BY BTL STAFF Updated Saturday, Sept.10, 2016 The State Board of Education voted 6-2 to adopt a guidance on how Michigan schools can create safe learning environments for all students, regardless of their sexual orientation [...]
BY BTL STAFF As the Michigan Burlesque Festival celebrates four years of award-winning burlesque performance, the Hastings Street Ballroom/Tangent Gallery features an award-winning cast of performers on Sept. 16-17 at 7 p.m. The star-studded lineup [...]
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. As someone who has experienced the devastation of suicide in mourning the loss of friends who have taken their own lives, it's important to me to recognize this annual [...]
Across 1 Differs from Dorian Gray 5 Second fruit eater 9 Be a master baiter-and-switcher, perhaps 13 Lacking potency 14 BartUk the composer 15 Tennessee Williams "Summer and Smoke" heroine 16 Salty white stuff from [...]
LANSING -The city of Lansing was selected in May by Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to take part in the new Invest Health initiative to transform how leaders thrive and drive community [...]
Coming out at work is becoming easier for LGBT workers with inclusive policies making their way from the board room into the everyday culture of the American workplace. Things are progressing and there is a [...]
BY BTL STAFF A special gathering is planned Sept. 17 at 11 a.m. at the McGregor Conference Center at Wayne State University, 495 West Ferry Ave. in Detroit, to celebrate the life and times of [...]
BY BTL STAFF Huntington Woods- Meet State Rep. Gretchen Driskell (D - Saline) and candidate for Michigan's 7th Congressional District, for an evening of conversation about issues directly impacting the LGBT community. The event takes [...]
BY BTL STAFF Henry Messer Youth Activist Award winner Aiden Ramirez-Tatum Catalyst Award winner Congressman Dan Kildee (D-Flint) Equality Michigan recently announced the first two of four award recipients, this year's Henry Messer Youth Activist [...]
DETROIT - Jeynce Poindexter, known throughout metro Detroit's LGBT community as Jeynce Mizrahi, has been hired as Equality Michigan's first ever transgender victims' advocate. Poindexter comes to EQMI after being active in the LGBT community [...]
BY BTL STAFF Brighton- The Faith Allies for Trans Lives: Stand Up for Justice conference and training on Sept. 17 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. will address the need for acceptance of LGBTQI people within religious [...]
BY AJ TRAGER It's the first week of school for students in the state and across the country and by Thanksgiving break, many high school students will be applying for their undergraduate programs. A lot [...]
By Lisa Keen The legal rights of transgender people continue to dominate LGBT legal news these days, as several cases make their way toward the U.S. Supreme Court and stimulate public discussion. Last month, in [...]
U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe. right, in a little nod to NGL quarterback Colin Kaepernick who refused to stand for the national anthem to protest racial injustice. AP File Photo Kaepernick's refusal to stand [...]
By now, even if you don't follow any kind of sportzball, you have heard about Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers player who refused to stand during the National Anthem before a game. His reasoning [...]
PG Friends: I'm sitting in on a meeting of Gay Bashers for Jesus Anonymous with -- unknown to the bashers gathered here -- my pocket-size recorder, surreptitiously "taking notes." I'm calling my self Big Bruiser [...]
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