BTL Staff
Channeling Our Anger to Bend the Arc
BY MICHELLE E. BROWN It's been over 100 days and I'm still angry. I've been angry since November. It's not sour grapes just because my candidate did not win. This is anger, righteous indignation! I'm angry that the promise, the American dream, is [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Billy Eichner. Photo: KathClick Paul Verhoeven and a lesbian nun walk into a bar… If you saw Isabelle Huppert's Academy Award-nominated performance in last year's "Elle," then you know that director Paul Verhoeven is no [...]
Groundswell Announces Fund to Support Women of Color and Trans People of Color
BY BTL STAFF In the wake of a game-changing election, Groundswell Fund, the largest funder of the U.S. Reproductive Justice movement will launch a new national Liberation Fund to support the strongest grassroots organizing efforts led by women of [...]
Your Opinion Is Not Worth My Life
BY GWENDOLYN ANN SMITH Recently, Heineken put out a long for advertisement and accompanying website, titled "Worlds Apart." The premise was to set up two people with strong, diametrically-opposed viewpoints, have them work together on a project, [...]
Poll: Support for Same-Sex Marriage at All-time High
BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key An all-time high of 64 percent of Americans now support same-sex marriage nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision in favor of marriage equality [...]
Wharton offers
BY ENCORE STAFF Judy Kuhn, Oscar Williams, Zell Steele Morrow, Sydney Lucas, and Michael Cerveris in Fun Home. Courtesy photo The 2015 Tony Award winning Best Musical Fun Home, with book and lyrics by Lansing native Lisa Kron, will be part of the [...]
Trump Blasted for Silence on Gay Atrocities #EyesOnChechnya
BY KAREN OCAMB, LOS ANGELES BLADE On the steps of Los Angeles City Hall Lorri Jean, CEO of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles City Council member Paul Koretz, Los Angeles City Council member Mitch O'Farrell (at the podium), Los Angeles City [...]
49 House Members Urge HHS to Restore LGBT Questions to Elder Survey
BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) is calling for the restorations of LGBT questions in an elder survey. Photo public domain A group of 49 U.S. House members this week called on the Department of Health & Health Services [...]
Federal Court Orders Trump to Produce Giuliani Travel Ban Memo
BY BTL STAFF In response to a recent joint lawsuit filed by the Arab American Civil Rights League, the ACLU of Michigan and others, a federal judge on May 11 ordered President Donald Trump to turn over key documents related to his Executive Order [...]
DNC Hires First Lesbian CEO, Former Head of EMILY's List
BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE The DNC hired Jess OConnell as chief executive officer. Photo courtesy DNC The Democratic National Committee has for the first-time ever hired an out lesbian at its chief executive officer, appointing the former [...]