BTL Staff
Empty the Closet' Fundraiser to Benefit 'Not In My House'
BY BTL STAFF BLOOMFIELD HILLS – National Coming Out Day is an important day to celebrate the LGBTQ community and those who make the important decision to leave the closet and come out. This year, Kristi Faulkner Dance is hosting an "Empty the [...]
Politics Makes Strange Bedfellow
Across 1 Scout promises to be "morally straight" 6 Samoan investigator Margaret 10 Frat hazing sounds 14 Solid gold measure 15 Trucker's shaft 16 Sex Dr. 17 Oily rock 18 Simba's Broadway love 19 Start to climax 20 Russian strange bedfellow 23 [...]
State Rep. Jeremy Moss Sounds Off on the Super PAC
BY JEREMY MOSS If you launch a campaign for State Representative, you can raise money from individual donors into a candidate committee. If you want to support other candidates and political causes that align with your values, you can raise money [...]
Enjoy the Sounds of the Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra
More than 60 volunteer musicians will perform classical masterworks as well as contemporary selections during the Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra concert program at 8 p.m. on Oct. 27 at Royal Oak Middle School Dondero Auditorium, 709 N. Washington [...]
ROMT Now Offers The Projection Room
The Royal Oak Music Theatre now proudly offers The Projection Room – a brand new, exclusive, custom built, mezzanine level suite with "skip the line" services, a private bar, private restroom, lounge seating and the best views in the house. The [...]
Why Vote for Royal Oak Mayor Mike Fournier?
Royal Oak Mayor Michael "Mike" Fournier was appointed from the Commission to the Mayor's Seat earlier this year when former Mayor Jim Ellison left to serve as State Representative. Now Fournier is up for election as Mayor, and he is being [...]
Bombshell Bridal Debuts YouTube Reality-Type Show
BY BTL STAFF The ladies from Bombshell Bridal in St. Clair Shores during the Ultimate LGBT Wedding & Anniversary Expo in March 26, 2017. ST. CLAIR SHORES – Best friends and sisters Amanda Cover and Amy Krizanek own Bombshell Bridal, the [...]
Supreme Court: Potential Blockbusters Await, Again
BY LISA KEEN, KEEN NEWS SERVICE The new U.S. Supreme Court session, which begins Oct. 2, could be a critical one for LGBT people. And that's saying a lot, given some of the major victories, LGBT people have won at the high court in the past five [...]
Two U.S. Agencies at Odds Over Protecting Gays Under Title VII
BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse: home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Photo by Ken Lund; courtesy Flickr) Two U.S. agencies — the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity [...]
Arizona Supreme Court Says Same-Sex Spouse is a Legal Parent
BY BTL STAFF BOLD SAN FRANSISCO, CA – ) The National Center for Lesbian Rights won on Sept. 19 the Arizona Supreme Court case, McLaughlin v. McLaughlin, which ruled that a woman was the legal parent of the child she and her same-sex spouse conceived [...]
Trump's EEOC Nominees 'Wishy-Washy' on LGBT Workplace Rights
BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE Janet Dhillon is President Trump's nominee for chair of EEOC. (Screenshot via U.S. Senate) President Trump's nominees for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during recent congressional testimony — [...]