West Michigan Pastor Sleeps Outside All Winter in Protest for LGBT Equality
LAWRENCE — A pastor from Parchment has been sleeping outside for months because he says the church's doors are not open to everyone. Rev. Mike Tupper of [...]
Upcoming Interfaith Summit Looks at Racial Discrimination and Economic Inequality
ANN ARBOR – An upcoming interfaith summit held on March 6 will look at how racial discrimination and economic inequality affect the larger society. "Connect [...]
Michigan Delegation Split Across Party Lines When Caring for Environment
ANN ARBOR – Michigan League of Conservation Voters today unveiled scores for Michigan's Congressional Delegation that were released as part of the League of [...]
New Report Shines Light on LGBT People in US Criminal Justice System
Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People Published Feb. 23 A new report from the independent Movement Advancement Project in Washington [...]
Dirty Show Features More LGBT Art, Gender Bending Performances
The Dirty Show, Detroit's annual erotic art show, has one more weekend left before visitors must wait until next February for the risque festivities. The show [...]
Fair Michigan Had $1 Million on Hand
The now suspended campaign to amend the Michigan constitution to provide civil rights protections for women and the LGBT community had just over $1 million in [...]
Lambda Legal Urges Supreme Court to Reject Argument that Religious Belief Trumps Equal Access to Health Care
By BTL Staff from press release Washington, DC — On Feb. 17 Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Zubik v. Burwell and [...]
Religious Liberty Accommodations Act' Advances in Mississippi
By BTL Staff from press release JACKSON, Miss. – On Thursday the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Mississippi, decried the decision by Mississippi lawmakers to [...]
Pistons Pride Night Coming March 6
AUBURN HILLS – The Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce has teamed up with the Pistons to promote Motor City Sundays on March 6. Motor City Sundays give [...]
Start From Here Campaign Gains Support in Detroit
Panelists discuss homelessnes as moderator and Ruth Ellis Center Executive Director Jerry Peterson, third from left, guides the discussion. Photo: Ann [...]
Upcoming Event Focuses on Gay Marriage, Still Existing Discriminatory Laws
"Did you know that it is still legal to fire employees for being LGBTQ in over half of U.S. states?" That's the tagline for the Holocaust Memorial Center's [...]
Anti-LGBT Justice Antonin Scalia Dies, Tension Over Replacement Begins
By Lisa Keen Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court justice most hostile to equal rights for LGBT people, has died, and a threat by Republicans in Congress to [...]
