Transmissions: Fix It
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith In the early morning of Dec. 28, a 17-year-old transwoman by the name of Leelah Alcorn was struck and killed by a semi-truck on [...]
Looking Ahead: 2015 A Year Of Justice
Failure to amend Elliott-Larsen. Fast passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The re-election of Attorney General Bill Schuette and Gov. Rick [...]
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, [...]
Ask Lambda Legal - HIV and Employment Discrimination
By Scott Schoettes, HIV Project Director for Lambda Legal Q: I have been working at the same company for a few years, and am generally happy there. I recently [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Viewpoint: I'm Michigan; I'm You
By Davis Nicholas I'm from Michigan, the land of General Motors. I grew up along I-75, right between Saginaw and Flint, where more families than not were part [...]
One Moment In Time With Leslie Feinberg
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith Let me set the scene. It was early in the autumn of 1998. I was at the Southern Comfort Conference, a large transgender-themed [...]
Turning Remembrance Into Action
By Carmen Garcia In observation of Transgender Day of Remembrance, a service was held at Central United Methodist Church in Detroit last Friday evening. When [...]
