Jayne And April DeBoer Officially Adopt Their Five Children
BY AJ TRAGER PONTIAC – In an unforgettable and long-awaited day in their family history, Jayne and April DeBoer formally adopted all five of their children [...]
Judge For Love v Johnson Seems Sympathetic To ACLU Argument
BY AJ TRAGER Back row: Jacki Anderson plaintiffs council from Proskauer Rose; Tina Seitz, plaintiff; Dan Korobkin; Mike Derksen, plaintiffs council from [...]
Possible Hate Crime, Homicide In Madison Heights
MADISON HEIGHTS – Sometime on Halloween night, police say a killer entered the home of Fernando Gonzales, strangled him and then set the house on [...]
Pugh Trial: A Recap
DETROIT – The long awaited Charles Pugh trial – for sexual grooming, as the mainstream media calls it – finally took place last week. Though Pugh, quite [...]
Aging: For Albert Cunningham, The Glass Is Half Full
Aging Series Albert Cunningham III lived a comfortable life growing up. "I was born in Chicago in 1952 to schoolteacher parents and grew up in the cookie [...]
Groundbreaking Show With All Trans Male Cast To Be Screened In Detroit
Seven King grew up amid hip hop royalty. His father was Mr. Ness of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. But his early years were tumultuous. Born [...]
Introducing SAGE Metro Detroit
BY AJ TRAGER SAGE Metro Detroit board members, pictured L-R: Mary Sexton, Pat Baldwin, Kathleen LaTosch, Agustin Arbulu, Jay Kaplan, Andrea Mulheisen,Judy [...]
DeBoer Attorney Launches LGBT Equal Protection Ballot Measure
BY BTL STAFF LANSING – Dana Nessel, one of the lawyers for Michigan's same-sex marriage case DeBoer v. Snyder, is set to launch a new bipartisan ballot [...]
High School Students Gather To Ask, 'Is Race Real?'
DEARBORN – A racially diverse group of 250 high school students from throughout southeast Michigan will gather Nov. 7 for a day-long youth leadership summit [...]
Pastor Who Pushed For LGBT Protections Runs For City Council
GRANDVILLE, MI – Linda Looney, the pastor who earlier this year urged Grandville city leaders to pass a nondiscrimination ordinance in response to anti-gay [...]
Temple Israel Hosts Non-Binary Discussion
BY BTL STAFF WEST BLOOMFIELD – An upcoming event co-sponsored by Stand with Trans and Temple Israel will discuss what it means to be non-binary and gender [...]
Tyler Oakley To Be Honored At GLAAD San Francisco
BY BTL STAFF San Francisco – GLAAD, the world's LGBT media advocacy organization, announced Oct. 29 it will honor Michigan native Tyler Oakley at GLAAD Gala [...]
