I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Michigan Pride will be hosting its annual pride events Saturday in Lansing, but don’t expect to see Gov. Rick Snyder there, or for him to issue a proclamation about gay pride month.
Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, did an interview with Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality in which he claimed that because Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Christian, he would be on the anti-gay side in today’s politics:
In the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, a Traverse City Commissioner involved in gay rights issues says he’s worried about extreme rhetoric being used by those who oppose the recently enacted human rights ordinance.
The Traverse City Commission voted unanimously on Monday to pass an ordinance forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, becoming the 18th city in the lower peninsula to pass such a law. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports:
Dustin Lance Black, Oscar winning screen writer of the film “Milk,” has been barred from Hope College to participate in a roundtable discussion about gay rights issues because officials say he is “an advocate.” The Holland Sentinel reports that Hope College students invited the writer to their campus for a showing of his film Milk, [...]
The U.S. Department of State announced today it was reversing an earlier decision by the Bush administration and will support the United Nations statement on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.”
Michigan Equality, one of the most prominent and influential gay rights organizations in the state, has named Michelle Brown and Dr. Julie Nemecek co-directors of the group. Brown is an author and activist who has previously worked with the Triangle Foundation, Michigan Pride and the Human Rights Campaign. Nemecek is a former college professor who [...]
The legal battle over whether or not to allow Proposition 8– a measure that would change the state’s Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman — is heating up in California. California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a motion with the Calif. Supreme Court Friday arguing that the amendment should not [...]
An appearance on ABC’s The View has landed FOX News commentator and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in some hot water. On a recent stop at the women focused talk show to promote his new book, Huckabee rained praise down on the country for electing Barack Obama as the first African American President in history.
While the mainstream media has been unable to reach a spokesperson for Bash Back! Lansing, Between the Lines, the statewide gay newspaper, and Michigan Messenger have an exclusive audio interview with spokesperson Andy. The audio interview, recorded Tuesday at an East side Lansing location, can be heard here.
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