Campaign to End Michigan LGBTQ Discrimination Falls Short on Signature Collection, Changes Course
Far short of the 340,000-plus signatures required to put its ballot initiative before the voters in November, Fair and Equal Michigan, the campaign to secure [...]
Donating Blood in the Time of Coronavirus: Activists Say Gay Men Still Face Discrimination
The Need is Great Only about 38 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood. That's because of various restrictions like age and physical health [...]
EQMI, Secretary of State Town Hall Reminds Voters of Pro-Equality Actions, How to Prepare for Upcoming Elections
Audio Player/archive/uploads/2020/05/Jocelyn-Benson-Pod.wav00:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Last week Equality [...]
Obituary: Aimee Stephens
Aimee Stephens did not start out wanting to be a warrior for transgender rights. She simply wanted to be Aimee Stephens. When she announced she was transgender [...]
LGBT Detroit Executive Director Appointed to Statewide COVID-19 Racial Disparities Task Force
LGBT Detroit's Executive Director Curtis Lipscomb said that when he learned that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was putting together a Task Force on Racial [...]
Planned Parenthood: 'Care. No Matter What' — Even During a Global Pandemic
Tried and True It's more than a slogan. "Care. No Matter What" is Planned Parenthood's guiding principle and a mandate now more than ever as the organization [...]
BTL Awarded $100,000 From Facebook
LIVONIA – On May 8, Between The Lines received a $100,000 grant from Facebook to support the paper's coverage of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on [...]
Michigan Transgender Activist Aimee Stephens, 59, Dies, ACLU Mourns Loss
Aimee Stephens, whose landmark case was the first case about the civil rights of transgender people to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, died today at her [...]
LGBT Detroit's Guiding Board on LGBTQ Intimate Partner Health and Wellness Airs on Friday, May 15
DETROIT — LGBT Detroit announces the rollout of a series of conversations on healthy relationships and healing during COVID-19. The inaugural event "Meet The [...]
Transgender Michigan Helpline Continues to Take Calls Amid Pandemic
Rachel Crandall-Crocker is a licensed master social worker and the executive director of Transgender Michigan. In addition, she's the primary volunteer for the [...]
Michigan Trans Rights Activist Aimee Stephens Enters Hospice Care
Nearly seven years after being fired for coming out as transgender at R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes in Garden City, Aimee Stephens has stayed strong in a [...]
Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault Activists Call for Stricter Prison Release Guidelines During COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, the respiratory illness' hit to dense population areas has been especially devastating. And [...]
