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Come Out from Behind the Badge
LGBTQ people in law enforcement face pervasive discrimination, according to a Williams Institute study. The November 2013 report updates a 2009 report on discrimination in public employment, which found that over 40 percent of the reported cases of [...]
Disclosure and Deception
BY GWENDOLYN ANN SMITH Caitlyn Jenner has an autobiography coming out, and sat down with Diane Sawyer to do an interview about her life as part of the promotional tour. I must admit that I did not watch this interview, because – to be frank – I'm [...]
Diverse' co-chairs named for LGBT march on Washington
["\nby Lou Chibbaro Jr., Washington Blade\nJose Plaza of the Latino GLBT History Project is among the list of co-chairs for the Equality March. Washington Blade photo by Michael Key.\nOrganizers of a planned LGBT march on Washington scheduled for [...]
HFHS Launches Collaborative to Enhance Research on Healthcare Needs of SGM Youth
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT – Henry Ford Health System recently launched a collaborative with the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park, Affirmations in Ferndale, and the Trans Sistas of Color Project in Detroit to enhance research aimed at addressing the [...]
Premiere: Puzzle Piece's 'Bird' Explores Disability and Race
By Tanya Gazdik, EncoreMichigan.com FERNDALE — It is said that art imitates life. That phrase couldn't hold truer than for a play like Bird, which is inspired, and partially based, on true events. Playwright Kristin Andrea Hanratty heard part of a [...]
Review: 'Vera Stark' Mesmerizing at the Hilberry For Season Finale
By Patrice Nolan, EncoreMichigan.com DETROIT – By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, by two-time Pulitzer-prize winning dramatist Lynn Nottage, is the final show of the Hilberry Theatre season, and it is simply mesmerizing. The play – alternately hilarious, [...]
Michigan Opera Theatre Pays Tribute to David DiChiera
It is with heavy hearts that the Michigan Opera Theatre shared the news that their beloved founder and artistic director David DiChiera has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The theatre website reads: "David is and has been a driving force in [...]
More Protections Expected for Ann Arbor Undocumented Immigrants
The Ann Arbor City Council is considering a resolution reaffirming the city's position against cooperating with the feds and instead providing more protections for undocumented immigrants. The resolution is expected to easily pass when it goes to [...]
Mouths of Babes
With more than a dozen albums and over a thousand shows between them, Ty Greenstein and Ingrid Elizabeth of Mouths of Babes are no strangers to the modern folk music scene. For years, their respective bands Girlyman and Coyote Grace captivated [...]
Rainbow Flag
Across 1 The Oscars, and others 6 "Woe ___!" (_Hamlet_) 10 Greek war deity 14 City of Lorca's homeland 15 "The Boys in the Band," in 1968 16 Ward of "Once and Again" 17 Official dessert of the rainbow flag? 19 Ginsberg's "Gotcha" 20 One-named [...]