Todd Heywood
200 rally asking for justice in CMU noose case
MT. PLEASANT– About 200 people from Detroit, Benton Harbor, Grand Rapids and Mt. Pleasant rallied outside the Isabella County Building Friday, hoping to pressure County Prosecutor Larry Burdick to file felony ethnic intimidation charges against a [...]
AIDS Fund releases report card on HIV in Michigan
Capitol Correspondent The Michigan AIDS Fund released its first ever report card on HIV work last Thursday. While the over all grades for the state are average, B- in care and treatment, B- in funding, C in HIV prevention and a C in public policy, [...]
CMU noose report sent to prosecutor
Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick said Nov. 29 he had received the investigation report from Central Michigan University police about four nooses found on the campus, but he declined to say what if any action he was preparing to take in the [...]
Community gathers to support Youth Programs at Network
Capitol Correspondent GRAND RAPIDS- Over 100 people gathered in Grand Rapids last Wednesday night to socialize and raise funds for the Network's youth programs. Tony Wolfram, president of Network, said the event was necessary for the group's [...]
Martin Sheen on LGBT Issues, Gay Marriage and the 2008 Election
Capitol Correspondent DEARBORN- In an exclusive sit down interview with Martin Sheen, Between The Lines got the skinny on the 67-year-old actor/activist's take on LGBT issues and who he is supporting in the 2008 presidential primaries. Sheen was [...]
Governor prohibits discrimination in state employment on the basis of gender identity and expression
Capitol Correspondent LANSING — As many Michigan citizens prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave transgender employees a holiday gift. She signed an executive order that prohibits discrimination on the basis of [...]
World AIDS Day: Wine and Dine to battle illness in Michigan
Capitol Correspondent World AIDS Day, an event that started at a meeting of world health ministers in 1988, will be marked with a series of events in Michigan this Friday and Saturday. This year's world-wide theme is "Stop AIDS, Keep the [...]
FBI documents increase in reported hate crimes nationally and in Michigan
Capitol Correspondent The FBI has released the hate crimes statistics for 2006, and those statistics show an 8 percent increase nationally. Michigan reported 739 hate crimes during 2006. The majority of those reported crimes were acts of [...]
Gay man from Michigan honored with Rhodes Scholarship
Capitol Correspondent Brett Masters of Charlotte, Michigan is off for a year of study at Oxford University thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship. Masters was one of 32 students selected from 750 applicants by the Rhodes Trust for the honor. Masters is [...]
White Supremacists rallying around Ron Paul's Presidential campaign
Capitol Correspondent Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul, whose long-shot campaign has been gaining media attention in recent days, apparently has the support of an unusual constituency — the white supremacist movement. Stormfront.org, a [...]
Record year for winning LGBT candidates
Capital Correspondent The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund has helped land a record number of openly gay individuals in elective office during this off-year election cycle. The Fund endorsed 71 candidates of which 31 won their elections Nov. 6, while [...]
Author, activist shares experiences with Jackson audience
Capitol Correspondent JACKSON – Marc Adams was allowed to watch only one television program as a child, Jerry Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour. And even then, he said, he was allowed only to watch the first half hour. The second half was Falwell's [...]