BY BTL STAFF Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. said on Oct. 5 he has met with Donald Trump to talk about the Republican presidential candidate's extensive criticism of the automaker's investments in [...]

Fred Hoffman, former Chrysler executive and his husband, Jim Stokes, married on Nov. 29, 2015 after 32 years together. The couple resides in Dearborn. The Fiat Chrysler Automobile Group had the 2016 Fiat 500X speciallywrapped [...]

BY NICK POUST First Openly Gay Racecar Driver in IndyCar Series Freddy Niblack. Photo courtesy of UNITE Magazine Indianapolis Freddy Niblack is the first openly gay driver in the IndyCar Series, but that's not [...]

By Emell Derra Adolphus Lambda Car Club member Troy Congdon comes from a family of General Motors workers. He joined the Car Club in 2009 and owns a 1967 classic Buick. The car, he says, [...]

Ford Motor Company GLOBE board chairman Bill Peters and former chairman Greg Stone. Peters joined Ford Motor Company two and a half years ago and works as a senior IT project manager in the application [...]

BY AJ TRAGER Hodges Subarus new location at 21205 Woodward Ave. in Ferndale. The company has been advertising with Between The Lines for 20 years and is committed to maintaing a relationship with the LGBT [...]

It wasn't too long ago that the right-wing American Family Association -- known for getting its membership to boycott groups, organizations and products -- targeted Ford Motor Company for running 2005 Land Rover and Jaguar [...]

By AJ Trager AUBURN HILLS - In a decade where not all employees receive domestic partner benefits let alone healthcare for themselves, Chrysler has been taking the lead in appreciating the diversity of its LGBT [...]

By Christopher Treacy Travis Parman predicted the future. As the current director of Corporate Communications at Nissan, Parman oversees all sorts of relationships within the automotive industry. But it wasn't that long ago that he [...]

LGBT employees from Ford Globe, Chrysler Gala and GM Plus joined forces in one display at Motor City Pride 2012 in Detroits Hart Plaza. BTL file photo: Benjamin Jenkins Times were different for the [...]

BTL photo: Andrew Potter When considering character in these socially progressive times, it'd be impolite to "judge a book by its cover." According to auto aficionado Adam Bernard - associate director of competitor intelligence [...]

By Emell Derra Adolphus The Lambda Car Club meets at Westpoint BBQ in Dearborn. Photo: Emell Derra Adolphus Lambda Car Club Detroit president Adam Bernard discovered his love of automobiles at an early age [...]

By Dana Rudolph Mombian "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet" goes the old ad jingle. I therefore felt rather all-American on a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest to test drive the Chevy Volt [...]

By Jerome Stuart Nichols Technology moves fast. Car tech is moving even faster. From Bluetooth and voice commands to 17-inch touchscreens, increasingly complex in-dash "infotainment" systems are redefining what it means to be behind the [...]

Because your car isn't gay enough, GM has released their 2013 Chevrolet Spark mini car in a color that's sure to get you noticed as you drive away from the gay bar: Techno Pink. "Pink [...]

LOS ANGELES - The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced its nominees for the 2012 Amplifier Awards, and included are two automakers and one auto insurance company. General Motors' widely acclaimed "Mom, Dad, [...]

DETROIT - President Bob King on the United Auto Workers issued a statement in May that supports President Obama's announcement on marriage equality: "The UAW applauds President Obama's remarks on same-sex marriage, and we regard [...]

Research among LGBT consumers shows that the majority of us want to spend our money with companies that have progressive policies toward their LGBT employees. The only problem is, that information hasn't been easy to [...]