BTL Staff
Campfire' Opens at The Ringwald Theatre
FERNDALE — Prolific Michigan playwright Joseph Zettelmaier's newest play, Campfire, has opened at The Ringwald Theatre for it's tenth season. This horrifying play tells the story of Marcus Carver who has brought his niece and nephew back home, one [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Bella Thorne is 'Famous in Love' Young, hardworking Bella Thorne – who came out as bisexual on Snapchat, like the kids all do these days (and, you know, so what if she immediately decided to start dating "Teen Wolf"'s Tyler [...]
Last Presidential Debate Raises LGBT Issues
BY LISA KEEN In the first few minutes of the third and final presidential debate of 2016, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reiterated she would appoint justices that would preserve marriage equality. Republican presidential nominee [...]
Op Ed: Voting Out Anti-LGBT Candidates in Oakland County
BY CRAIG COVEY A longtime community member asked me a few weeks ago why I was running for sheriff in Oakland County. There are several reasons, the most important of which is that voters ought to be able to have a choice in such an important [...]
Racecar Driver Comes Out on Road to Indy 500
BY NICK POUST First Openly Gay Racecar Driver in IndyCar Series Freddy Niblack. Photo courtesy of UNITE Magazine Indianapolis Freddy Niblack is the first openly gay driver in the IndyCar Series, but that's not all that defines him. As is the case [...]
Detroit Police Officer Dani Woods Recipient of Equality Michigan Award
BY BTL STAFF Detroit – Detroit Police Officer Dani Woods is this year's MacAllister Award winner, presented by Equality Michigan. "Officer Woods has been such a dynamic, long-time agent of change within the Detroit Police Department and in the [...]
Ford Chairman Met with Trump Over 'Infuriating' Mexico Comments
BY BTL STAFF Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. said on Oct. 5 he has met with Donald Trump to talk about the Republican presidential candidate's extensive criticism of the automaker's investments in Mexico. A Reuters report said Ford [...]
Oakland County Clerk Lisa Brown Celebrates Same-Sex Marriages
BY BTL STAFF Huntington Woods – It's been more than two years since hundreds of LGBT couples in Michigan were rushing to local courthouses to recite marriage vows on March 22, 2014, a day after a federal judge struck down the state's ban on [...]
Chelsea Clinton Speaks with Gay News
By PGN Staff Chelsea Clinton took a break from addressing female and Millennial voters Oct. 14 in Pittsburgh for a phone call with Philadelphia Gay News. She talked about her time in Pennsylvania – an increasingly important swing state in the race [...]
2nd Presidential Debate: Rolling Downhill Without Wheels
By Lisa Keen It was a 90-minute debate overshadowed by the urgency of the Republican presidential nominee's need to triage a political hemorrhage caused by the release on Friday of a videotape showing him bragging about his sexual aggressions [...]