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 [...]
REC Executive Director Jerry Peterson, who shared REC's passion with Henry Ford Health System CEO Nancy Schlichting in the fall of 2013. BTL photos: Andrew Potter. LGBTQ youth and young adults living in one [...]
Updated Thursday, Aug. 18 U.S. District Judge Sean Cox ruled today that R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Home's Owner Thomas Rost did not discriminate against Aimee Stephens, formerly Anthony Stephens, when he fired her. In [...]
Photo: Paramount Pictures For more than 20 years as a leading man, rom-com vet Hugh Grant has been the object of many actresses' (and, yes, even some actors') affection. But get this: He's also [...]
By Keith Orr I discovered Agatha Christie in the sixth grade. A friend's parents had an enormous library which included about 60 of Christie's mysteries. The books are puzzles. All of the clues are present. [...]
Tegan and Sara 7 p.m. Oct. 26 Royal Oak Music Theatre 318 W. 4th Street, Royal Oak http://royaloakmusictheatre.com "The world has changed a lot," Tegan Quin says, knowingly speaking to the queer choir. And who [...]
Gurl, do not miss your favorite contestants from Season 8, RuPaul's Drag Race on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m. at DeVos Performance Hall at 303 Monroe Ave. in Grand Rapids. Murray & Peter promise fabulous [...]
Splitting rent with a roommate saves money - and it can be the ticket out of your parents' house (which means no more sneaking those Grindr tricks in through the basement window, much to his [...]
Lori McKenna, 'The Bird & the Rifle' Music Row's renowned wordsmith Lori McKenna doesn't exactly bury this casual burn, but still, you might miss it. You might because Lori McKenna's exceptional 10th studio album teems [...]
Across 1 What guns shoot off 5 "West ___ Story" 9 Pub order 14 Be plenty hot 15 Boob, to a Brit 16 Start of a Sappho title, perhaps 17 He played an angel in [...]
Like many 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, Michigan Pride operates on the kindness of volunteers. If volunteers are lacking or there is a decline in participation for a particular event, as a result, the organization chooses not [...]
By TJ Rogers Last Thursday, Aug. 4, in the midst of the "Mr. and Ms. Pride" event of Pride Uganda 2016, police raided Venom nightclub and arrested at least 15 attendees, including two prominent international [...]
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara McQuade, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Detroit Police Chief James Craig address community policing concerns during the first Justice Forum Series [...]
Photos courtesy of Vincent Krauzowicz Several thousand people gathered on the streets of Ann Arbor's historic Kerrytown neighborhood to enjoy the 22nd annual OUTFest Aug. 5-7. The three-day festival celebrates LGBT pride and benefits the [...]
BY AJ TRAGER The 2nd Annual LGBT Community Chat took place in Palmer Park Aug. 3. LGBT Liaison to the Detroit Police Department, Dani Woods, addresses the crowd of over 100 attendees. BTL Photo: AJ [...]
By Jason A. MIchael In its heyday, Hotter Than July - Detroit Black Gay Pride - offered a jam packed week full of action and events. There were parades and marches, poetry nights, authors' events, [...]
DETROIT - Judge Deborah Langston from the 36th District Court had some harsh words to say about former Detroit City Council President and Fox 2 news anchor Charles Pugh at his preliminary hearing last Thursday. [...]
By BTL Staff Five Michiganders are among HIV Plus Magazine's "Most Amazing People Living with HIV in 2016." Among the honorees are Brian KillsCrow of the Grand Rapids area, Patricia Clark of the Kalamazoo area, [...]
By BTL Staff Former board chair of Detroit Latin@z Tony ORourke-Quintana presents Curtis Lipscomb, executive director of LGBT Detroit with a donation to facilitate LGBT Latino/a programming in Detroit. The only LGBT organization in [...]
By Lisa Keen LGBT legal activists were surprised and disappointed last week when two of the U.S. Supreme Court's most reliably pro-LGBT justices joined with conservatives on the bench to stay on a significant lower [...]
It has come to the attention to many people, including and especially many Republicans, that Donald Trump is a Looney Tunes character come to life who would probably throw a fit and blow up the [...]
I've had two occasions -- as an innocent bystander, I assure PG readers -- to meet former Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, now living as a rather restricted, extended-care resident in Arizona until 2041. (Reservations fully [...]
By Jay Kaplan The verdict is in, it seems: LGBT co-parents can have their kids unilaterally taken away from them by their former partner (the legal parent) - and the highest court in Michigan has [...]
Photo: Amanda Voisard Dance can heal, we know that. It can be a cathartic soul-soother, as it's been, ironically, in Orlando after the recent June 12 Pulse Nightclub shooting claimed 49 lives and left [...]
