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Affirmations Offers Self-Breast Exam 101 Session With Gyneca
Rarely are formal medical examinations comfortable, but seeing a qualified medical practitioner is key to maintaining good health and preventing the spread of potentially deadly diseases. Luckily, even for those without access to a doctor, there are [...]
The Social Media Exposure of Perpetrators Leads to the Catalyst of Sexual Assault Social Change
BY JACQULYN HIPPE The lack of moral decency in this administration and their supporters has reenergized social activists and advocates here to maintain those rights. Social justice leaders working for people who have been stripped of their voice and [...]
2018: These Two Anti-LGBTQ Republicans May Run for Senate
Shakeups in the U.S. Senate led to news Tuesday that two prominent Republicans and former presidential candidates who have anti-LGBT records — Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann — may run in 2018. Following passage of tax reform legislation, Sen. [...]
Wayne State University to Host Debate about Religious Liberty and Discrimination in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case
Press Release: Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, 6 – 8 p.m. David Adamany Undergraduate Library Bernath Auditorium, 5155 Gullen Mall, Detroit. This spring the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, in which a baker declined to [...]
UMS Explores the Comfort Zone with Three-Week Theatre Festival
Going out of one's comfort zone is never easy. Sometimes, it can even be difficult to find a productive way of doing that in daily life, but what is true about the process, is that there's often a lesson learned at the end of the experience. Actor [...]
Oliver!...and Elio
Across 1 "The Glass Menagerie" segments 5 Where two bones touch 10 Peters out 14 The Indigo Girls' "___ Line" 15 Half sib of Liza 16 Angelina's tomb-raiding role 17 Clothing designer Chow 18 Gay rodeo target 19 Passed with flying colors 20 Cause [...]
A Face for Nigerian Gays: Mayomi Fowowe-Makinde
LGBTQ and HIV Activist Escaped Nigerian Homophobia to Build a New Life in America BY MORDECAI HAZELWOOD DETROIT – After spending nearly his entire life in his home country of Nigeria, LGBTQ and HIV activist Mayomi Fowowe-Makinde now finds [...]
Affirmations Hosts Interactive Exhibit on Discrimination
Though there have been huge strides in the acceptance of transgender and gender non-conforming people, there is still much work to be done. For the last two years, Transcend the Binary, a Ferndale-based community health center, has worked to [...]
OutCasting Wraps Up 2017 With Program Expansion
OutCasting is public radio programming designed by and made for the LGBTQ community. Members of the program are LGBTQ youth, OutCasters, who delve into hot-button issues in an effort to inform the general public about LGBTQ activism and struggles. [...]
Gay Minn. couple loses appeal based on 1971 marriage license
BY STAFF REPORTS, WASHINGTON BLADE ST. PAUL, Minn. — A gay couple has lost another legal fight over getting the state to recognize their marriage in the early 1970s, KIMT 3 News, a regional station, reported on Dec. 26. James Michael [...]