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.
The CDC has just released new estimates of the number of people in the nation newly infected with HIV in 2006, and they show an increase of 34 percent. But Midwest AIDS Prevention Project (MAPP) Executive Director Craig Covey says there is no surprise in the increase.
A top national gay activist’s statement that HIV/AIDS is a “gay disease” has split HIV/AIDS service organizations over whether the results may be positive or cause a backlash against gays. Matt Foreman, outgoing executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, made the controversial remark during a state of the movement speech in [...]
DETROIT — Matt Foreman, the outgoing executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, is to deliver a plenary speech to the organization’s Creating Change Conference at noon today at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit. Foreman’s speech, “The State of the Movement,” is expected to explore where the LBGT rights movement is [...]
DETROIT — Julian Bond, national chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, took a verbal swing at Bill Clinton Thursday night in his speech to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference. “Wouldn’t it be nice if the first black president was helping, rather than helping to bring [...]
Detroit is playing host to more than 2,000 lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community leaders and activists starting today. They are here at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s 20th Anniversary Creating Change Conference. The conference is held annually. It was held in this same location in [...]
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