By Lisa Keen In his eighth and final State of the Union address, President Obama on Tuesday seemed intent on both acknowledging the nation's rifts and binding together those disparate parts with a "common creed" [...]
Bill Beachler in 2014 attending the Rose Bowl where MSU played. Photo courtesy of Gary Hicks. WEDNESDAY. Jan. 13 - Bill Beachler, with his "perfect hair" and "remarkable presentation," was an ever-present figure at [...]
BY AJ TRAGER The Obergefell v. Hodges decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last June (which made same-sex marriage legal across the country) has created a potentially new legal landscape for child custody cases involving [...]
BTL Staff and AP INDIANAPOLIS - A Republican state senator who previously proposed granting Indiana civil rights protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people has unveiled a new bill that would leave transgender rights [...]
By Romeo San Vicente There was a time in LGBT media stories when the G dominated the conversation. We love gay men, of course, and their stories are in no danger of extinction. But we [...]
Across 1 Manger for Mary's boy 5 One of two ways 8 "Ed Wood" role 12 Cole Porter's Indiana hometown 13 Slice of wry 15 Go off, on Broadway 16 Judy Garland, to many 17 [...]
By Dan Woog Chris Mosie Growing up in suburban Chicago, Chris Mosier had no FTM athletic role models. There were none at Northern Michigan University either, where - among many other activities - Mosier [...]
By Anne Kiley Continuing its inaugural season, Detroit Public Theatre will offer audiences Michigan native Eric Gutman in his autobiographical one-man musical journey "From Broadway To Obscurity" Jan. 22-Feb. 20. Dreams collide in this hilariously [...]
CHELSEA, Mich. - The Purple Rose Theatre Company will ring in the new year with the second play of its 25th anniversary season, Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple." Two suddenly single pals -- a sloppy [...]
BY BTL STAFF Joan Baez Friday, Jan. 29 City and Colour Richard Thompson Yo La Tengo The Oh Hellos Penny and Sparrow Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line Ben Daniels Band David Mayfield, [...]
BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - Two local LGBT activists will match the final donation collected for the ACLU Equality Challenge: Centennial Campaign at the end of January. Michigan activists Howard Israel and Henry Grix have [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Dr. Beverly Mihalko, assistant professor of Health Sciences at EMU, discussed her recent study on long term care of LGBT older adults in the state in a Equality Knowledge Project presentation held [...]
Faith Robinson-Renner was a precocious child. "I gave my mother fits," she recalled. "I had a bottle until I was 4 years old. Then my sister said, 'OK, Faith Ann, we're gonna throw it in [...]
BY BTL STAFF The ACLU of Michigan is looking for trans, genderqueer or gender non-conforming Michigan residents to come forward and discuss their discriminatory experiences in seeking access to a shelter. A new rule, proposed [...]
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - Detroit minister Rev. Neil Patrick Carrick, who sued the state last January for the right to marry same-sex couples, wants a federal judge to determine whether it is legal under [...]
BY BTL STAFF BAY CITY - The Michigan Primary Care Association and partners are looking for professionals to present at an upcoming LGBT Health Summit scheduled for June 13. The summit is intended to reach [...]
BY AJ TRAGER OAK PARK - Gil Evans and Don Nadel met in Toledo, Ohio and have been together for 57 years. Inspired by the screening of "Gen Silent," a documentary that follows the lives [...]
In honor of Human Rights Day Dec. 10, 2015, the award winning short film "ABAN + KHORSHID" has been released worldwide on Vimeo, where it will be featured as a Staff Pick: https://vimeo.com/147873227 "ABAN + [...]
BY BTL STAFF NEW YORK - How can people measure the degree to which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people are included - and, as likely, excluded - from the lifeblood of societies around [...]
By Lisa Keen Coming off another high achievement year, the LGBT community can relax and take it easy for a while now, right? The federal Defense of Marriage Act is gone. Same-sex couples can obtain [...]
LOS ANGELES - The conservative organization behind the failed ballot measure, "Privacy for All," failed to submit the 365,880 valid signatures needed to the California Secretary of State's office to qualify for the November 2016 [...]
BY BTL STAFF WASHINGTON D.C. - Federal health officials announced Dec. 21 that they are lifting the nation's 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but major restrictions will remain on [...]
Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders has launched a survey that will help the organization develop strategic planning for future projects for LGBT older adults. The five-minute, anonymous survey discusses the participant's knowledge of LGBT [...]
You guys. I have good news. Kevin Swanson doesn't want to murder all of us in the name of Jesus. And by us, I mean anyone who is LGBT or LGBT-adjacent (i.e. you have a [...]
I was in the Sunday habit a few years back of taking a SMART bus to Ferndale. Riding with me were regulars, most of whom were off to church, or gave that halo'd impression by [...]
By Myles Helfand A few weeks ago, it became official: HIV is loathsome. It all had started so innocently: Back in 2013, the New York State Division of Human Rights posted a public awareness ad [...]
BY Gwendolyn Ann Smith It's a great irony about being trans: we are expected to both look and act in certain ways to fit into gender roles defined by non-transgender people, yet are also criticized [...]
INDIANAPOLIS - Freedom Indiana, the statewide grassroots organization fighting to update existing Indiana laws against discrimination to include gay and transgender Hoosiers, issued the following statement concerning Senate Bill 344, a new proposal being offered [...]
His name is Martone. No last name. Just Martone. It's been that way since he was barely a teenager living in Lansing. At 13, Martone was the youngest person to enroll in Continental Cablevision's public [...]
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