SAGE Metro Detroit Requests Affirming Service Providers for Rainbow Resource Guide
How many times have we heard the story about the older lesbian who felt uncomfortable when the furnace repairman came to her house and asked her where her [...]
Village of Lake Orion Now Prohibits LGBTQ Discrimination
Lake Orion residents listen as comments are heard on moving ahead with a Human Rights Ordinance. Photo: Crystal A. Proxmire Updated Tuesday, Sept. 27 The [...]
Kym Worthy's Career of Public Service to Be Honored
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy will be honored on Nov. 16 during the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Foundation's 12th annual [...]
LGBT Detroit, EMU Equality Research Center Continue Partnership
BY BTL STAFF Detroit-The LGBT Detroit Leadership Academy announced their continued partnership with Eastern Michigan University's Equality Research Center. [...]
Pugh and the P Word
DETROIT – While preparing to go to trial in 2015 in the civil case that ultimately ended with Pugh being ordered to pay his accuser, Khody Sanford, $250,000, [...]
Disappointing Ruling Allows Discrimination Against Transgender People
Updated Thursday, Aug. 18 U.S. District Judge Sean Cox ruled today that R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Home's Owner Thomas Rost did not discriminate against [...]
Pioneering Ruth Ellis Center Takes Visionary Next Steps
REC Executive Director Jerry Peterson, who shared REC's passion with Henry Ford Health System CEO Nancy Schlichting in the fall of 2013. BTL photos: Andrew [...]
Detroit Police Department Holds LGBT Community Chat
BY AJ TRAGER The 2nd Annual LGBT Community Chat took place in Palmer Park Aug. 3. LGBT Liaison to the Detroit Police Department, Dani Woods, addresses the [...]
Five Michiganders among Most Amazing HIV Positive People of 2016
By BTL Staff Five Michiganders are among HIV Plus Magazine's "Most Amazing People Living with HIV in 2016." Among the honorees are Brian KillsCrow of the Grand [...]
How Hot is It? Detroit Black Gay Pride Struggles in its Third Decade
By Jason A. MIchael In its heyday, Hotter Than July – Detroit Black Gay Pride – offered a jam packed week full of action and events. There were parades and [...]
LGBT Detroit Receives Donation to Benefit LGBT Latinos/as
By BTL Staff Former board chair of Detroit Latin@z Tony ORourke-Quintana presents Curtis Lipscomb, executive director of LGBT Detroit with a donation to [...]
OUTfest Honors And Remembers Pulse Nightclub Victims In Orlando
Photos courtesy of Vincent Krauzowicz Several thousand people gathered on the streets of Ann Arbor's historic Kerrytown neighborhood to enjoy the 22nd annual [...]
