BTL Staff
Women's March On Lansing
BY BTL STAFF Women will be protesting all across the country Jan. 21. Speak up against hate and intolerance on Jan. 21 during the Women's March on Lansing, the sister event to the Women's March on Washington. The goal of this march from 1-3 p.m. on [...]
Remembering George
Across 1 Word that can take "homo" as a prefix 7 Bottomless 11 Christmas poem opener 15 Reign of ___ 16 Stick it in milk 17 Phrase of discovery 18 Flowing, for Bernstein 19 Optimist's phrase 20 "See ya," in Soho 21 1984 song of 12-Down that [...]
Trump's First 100 Days: How Bad Could It Get?
By Lisa Keen The most pro-gay Republican presidential candidate in history will take office as President of the United States on January 20, and yet the LGBT community has much to be anxious about. While Donald Trump used his campaign pulpit to [...]
Meet Kyle Taylor, Affirmations Development Coordinator
BY BTL STAFF FERNDALE –For eight hours a day, three days a week for four months, Kyle Taylor volunteered his time at Affirmations in Ferndale as the development coordinator. "If Affirmations needed something outside his regular hours, Kyle offered [...]
John Kerry Apologizes for State Department's LGBT Discrimination
BY BTL STAFF On behalf of the U.S. State Department, John Kerry has issued a formal apology for the department's pattern of discrimination against LGBT employees during a period beginning in the 1940s and stretching for decades. Sen. Ben Cardin, [...]
Gays with Guns?
BY BTL STAFF After a shooter killed 50 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando last June, Obama and lawmakers across the nation called for stricter gun laws. An LGBT advocacy group called the Pink Pistols thinks that rather than place restrictions [...]
Gretchen Whitmer Files for 2018 Michigan Governor's Race
BY BTL STAFF Former Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer became the first candidate to officially jump into the 2018 election pool Tuesday, by filing paperwork with the Secretary of State to set up a committee to run for governor, according to a [...]
2016: Year in Review
By Lisa Keen 2016 will go down in the LGBT history books as a year of sobering pushback against the many gains won in the years prior. In the space of 12 months, the community has gone from having the most pro-LGBT president in history to bracing [...]
A force of nature
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman HIGHLAND PARK – Collette Ramsey has worked for a state senator, a U.S. President and a major liquor company. She has travelled from her home town of Detroit to Philadelphia and New York and back again. Now, Ramsey lives in [...]
Civil unions revisited
By John Corvino Given our losses in the last electionÑall eleven states with same-sex marriage bans passed them, some by a wide margin Ñ is it time to put aside the marriage fight? You're probably expecting me to say, "No, of course not!" But I [...]
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. carries on family legacy
By Brent Dorian Carpenter DETROIT – U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) shares many attributes with his father, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson; the famous name, the fiery oratory and a commitment to [...]
