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 [...]
Alexander Skarsgard sure knows how to offset the uproar over his missing loincloth in "The Legend of Tarzan." "I'm actually wearing it right now," teases Skarsgard, joking about the brouhaha regarding this Tarzan's more civilized [...]
From Press Release June 24, 2016 ILGA-Europe have always strongly believed in the power of activists and allies to work together for a common goal, namely to improve life for LGBTI people across Europe. Over [...]
"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths -- that all of us are created equal -- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca [...]
BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA WASHINGTON D.C. - Christopher Park, a historic community park located immediately across the street from the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City (City), is a place [...]
Across 1 Paul Rudnick's "The ___ Fabulous Story Ever Told" 5 Terence of "Smallville" 10 Ridges on Melissa's neck 15 Cartoonist Peter 16 No longer jail bait 17 Property claims 18 Rivera's rivers 19 Place [...]
The Ann Arbor Art Fair is one of Michigan's finest summer traditions and one of the largest outdoor art fairs in the nation. Each year, thousands of artists compete for a limited number of spaces [...]
In the aftermath of the Orlando massacre, the staff at Spiral Nightclub in Lansing have begun talking about guns. Not banning them, but rather getting them. "I've had staff who know I have guns, ask [...]
The CDC estimates that the lifetime risk that a black man who has sex with men will contract HIV is 1 in 2. Latino men who have sex with men have a lifetime risk of [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Volunteers staff the information table at the summit. DETROIT - More than 150 LGBT people gathered June 18 for the 6th Annual LGBT Older Adult Summit at the MSU Detroit Campus. [...]
Jenn McKee t a Slipstream Theatre Company rehearsal for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" earlier last week - following emotional conversations about Sunday morning's massacre inside an Orlando gay nightclub - a cast member pointed out [...]
BY AJ TRAGER FERNDALE - On June 12 the LGBT community experienced what President Obama has called an "act of hate" and what many are calling a direct attack on the LGBT community. The massacre [...]
The 2015 Hate Crime Report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects reports significantly higher victimization of youth, people of color, and particularly transgender individuals. The report, released last Tuesday, found 1,253 bias incidents in [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 13, 2016--The National LGBTQ Task Force along with 52 other groups today called for unity in the wake of the mass shooting that took place in Orlando last weekend. The attack that [...]
For the past few years that I've penned this column, I've kept it light and fluffy. It's called The Frivolist after all, and my goal is to entertain with innocuous content that focuses on the [...]
So much anti-LGBT dumb fuckery has emerged after the shooting of 102 people, of which 49 were killed, by a man with a military-style assault weapon at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. There has [...]
There were two newspaper kiosks in once-busy downtown Detroit in the 1960s. One situated at Grand Circus Park. One, at Campus Martius, across from the still-standing, landmark 1877 Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Each month I'd [...]
By Diane Anderson-Minshall My stepfather came back from Vietnam in the mid-'70s, a broken man with post-traumatic stress disorder and health complications that grow more dire the older he gets. His PTSD has lasted 40 [...]
By David Furnish The unspeakable tragedy in Orlando, in the midst of Pride Month, has shaken the LGBT community to the core. Pride Month is a celebration of who we are and how far we've [...]
Photo: Cybele Malinowski Here comes the bride... and the other bride. It was as simple as that for Pip Brown, whose stage moniker is Ladyhawke. The New Zealand-born indie popster flew under the gaydar [...]
Ann Arobor's Braun Court will be the gathering place to celebrate the one year marriage equality anniversary Sunday, June 26. ANN ARBOR - The Jim Toy Community Center (JTCC), in collaboration with aut Bar [...]
Then Detroit City Council President-Elect on election night in 2009. BTL file photo: Andrew Potter NEW YORK - Once the second most powerful man in Detroit politics, former Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh [...]
