Fido's Moves to New Location in Ferndale
BY BTL STAFF After nine years in their current location, Fido Personal Dog Training, LLC is moving to a larger location on Woodward Avenue in order to expand [...]
Community Leaders React Post Election
Many of us are searching for a way to get up after being knocked down on Nov. 8. Feeling defeated and uncertain, we look to our leaders in the community for [...]
Election 2016: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The impacts of the 2016 election on the local, state and national level are going to be felt for a long time. The results are going to cause both parties to [...]
First Transgender Interaction Policy Created in Michigan
BY BTL STAFF Fair Michigan Justice Project special prosecutor Jaimie Powell Horowitz, transgender outreach coordinator Julisa Abad, and clinical therapist [...]
Ingham County Seeks Assistance in Murder of Man who Sought Sex with Other Men
Person of Interest Sought for Questioning. The Ingham County Sheriff's department is now offering a reward to anyone who provides information which leads to an [...]
Outfront: Lesbian Officer Builds Community Bridges in Detroit
BY JULIE COMPTON Detroit police officer Danielle Woods was responding to a domestic violence call involving a lesbian couple in 2006 when her partner made a [...]
Truth: Can You Accept That?
BY KELLIE DURHAM Just gonna leave this right here for today… "Accept this election." "Stop whining." "Suck it up." "It is what it is." "Just give him a [...]
Local Leaders Offer the LGBT Community Post-Election Hope
City of Ferndale's Councilman Greg Pawlica and Mayor Dave Coulter at the post-election debrief at Soho in Ferndale on Nov. 10. BTL Photo Kate Opalewski. [...]
Baldwin Advances Up Democratic Leadership
BY LISA KEEN The U.S. Senate's only openly LGBT member earned a leadership spot Wednesday, as Senate Democrats re-organize following the Nov. 8 [...]
Jose Antonio Vargas to Keynote ACLU Event
BY BTL STAFF There are believed to be 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Jose Antonio Vargas is one of them. "We're not always who you [...]
Michigan Girl Scouts Support Inclusiveness
Transgender woman Diane Schroer, a former Army Special Forces commander, won a discrimination lawsuit against the Library of Congress in September 2008. She [...]
