State Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) listens as the LGBT community mourned the loss of lives n Orlando June 12. He joined the crowd of over 100 people at the steps of the Capitol. BTL [...]
How to be a free spirit, why a wallet, not a toaster, is better suited to carry cash, the power of a heavy pour - since 1992, fictional besties Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, played [...]
By Lisa Keen There were two dramatic players in the Republican Party's platform committee meeting Monday, July 11: Anne Dickerson and Rachel Hoff. Dickerson repeatedly chided the committee for taking hostile swipes at the LGBT [...]
From Press Release WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union and over 70 national, state and local groups sent a letter today to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) urging him to cancel a hearing on a [...]
Mychal Noir and Geno Harris co-founded the Poor Man's Art Collective in 2003. BTL photo: Jason A. Michael DETROIT - It's not easy for an emerging artist to get their work seen. But the [...]
"The world has changed a lot," Tegan Quin says, knowingly speaking to the queer choir. And who can argue? In the last five years alone, the LGBT community has made considerable strides in being seen [...]
By Keith Orr Writers often feel things more intensely than other people and are better able to articulate those feelings. We are the canaries in the coal mine. This time, perhaps because I feel an [...]
By Emell Derra Adolphus Competitive sports fans tend to rally around an underdog, and in the equally competitive world of restaurant business, so do foodies. At downtown's Briggs Detroit, fine fare and athletic fanaticism make [...]
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 until 2015, when she [...]
BY AJ TRAGER ANN ARBOR - Emilio Rodriguez is a a playwright, actor, director and teaching artist who moved to Detroit after receiving his Drama degree from UC Irvine in southern California. His new play [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Anika Noni Rose presents Shirley Chisholm The odds were always stacked against Shirley Chisholm. She was a woman and she was black, which means that the corridors of political power were [...]
Across 1 HHH, to Sappho 5 Military cross-dresser Jeanne ___ 9 Pick up 13 Marcel Duchamp's style 14 Genesis brother 15 In the year, to Nero 16 Scores 17 What Brando was doing on the [...]
BY AJ TRAGER "No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once [...]
BY AJ TRAGER LANSING - Just before 11 a.m. on June 26, 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision on Obergefell v. Hodges and extended marriage equality to the entire country. Since that moment [...]
Over the past year since marriage equality became the law of the land, LGBT couples are spending a lot more on weddings, and family acceptance of same-sex marriages is up dramatically, according to a recent [...]
BY AJ TRAGER Wedit is running a special discount code for BTL readers, in honor of the one-year anniversary of marriage equality. When purchasing a pay-in-full package, the team at Wedit will deduct $24 from [...]
By Amy Lynn Smith "All trans lives have to matter," she says. "When we start to devalue people based on their moral beliefs, we start to dehumanize people. Only when our lives are valuable will [...]
By Mark W. LaChey With the Aug. 2 primary coming up campaigns need your dollars for mailers, yard signs and their GOTV efforts. Now is when they need your time for making calls, knocking on [...]
BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT - The HOPE Fund, housed at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM), recently approved $60,000 to be divided into three grants supporting programs that help LGBT individuals. Three grants of [...]
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT - SAGE Metro Detroit will host its first job training program, SAGEWorks Employment Boot Camp, to help 10 LGBT older adults obtain the skills needed for today's workplace. The two week [...]
Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old Stanley graduated from East Ridge High School in Clermont, FL in 2011 and studied at Anthem College to work towards his goal of becoming a pharmacy technician. His aunt [...]
KNOXVILLE - Legendary Lady Vols Head Coach Emeritus Pat Summitt died early Tuesday morning from complications of Alzheimers disease. Summitt, an inspirational leader and mentor to hundreds of young women athletes, is credited with greatly [...]
I went to go see Finding Dory with my son and I feel compelled to report that there is no transgender stingray featured in the film. I repeat: there is no trans-ray featured in the [...]
WACCOFF, TX. Source: Lone Star Police Gazette & Badge Polisher. Headline: Under Cover Cops Make Sunday Surprise Restroom Arrests! Mark your activist desk calendar. "While thousands of church members were inside the Hallelujah Handclap of [...]
By Senator Gary Peters In the same month - and more significantly during Pride Month - when we are celebrating the one-year anniversary of marriage equality, we are also mourning the loss of 49 Americans [...]
By Steve Spreitzer Throughout our 75 year history, the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion has stood with those being mistreated because of race, religion, gender, diverse ability, sexual orientation, gender identity or ethnicity. Our [...]
From Press Release The United Nations Human Rights Council announced the creation of the first-ever UN position dedicated to combating violence and discrimination against LGBTQ people worldwide today. The effort to establish the independent expert [...]
From Press Release WASHINGTON - Today the Department of Defense (DOD) ended the ban on transgender Americans serving openly in the military. The historic decision means that the U.S. will join 18 other nations, including [...]
BY AJ TRAGER HOWELL and PORTAGE - In the last week two cities in the state have added LGBT protections to their nondiscrimination ordinances. Howell and Portage become the 39th and 40th city to step [...]
By Amy Lynn Smith Originally published in Pride Source Magazine June 2016 There's no question that the landscape of LGBTQ equality has shifted dramatically since the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. It's [...]
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