BTL Staff
Sept. Brings AIDS Walk Detroit, Now in 27th Year
AIDS Walk Detroit will take place on Sept.17 at the Royal Oak Farmers Market starting at 8:30 a.m. Organizers are hoping to raise over $225,000 in an effort to help fund the work of local agencies. Known as the largest grassroots HIV/AIDS fundraiser [...]
143 Dems to Trump: Reconsider the 'Indefensible' Trans Military Ban
BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE Rep. Donald McEachin (D-Va.) is leading House Democrats in calling on President Trump to reconisder his trans military ban. (Photo public domain) In the wake of President Trump making good on his pledge to ban [...]
A Purgatorial Tour of the Famous and Infamous at Slipstream
BY DONALD V. CALAMIA Bailey Boudreau as Tennessee Williams. Photo courtesy of Slipstream Theatre Initiative One might find it unusual for a tall, lanky 20-year- old budding playwright of Russian ancestry to show an interest in a long-dead [...]
LGBT Relief Funds Launched to Help Texas Hurricane Victims
BY LOU CHIBBARO JR., WASHINGTON BLADE Floodwaters flood Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in Houston on Aug. 27, 2017. What was once Hurricane Harvey has inundated large swaths of the city and southeast Texas since it made landfall on the [...]
Two New Lawsuits Filed Against Trump Over Trans Military Ban
CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE President Trump is facing two new lawsuits over his plan to ban transgender military service. Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key Now that President Trump has officially directed the Pentagon to enact a ban on [...]
Ferndale Pride Distributes $25,000 in Grants to LGBTQ Charities
BY BTL STAFF Ferndale City Councilman Dan Martin, Michelle Fox-Phillips with GNA, Gerry Carney, Monica Mills with Matrix Human Services, Susan Crocker and Rachel Crandall Crocker with TGMI, Julia Music chair of Ferndale Pride, Ferndale City [...]
Trans Bathroom Access (Again) Reaches Supreme Court
BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE Trans bathroom access is headed again the U.S. Supreme Court. Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key The U.S. Supreme Court may have nixed consideration of Virginia transgender student Gavin Grimm's lawsuit, [...]
It's Official: Trump Directs Pentagon to Enact Trans Military Ban
BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to implement the transgender military ban. (Image courtesy of C-SPAN) Nearly one month after announcing via Twitter he'd ban transgender people from U.S. military, [...]
EQMI Opens Pop-Up Office in Bay City
Equality Michigan's Department of Victim Services will hold office hours in Bay city on the fourth Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. beginning Aug. 29, then again Sept. 26, Oct. 24 and Nov. 28 at the Unity of Bay City, 3736 State Street [...]
Indian Supreme Court Issues Landmark Privacy Ruling
BY MICHAEL K. LAVERS, WASHINGTON BLADE A landmark privacy ruling the Indian Supreme Court issued on Aug. 24, 2017, criticized its decision to reinstate the country's colonial-era sodomy law. (Photo by Legaleagle86; courtesy Wikimedia Commons) A [...]
New Housing Development Planned in Ferndale
Ferndale city council members approved last week a Brownfield plan for Robertson Brothers Homes, along with planned unit development for the company to build 72 townhouse condominiums on the site of the former Taft Digital Learning Center school on [...]