IT All Starts With 'Hello'
By Nathan Strickland I had the opportunity to attend the 27th Annual National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change in Denver, Colorado. It was my first [...]
Stonewall Calendars
BY Kathleen LaTosch The older I get, the more I realize two things: I know very little and history is inextricably wound up in the present — even more than all [...]
Transmissions: Trans Dehumanization
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Humans have a great ability to show empathy. When a pair of terrorists gunned down twelve people at the French satirical newspaper [...]
Tobacco Usage In The LGBT Community
By Alicia 'Kunto' Howard At Creating Change, the largest national LGBTQ conference, I collected data around willingness to stop smoking tobacco. I collected [...]
Wedding Bells For Michigan Grow Louder
This June the U.S. Supreme Court will finally decide whether to extend full marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, and it will be Michigan's DeBoer v. [...]
Stating The Obvious
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith This January President Barack Obama ascended to the speaker's rostrum in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to [...]
Black And Gay: My History, My Truth
History by definition is the branch of knowledge dealing with past events. Dig a little deeper and many dictionaries expand the definition to include the [...]
Transmissions: Stating The Obvious
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith This January, President Barack Obama ascended to the speaker's rostrum in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to [...]
Schuette's Cowardly Plea To Discriminate
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's op-ed in Sunday's Detroit Free Press attempted to defend his decision to continue fighting marriage equality all the [...]
Out Of Touch
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Transmissions I doubt she'd be the one to admit it, but my mother enjoys celebrity gossip. When I was growing up, it was quite common to [...]
The Movement, Martin And Marriage
Movement is about change. Sometimes the causes change, the tactics change — even the leadership changes — but the constant in all of our movements is our quest [...]
As Heard On Facebook
As LGBT people across the country, and especially in Michigan, wait to learn if the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the remaining same-sex marriage cases, people [...]
