BTL Staff
R&B, Dance Diva Sybil to Perform on July 25 at Hotter Than July Virtual Picnic
R&B and Dance Diva Sybil is set to perform at The Hotter Than July Virtual Picnic on Saturday, July 25. LGBT Detroit organizes the event annually and is the producer of HTJ, which has become the world's now longest-running, uninterrupted Black [...]
Creating Change LGBTQ Conference Goes Virtual in 2021
WASHINGTON — For the first time in its 33-year history, the Creating Change Conference will be a completely virtual event. Given the ongoing public health crisis and current safety regulations, organizers say that they will be unable to host [...]
COVID-19 Redraws 2020 LGBTQ Travel Roadmap
By Scott Stiffler When Dorothy returned from Oz and declared, "There's no place like home," that tribute to domesticity made sense, coming from a Kansas farm girl recently abducted by flying monkeys and repeatedly threatened by a wicked witch. But [...]
Oakland County Executive, Board, Clerks Announce Measures to Keep Elections Safe, Healthy and Secure
OAKLAND COUNTY – County Executive David Coulter, along with Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chairman David T. Woodward (D-Royal Oak) and Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds Lisa Brown, announced today several steps the county is taking to [...]
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
Across 1 Gunners shoot it off 5 Terence of _Priscilla_ 10 "There Is Nothing Like a ___" 14 At no time, in poems 15 Moore costar 16 Ready for press 17 _Julius Caesar_ costume 18 Wonder Woman accessory 19 French composer …douard 20 Start of a Hannah [...]
Community Foundation Provides Grants to Metro Detroit LGBTQ Organizations
DETROIT – The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan announced that five key LGBTQ organizations have received grants totaling $200,000 from the Community Foundation's HOPE — Helping Others through Partnerships and Education ‚Äö Fund. Each [...]
Gov.WhitmerRenames Downtown Lansing's Lewis Cass Building to the 'Elliott-Larsen Building' to Honor Sponsors of Michigan's Landmark Civil Rights Law
LANSING — Today, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-139 to rename the state-owned Lewis Cass Building in downtown Lansing to the "Elliott-Larsen Building," honoring the legislators who sponsored Michigan's landmark civil rights [...]