Susan Horowitz
License to bully' bill passes Republican controlled senate
LANSING – Kevin Epling is no stranger to a broken heart. He lost his 14-year old son Matt to suicide in 2002 after he was bullied in school. Since that time he has lobbied and educated state legislators in the hopes of one day seeing Matt's Safe [...]
Game changer
When I took to the streets of NYC for my first Pride March in 1972, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was 15 years old. The march was only in its third year and I never could have imagined back then the progress that would be made in my own lifetime. At [...]
Iowa-based American Future Fund runs attack ads in Michigan
With the last of the primaries over, the right-wing funding machine has mobilized into high gear. One of the newest players in the 2010 campaign cycle is the Des Moines, Iowa-based conservative organization American Future Fund. It was founded in [...]
Breakfast with the Bishop
KALAMAZOO – The broad, innovative and yet unassuming power of the Arcus Foundation was demonstrated on Friday, Sept. 11, at a private breakfast that drew over 70 members of southwest Michigan's faith and social justice community. They were there to [...]
Grant Park then and now
November 4, 2008 4:30 p.m. Detroit, Michigan My in-box was full today with e-mail messages that started like this one: "Dear Susan Horowitz, Today we have the opportunity to take part in the most important election of our time." I reflected on the [...]
New Kalamazoo Equal Rights Ordinance under attack
KALAMAZOO- Less than one month after the City of Kalamazoo Commission voted 7-0 to adopt an expanded human rights ordinance that makes it illegal to use sexual orientation to discriminate in housing, public accomodations and employment, petitions [...]
AFA sends message to Pride participants: 'Homeo, homeo wherefore art though' spellcheck?
FERNDALE – The humm of the engine could be heard overhead and as eyes looked up, there was a plane pulling a message behind it which read, "JESUS CHRIST: HOPE FOR HOMEOSEXUALS.COM" "It's ironic that in promoting a form of new age communication, the [...]
Summit is 'turning point' in LGBT and ally history
ANN ARBOR – Over two years and 3,500 volunteer hours later, the team known as The Peninsula Group presented their research and findings to 85 leaders from 31 LGBT and Ally organizations who participated in a two-day summit held at the Sheraton [...]
The promise of equality
DETROIT – As Michigan braces for what most people expect to be a divisive and mean campaign over the issue of affirmative action, leaders of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community have launched an educational effort to illustrate the [...]
AFA targets Ford for supporting equal rights
DETROIT – The American Family Association is at it again, this time on the eve of June Pride. Undaunted by their failure against Microsoft and despite just ending a nine-year, unsuccessful boycott of the Walt Disney Company, they are now targeting [...]