SCOTUS To Consider Same-Sex Marriage Cases
BY BTL STAFF WASHINGTON D.C – On Jan. 9, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is scheduled to consider whether to take up the issue of same-sex [...]
State Of LGBT Equality In Michigan
BY AJ TRAGER MICHIGAN – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released its third annual municipality index for LGBT equality in December 2014, highlighting 353 [...]
Transgender Youth At High Risk For Negative Mental Health Outcomes
BY BTL STAFF A recent study from The Fenway Institute has suggested that primary care clinicians routinely screen transgender youth for mental health [...]
Upcoming ACA Presentation and Sign Up At Affirmations
BY BTL STAFF FERNDALE – Affirmations will host MI Health Answers, ACCESS and Get Covered America for a community presentation on the Affordable Care Act [...]
Saying Goodbye To A Ferndale Friend
BY AJ TRAGER FERNDALE – Longtime LGBT activist and storeowner, Kevin Rogers, passed away Jan. 4, succumbing to his battle against skin cancer. Rogers' life [...]
Join Jeremy Moss In His Swearing In Ceremony
BY BTL STAFF SOUTHFIELD – With the start of the new year and a new Mich. legislative term, newly elected members for the state have begun swearing in, [...]
2014: HIV Year In Review
Nick Rhoades, a gay man convicted of criminal transmission of HIV in Iowa and sentenced to 25 years in prison, despite the virus not being transmitted, talks [...]
A Year In Michigan Marriage
BY AJ TRAGER MICHIGAN – This year saw big advances in the DeBoer v Snyder case as it moved through the federal courts. April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse began [...]
From Front Page News To Respected Charity
Alan Gilmour Twenty years ago, the HOPE Fund started as a financial challenge to the LGBT community of Detroit. But over the past two decades it has evolved [...]
Michigan: 2014 In Review
Jeremy Moss (Left) and Jon Hoadley (Right). Elliott-Larsen Amendment This was almost the year that the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act was amended to include [...]
Caspar v Snyder
In April, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, on behalf of eight couples that were married in March, filed a lawsuit against the state [...]
Kick funded by the HOPE Fund
Curtis Libscomb. BTL Photo: Andrew Potter The HOPE Fund has awarded several grants to KICK, the agency for LGBT African-Americans, both directly and from the [...]
