigan same-sex marriage case for DeBoer v. Snyder, announced a new bipartisan ballot committee that would work to add [...]
By Lisa Keen Houston Mayor Annise Parker, left, greets a supporter at a fund raiser for the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance in Houston on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. The ordinance is a broad measure that [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Alan Cummings Ellen Page: Flatlining Ellen Page, so good in "Freeheld" (in theaters as we speak), might very well be stepping into Julia Roberts' shoes. Or maybe even Kiefer Sutherland's shoes. [...]
Across 1 First man to say to a man, "You slay me!"? 5 Hard blow 9 Bean and Burke waved theirs around 13 Item on a docket 14 "June Is Bustin' Out All ___" 15 [...]
By Dan Woog If you're looking for a stereotypical macho sport, you don't have to search further than rugby. A full-contact sport - without much protection - it's got everything: brutal tackling. Dirt and mud. [...]
BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - The Fenway Institute and the Center for American Progress recently lobbied the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will soon begin addressing the disparities affecting LGBT people in [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Kunto Howard, 24, project coordinator for "Breaking The Cycle," a program of LGBT Detroit, is working to help people stop smoking. Howard says smoking rates are significantly higher in the LGBT population. [...]
By Emell Derra Adolphus "I Love it, even with the injuries," says team member Tashia Pickett. BTL photos: Alexander Godin When you're watching the girls of the Detroit Pride football team, you won't see [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Joe Kort, Ph.D., LMSW, works as a sexual therapist in Royal Oak. He is known in the therapist community for his work with sex therapy and sexual identity issues, including out-of-control sexual [...]
By Christopher Treacy It felt like I was circling the drain. I got stuck in a vicious cycle, allowing some evil mechanism within me to destroy everything I tried to achieve while it simultaneously lied [...]
By Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. I was hooked up to this and that, and in my heart and mind I was dying of AIDS. I still didnt talk about it. I hit rock bottom, and [...]
FERNDALE - Affirmations is gearing up to launch a new leadership development program in 2016 called the Leadership Exploration and Development Institute, which will provide LGBT mid-level professionals with education, training, networking and mentoring opportunities. [...]
BY BTL STAFF MONROE - The lastest installment of the popular "Captain Underpants" series by author Dav Pilkey has been banned from the Arborwood Elementary School book fair after book publisher Scholastic Books warned the [...]
BY BTL STAFF Sistrum, Lansing Womens Chorus, is a WITA day stage standard.
BY BTL STAFF SAN FRANCISCO - Less than a week after the White House held a teleconference discussing the end of conversion therapy practices in the country, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a national [...]
Oh, Florida. You just love being horrible, don't you? It's not enough that if you do a Google news search for "Florida man" you end up with headlines like, "Florida Man Attacks Karaoke DJ Over [...]
For five dynamic years -- 1940 to 1945 -- Detroit was America's Arsenal of Democracy, a vital source of war material. First for England's defense. Later, for our own. Automotive factories focused on round-the-clock, nonstop [...]
By Thomas "TJ" Rogers And Micheal Ighodaro Globally, there are more than 75 countries that criminalize homosexuality and nine that impose the death penalty. Yet in such places, LGBT people - lawyers, doctors, human rights [...]
BY JEREMY MOSS "I have one last question for you. What's your position on gay marriage?" "I'm in favor of it," I said. "Why would you be in favor of it? I firmly believe that [...]
BY STEPHANIE WHITE It's time. If there's one thing that LGBT people in Michigan can agree on is that it is clearly time we updated our statewide nondiscrimination law to include all of us. You [...]
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith In an interview with The Advocate, Kimberly Walton, assistant administrator of Transportation Safety Administration's Office for Civil Rights and Liberty, was asked about issues transgender people have had with the agency, [...]
