Mich-issippi Burning: Marriage Equality, Anti-Gay Animus and Majoritarian Politics
By Peter J. Hammer JURIST Guest Columnist Peter J. Hammer, of Wayne State University Law School, discusses the socioeconomic disparities that gay, lesbian, [...]
Parting Glances: When Fairy Tales Cross
There are paths that by strange chances on Christmas Eve mix up in time, space, thought, crazy activation. Some fact. Some fantasy. Who knows? So it happened [...]
Creep of the Week: Stacy Swimp
LGBT people aren't covered under Michigan's anti-discrimination law. Meaning you could, for example, be fired for being gay and your employer would be [...]
Parting Glances: Santa Comes Out
'Twas New Years Eve and Santa Closet – lavender quill pen in hand, Gucci trifocal sunglasses on his merry nose – was double checking his private list to see [...]
Viewpoint: No One's Mister Sister
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Kate Pierson, long a member of the seminal new wave group the B-52s, is releasing a new album called "Guitars and Microphones" in early [...]
Ozone House Gives Youth A Voice
By Katie Doyle And Karen Staller We have met many young people at Ozone House who have endured unspeakably troubling traumas: homelessness, physical and sexual [...]
Creep of the Week: The Duggars
I'll admit I've never watched "19 and Counting," the reality show about the Duggar family. But from what I understand, it's a show about Michelle and Jim Bob [...]
From A Mother
By Susan Russick My husband and I adopted Michigan as our home 30 years ago. We found jobs, bought a house, purchased cars and usually put our hard earned [...]
Parting Glances: Happy Arf! Merry Meow!
A federally funded study by People & Friends of Cats and Dogs (P-FCD) says that "persons of rainbow personality make the best dog owners, but have little [...]
Religion Should Not Be Used As A Sword To Discriminate
By Jay Kaplan In addition to the bill that excludes transgender people from anti-discrimination protections under Michigan's Elliott-Larsen's Civil Rights Act, [...]
