Todd Heywood
Anti-Gay West Michigan 'Mechanic' To Host Townhall In Jenison Public School
A West Michigan business owner who made headlines in April for declaring he would refuse to provide mechanic's services to openly gay persons is planning a June 11 event at Jenison Public Schools Center for the Arts. "This is an event to discuss a [...]
Queering The House
State House Reps. Jeremy Moss and Jon Hoadley assumed office in January. BTL photo: Rita Deibler LANSING – Every Michigander is given 525,600 minutes to experience the mitten state each year. Some use that time to garden or advocate for better [...]
Study: Early Initiation Of HIV Treatment Dramatically Reduces AIDS, Other Adverse Events
Scientists ended a multi-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, 18 months early because it showed those who started anti-HIV therapies reduced the risk of death or development of AIDS by half. The evidence, they say, shows [...]
Pro And Anti-LGBT Activists Hit Capitol Steps
LANSING — As the Tuesday Supreme Court hearings neared, anti-gay activists vehemently opposed to marriage equality were ramping up in preparation for any ruling which would allow same-sex marriage to become the law of the land. As the noon hour [...]
Gamrat Gets Barred While Schuette Hurts Those Behind Bars
Political Hors D'oeuvres Gamrat Barred From State Republican House Caucus Indefinitely Poor State Rep. Cindy Gamrat, R-Plainwell. She's just trying to represent her constituents, you know? To accomplish that, she tweeted from a closed meeting of [...]
State Senate Committee Passes Adoption Discrimination Bills
A Michigan Senate Committee has approved, on a party line vote, a three bill package opponents say would codify discrimination by adoption agencies. The committee — Family, Seniors and Human Services — voted the three bills out 4-1 after rejection [...]
GOP Senate Source: MiRFRA Will Have Hearing Tuesday April 28, No Vote Expected
In December, protestors gathered at the state capitol in Lansing to stop a MiRFRA bill being considered during the lame duck session. LANSING – Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge,, chair of the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee, has confirmed with [...]
Anti-Gay Company Has Lapsed Michigan Mechanic's License
Brian Klawiter, the Grandville business owner at the center of a firestorm of controversy because of his Facebook post that he would deny service to openly gay people, has not been a legally licensed mechanic in Michigan since Oct. 12, 2014. Fred [...]
Controversial Anti-LGBT Mechanic Has Checkered Past
The mechanic in Grandville, Michigan who caused a national uproar over his post on Facebook saying he would refuse to provide service to openly gay people, or if he did provide such service, would half-ass the job so as to potentially lead to [...]
Is GoFundMe The New Welfare For Anti-Gay Corporations?
Political Hors D'oeuvres Well, this is special. From the community that gave us the delightful ignorance of Dave Agema, the former state representative and current GOP national committeeman from Michigan, now we have a mechanic who has announced [...]
Dievendorf Leaves Equality Michigan
For the fifth time in less than a decade, Equality Michigan is without an executive director. Last week, Emily Dievendorf left the organization. She has led the agency since the departure of Denise Brogan-Kator in July 2012. Dievendorf's [...]
Gary Glenn Apologizes For Agenda Alert
Political Hors D'oeuvres State Rep. Gary Glenn, R-Midland, and president of the American Family Association of Michigan, has issued a formal apology to residents of his district for an "agenda alert" he issued two weeks ago. The alert was because [...]