Q&A with Mayor Mike Duggan
Michigan Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination Series As BTL continues the Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination series, we hear from Mike Duggan, who was elected [...]
Pride at Work President Cynthia Thornton Receives 'Rebel With A Cause' Award
On Saturday, May 19, the President of Pride at Work Michigan, Cynthia Thornton, received the University of Michigan-Dearborn's Rebel With A Cause Award for her [...]
Mara Keisling Keynotes Pride Brunch in Kalamazoo
Trans Activist Tells Members of the Community to 'Be Optimistic' Founding executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, Mara Keisling, [...]
Midwestern T-Shirts Track History
Wearing Gay History Archive Showcases Thousands of Historical Shirts Midwestern Historian There is a perception by some that LGBTQ history didn't happen in the [...]
City of Hazel Park Proclaims June Pride Month
Around 40 members of the LGBTQ community and its allies gathered inside Hazel Park City Hall on Tuesday, May 22, to hear city council read into record a [...]
Affirmations Board Elects 6 New Members, 3 Step Down
Reyes Continues to Rack Up Support in Public Comment The Affirmations board of directors voted in six new board members and saw three step down at its monthly [...]
Author and Former Detroiter Carl Mitchell Dies at 86
Carl Mitchell in the 1950s Carl Mitchell, a former Detroiter and author of three memoirs that touched on different aspects of his gay life in the 1940s, '50s [...]
New Collaborative to Support LGBTQ People of Color
LGBT Detroit has become the facilitator of the Detroit Bi, Trans, Lesbian, Gay and Queer Anti-Violence Collaborative, formally known as the Michigan Network of [...]
MI Civil Rights Commission Takes Action on Anti-LGBT Discrimination
In a First-In-The-Nation Decision, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission Holds That Sex Discrimination Includes Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity The [...]
Detroit LGBTQ Activist Cornelius Wilson to Receive Senior Citizen of the Year Award
In recognition of over two decades of service as an LGBTQ rights advocate, SAGE Metro Detroit has announced that board member Cornelius Wilson will receive [...]
Holland's Out On The Lakeshore LGBTQ Center Celebrates First year
Out On The Lakeshore will celebrate the one-year anniversary of its community center located at 451 Columbia Ave., with an open house from 6 to 8 p.m. on [...]
Flores Says 'We're Going Through a Process' During Public Town Hall
Members of the Community Raise Concerns About Search for New Executive Director FERNDALE – Members of the community were invited to Affirmations on May 11 to [...]
