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 [...]
An Oct. 30 announcement by a new ballot question committee, Fair Michigan - formed by attorney Dana Nessel, seeks to put LGBT civil rights to a popular vote in 2016. It has caused controversy and [...]
When the weather outside is frightful, your DVD player is delightful with this fortnight of holiday flicks that appeal to gay and lesbian sensibilities. Home for the Holidays Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) navigates dysfunctional family [...]
Across 1 "Funny Girl"'s Fanny 6 Soccer legend 10 Initiated phone sex 14 "Hot dog!" 15 Russian sea 16 Spread out on the breakfast table 17 Part of a "Tommy" lyric 18 Blaringly colorful 19 [...]
By Amy J. Parrent Theater artist Emilio Rodriguez's story of two teen boys in an LGBT homeless shelter will be included in the Michigan Playwrights' Festival at Ann Arbor's Theatre Nova. Photo: Brandy Joe Plambeck [...]
BY BTL STAFF As the finale to the Lusophone Film Fest, the State Theater will present a showing of "Tattoo (Tataugem)," a Brazilian film directed by Hilton Lacerda that was released in 2013. Professor Larry [...]
Born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Detroit, Rodney Reinhart's first calling was to teach. He earned a degree in English and secondary education from Oakland University and taught for many years in the Detroit [...]
BY BTL STAFF Wesley Harris, an undergraduate student at East Tennessee State University, is conducting a study about the effect of stigma on intimate partner violence (IPV) reporting. With this study, Harris hopes to contribute [...]
In the 34 years since HIV was first identified by science, much has changed. It's no longer just a matter of whether someone is HIV-positive or not -- today, with medical advances, people living with [...]
Alex Saenz is a gregarious 27-year-old gay man, but his bubbly exterior hides a rough and tumble life. The 2009 Eastern High graduate struggled with addiction, specifically meth, a popular sex drug in gay communities [...]
BY AJ TRAGER YPSILANTI - In her Nov. 18 presentation, "Invisible Violence, Invisible Victims: The Health Related Consequences of Same-Sex and Intimate Partner Violence," at the Equality Knowledge Project conducted by the Equality Research Center [...]
AIDS Partnership Michigan and HIV/AIDS Resource Center merged earlier this year to strengthen the response to and treatment of HIV in Southeast Michigan. The merged organization officially launched its new brand Dec. 1 - World [...]
BY BTL Staff Sixteen anti-violence organizations from 13 states across the country contributed testimony from 2,166 reports of Intimate Parter Violence for the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Program's 2014 report on LGBT Intimate Partner Violence [...]
If you're a Republican, you know that it is essential to seek the vote of people who are irrational and extreme. And in order to do that, you have to say things that are irrational [...]
It's been over 30 years since media stories began to appear about what seemed the onset of a pandemic among gay men (and drug users). The acronym for these puzzling outbreaks on the East and [...]
By Howard Israel Hey there! Please don't sign the petition that would allow the general voting public to decide whether or not Michigan's LGBT citizens deserve civil rights protections! Really. I mean it. Here's why... [...]
LANSING -- In the shadow of the state Christmas tree, about 400 people rallied against what they say is escalating Christian persecution. Top on the list of the persecution they claim? Marriage equality. Rep. Tom [...]
