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Should Gays Be Allowed To Donate Blood?
(CBS) (CBS) Should gay men be allowed to donate blood? That’s the question being asked today by a government health committee that is reviewing the longstanding ban on blood donation by men who say...
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Bid To Repeal ‘Don’t Ask’ Fails In Senate
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have repealed the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for Senate...
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Senate GOP Blocks Bill To Repeal Gay Service Ban
Senate Republicans have blocked an effort to repeal the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for gay rights groups who saw the provision in a defense...
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Judge Orders 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Injunction
A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ending the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops. U.S. District Judge...
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Gov't Wants "Don't Ask" Policy To Stay For Now
(CBS/ AP) The Justice Department has asked a U.S. judge to allow the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays to continue during an appeal. In court papers, the Obama administration says the...
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Gov’t Seeks Stay Of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Ruling
The Obama administration on Wednesday asked a federal appeals court to immediately suspend a judge’s ruling that overturned the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays. The government says it...
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Appeals Court Keeps Military’s Gay Policy For Now
A federal appeals court has frozen a judge’s order halting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, even as the Pentagon has announced it will accept openly gay recruits. A three-judge panel of...
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Obama Speaks Out Against Bullying (Video)
President Barack Obama has joined the viral “It Gets Better” campaign, filming a segment in a series of high-profile videos urging troubled gay teens not to take their own lives. The campaign’s title...
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Supreme Court Allows Gay Military Ban For Now
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military to remain in place while a federal appeals court considers the issue. The court did not comment in denying...
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Pentagon Study Dismisses Risk Of Openly Gay Troops
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Pentagon reporters on Tuesday that existing policies such as housing and spousal benefits for military service members “can and should be applied equally to...
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Senate Blocks Repeal Of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Republicans blocked a last-ditch effort in the Senate to lift the military’s ban on openly gay troops on Thursday, dealing a major blow to gay rights groups and making it unlikely Congress could repeal...
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Gays See Repeal As Civil Rights Milestone
Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military is a step toward equality, advocates say, but a fight for other social changes such as gay marriage still lies ahead. The Senate voted...
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Report: Rise In Hate Crimes Against Gays
DETROIT (WWJ) – A new report says hate crimes against homosexual Americans are on the increase. But here in Michigan, the number of incidents is actually declining. Lisa Gilmore from the National...
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Senate To Vote On Domestic Partner Benefits Bills
LANSING (WWJ) - A pair of bills that would ban health insurance benefits for domestic partners of public workers are now headed to a vote on the State Senate floor. That’s despite the opposition of...
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Mich. Lawyer’s Firing Over Anti-Gay Blog Upheld
LANSING (WWJ/AP) – A state hearing officer has upheld the 2010 firing of an assistant attorney general who was accused of harassing the gay student government president at the University of Michigan....
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Trial Likely In Suit Against Anti-Gay Ex-Official
ANN ARBOR (WWJ/AP) – A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses a then-Michigan assistant attorney general of stalking a gay University of Michigan student government president....
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Local LGBTs Launch 100-Day Hunger Strike
FERNDALE (WWJ) – Members of Michigan’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community have launched a 100-day hunger strike leading up to the November elections. Strikers will spend 24 hours each in...
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Jury Will Hear Trial Involving Gay U-M Student, Lawyer
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Jury selection is starting in a civil lawsuit against a former state of Michigan lawyer who is accused of stalking and defaming a gay student government president at the University...
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Lawyer Ordered To Pay $4.5M To Gay U-M Student
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A jury has found in favor of a gay University of Michigan student body president in his lawsuit against a former Michigan assistant attorney general. Christopher Armstrong’s attorney...
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Pugh Takes Part In Hunger Strike For Gay Rights
FERNDALE (WWJ) – A local politician is giving up food for a day as part of an effort to bring attention to discrimination against gays in Michigan. After eating a hardy breakfast, Detroit Council...
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Judge Needs More Time In Unmarried Adoption Case
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – A federal judge has decided to wait ten days before deciding if a lesbian couple can adopt a child. Judge Bernard Friedman encouraged two Detroit-area lesbians who are raising three...
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Commission Votes 7-0 To Draft Ordinance To Prevent Discrimination To Gays,...
ROYAL OAK (WWJ) – The Royal Oak City Commission voted unanimously to drafting an ordinance to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and a host of other things like height and weight during...
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MSU Poll: Gay Marriage Gaining Support In Michigan
EAST LANSING (WWJ/AP) - A Michigan State University poll has found an increase in support for gay marriage in Michigan, with 56 percent of adults questioned saying they support the same-sex unions....
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Survey: Detroit Most Dangerous U.S. City For Gays
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) - A local LGBT rights group is taking issue with a new survey that ranks Detroit as “the most dangerous U.S. city to visit for gay travelers.” The company behind the survey,...
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Eastern Michigan University Settles Lawsuit With Booted Student For $75K
YPSILANTI (WWJ/AP) - A lawsuit filed by a woman who contends she was kicked out of a master’s degree program at Eastern Michigan University because of her opposition to homosexuality has been settled...
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Court OKs Same Sex Partner Benefits For State Workers
By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press LANSING (AP) - A divided Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a state panel’s decision to extend health care benefits to same-sex partners of state employees. In a 2-1...
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Royal Oak Commission Adopts Human Rights Ordinance
ROYAL OAK (WWJ/AP) - The Detroit suburb of Royal Oak is the latest Michigan community to adopt a human rights ordinance that makes it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation and a number of...
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Judge Taking A Look At Michigan Gay Marriage Ban
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A lesbian couple’s desire to adopt each other’s children has grown into a potentially groundbreaking challenge to Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage. Two Detroit-area nurses filed a...
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Judge Postpones Ruling That Could End Michigan Gay Marriage Ban
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – A U.S. District Judge in Detroit has decided to postpone his ruling in a potentially groundbreaking challenge to Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage. Judge Bernard Friedman said two...
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Human Rights Ordinance On Hold In Royal Oak
ROYAL OAK (WWJ/AP) - A metro Detroit community’s human rights ordinance that would make it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation and a number of other factors has been placed on hold as...
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Equality For Gays Could Come To Vote In Royal Oak
ROYAL OAK (WWJ) - Opponents of a controversial human rights ordinance in the city Royal Oak turned in over 1,200 petition signatures on Tuesday. That’s enough, they say, to put the measure before...
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Conservative Christians Protest Gay Group’s Mass
By DAVID N. GOODMAN and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) – A group representing gay Catholics is proceeding with plans to celebrate Mass on Sunday at Marygrove College in the face of...
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Gay Marriage Vote May Come To Michigan In 2016
LANSING (AP) - With more than half of voters supporting a repeal of Michigan’s gay marriage ban, advocates say it’s not a matter of if — but when — same-sex marriage is legal in the state. How soon?...
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Mich. Ban On Domestic Partner Benefits Blocked
By ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) - A federal judge on Friday blocked Michigan’s ban on domestic partner benefits for employees who work for public schools or local governments, saying state...
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Lansing May Cut Ties With Russian City Over Anti-Gay Policy
LANSING (AP) - Officials in Lansing could end their community’s “sister cities” relationship with the Russian city of St. Petersburg due to that country’s anti-gay policies. Lansing City Council...
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License To Discriminate? Lawmakers Consider Bill Allowing Doctors, EMTs To...
LANSING (WWJ) - Can doctors and emergency medical technicians legally refuse to give life saving assistance to a gay person, if the caregiver doesn’t believe in the gay lifestyle? That question is...
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Gov. Snyder Reiterates He Would Veto Religious Objections Bill
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Gov. Rick Snyder warned Thursday that he would veto religious objections legislation unless lawmakers also send him a bill extending...
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Michigan Auto Shop Owner Faces Backlash After Declaring He Won’t Serve Gays
GRANDVILLE, Mich. (WWJ) – A west Michigan business owner claims he’s been the target of death threats after he announced he won’t serve gays. Brian Klawiter, who owns Dieseltec Automotive Repair in...
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Senate Committee To Consider Religious Freedom Restoration Act
LANSING (WWJ) – In Lansing this week, a state Senate committee will consider a controversial proposal that could exempt people from certain laws–if those laws violate their religious beliefs. But...
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