Analysis: Election 2016 Could Deliver 5 Openly Gay State Reps to Lansing
By Mark W. LaChey With the Aug. 2 primary coming up campaigns need your dollars for mailers, yard signs and their GOTV efforts. Now is when they need your time [...]
HOPE Fund Awards $60k to Three Orgs Working to Improve LGBT Lives
BY AJ TRAGER DETROIT – The HOPE Fund, housed at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (CFSEM), recently approved $60,000 to be divided into three [...]
To Transgender Movement Leaders, Activism Is an Antidote to Violence
By Amy Lynn Smith "All trans lives have to matter," she says. "When we start to devalue people based on their moral beliefs, we start to dehumanize people. [...]
Two Michigan Cities Pass Nondiscrimination Ordinances
BY AJ TRAGER HOWELL and PORTAGE – In the last week two cities in the state have added LGBT protections to their nondiscrimination ordinances. Howell and [...]
Job Training For Older LGBTs Coming Up
BY BTL STAFF DETROIT – SAGE Metro Detroit will host its first job training program, SAGEWorks Employment Boot Camp, to help 10 LGBT older adults obtain the [...]
President Obama Designates Stonewall National Monument
"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our [...]
Presidential Proclamation for the Establishment of the Stonewall Monument
BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA WASHINGTON D.C. – Christopher Park, a historic community park located immediately across the street from the Stonewall Inn in the [...]
6th Annual LGBT Older Adult Summit Highlights What's Next For LGBT Elders
BY AJ TRAGER Volunteers staff the information table at the summit. DETROIT – More than 150 LGBT people gathered June 18 for the 6th Annual LGBT Older Adult [...]
Goal: 100 for HIV Testing Day
The CDC estimates that the lifetime risk that a black man who has sex with men will contract HIV is 1 in 2. Latino men who have sex with men have a lifetime [...]
In Wake of Orlando Massacre, LGBT Venues Ramp Up Security
In the aftermath of the Orlando massacre, the staff at Spiral Nightclub in Lansing have begun talking about guns. Not banning them, but rather getting [...]
Large Gathering at Affirmations Honors Lives Lost in Orlando
BY AJ TRAGER FERNDALE – On June 12 the LGBT community experienced what President Obama has called an "act of hate" and what many are calling a direct attack [...]
Charles Pugh Arrested in New York
Then Detroit City Council President-Elect on election night in 2009. BTL file photo: Andrew Potter NEW YORK – Once the second most powerful man in Detroit [...]
