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LGBT Detroit, EMU Equality Research Center Continue Partnership
BY BTL STAFF Detroit-The LGBT Detroit Leadership Academy announced their continued partnership with Eastern Michigan University's Equality Research Center. The Fall 2016 academy class is now open for enrollment and will be assisted by the center [...]
Transmissions: Fitting Together
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith When I was still in the process of coming out, I found that one of the friends who seemed to have the hardest time dealing with my transition was the one who had come out just a year or two earlier as gay. This baffled me, as [...]
RE: "How Hot Is It? Detroit Black Gay Pride Struggles In Its Third Decade"
It's disappointing that this article appears to be neither fair nor balanced. It seems to me, the only people the reporter found to interview were those who had negative and unhelpful comments about this year's Hotter Than July celebration. I've [...]
Detroit Police Department Holds LGBT Community Chat
BY AJ TRAGER The 2nd Annual LGBT Community Chat took place in Palmer Park Aug. 3. LGBT Liaison to the Detroit Police Department, Dani Woods, addresses the crowd of over 100 attendees. BTL Photo: AJ Trager DETROIT – Metro Detroit community members [...]
Five Michiganders among Most Amazing HIV Positive People of 2016
By BTL Staff Five Michiganders are among HIV Plus Magazine's "Most Amazing People Living with HIV in 2016." Among the honorees are Brian KillsCrow of the Grand Rapids area, Patricia Clark of the Kalamazoo area, Bre' Ann Campbell and Ari Hampton of [...]
How Hot is It? Detroit Black Gay Pride Struggles in its Third Decade
By Jason A. MIchael In its heyday, Hotter Than July – Detroit Black Gay Pride – offered a jam packed week full of action and events. There were parades and marches, poetry nights, authors' events, women's events, a jazz bash and more parties than [...]
Michigan Pride 2016 Floats On Without Parade
Like many 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, Michigan Pride operates on the kindness of volunteers. If volunteers are lacking or there is a decline in participation for a particular event, as a result, the organization chooses not to host it. Such [...]
I Am Arrested by Ugandan Police' -@FrankMugisha
By TJ Rogers Last Thursday, Aug. 4, in the midst of the "Mr. and Ms. Pride" event of Pride Uganda 2016, police raided Venom nightclub and arrested at least 15 attendees, including two prominent international Ugandan LGBTI rights activists: Frank [...]
LGBT Detroit Receives Donation to Benefit LGBT Latinos/as
By BTL Staff Former board chair of Detroit Latin@z Tony ORourke-Quintana presents Curtis Lipscomb, executive director of LGBT Detroit with a donation to facilitate LGBT Latino/a programming in Detroit. The only LGBT organization in Michigan for and [...]