Jan Stevenson
Arcus grants $9.6M more, mostly for LGBT groups
KALAMAZOO – The Arcus Foundation announced a new list of grants totaling $9.6 million in the final 2007 round, taking the total amount granted out last year up to $16.8 million. Over 90 percent of the funds are awarded to LGBT organizations and [...]
HOPE Fund charts new course
TROY – An enthusiastic group of donors to the HOPE Fund gathered last Friday at the Suburban Collection's Luxury Lane in Troy. Amid extravagant Maseratis, Bentleys and the regal presence of the latest line of Rolls Royce, the group talked about [...]
An impassioned activist takes over at DHD
Co-Publishers of BTL DETROIT – The Rev. Dr. Renee McCoy has only been in the job just a few months as the new director of HIV/AIDS Programs at the City of Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, but fighting HIV/AIDS is nothing new [...]
HRC ENDA poll raises more questions than answers
The Human Rights Campaign released the results of a poll conducted last month that shows 70 percent of the LGBT Americans prefer passing a federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act without inclusion of transgender protections, rather than not [...]
Wright retires from Horizons Project
A pioneer steps down DETROIT – Heroine, friend, healer, confidante, mentor, advocate, teacher, champion, visionary. These are some of the adjectives to describe Dr. Kathryn Wright, an adolescent pediatrician who has devoted the last 15 years to [...]
Gay Business Expo returns
BIRMINGHAM – It's been almost ten years since the southeastern Michigan LGBT business community has had an expo. But now, for the first time produced by Ties Like Me, the business community will have a chance to show its wares and services. On Sept. [...]
Arcus grants nearly $3 million to LGBT projects
KALAMAZOO – The Arcus Foundation recently announced the details of their Spring 2007 grant awards and the numbers are impressive. The Foundation, founded and funded by Jon Stryker, granted out $2,951,105 to LGBT projects, in Michigan and around the [...]
Windsor Pride gets 'Front and Centre'
WINDSOR – Windsor Pride wrapped up a week's worth of celebration Sunday with a rousing parade and festival that drew thousands into the streets of downtown Windsor. The parade wound its way from the St. Clair Centre for the Arts down to Casino [...]
MI couples marry center stage in Windsor
Event kicks off Pride events WINDSOR, ONT – Smiles, tears and cheers greeted two newly wed same-sex couples as they were legally married in a civil ceremony July 20. The Michigan couples won the all-expense-paid weddings in a contest sponsored by [...]
Affirmations celebrates new center building
FERNDALE – It was all smiles, and a few joyful tears, on Sunday evening as Affirmations hosted major donors into the new center building. For many of the people at the black tie event, it was their first chance to see the fabulous new home of the [...]
LGBT float wows Blossom Festival
ST. JOSEPH – Despite threats of attack and violence, the Blossom Day Parade in St. Joseph May 5 went off without a hitch, and the for the first time an openly LGBT group participated with a fabulous float of their own. The YWCA Out and Affirmation [...]
Michigan to be 'about flat' from Ryan White funding
DETROIT – Although local HIV/ADIS service providers have yet to digest the total impact on funding levels for Michigan as a result of the Part B funding under the revised Ryan White CARE Act, it appears that funding levels will be about flat. "Our [...]