BTL Staff
Weighing the Cost of Pet Insurance
By Dawn Klingensmith Thanks to advances in veterinary medicine, pets can undergo the same types of lifesaving procedures as people, including pacemaker insertion and kidney transplants. But these procedures are expensive. Pet owners who can't [...]
Paws on Board: Pet owners are taking more care to plan for pets' safety when they take them along for a ride.
By Teresa Odle It's great to take Fido or Fluffy along on your next driving vacation as long as you carefully plan the trip with an eye toward keeping your pet healthy and safe. "Traveling and vacationing with a pet has increased 300 percent [...]
Animal Abuse Comes with Harsher Punishment in Michigan
The "Howie Bill," signed by former Gov. Rick Snyder late last year, will increase the maximum penalty for killing or torturing an animal from four years to 10 years in prison. State Rep. Tommy Brann, R-Wyoming introduced a two-bill package that also [...]
Think Outside the Box for a Chance to Win $1,000
The Michigan Pet Fund Alliance and the Humane Society of Macomb Foundation are soliciting applications for Outside the Box award-winning programs, projects, or documents that Michigan shelters or non-profit home-based rescue organizations are [...]
Hot at Sundance
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OU Film Festival Focused on 'Challenging Femmephobia'
Marking its 35th year, Oakland University's Women and Gender Studies Film Festival will present Challenging Femmephobia: Breaking the Gender Binary in Queer Communities. This year's festival features screenings of the films "Making Masculine" and [...]
History Wheel: The '00s - 2004
February – Detroit Public Schools CEO Creates Task Force, Looks at LGBT Student Issues: In response to a community town hall, Detroit Public Schools CEO Dr. Kenneth Burnley announced that he would create a task force to examine issues and [...]
Homophobia
Across 1 Smart ass response from the mouth 5 Spirited horse 9 "Cunt" author Muscio 13 "Take a crack ___" 14 Memory unit 15 "Lawrence of Arabia" director David 16 Start of a comment by 57-Across about homophobia all over the planet 19 Big bang cause, [...]
Martina Navratilova Removed from Athlete Ally Board Over Trans Athletes Comments
by James Wellemeyer Tennis great Martina Navratilova is taking heat for her recent comments on transgender athletes. Navratilova, a lesbian and an 18-times Grand Slam winner, called it "cheating" for trans women to compete in women's sports. "It's [...]
Ingham County Services Committee Passes Gender-Neutral Bathroom Resolution
In a Feb. 19 Ingham County Services Committee meeting, a resolution unanimously passed to improve the accessibility of gender-segregated restroom facilities on Ingham County's property. "Therefore be it resolved, that all restrooms and [...]
Michigan Psychoanalytic Society Presents 44th Annual Symposium on 'Queer Theory'
To be held on Saturday, March 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at Livonia's Schoolcraft College, the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society will hold its 44th annual symposium titled "Queer Theory Meets Psychoanalysis: Productive Synergies and Clinical [...]