Despite extraordinary achievements in addressing the 35-year-old HIV crisis in the U.S., the future of billions of dollars in federal support funds for people living with and at risk for the virus could be in [...]

The impacts of the 2016 election on the local, state and national level are going to be felt for a long time. The results are going to cause both parties to shift -- but in [...]

Person of Interest Sought for Questioning. The Ingham County Sheriff's department is now offering a reward to anyone who provides information which leads to an arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for [...]

State Rep. Andy Schor (D-Lansing) formally signs as a co-sponsor for legislation that will modernize Michigan's outdated and unscientific HIV-specific criminal law. Courtesy Photo by Kelly Doyle A movement to reform Michigan's HIV-specific law [...]

Left: Howard Spence, an Eaton County Commissioner representing Delta Township was the victim of a potentially bias motivated larceny and was subsequently outed by unknown persons working in conjunction with Vince Malcangi of Nashville, Michigan. [...]

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence made an appearance at the Lansing Area AIDS Network AIDS Walk and helped guide walkers on their route through Downtown East Lansing. EAST LANSING - Under bright sun, hundreds [...]

LANSING - The legislation was promptly referred to Senate Government Operations Committee 'Where bills go to die.' A Senate bill to amend Michigan's Ethnic Intimidation Act to include bias crimes perpetrated against the LGBT community [...]

This years festival will be held in Lansing's REO Town. BTL file photo: 2015 Rally by AJ Trager Officials with Michigan Pride admit this year's Lansing pride events got off to a late start, [...]

The name Bob Gross has meaning in the greater Lansing community. For some it was his stellar career as a high school sports reporter for the Lansing State Journal. For the LGBT community it is [...]

Tim Sneller Tim Sneller has a gravelly voice and a thick black moustache. He's also got 31 years of legislative staffer experience in the Michigan legislature. Never, however, did he imagine seeing two openly gay [...]

The name Bob Gross has meaning in the greater Lansing community. For some it was his stellar career as a high school sports reporter for the Lansing State Journal. For the LGBT community it is [...]

Jeffrey Montgomery (May 9, 1953 - July 19, 2016) Photo: Ron Miotke The man who took personal tragedy and turned it into a "brilliant" career fighting for the rights of the LGBT community has [...]

Aaron Christopher Spyker "This is how I'm going to die." That was all I could think as I lay face down, my hands cuffed behind my back while the two men rained blows down on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As news of the horror in Orlando filtered out Sunday, activists across the state and the country organized impromptu vigils to mourn and to stand in defiance of [...]

LANSING - In a one upsmanship with the state Senate, a group of 20 Republican lawmakers in the House have introduced an even more draconian piece of legislation revolving around access to bathrooms. The new [...]

Men who have sex with men face an HIV prevalence rate "magnitudes higher" than any other risk group in the U.S., researchers from Emory University have found. The study, published by the online journal JMIR [...]

Former Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for president, Hillary Clinton, told a gathering of hundreds of HIV advocates in Alabama last week that she supports a repeal of HIV-specific criminal laws. "As president I [...]

LANSING -- Within minutes of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriages in all 50 states last year, Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum was performing the first post-ruling marriage in American history. The [...]

LANSING -- Two openly gay men are vying to replace Democrat Rebecca Bahar-Cook on the Ingham County Commission. Democrats Ryan Sebolt, 33, and Wyatt Ludman, 21, will face off on the Aug. 2 Democratic primary. [...]

Corey Rangel speaks with a reporter as his supporters protest the discrimination. Photo: Brad Gorman. Police in Dowagiac, Michigan say they were just investigating a "possible crime," but advocates call it a "witch hunt" [...]

In a reversal of previous policy by the Republican secretary of state, some transgender and gender non-conforming Michiganders could soon see their state issued driver's licenses and identifications reflect their gender identity. On March 17, [...]

Polling for the March 8 Presidential primaries in Michigan are putting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on top of the Democratic race and millionaire reality television star Donald J. Trump on top of [...]

Donald Trump has been dogged for failing to immediately reject support from the KKK. In an interview with ABC's Jake Tapper Sunday, Trump was asked about David Duke, the former leader of the KKK, and [...]

LANSING - Former Republican lawmakers Cindy Gamrat, R-Plainwell, and Todd Courser, R-Lapeer, have been charged with crimes stemming from the couple's sex and email scandal. Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, has charged Courser with [...]

Out of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) held in Boston last week came news of a 43-year-old gay man who seroconverted despite being compliant with the drug taken for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or [...]

LANSING — Former Republican lawmakers Cindy Gamrat (R-Plainwell) and Todd Courser (R-Lapeer) have been charged with crimes stemming from the couple's sex and email scandal. Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, has charged Courser with [...]

As former State Rep. Cindy Gamrat, R-Plainwell, was facing expulsion from the state House, retired Oregon Judge David Gernant decided it was time to throw his hat in the ring. He'd grown up in southwest [...]

Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People Published Feb. 23 A new report from the independent Movement Advancement Project in Washington DC is shining a light on the plight of LGBT [...]

The now suspended campaign to amend the Michigan constitution to provide civil rights protections for women and the LGBT community had just over $1 million in cash on hand earlier this month when it filed [...]

Shortly after the city of Flint shifted its water source from Detroit-provided water to water drawn from the notoriously polluted Flint River, clients at Wellness Services, Inc. in Flint began to complain. The water smelled. [...]

The state's Chief Medical Executive Officer may be in the position in violation of state law. Dr. Eden Wells was appointed to the post in April of 2015. The state's Public Health Code requires that [...]

An effort to create a law to prevent people convicted of abusing animals from adopting or owning an animal for five years after their conviction is in jeopardy over an attempt to repurpose an obsolete [...]

The state's Chief Medical Executive Officer may be in the position in violation of state law. Dr. Eden Wells was appointed to the post in April of 2015. The state's Public Health Code requires that [...]

Michigan Information and Research Services, Inc -- known as MIRS -- reported Jan. 29 that a controversial ballot initiative to amend the state constitution will end. Dana Nessel, a Detroit area lawyer best known for [...]

CHICAGO -- The grand ballroom in the Chicago Hilton has played host to many moments in American history -- as the elevator trivia screens reminded everyone. But changing the commitment to the fight against HIV [...]

It's a new year, and Equality Michigan has a new political team in place to drive what they are calling a new three to four year legislative plan to move LGBT equality forward in the [...]

LANSING -- A decade after the Lansing City Council first approved its local human rights ordinance, it is being reviewed and is now up for some changes. A committee of the city council, lead by [...]

Bill Beachler in 2014 attending the Rose Bowl where MSU played. Photo courtesy of Gary Hicks. WEDNESDAY. Jan. 13 - Bill Beachler, with his "perfect hair" and "remarkable presentation," was an ever-present figure at [...]