Canadian Group Resettles LGBT Refugees from Chechnya
BY HELEN PARSHALL, WASHINGTON BLADE Rainbow Railroad Executive Director Kimahli Powell. His organization has resettled nearly 50 LGBT Chechens. (Photo courtesy [...]
FCA US Achieves Top Score For LGBTQ Workplace Policies and Benefits
BY BTL STAFF The Gay and Lesbian Alliance at FCA US (GALA) is one of seven business resource groups at the Company. These employee-directed groups pursue [...]
Help Trans Women of Color This Holiday Season
BY BTL STAFF Julisa Abad, director of transgender outreach for the Fair Michigan Justice Project, seeks support from the community to help her trans sisters [...]
SAGE Metro Detroit Takes Trainings on Improving Care for LGBT Older Adults Outstate
SAGE (Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders) Metro Detroit will benefit from a $400,000 grant awarded to the ACLU of [...]
Grooming Future LGBTQ Leaders
The Equality March in Flint this past June. Photo courtesy of Equality Caucus. Nicole Derusha-Mackey is on a mission to build a farm team full of LGBTQ people [...]
JIGSAW Hosts Charity Drive for Ruth Ellis Center
BY BTL STAFF Resource fair organized by JIGSAW recently for LGBTQ+ and ally students at Wayne State University. More than a dozen local organizations attended [...]
LGBT Detroit Welcomes New Staff Member Jacqulyn Hippe
BY BTL STAFF A new counselor and community advocate, Jacqulyn Hippe, LLMSW, will join the LGBT Detroit staff on Dec 1. She will be responsible for [...]
VegBash Coming to Metro Detroit's East Side
BY BTL STAFF MI Green Team recently announced a partnership with The Quintessential Event Company to bring its popular vegetarian/vegan event series, VegBash, [...]
35th House District Rep. Jeremy Moss Announces 2018 Run for Senate
BY DREW HOWARD State representative Jeremy Moss (D-Southfield) announced his candidacy for the 2018 Senate election in Michigan's 11th District on Tuesday in [...]
Colorado Baker's Defense for Denying Service to Gay Couple 'Upends' First Amendment, Legal Experts Argue
BY DREW HOWARD Top legal experts and scholars joined the ACLU in a teleconference today to discuss the exploitation of the First Amendment in the Supreme [...]
Record Breaking Cats Lost in Fire, Donations to Cat Shelter Encouraged
BY CRYSTAL A. PROXMIRE Will and Lauren Powers with their beloved cat Cygnus. Farmington Hills – Although their home was completely destroyed by fire Sunday, a [...]
Sen. Bieda, Prosecutor Renew Calls for Hate Crime Protections
BY BTL STAFF Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson and Sen. Steven Bieda (D-Warren) renew calls for hate crime protections in Michigan. Photo courtesy of [...]
