BTL Staff
Michigan Press Association names The Ann Arbor News 'Newspaper of the Year'
The Ann Arbor News has won the Newspaper of the Year award in its circulation category in the Michigan Press Association's 2016 Better Newspaper Contest. The newspaper competed against papers with circulations from 11,001 to 20,000, including the [...]
The Great Depression
Across 1 Where the Dutch girl stuck her finger? 5 Sequence for Bernstein 10 Stone of "Easy A" 14 Party to 15 Sheryl Swoopes, for one 16 Small vessel 17 Like characters in "Kinky Boots" 18 What Garbo "vanted" to be 19 Business letter abbr. 20 [...]
Viewpoint: The Next Four Years
BY JAY KAPLAN Jay Kaplan It has only been 10 days as I write this, but from the scrubbing of LGBT issues from the White House website to nominated cabinet members with a clear record of antipathy towards LGBT rights, the Trump Administration has now [...]
Zingerman's in Ann Arbor One of Several Michigan Sanctuary Spaces
BY JESSICA HAYNES FROM MLIVE.COM A Sanctuary Restaurant sign hangs on the door of Zingerman's Delicatessen at 422 Detroit St. in Ann Arbor. Photo courtesy of Hunter Dyke, The Ann Arbor News A movement to create safe spaces for employees is just [...]
Campus Chat: Local LGBT University Student Reacts to Trump Presidency
BY DREW SAUNDERS Eastern Michigan University student Sam Jones-Darling. Photo courtesy of Drew Saunders Donald Trump holds the distinction of entering office as the least popular incoming president of the U.S. since polling began. Trump's approval [...]
LGBT Activists: 'Grave Concerns' About Gorsuch
BY LISA KEEN Of the three judges President Trump was said to be considering for the current vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, he chose the one who is the most conservative and least likely to be concerned about equal rights for LGBT people. Trump [...]
SAGE Says Take Action for LGBT Elders
BY BTL STAFF This is a critical moment in LGBT history. LGBT elders and their allies haven't come this far to back down now. In a powerful pre-inauguration statement, SAGE CEO Michael Adams stressed the fact that "our LGBT elder pioneers did not [...]
LGBTS Denounce Trump's Ban on Refugees
By Lisa Keen Demonstrators gathered on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017 at Detroit Metro Airport. The protesters gathered in five separate areas inside and outside the airport in suburban Detroit. One of the largest gatherings took place in an area outside the [...]
EQMI Call to Action: Contact Local Senators Today
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT – Equality Michigan is asking members of the community to join the organization in opposing two anti-LGBTQ nominees for cabinet positions. The Senate Finance Committee will vote on Jan. 31 for President Trump's nomination of [...]
Michigan Roundtable Statement on Executive Order on Immigration
BY STEVE SPREITZER DETROIT – The Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion in Detroit denounces actions that unfairly target any group of people. Yesterday we stood with our neighbors who are affected by the recent executive order that bars [...]