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‘OITNB’ Star Dascha Polanco Is ‘Proud’ of Show’s LGBT Themes, Talks Latina Struggles & Hope For Hollywood Minorities
"I want you to smell me." It's not your typical conversation starter, sure, but "Orange Is the New Black" star Dascha Polanco does smell nice, like fresh flowers. Seated in a New York City hotel [...]
Q&A: Isabella Rossellini On ‘Joy,’ Drag & When She Knew ‘Death Becomes Her’ Was a Gay Film (‘Within Months’)
Isabella Rossellini is leading me into the light. There, in front of an almost full-wall window in a hotel suite at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York City, we stand, beaming, as her assistant [...]
Naughty But Nice: Stocking Stuffers To Spice Up Christmas Day
Santa checked his list twice for who's naughty and nice so your Christmas is filled with sugar - and now some spice. Slaphappy Flat Vibrator Marketed as the Swiss Army knife of vibrators (which, granted, [...]
Modern Family Man
Across 1 Michelangelo's "David," once 5 Supporters in the bedroom 10 Mistake for Paul Taylor 14 A fireman goes down on it 15 Vietnam capital 16 Tow job 17 Barrie's getting on in years 18 [...]
The Ringwald Theatre’s Annual Festival Celebrates Seven Years, Seeks Submissions
The Ringwald Theatre is sounding a call for new, original one-act plays to be performed at their Seventh Annual Gay Play Series (GPS). The Detroit-area's only LGBT short play festival is striving to provide early-career [...]
Royal Oak’s Ford Arts, Beats & Eats Distributes More Than $250,000 To Local Community Organizations
BY BTL STAFF ROYAL OAK - As 2015 wraps up, Ford Arts, Beats & Eats presented by Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort leaves its philanthropic mark as it crosses the $4.5 million milestone of overall [...]
Schlichting Talks Leadership And Being An LGBT Role Model
Nancy Schlichting, CEO of Henry Ford Health System, discussed her new book with Linda Forte, SVP Comerica Bank. The event was sponsored by Inforum, a professional womens networking organization, and attracted over 300 people to [...]
West Michigan Child Custody Case Not Clear Cut
BY AJ Trager GRAND RAPIDS - A West Michigan judge will soon decide if Michigan's former ban on same-sex marriage will impact a child custody case currently being disputed in Kent County. Joy Phillips, 41, [...]
New Health Center Commits To LGBT Health Care And Services
BY AJ TRAGER PONTIAC - A health center in Metro Detroit opened its doors earlier this year and is committed to providing primary care and services to the LGBT and allied communities. According to the [...]
NOW Endorses Fair Michigan
BY BTL STAFF EAST LANSING - On Dec. 14 the Michigan chapter of NOW (the National Organization for Women) issued a press release announcing their support of a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution [...]
Michigan LGBT Aging Project Awarded $25,000 Grant
Kendal Charitable Funds announced Tuesday that it has awarded a $25,000 Promising Innovations grant to the Michigan LGBT Aging Project to develop resources and trainers for two categories of unpaid caregivers: caregivers for LGBT older [...]
Todd’s Club Reunion/Birthday, Documentary Fundraiser
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - The upcoming annual reunion of fans, friends and family of the '80s nightclubs "Todd's" and "Liedernacht," now better known as City Club, will include a birthday celebration for Todd's creator [...]
Trans Sistas Fundraiser
Imagine This Productions held a holiday fundraiser for the fledgling Trans Sistas of Color Project on Dec. 6. The event raised over $300 for the new group, which is in the process of incorporating and [...]
Creep of the Week: Marco Rubio
There is a certain bench that presidential contenders long to fill. It's the Holy Grail of appointments: the Supreme Court. Since Supreme Court Justices serve lifetime terms, getting a justice or two on the bench [...]
Parting Glances: Gay Grinching It …
I hate to play the Gay Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but there's a movement afoot by the Southern Comfort Baptists to do away with all suspected gay references in Christmas carols and holiday traditions. (Easter, [...]
Ask Lambda Legal
By Greg Nevins Q. I am a lesbian who just started a new job on the management team at a new company. Invites have already started going out for the office holiday party, and it [...]
As Heard On Facebook
As of press time, the fifth Republican presidential debate gets ready to televise live from Las Vegas. D'Anne Witkowski's renowned "Creep of the Week" is no stranger to these candidates, including write-ups this year of [...]
Affirmations Says Goodbye To Founding Service
AJ TRAGER BTL File Photo: Andrew Potter FERNDALE - Big changes are coming to Affirmations next year as the center decides to reorganize its longest running service to the LGBT community: the Affirmations Hotline. [...]
BREAKING: Serial Craigslist Predators Targeting Gay Men In Lansing
Two Lansing men are in the Ingham county jail facing felony charges related to a Craigslist hook up crime. The men, Aaron Christopher Spyker and Adrian James Tupper, are in jail on charges of unarmed [...]