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 [...]
By Bob Roehr Homosexuals in America were "cured" in 1973 when the American Psychiatric Association (APA) voted to remove homosexuality from their list of mental illnesses. Robert L. Spitzer played a key part in achieving [...]
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin with Jim and Kim Davis Kentucky sure knows how the pick 'em, don't they? Governor Matt Bevin, Tea Partier and Kim Davis's BFF, was sworn in on Dec. 9, but [...]
LANSING - In a 4-0 vote Tuesday, the state Board of Canvassers approved the form and language of a ballot initiative to amend the Michigan constitution to protect the LGBT community from discrimination. The proposal [...]
Murray & Peter present a holiday spectacular with contestants from "RuPaul's Drag Race" (Logo TV) singing songs from their new CD "Christmas Queens." The pre-Christmas Eve event is billed under the tagline, "The holidays were [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Seeing 'Other People' at Sundance Maybe you've been watching "Fargo." You should have been, anyway. And maybe you caught Jesse Plemons as Kirsten Dunst's husband. He's one of our new favorite [...]
Across 1 Brown's "Cat on the ___ " 6 Cicero's singular 10 Asks from one's knees 14 "After Delores" author Schulman 15 Big ones in porn films, sometimes 16 Focused on one's work 17 Not [...]
Community Circle Players, Inc., doing business as Riverwalk Theatre, has been awarded two grants by the State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA), including a Capital Development grant for $5,215 and an [...]
BY BTL STAFF East Lansing's The Wharton Center for Performing Arts presents its Act One Family Series, a series of weekend matinee performances providing the perfect opportunity to introduce children to the performing arts. These [...]
Rev. William Francis of Atlanta, who identified himself as HIV-positive, moderated the meeting. BTL photo: Jason A. Michael DETROIT - Through their program, "The Black Church & HIV: The Social Justice Imperative," the NAACP [...]
For the first time, the city of Detroit was given a perfect score on Dec. 16 for its LGBTQ policies and services by the Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index. It is one of only [...]
DETROIT/FERNDALE - Earlier this month it was announced that the Michigan AIDS Coalition has joined forces with Matrix Human Services, a Detroit-based nonprofit. As a result, MAC will now be known as MAC Health, a [...]
BY BTL STAFF KALAMAZOO - A west Michigan couple became the first same-sex couple to jointly sign their baby's birth certificate at Bronson Hospital. Two-week-old baby Asa is the son of Stacy Campbell and Kathryn [...]
LANSING - In a brief order the Michigan Supreme Court says it will not get involved in an unemployment benefits case regarding former assistant attorney for the state, Andrew Shirvell, who was fired in 2010 [...]
BY BTL STAFF A search is out currently for real LGBT families to tell their inspiring stories of "acceptance" and love that they would like to share for a major cookie company commercial. The "feel [...]
BY BTL STAFF London - A new online tool to fight gay "cures" has just launched, thanks to All Out, a global movement for the rights of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people. Crowdfunded entirely [...]
Flint - A $29,000 grant from the Consumers Energy Foundation will allow the Flint Institute of Arts to help complete the final phase of a multi-year roof replacement project. The half million dollar project replaced [...]
BY BTL STAFF WNMU-FM reports that Marquette has adopted a new anti-discrimination ordinance which states employers, landlords and others cannot discriminate against anyone based on their race, sexual orientation, gender or religion. "It shows that [...]
BY BTL STAFF NEW YORK - Thirty-two year old entrepreneur Martin Shkreli, who raised the price of life saving HIV medication "Daraprim" by 5,000 percent in September, was arrested Dec. 17 on charges of securities [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Newborn Girl Of Local Lesbian Couple Experiences Religious Discrimination Bay Windsor Contreras, daughter of Jami Contreras and Krista Dornfried-Contreras, was just 6 days old when she experienced her first instance of discrimination. [...]
BY AJ TRAGER The LGBT community started 2015 with 60 percent of the country (30 states) affirming the love of same-sex couples, and by July marriage equality had swept over the entire U.S. But how [...]
State health officials earlier this month said they were "cautiously optimistic" that the tools to curb the HIV epidemic were available. That optimism was backed up shortly thereafter with news out of Atlanta. There the [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Queering The House State Reps. Jon Hoadley, D-Kalamazoo, and Jeremy Moss, D-Southfield, have made quite a mark since their election at the end of 2014 into Michigan's House of Representatives. Hoadley won [...]
BY AJ TRAGER SAGE Metro Detroit This year the LGBT community welcomed the transition of the LGBT Older Adult Coalition to form SAGE Metro Detroit, the area's newest organization focused on the needs of LGBT [...]
By Lisa Keen To be the "best year" ever in LGBT history, 2015 had to do better than 2013. That was the year the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the key section of the federal [...]
Despite our continued march toward complete LGBT equality, we're still faced with haters trying to hold us back - and some people work harder than others. This retrospective of the year that almost was recognizes [...]
Jane Fonda was so moved by a question she cried. Josh Groban recalled the moment he learned about his big bear following - and how he mistook them for a sports team. And Sarah Paulson [...]
Making sure that gays and lesbians were never afforded legally recognized marriages was the focus for the anti-gay right for so long. So many resources were poured into stopping John and Bill from saying, "I [...]
If stars are auspicious -- and on this glorious Night of Nights, one star shown brightest of all -- there are star-crossed paths that magically switch in time, space, crazy activation. So it happened once [...]
"Freaks of nature, odd crimes, shocking deaths, devastating disasters, bloodcurdling rites, crazy conspiracies & much, much more ..." Golly. Gee! Who could resist the "Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists: fascinating facts and shocking trivia on [...]
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith It is the eve of the Winter Solstice as I write this, and this is no better way to allude to where things are right now for the transgender community as [...]
