Online Offerings In the first of what will be weekly addresses via Zoom videoconference, Affirmations Executive Director Dave Garcia reported on March 27 that although the center is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most [...]
For the past five years, SAGE Metro Detroit has been operational as a local affiliate of the largest LGBTQ elder care organization in the U.S., Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders. By providing a mix [...]
Innovation by Necessity To those visiting MCC Detroit’s website for the first time, it might not be readily apparent that things like virtual worship and Zoom videoconference Bible study sessions are brand-new offerings. In fact, [...]
In order to prevent the spread of coronavirus, it's vital to practice social distancing whenever possible. However, because social distancing requires people to be physically isolated, it can be difficult to keep up with all [...]
DETROIT — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, has assembled and deployed field assessment teams tasked with evaluating existing facilities in Michigan for the possible conversion into alternate care facilities as part of [...]
As coronavirus continues to alter the way life is lived across the globe, its impact has reached into all facets of everyday life, and that includes religion. Though virtual means of worship have been put [...]
As coronavirus cases continue to rise in Michigan and across the U.S., efforts by medical practitioners to both treat the sick and stop further infections have also ramped up. And for LGBTQ people, who tend [...]
Necessary Adjustments It’s not just individuals who have had to make drastic adjustments because of the COVID-19 outbreak. From business to government, innovations like working from home on a widescale basis and the temporary suspension [...]
As news about coronavirus and the necessity for social distancing continues to develop, many community centers like LGBT Detroit are continuing to offer much-needed services like tobacco-cessation programs, sexual assault advocacy and more just in [...]
Due to the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Michigan, specific orders to practice social distancing have been given to residents. In fact, today, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a "stay-at-home" order to take effect across the [...]
After a career dedicated to social justice through organizations and causes like the Women's March, WC Safe, the YWCA and more, last month Nicole Denson earned what she called a "dream job" when she was [...]
Because of statewide efforts to "flatten the curve," or slowing the exponential spread of coronavirus infection to aid health care workers and providers in treatment, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer closed Michigan K-12 schools until Monday, April [...]
Today the Ferndale-based Affirmations LGBTQ community center announced it was closed "for the near future" due to the risk of spreading coronavirus. It cited that "essential services" like recovery groups and individual counseling would remain [...]
This past summer Devon Robinson of Detroit was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the spring 2019 shooting deaths of 21-year-old Alunte Davis, 20-year-old Timothy Blancher and 20-year-old Paris Cameron as well as [...]
By Patrick Yankee DETROIT - March 23 through 29 is LGBT Health Awareness Week, the perfect time to bring attention to the cycle of discrimination and health disparities that affect LGBTQ people in Michigan and [...]
Whether it's HIV prevention or treatment, Unified HIV Health and Beyond is a natural first step for many in Southeast Michigan looking for help and resources. And while the nonprofit certainly does offer immediate case-by-response [...]
Emergency Expansion of Ryan White Funding In response to the recent outbreak of COVID-19, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Division of HIV and STD Programs is providing emergency financial assistance to Ryan [...]
LANSING — Today, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-10 to temporarily expand eligibility for unemployment benefits. This executive order is effective immediately and until Tuesday, April 14 at 11:59 p.m. Under the governor’s order, [...]
Taking Action As of Saturday, in response to the threat of COVID-19, members of the Trans Sistas of Color Project have begun distributing care packages containing essential items to transgender women of color in need. [...]
As infections in the U.S. rose past 1,500, three days ago concerns about the coronavirus, or COVID-19, resulted in a state of national emergency for the U.S. Because of this and advice like the recent [...]
LANSING — Today, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-5 to cancel all events over 250 people and all assemblages in shared spaces over 250 people beginning on Friday, March 13, at 5 p.m. and [...]
By the Michigan LGBTQ+ Community Centers Network The coronavirus poses an increased risk to the LGBTQ+ population and statewide leadership is helping to share organizational steps to address attempts to reduce its spread. Seven organizations [...]
DETROIT – Fair and Equal Michigan confirmed it has now collected its 100,000th signature on the road the 340,047 required to introduce a citizens’ bill in the State Legislature that would amend the state Elliott-Larsen [...]
March is the Transgender Month of Visibility and as it continues, groups across the U.S. will host events of all kinds to recognize and support transgender people leading up to the Day of Visibility on [...]
An ad hoc group of LGBTQ Michiganders has announced their support for Joe Biden. He is one of the two leading candidates that will appear on the Democratic primary ballot this Tuesday. "There is [...]
To kick off Oakland University’s Pride Month, the inaugural Tim Larrabee Memorial Lecture will feature LGBTQ activist, civil rights hero and author Cleve Jones on Monday, March 9.Pride Month at OU grew out of Pride [...]
Sobering Statistic Despite major pushes to encourage voter turnout, a statistic that might alarm LGBTQ activists is that 21 percent of LGBTQ adults are not registered to vote. According to an Oct. 2019 survey conducted [...]
“Everybody is Welcome in Warren” During an impromptu interview with the leader of Michigan’s third-largest city, Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said that if presented with an inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance by the city council he said, [...]
For anyone paying attention to the Democratic candidates in the 2020 presidential race, polls have shown repeatedly that at the start of primary season voters have remained vastly undecided about their favored pick.
FERNDALE - Buzz Thomas has decades of experience helping businesses connect with the people and agencies they need to be successful, and he spent 14 years in the Michigan legislature representing his Detroit district, serving [...]
So what if you voted already in Michigan's primary and the person you voted for has dropped out - like Buttigieg, Steyer or Klobuchar - or you've just changed your mind about who you want [...]
As the 2020 presidential primaries continue and November draws nearer, it's vital for LGBTQ voters to familiarize themselves not only with the pro-LGBTQ platforms of existing candidates but the anti-LGBTQ measures taken by the Trump Administration.
LGBT Detroit recently received funding from ViiV Healthcare Positive Action for Youth for a new mentorship program that will expand its LGBT Detroit Leadership Academy. The academy is a social justice training program for African [...]
Last week legislation passed in the U.S. House of Representatives that made lynching a federal hate crime 410-4. Of the four votes against, one was by Michigan's Independent Justin Amash. The three other votes were [...]
Drag queen bingo is always a night of fun and laughs, but an upcoming event at the Tap Room in Ypsilanti is going to a good cause as well. Boylesque Bingo & Drag is hosting [...]
Aug. 4, 1966 – Feb. 24, 2020 Michael Hugh Guigar, a longtime member of the Detroit Together Men’s Chorus, has died. He was 53. Guigar was born in Marlette, Michigan, and he would go on [...]
Editor's Note: Due to concerns about the coronavirus, the 64th session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women and all associated events have been canceled. At the time of publication, organizers said that [...]
Wholly Unexpected On Feb. 11, something happened in Michigan’s third-largest city that many would consider remarkable. Despite that fact, it went largely unnoticed. The Warren City Council adopted a Pride Month resolution, with six out [...]
Announced yesterday, a new partnership between Equality Michigan and the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office will benefit LGBTQ victims of hate crimes by enhancing support and services. This is a project that attorney and Equality Michigan [...]
The Ruth Ellis Center is planning to build a 43-unit mixed-use housing development on Clairmount Street just west of Woodward Avenue in Detroit’s Piety Hill neighborhood. The project is expected to take 18 months to [...]
Nancy Ann Unwin, the founder of such groups as OUTSkirts and Women OUT & About, was a revered member of and activist for the Southeast Michigan LGBTQ community. She died Jan. 27. She was 85.
It's been 20 years since Kevin Kresch first began to take notice of the political arena. Like many passions, the catalyst for its start wasn't especially unusual but the lasting effects have stayed with him [...]
Renee Richer's ties to Michigan's Upper Peninsula run deep. So deep in fact that The Farmhouse, the building that today serves as Richer's Gladstone-based bed-and-breakfast of the same name, has been in her family for more than a century. With connections to her community that run five generations strong, it makes sense that Richer would feel a sense of obligation to give back to her Upper Peninsula roots. In fact, she said that much of her interest in running for Michigan's 108th House district stems from conversations with travelers right at The Farmhouse's kitchen table.
Conservative radio personality and recent Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Rush Limbaugh recently suggested that presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg doesn't have a chance to be elected president because he is a gay man who will [...]
The History Five years ago, a ballot committee named Fair Michigan and headed by then-attorney Dana Nessel sought to amend Michigan’s Constitution to ensure the equal rights of LGBTQ people and women. Then, just as [...]
By the Numbers Currently, the ballot language to expand the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity or expression has been approved, and launches in Grand Rapids and East Lansing have [...]
Bashar Kallabat. Shortly after the body of a nationally recognized hairstylist Bashar Kallabat was found at the Detroit JZ Motel and Suites last week, a 24-year-old Detroit man named Jimmy Jermaine Pickett was [...]
The body of a nationally recognized hairstylist Bashar Kallabat was found at the Detroit JZ Motel and Suites Tuesday. Detroit Police believe that he was killed by a man he met on a dating app. [...]
This Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will join Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship and its City Walls Detroit murals program in showing the city some love. FCA and the city will [...]
By Daniel A. Gwinn Every year, my associate, Laura Bradshaw-Tucker, and I attend the mid-winter meeting of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan. The educational event features updates on [...]
