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Whoever has been targeting LGBTQ Pride flags on Michigan Avenue near US-127 in Lansing struck again on Monday night. But this time, police may have some help putting an end to the thefts and vandalism [...]
Staffing at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Service Division on HIV and STIs is woefully unrepresentative of those living with or at risk for HIV, new data reveals. While Black men who have [...]
Updated, 3:12 p.m., 12/10/20 It started with a Facebook Live Video that was sucked into the underbelly of the internet. There it churned and clipped and passed from person to person. Someone slapped a label [...]
As Michigan's capital city was flooded with thousands of cars, causing backups and snarling traffic for hours in late April to protest to governor's stay-at-home order, Jake Distel was caught off guard when he recognized [...]
Michigan health officials have been quietly rolling out a comprehensive new strategy to control and end the HIV crisis for months. But attorneys, AIDS Service Organization officials and more worry the plans could overstep the privacy rights of people living with or at risk for HIV and drive them away from testing and treatment. That could ultimately result in an increase in cases, rather than a desired decrease.
A movement that started with a Facebook post by an earnest 28-year-old woman, and blossomed into a full-fledged citizen run movement which collected over 430,000 valid signatures for a ballot initiative, is facing its final [...]
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Graveline is trying to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for state attorney general. But he has a serious burden to overcome first: he has to collect 30,000 [...]
LANSING — Despite a heat warning for the city, an estimated crowd of 1,000 people gathered at the front steps of the Michigan Capitol on the afternoon of Saturday, June 30, to protest President Donald [...]
LANSING — Lansing’s new Mayor Andy Schor was in rare form as he served as Michigan Pride’s Grand Marshall Saturday. He rejected a ride in a convertible, opting instead to join a bevy of supporters and his family walking the route wearing rainbow tie-dye T-shirts emblazoned with his name and new title.
Come Jan. 1 there will be a new governor, but for now, there are seven competing for the position. And, with all seven people vying to occupy the office sitting on a simple stage in East Lansing May 10, one would expect a clash of ideas and a battle of wills. But, the four GOP and three Democratic candidates answered questions for the Michigan Press Association with relatively few bumps.
Three Jackson-area residents were subjected to a homophobic slur and refused service at the West Avenue McDonald’s Saturday. Andrew Munroe, 25, Charles Kilgore, 23, and Amanda Versluys stopped at the fast food location, 1105 N. [...]
Jeremy Merithew's life took a turn for the worse when what was intended to be a casual hookup earned him a brush with discrimination and substantial jail time. That's because He was HIV-positive and his hookup, Dwayne Cook claimed Merithew failed to disclose his status before the two engaged in oral and anal sex. That’s a four-year felony in Michigan and has been since 1989.
Nassar Survivors Endorse Former U.S. Attorney Miles, Nessel Camp Swings Back LANSING — Rolling into the final hours of what has devolved into a contentious brawl between former U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles and civil rights [...]
BTL EDITORIAL The campaign of Democratic Attorney General candidate Patrick Miles used Republican research to attack his Democratic opponent Dana Nessel. That’s a fact and we have the evidence to back it up. It's also [...]
NEWS ANALYSIS The Democratic candidate for Attorney General Patrick Miles used a Republican report that demonizes his Democratic opponent Dana Nessel. In distributing the research from the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) to media, Miles' [...]
The popular hookup and dating app Grindr is under fire for sharing users' disclosed HIV status and most recent testing data combined with identifiable information about users with two third party vendors. The company says [...]
Federal statistics report a 14.8 percent decline in HIV cases between 2008 and 2015, but 25- to 34-year-olds saw a nearly 45 percent increase in new cases New data released by the CDC last month [...]
He’s an outsider with no formal elective office experience, but Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is the upstart candidate in the Democratic primary for governor. He is rattling the traditionalism of the party and its selection process, [...]
Protests over a speech by Richard Spencer at Michigan State University turned violent Monday night as dozens of supporters clashed with hundreds of anti-racist protesters. Spencer is the head of the white supremacy group the [...]
White nationalist leader and Michigan attorney Kyle Bristow posted an image of himself with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Twitter Thursday morning. The image appears to have been taken about a decade ago when [...]
Sue Carter, an out lesbian professor at Michigan State University is being investigated by the Office of Institutional Equity over allegations of sexual harassment. Carter resigned from the MSU Athletic Council for the NCAA last [...]
State health officials, politicians, activists and care providers on the frontline of the HIV epidemic are most optimistic than they have been in 36 years. There is a light at the end of the tunnel [...]
It's blue, and a pill. It's tied to sex, but it's not Viagra. It's Truvada. And although it's been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as an HIV-preventative -- and [...]
Light at the End of the Tunnel {ITAL With effective biomedical interventions, but no cure, Michigan leaders believe the end of HIV could come as soon as in a decade. The question: Is the infrastructure [...]
Behind her, hanging on the wall of her small office in south Lansing, are a serious of information posters. One is Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs, another is a pull from one of the HIV publications [...]
Scientists and public health officials are in agreement. Treatment options and prevention drugs combined with testing could bring an end to the HIV epidemic in the U.S. in general and Michigan specifically within the decade. [...]
Former Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, who is a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, is calling on Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to declare a public health emergency related to the ongoing opioid [...]
Capitol Correspondent LANSING - Claudia Gonzalez remembers vividly walking across the campus of Michigan State University two years ago. The campus was abuzz with football excitement, the Spartans were hosting a home game. That's when [...]
When current Harvard School of Public Health Research Associate Raphael Ezekiel was a professor at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, he became curious about the growth of the racist SS Action Group. That curiosity [...]
EAST LANSING - When the 2006 Hate Group list is released by the Southern Poverty Law Center at the end of April, it will include a recognized Michigan State University student group. The group, Young [...]
LANSING - The room on the 7th floor of the building in downtown Lansing which houses the Michigan Department of Civil Rights was filled with buzzing staff from the department last week as they completed [...]
LANSING - With a state house bill introduced to allow second parent adoption in Michigan, LGBT families and allies were out in force last week at the state Capitol to send a message: LGBT families [...]
EAST LANSING - In a stunning change of tone in the debate on marriage equality, a leading far right opponent said that the institution of marriage should be dissolved rather than allow homosexuals in. Professor [...]
For the first time since the HIV epidemic began, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has announced that some people living with the virus can attain a state where they pose [...]
Calling President Donald Trump's directives to ban transgender people from serving in the military "a betrayal" and "unpatriotic," former Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning has added his voice to a growing chorus of current [...]
An employee of Country Mill sells apples and apple products like cider at the East Lansing Farmer's Market Sunday. They returned to the market after winning a federal court injunction. They had been banned from [...]
As a supporter of Country Mill's right to discriminate based on the organization's sincerely held religious beliefs squared off with a supporter of the LGBT community on Sunday at the East Lansing Farmers Market, a [...]
A screen capture of one of Kyle Bristow's former websites featuring Bristow with former Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis. Source: YAFWatch.blogspot.com archives. To left, BTL file photo: Kyle Bristow by Todd Heywood A screen [...]
Left, a screen capture of one of Kyle Bristow's former websites featuring Bristow with former Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis. Source: YAFWatch.blogspot.com archives. Kyle Bristow in his student days at MSU. Photo by Todd Heywood [...]
LANSING - Supporters of a bill to expand adoption rights to unmarried couples has died in the state House, reports Penny Gardner, director of the Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality, a group pushing for a [...]
Dr. Farha Abbasi came to the U.S. in 2000 to escape the growing radicalism and political chaos in Pakistan. While she was a medical doctor in her homeland, the U.S. required her to re-certify under [...]
David Kallman sought to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Jackson Together against the City of Jackson on April 7. The lawsuit outlined numerous violations of both the Jackson City Charter and state law related [...]
Facing a backlash from conservatives and a possible legal showdown with President Donald Trump's administration, the city of Lansing has rescinded a resolution declaring itself a sanctuary city. The reversal brings to an end weeks [...]
Abdul El-Sayed Gretchen Whitmer LANSING - Calling Michigan's HIV-specific felony law "discriminatory" and "wrong to criminalize sickness," the two declared candidates for the governor's office say it's time to reform the law. "I'm a [...]
Carl Struble (left) who is credited with being the driving force behind the idea of the Jackson Pride Center, uses a regular pair of scissors to cut a ribbon to open the center while Nikki [...]
Supporters and opponents filled the historic Michigan Theater Tuesday night to tell city councilmembers in Jackson their views on a non-discrimination law. BTL Photo Todd Heywood JACKSON - After nearly five hours of public [...]
INGHAM COUNTY -Ingham County Sheriff Scott Wrigglesworth announced that charges have been filed against Thomas Wayne Densmore Jr. of Holt in the murder of David Fluke, 69. The 39-year-old suspect was arraigned on an open [...]
Photo from dome of state capitol building courtesy of House Democratic Leader Sam Singh (D-East Lansing) As a million women, men and children marched in the nation's capitol Jan. 21,, a crowd estimated at [...]
As Donald Trump raises his right hand to swear the presidential oath of office on Friday, hundreds of thousands of protesters opposed to his policy positions will be traveling to D.C. for planned protests the [...]
US Government Changes HIV Website Name: AIDS.Gov is now HIV.Gov Officials with the CDC announced on Dec. 1 -- World AIDS Day -- that AIDS.Gov, the official portal for all things HIV related from the [...]
