By Susan Erspamer As many of you are aware, I have been involved in a very personal matter being played out in a public forum. Custody proceedings relative to my children, my beloved and adored [...]
By Romeo San Vicente cut/ Gus Van Sant. Photo: Denis Makarenko Gus Van Sant to deliver 'When We Rise' So Roland Emmerich's "Stonewall" might not have gotten its history lesson across as effectively as planned. [...]
Across 1 Piece of leg 5 They poke around in leather 9 Logical beginning 13 His brother laid him in his grave 14 Take back a blow job? 15 Tombstone lawman Wyatt 16 One of [...]
By Dan Woog Kris Wells cut/ Pictured: Kris Wells. According to Kris Wells, Canada is known for two things: "hockey and human rights." If that's true, he has reason to be proud. He's a [...]
BY BTL STAFF Nearly six months after the body of 25-year-old Ashton O'Hara was found brutally murdered in a Detroit field, the killer has been found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. O'Hara's killer, Larry B. Gaulding, [...]
BY BTL STAFF TROY- The fifth annual SOGI Conference, hosted by the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Initiative of Oakland University's School of Education and Human Services, comes to the Detroit Marriott in Troy next [...]
It's a new year, and Equality Michigan has a new political team in place to drive what they are calling a new three to four year legislative plan to move LGBT equality forward in the [...]
BY AJ TRAGER According to a recent report by the Human Rights Campaign, 115 anti-LGBT bills were introduced by state lawmakers in 2015. Many of these state Legislatures have provisions that allow bills introduced in [...]
By Lisa Keen President Obama said Friday he thinks the LGBT movement will "keep moving in the right direction, as long as we stay vigilant and keep working on it." He made his comment in [...]
BY BTL STAFF A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows an uptick in the number of Americans who identify as bisexual. Between 2011 and 2013, CDC researchers conducted over 10,000 [...]
While I've never been there in person, Liberty Ridge Farm looks like a beautiful place according to the photos on their website. Lush green grass, handsome horses and goats, a rainbow of various flowers, hearty [...]
SOURCE: Lone Star Police Gazette & Badge Polisher (Waco, Texas). HEADLINE: Undercover cops make Sunday surprise restroom arrests. Mark your activist, Sunday-go-to-meeting desk calendar ... "While thousands were inside the Hallelujah Handclap of Hope Tabernacle [...]
By Liz Lamoste Affirmations announced the termination of the program that essentially started the organization, its Helpline, near the end of 2015, offering reasons such as: "Affirmations is not a crisis agency," "running a helpline [...]
By Howard Israel In response to Tim Retzloff's commentary: "Remembering the History of Michigan's LGBT Ballot Fights." As Tim Retzloff points out, there have been many successes in establishing local legal protections from discrimination for [...]
Maybe because his music was part of the soundtrack of my youth, or because his fans and the music world were mourning David Bowie's passing, but I found myself humming "Changes" as I sat down [...]
By Stephanie White We are all tired of waiting for the Michigan Legislature to get their act together and expand the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) to include all of us, aren't we? When they [...]
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Something magical happened in my life late in the evening of the 14th of December, 1979. For years, I had been used to watching the television in my parents' front room [...]
BY BTL STAFF Royal Oak-based luxury furniture retailer Scott Shuptrine Interiors recently opened a new gallery inside Art Van Furniture in Shelby Township (14055 Hall Road, Shelby Charter Township), growing its store count to six [...]
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