BTL Staff
West Shore Aware Raises Money, Helps Local Organizations in Need
BY BTL STAFF Photos courtesy of Thomas White (www. thomaswhitemedia.com) Since its inception in 2003, West Shore Aware has raised more than $600,000 to benefit non-profit community groups and student scholarship programs. Another successful [...]
EQMI Award Recipients Announced
BY BTL STAFF Henry Messer Youth Activist Award winner Aiden Ramirez-Tatum Catalyst Award winner Congressman Dan Kildee (D-Flint) Equality Michigan recently announced the first two of four award recipients, this year's Henry Messer Youth Activist [...]
Inclusive Justice Hosts Conference and Training to Support Trans Lives
BY BTL STAFF Brighton- The Faith Allies for Trans Lives: Stand Up for Justice conference and training on Sept. 17 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. will address the need for acceptance of LGBTQI people within religious and spiritual communities, and for the [...]
LGBT Going Back To School, Campus Pride Index, Shame List and More
BY AJ TRAGER It's the first week of school for students in the state and across the country and by Thanksgiving break, many high school students will be applying for their undergraduate programs. A lot goes into choosing a university – the class [...]
Meet and Greet with Democratic Congressional Candidate Gretchen Driskell
BY BTL STAFF Huntington Woods- Meet State Rep. Gretchen Driskell (D – Saline) and candidate for Michigan's 7th Congressional District, for an evening of conversation about issues directly impacting the LGBT community. The event takes place Sept. [...]
Memorial Service Planned for Jeffrey Montgomery
BY BTL STAFF A special gathering is planned Sept. 17 at 11 a.m. at the McGregor Conference Center at Wayne State University, 495 West Ferry Ave. in Detroit, to celebrate the life and times of Jeffrey Montgomery, pioneering activist and the founding [...]
Reinvestment Fund and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Name Lansing One of 50 Invest Health cities
LANSING –The city of Lansing was selected in May by Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to take part in the new Invest Health initiative to transform how leaders thrive and drive community access. Invest Health is aimed at [...]
Michigan Burlesque Festival to Raise Funds for Civil Rights Organizations
BY BTL STAFF As the Michigan Burlesque Festival celebrates four years of award-winning burlesque performance, the Hastings Street Ballroom/Tangent Gallery features an award-winning cast of performers on Sept. 16-17 at 7 p.m. The star-studded lineup [...]
Out at Rio
Across 1 Differs from Dorian Gray 5 Second fruit eater 9 Be a master baiter-and-switcher, perhaps 13 Lacking potency 14 BartUk the composer 15 Tennessee Williams "Summer and Smoke" heroine 16 Salty white stuff from the Greeks 17 Nickel or dime 18 [...]
Soccer star Rapinoe kneels during national anthem
U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe. right, in a little nod to NGL quarterback Colin Kaepernick who refused to stand for the national anthem to protest racial injustice. AP File Photo Kaepernick's refusal to stand for the national anthem to protest [...]
Transgender Litigation Moving Quickly Through Courts
By Lisa Keen The legal rights of transgender people continue to dominate LGBT legal news these days, as several cases make their way toward the U.S. Supreme Court and stimulate public discussion. Last month, in one of the most prominent of cases, a [...]
