All Or Nothing When It Comes To Civil Rights
BY JAY KAPLAN Last week, a Republican-sponsored bill was introduced that would amend our state's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination [...]
An Open Letter to Married People Who Oppose Marriage Equality
BY JENNIFER MIRACLE-BEST To Those Who Have Concerned Themselves with Other People's Right to Marry: I'm a fairly reasonable person. In fact, I would imagine [...]
Ask Lambda Legal: Veteran's Marriage Benefits
By Susan Sommer Dear Ask Lambda Legal: I'm a married U.S. Army veteran and living in Arkansas. We're wondering about spousal benefits for same-sex partners. I [...]
BTL EDITORIAL: Bolger And Murray On The Wrong Side Of History
Out-going Speaker of the House Jase Bolger (R-Marshall) and openly gay President of AT&T Michigan Jim Murray have been pushing for an exclusionary [...]
Post-Election Post Mortem
By Mark LaChey As many of you know, I am the chair of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Allies (LGBT&A) Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party, [...]
6th Circuit Reflection
BY GINA CALCAGNO Since DeBoer v Snyder was first filed on Jan. 23, 2012, the landscape of marriage equality in the United States has changed significantly. At [...]
The Silver Linings In A Disheartening Week
By Jay Kaplan What a disheartening week last week seemed for LGBT equality and civil rights. In Michigan, one-third of all eligible voters voted in the 2014 [...]
To Vote Or Not To Vote. What's The Question?
In Michigan, 976,000 people did not vote in 2010 who had voted in 2008. That's like almost a million for all you math whizzes! Just because it wasn't a [...]
Don't Forget To Vote The Whole Ballot
By Jennifer LaTosch Every doorstep, mailbox and email account across Michigan has undoubtedly been inundated these past few weeks with political fliers and [...]
Our Time for Action: Countdown to November Vote
The one, and probably only, gubernatorial debate is over. The campaign ads are increasing as the days to the November 2014 midterm elections dwindle [...]
Civil Rights For All Means Including Trans
By Charin Davenport If you are a transgender resident of Michigan, if you are a friend of the transgender community, if someone in your family is a transgender [...]
From Dreams to Action: Economic Empowerment As A Social Justice Tool
During the week of Sept. 24-27, I attended the National Black Justice Coalition's "Annual Black LGBT Leadership Summit: Out on the Hill" in Washington D.C. [...]
