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Anti-gay radio host to receive NAACP 'Freedom and Justice' award
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman DETROIT – Mildred Gaddis, host of WCHB-AM's "Inside Detroit," will be receiving a Freedom and Justice award from the Detroit NAACP at the organization's Fight for Freedom Fund dinner May 1. Detroit's LGBT community has been [...]
Coming out - it's a matter of health
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman ROYAL OAK – Living life in the closet can feel like a chronic illness. And, when an actual chronic illness like cancer strikes, staying there could make everything worse. That's the message that cancer survivor Diane Holcomb [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente McKellen still stuck on Magneto "X-Men 3," the next installment in Romeo's favorite metaphorically gay film series, is underway, and it looks like cast members will reprise their roles. Hugh Jackman has already signed on as [...]
Anti-gay speaker raises money for CMU Pride
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman MOUNT PLEASANT – On April 6, in the middle of Central Michigan University's Pride Week, Alan Chambers, president of the anti-gay organization Exodus, delivered a talk at the Missouri Synod chapel on the university's [...]
Free at last
By Lawrence Ferber What makes a superb crossover pop/dance/R&B/hip-hop album? An artist with one-of-a-kind personality, phenomenal vocals, excellent production, talented guest contributors, and that sparkly quality the hip-hop kids (and now the [...]
Transmissions: We all have to go sometime
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith We do it every day, usually more than once. We go the restroom. It is a natural, human need. So why is it so hard to use a restroom when one is transgendered? No, it isn't that our plumbing is so baroque that basic bodily [...]
Triangle Foundation honors judges, lawmaker; calls for new coalition
By Cornelius A. Fortune DEARBORN – Members of the Triangle Foundation in association with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force honored Judge Nancy Francis (probate judge for Washtenaw County), Democratic State Rep. Alma Wheeler-Smith and Judge [...]
Meet Edgar the BTL pet of the week
Edgar is a handsome six-year-old orange and white shorthair cat. He was rescued from a home that had too many cats, and he is now at the shelter looking for a new, loving family. Edgar is a very friendly and independent cat. He enjoys people however [...]
Michigan Secretary of State changes gender marker policy
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING – Transgender Michigan and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan's LGBT Project have convinced the Michigan Secretary of State's office in Lansing to change their policy regarding changing individuals' [...]
Soulforce to confront Focus on the Family rhetoric
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. – On Sunday, May 1, also known as May Day, Soulforce, Inc. and over 1,000 LGBT individuals, couples, families, and allies will converge on the headquarters of James Dobson and Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs. Over 50 [...]