I search the net on a daily basis looking for Michigan-related GLBT news to comment on or write about, and I always seem to get distracted in one way or another. I am a political junkie, so I am easily distracted. I completely understand how it happens. But, I try [...]
I read Sean Kosofsky’s recent article a couple of times and this statement got me thinking.
The AFA in Michigan is one sex-obsessed, paranoid white Republican dad who sits in his basement Googling “Gay + Michigan” every day and waiting for the results like a porn hungry teenager waiting for [...]
I have been very lax in my blogging duties lately, and I really apologize. I just started a new job, and to be honest it is really draining, and I have been dead tired at night when I get home. But I am getting back into my routine now, and [...]
Dear Mr. Glenn,
I just finished reading an article in the Battle Creek Enquirer concerning the Anti-Bullying legislation that is headed to the Senate. Something in that article struck me as very interesting.
American Family Association of Michigan President Gary Glenn said the real goal of the anti-bullying bill was to [...]
Well one hurdle down, with the Senate to go. Today the House passed Matt’s Safe School Law. But we can’t stop, we must get this through the Senate. Please contact your State Senator and encourage them to vote in favor of this very important piece of legislation, [...]
Michigan Tech’s Keweenaw Pride plan on distributing 500 shirts that say “gay? fine by me” during their annual pride week this week. The hope is to create a more comfortable atmosphere for gay students on campus.
Keweenaw Pride public relations director Michael Senkow said the history of the [...]
The Detroit Police Department are saying that Andrew Anthos did not die from being attacked, but from natural causes. This doesn’t seem to add up. What reason would Anthos, on his deathbed, have to make up such a story? His family agrees.
Liberal Lucy over at Michigan Liberal discusses Jack Lessenberry and his “let loose” on the not only anti-GLBT, but anti-children Michigan State House members. This article is a must read for anyone who has a conscience, and anyone who loves Jack Lessenberry.
[...]The bus has left the station! I know, I know its not how the saying goes, but its not like we have a high speed train from Detroit to Lansing. But even so, a large group headed to Lansing today for Safe Schools Lobby Day.
David Sams of [...]
Equality Riders will be making 2 stops here in Michigan, both in West Michigan. On April 23, they will be at Cornerstone University, and on April 24 they will be stopping at Calvin College.
As two Grand Rapids colleges they’ll visit in late April illustrate, sometimes they’re [...]
The Oakland Press has a very interesting article about Michigan and the resurgence of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK).
Carrie Waggoner, assistant director of the Anti-Defamation League in Bloomfield Hills, said the Klan is capitalizing on fears about job losses and greater racial diversity.
Waggoner said besides the United Northern and [...]
June 1-3 Motor City Pride.
June 3 Kick presents: Gentlemen Preferred.
June 9 Kalamazoo Pride.
June 29-30 Michigan Pride.
July 21-29 Hotter Than July.
August 7-12 Michigan Womyn’s Festival.
[...] Senator Hansen Clarke is planning on introducing “legislation to amend Michigan’s Ethnic Intimidation Act” to include sexual orientation following the death of Andrew Anthos.
According to police and family members, Anthos was riding a city bus home from the library on Feb. 13. Anthos caught the attention of a [...]
A House committee divided mostly along party lines Tuesday to approve legislation requiring schools to adopt anti-bullying policies. The bill requires the Department of Education to develop a policy that could serve as a model. Every district would have to adopt some policy that meets state guidelines within six [...]
The Detroit Free Press iis looking for anyone who has had an experience with an anti-GLBT doctor
Free Press reporter Patricia Anstett is doing a story about our community’s experience with health care, and she needs personal stories. Her deadline to hear from you is 4 p.m. this Friday, March [...]
Lets all head to Lansing!
On March 28th, Affirmations is sending a busload of people to Lansing for Safe Schools Lobby Day. Affirmations has organized the bus trip in order to enhance the lobbying efforts of the Triangle Foundation and protect our LGBT youth in schools. Bus [...]
Cleary University to host Ann Coulter October 1. Now I am not one who would ever want to try and impede someone’s First Amendment Rights, but I really do think its in poor taste for the university not to cancel this event. She has already been dropped from [...]
Rudy Giuliani will speak tonight to Macomb County Republicans. Giuliani appears to be the only LGBT friendly Republican
[...]The Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed the Michigan State University chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom a hate group.
Michigan Lawmakers are once again considering anti-bullying laws.
[...]Julie Nemecek, a transgender professor who was fired from Spring Arbor University, a Christian College in Spring Arbor, Michigan has reached a settlement in her discrimination complaint.
[...]Michigan Equality’s Executive Director Derek Smiertka will be discussing hate crime legislation on Lansing’s 89 FM tomorrow (Wednesday March 14) evening at 7 p.m. You can listen online by visiting 89 FM’s site.
[...]As much as it pains me to somewhat agree with the American Family Association (AFA), I’m afraid that Gary Glenn, president of the AFA of Michigan has a point. Why is it that people who should be sympatheic to our struggle are against us?
Black community doesn’t support same-sex [...]
The American Family Association (AFA), with their Boycottford.com is taking credit for Ford’s decision not to sponsor GLAAD Media Awards this year. Ford claims that it has just chosen not to sponsor it this year, and it has nothing to do with the AFA boycott.
Affirmations’ grand opening, which was set to be April 22nd has been delayed due to some building code violations.
[...]
Now I know I have been really lapse in my postings latley, and I apologize to everyone. I also know that this post has nothing to do with Michigan, but here it is anyways.
John Inman of the British comedy Are You Being Served has [...]
This has nothing to do with LGBT issues. But It has a lot to do with me, and I feel it right to honor this person, and his life in some manner. This person is my uncle, and he died Friday night. He had been suffering for a couple of [...]
The Michigan Appellate Court has ruled that cities and public universities can not offer partner benefits based on the Marriage Ammendment passed in 2004. Michigan Equality released a statement:
Michigan Equality is sickened by the ruling of the Michigan Appellate Court denying domestic partnership benefits to state employees, citing [...]
The Detroit News is reporting a study done in here in Michigan showing discrimination against gay people in housing.
Gays and lesbians trying to find housing in Michigan regularly encounter discrimination, according to the findings of a study released today.
The wide-ranging study, conducted by Michigan’s Fair Housing Centers, used actors [...]
I am really sorry for the lack of posts recently, but I have been swamped with a couple of projects I am working on. I promise new posts this upcoming week! Thanks.
[...]The Ann Arbor Schools is once again in court for it’s same-sex benefits policy.
A lawsuit challenging the Ann Arbor school district’s same-sex benefits policy was back in the state Supreme Court Thursday. But the justices didn’t focus on the constitutionality of providing health insurance and other benefits [...]
Triangle Foundation’s Michigan Gay & Lesbian Comedy Fest
[...]WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 20, 5 p.m.-9 p.m.
EVENT: This is an all-ages concert to benefit Davey’s Basement, a Lansing-area record store that has been boycotted because of its support for the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) chapter at Mason High School near Lansing.
WHERE: Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave, Lansing.
WHO: Minor Planets, The [...]
The Howell Public School District board recently rejected what is being referred to as an elective “Bible as literature” class. This had the support of the homophobic Michigan Chapter of the American Family Association (AFA). I do think that a “Bible as literature” class could be very [...]
Important UPDATE to the Anti-hate Benefit Concert for Davey’s Basement post.
In case you can’t make it to Lansing for the concert, The Gay Guru has set-up a page where anyone who would like to donate via Paypal to help may do so here.
[...]Deb Price of the Detroit News, as always has written a very good article about the ending of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Nearly one in four (23 percent) knew “for certain” someone in their unit was gay; 73 percent feel comfortable around gays; just 3 percent said they would “definitely [...]
Update: please visit The Gay Guru to make a donation via Paypal.
Benefit concert for boycotted record store Davey’s Basement, Music & More
WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 20, 5 p.m.-9 p.m.
EVENT: This is an all-ages concert to benefit Davey’s Basement, a Lansing-area record store that has [...]
I was exploring the net, as I usually do for Michigan LGBT news when I came across an interesting link on the BoycottFord.com web site (a “project” of the American Family Association in their war on the homosexual agenda). The site is nothing new, in fact it hasn’t been [...]
The Triangle Foundation is asking anyone and everyone who is interested in voicing their opinion on anti-bullying legislation to attend the “Safe Schools Lobby Day.”
When: Wednesday, March 28th 2007, 9 AM-3PM
Where: In Room 428 of the Capitol Building in Lansing
Join over 100 other leaders, educators, youth, parents and activists [...]
City Pulse is reporting that many of Lansing’s clergy are supporting the Human Rights Ordinance that went into effect December 18, 2006.
“We need to love people,” [...]
I hope everyone has a SAFE & Happy New Year!
I wasn’t planning on posting on the life of Gerald Ford because I want this blog to focus on gay issues here in Michigan, but after reading this wonderful article over at Express Gay News, and seeing that he was from Michigan I felt I should.
When asked by [...]
press release from the Triangle Foundation.
DETROIT – Michigan’s largest GLBT anti-violence and advocacy organization is about to get bigger. The Triangle Foundation will expand its organizing, education and coalition building efforts to western Michigan with the opening of a Western Michigan Field Office in the Spring of 2007. The [...]
Hope everyone is having a wonderful Holiday Season. I will resume posting later this week, after Christmas.
Michigan Liberal has a nice write up on Lansing Councilwoman Kathie Dunbar.
What makes Kathie Dunbar so fabulous isn’t just that she pushed this ordinance and got it passed, but that she has been at the forefront of local media on the issue, defending her ideas behind a Human Rights [...]
