DETROIT (AP) — Andy Bell of Erasure and "Glee" actor Alex Newell are among the musical acts that will perform at this year's gay pride festival in Detroit.

HAZEL PARK, Mich. (AP) — Two Detroit-area nurses who are challenging Michigan's ban on gay marriage have welcomed a fourth adopted child into their home.

 DETROIT (AP) – Same-sex couples who were married hours after Michigan’s ban on gay nuptials was overturned sued Gov. Rick Snyder on Monday to try to force the state to recognize their newlywed status and grant the legal benefits that come with it.

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Formal adoption of children by a same-sex couple who challenged Michigan's ban on gay marriage will be held in Oakland County Circuit Court.

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Formal adoption of children by a same-sex couple who challenged Michigan's ban on gay marriage is taking place in Oakland County Circuit Court.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Attorney General Bill Schuette and supporters of gay marriage have at least one thing in common: They want the U.S. Supreme Court to use a Michigan case to settle the legality of same-sex nuptials.

DETROIT (AP) — Attorneys who persuaded a judge to overturn Michigan's ban on gay marriage are opposing the state's request to have an entire appeals court take the case.

(CNN) -- Nine days after her same-sex wedding, a 28-year-old Michigan woman was set upon on her way home from work, knocked unconscious by three men who kicked and punched her while shouting anti-gay epithets.

Negative campaigning thwarted LGBT candidates in pivotal districts, a reminder of the challenges faced by coming out of the closet.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A popular dating app is telling a Los Angeles-based AIDS health care group to take down a billboard that links dating apps with sexual diseases.

DETROIT (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has pleaded no contest to assault for his part in an attack on a young gay man during a gay pride celebration in Detroit.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With his booming voice and high-voltage charisma capable of working crowds of hundreds into a lather, Marcos Gladstone has all the trappings of a successful preacher. But Gladstone has something that most other Pentecostal leaders don't — a husband.

NEW YORK -- Cher is donating water to the residents of Flint, Michigan, as the city struggles with a drinking water crisis linked to lead contamination.

Chrysler is joining a business-backed effort to push lawmakers to update Michigan’s anti-discrimination law to prohibit discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Dear Farook,

Hey how does it feel to be totally betrayed and cheated and so far off base?

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court voted to find the state's gay marriage ban was unconstitutional but never issued its ruling months before same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, a former state justice said in a recently published interview.

Attorneys who persuaded a judge to overturn Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage are asking a higher court to reject an indefinite stay while the case is appealed by the state attorney general.

(CNN) -- A federal appeals court decided Tuesday to continue the stay of a judge's ruling that struck down Michigan's same-sex marriage ban, meaning that gay and lesbian couples cannot marry in the state while the appeals process unfolds.

DETROIT — Two pioneers of the movement to legalize same-sex marriage in Michigan led the procession as Detroit celebrated the 43rd Motor City Pride Festival and Parade under drizzly skies Sunday.

DETROIT (AP) - Law enforcement officials in Detroit are stepping up efforts to reach out to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender targets or victims of crime.

EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — East Grand Rapids has become the state's 36th city to add protections for the LGBT community in its non-discrimination ordinance.

Spared from the proverbial chopping block, city commissioners extended the life of the Economic Development Task Force by two years at their Dec. 8 meeting.

(WM) A ballot drive has turned in more than 483,000 signatures for an initiative to prohibit discrimination against LGBT people in Michigan by amending the state’s civil rights law.

LANSING, Mich. — The top lawyer for the Michigan House recommended Tuesday that one state lawmaker be expelled and another censured for misconduct stemming from an attempt to hide their extramarital affair.

If you’ve got a “foodie” on your list, it can be hard to find something that they don’t already have. Cooks tend to collect more gadgets and special ingredients more often than Joan Rivers got plastic surgery (too soon?) Here are a few things that I bet they haven’t got in their cupboards.

This week read about a Catholic priest being found guilty of sexual assault in Massachusetts, and a program in Michigan aiming to prevent homelessness among LGBT teens by connecting them to host families.

A drag brunch in Michigan raised $2,700 that went to an LGBT organization, and a man was arrested after tearing down a Pride flag in New Hampshire.

This week read about Michigan Sen. Lana Theis accusingSen. Mallory McMorrow of "grooming" children, and religious leaders and activists fighting an anti-LGBT bill together in Georgia.

Nora Roberts saved a Michigan library after it was defunded over LGBT books, and a Virginia school board voted to have required background checks for trans students to use their preferred bathrooms.

This week read about Brenda “Sue” Fulton being nominated for a senior position in the Department of Defense, and Michigan legislators seeking to ban conversion therapy.