The "shred" will put you through the sweat fires of hell, but despite her extreme workouts, Jillian Michaels wants you to know she is no monster. To set the record, ahem, straight, the out fitness [...]
By Tim Retzloff In recent months, the group Fair Michigan launched an effort to guarantee protections for sexual orientation and gender identity within the Michigan constitution by means of a statewide initiative slated for the [...]
Photo: Gregory Pace Matthew Rettenmund is only kidding, but his enduring commitment to Madonna isn't lost on him when he jokes, "She has me on speed hang-up." It's a statement that couldn't ring truer [...]
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) hailed Illinois Rep. Bob Dold, who today became the first Republican member of Congress to co-sponsor the Equality Act — landmark federal legislation that would guarantee explicit, permanent [...]
'Round my parts in New York City, winter's been a breeze so far. Seventy degrees on Christmas Eve? I'll take it. But I don't expect the New Year to be as cooperative. When the post-holiday [...]
10. Madonna, 'Rebel Heart' In 2015, it was strange hearing Madonna sound so... human. A cluster of cuts from the queen's 13th studio album imparted a rare authenticity and striking vulnerability typically not ascribed to [...]
Across 1 Part of an actor's pay between parts? 5 R.E.M. frontman Michael 10 Israeli statesman 14 Give a good beating to 15 Fable fellow 16 Building manager, briefly 17 How some chatter 18 Jeremy [...]
BY BTL STAFF WHAT: Grosse Pointe Theatre presents "Chess, The Musical" WHEN: 2p.m. matinees on Jan. 17 & 24; 8 p.m. evening performances on Jan. 21-23, 28-30 WHERE: Grosse Pointe War Memorial Theater, 32 Lake [...]
By Tanya Gazdik You've got to really like someone to spend nearly two solid hours with them talking to you. Thankfully, Richard Payton is instantly likeable in the latest production at The Ringwald, "Buyer & [...]
BY BTL STAFF LAKE ORION - A new group to help the guardians of trans youth better understand the realities and experiences of trans identities is set to launch next week. The group will be [...]
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - Equality Michigan, the statewide LGBT anti-violence and advocacy organization, appointed former East Lansing mayor Nathan Triplett, M.A., J.D., as its new political director. Triplett spent seven years as a staffer [...]
BY BTL STAFF British musician David Bowie died of cancer at 69 on Jan. 10. The artist reportedly had been quietly fighting cancer, believed to be of the liver according to early reports, for the [...]
Detroit - The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan announced Monday it has been awarded a grant of $2.5 million from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to support initiatives that improve access to healthy food for [...]
BY BTL STAFF The Metro Detroit Softball League/MDSL LGBT is opening registration for its 2016 season. The all inclusive league plays from May through August, with all skill levels encouraged to join. Two games are [...]
BY AJ TRAGER MACOMB COUNTY- It was important for Clare Coughlin and Barbara Hardison to get married after being together for nearly 30 years. Their relationship has weathered many [...]
BY BTL STAFF MIDLAND COUNTY, MICH. - WNEM reports that the suit against a Midland Planet Fitness following a locker room controversy has been dismissed. The controversy over a transgender member using the female locker [...]
By Tim Retzloff In recent months, the group Fair Michigan launched an effort to guarantee protections for sexual orientation and gender identity within the Michigan constitution by means of a statewide initiative slated for the [...]
LANSING -- A decade after the Lansing City Council first approved its local human rights ordinance, it is being reviewed and is now up for some changes. A committee of the city council, lead by [...]
Newly released studies are offering more hope for the efficacy of the once-a-day HIV prevention pill, but also ringing a sour note of concern. PrEP was approved by the FDA in 2012. It is the [...]
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 [...]
BY BTL STAFF PHILADELPHIA, PA - Freedom for All Americans is currently accepting applications through Feb. 7 for the second round of LGBT-U apprentices. The innovative training program will equip participants with all of the [...]
Ben Carson Whether you call them "special rights" or "extra rights," it has long been the argument of the anti-gayers that what LGBT people want goes above and beyond the rights of "normal" people. It [...]
Tamara A. Rees is 92. She leads a quiet, uneventful, grandmotherly life with her adopted children's children somewhere in Los Angeles, California. In 1954 -- two years after serving as a Bronze Star wounded and [...]
