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 Lisa Keen The stranger-than-fiction Indiana primary has knocked Republican hopeful Ted Cruz out of the race and given Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders a nod to hang in a little longer. But many political commentators [...]
By Lisa Keen The stranger-than-fiction Indiana primary has knocked Republican hopeful Ted Cruz out of the race and given Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders a nod to hang in a little longer. But many political commentators [...]
Photo: Yu Tsai Boys do Nick Jonas sometimes, but it's mostly girls. They dress up as the pop star, emulating his rousing onstage persona and donning denim that looks practically painted on. Yes, if [...]
By Romeo San Vicente How many Billie Jean King movies, again? This is how it goes in Hollywood: a good idea spawns copycat ideas. Sometimes, these good ideas become competing projects rushing to beat each [...]
Across 1 "Mamma Mia!" band 5 Acted like 9 Prefix with sexual 14 Susan Feniger preparation 15 Irene of "Fame" 16 Illicit love affair 17 Problem for skin 18 Send tumbling 19 '69 disturbances at [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Char Davenport, left, board member for Transgender Michigan and well respected trans activist in the state, filed a federal lawsuit against SVSU for sex discrimination after losing a job because of her [...]
LANSING -- For the last two months, the state has been debating LGBT youth guidelines for K-12 schools authored by the Board of Education. The completely optional set of guidelines -- which suggests schools allow [...]
FERNDALE - The Ferndale Schools Board of Education passed a resolution in support of the state board LGBT youth guidelines that would allow transgender and gender non-conforming students to use the bathroom that aligns with [...]
In January a transgender student, Gavin Grimm, 16, from rural Virginia went to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to appeal a ruling that says he cant use the mens restroom. Photo ACLU. RICHMOND, [...]
DENVER -- The Colorado State Supreme Court decided April 25 to let stand an appellate court ruling that Masterpiece Cakeshop violated Colorado's anti-discrimination law when it refused to sell a same-sex couple a cake for [...]
By Lisa Keen In January a transgender student, Gavin Grimm, 16, from rural Virginia went to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to appeal a ruling that says he cant use the mens restroom. Photo [...]
Target. It's kind of a weird name for a store. I mean, a target is something you shoot at. But say the word "target" anywhere in America and chances are people will think, "I need [...]
One of the pleasures for a writer or an artist is to come across an early composition or art piece and experience finding it with a sense of reading or seeing it for the first [...]
BY JAY KAPLAN On April 19, 2016, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals became the first United States federal court to hold that the U.S. Department of Education's interpretation of Title IX (the federal civil [...]
By Lisa Keen North Carolina's new law to bar transgender people from using public restrooms that correspond with their gender identity became a recurring theme in the 2016 presidential campaign this past week. Republican presidential [...]
BY BTL STAFF A scene from "Hard as Opal," which won the autFILM Award for Best LGBT Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival this year. The 54th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival has [...]
