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My Point of View: It’s Better To Be Pissed Off Than Pissed On
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 [...]
National And State LGBT Orgs Urge Caution On 2016 Ballot Initiative
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 [...]
Houston Delivers Tough Blow, Repeals Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
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 [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
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. [...]
Roomer Has It
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 [...]
The OutField: Rugby Tackles Homophobia
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. [...]
Addressing LGBT Health Disparities
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 [...]
Kicking Detroit’s Smoking Habit: Breaking The Cycle
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. [...]
Punting With Pride
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 [...]
The Developing World Of Sexual Therapy
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 [...]
Getting Sober
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 [...]
Positive Thoughts: Q&A with Mondo Guerra
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 [...]
Affirmations Launches New Leadership Development Institute For LGBT Professionals
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. [...]
Book With Gay Character Banned From Monroe Book Fair
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 [...]
Sistrum Seeks New Artistic Director
BY BTL STAFF Sistrum, Lansing Womens Chorus, is a WITA day stage standard.
NCLR AND HRC Release Sample Legislation To End Conversion Therapy On LGBTQ Youth
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 [...]
Creep of the Week: Julio Gonzalez
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 [...]
Parting Glances: Gay Ghosts On Parade
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 [...]
Welcoming A Globally Inclusive Community
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 [...]
The Southfield That I Know
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 [...]
Winning Our Rights
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 [...]
Transmissions: Anomalies
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, [...]