LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A coalition of business and civil rights leaders is expanding an effort to lobby Michigan's Legislature to make it illegal to discriminate against gay and transgender people.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Spectrum Health will begin extending insurance benefits to same-sex partners in 2015.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Republican-led state House approved legislation Thursday that supporters said would protect people’s religious beliefs from government overreach and opponents charged would permit discrimination against gays and others.

LANSING, Michigan — Faith-based adoption agencies could refuse to participate in adoptions that violate their religious beliefs under bills approved Wednesday by the Republican-led state House.

DETROIT (AP) – A federal judge ruled Jan. 15 that Michigan must recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages performed during a brief window last year.

On May 21, in small town Saginaw, Michigan, the city council struck down a nondiscrimination ordinance act, voting 9-0 against it.

DETROIT (AP) - Hundreds of same-sex couples who were married in Michigan are seeking a court order that would force the state to recognize the unions.

Republicans in Michigan are attempting to label a gay congressional candidate a pedophile.

(LA Blade) A middle school health teacher walked off the job Nov. 22, then resigned after the school district’s administration ordered LGBT Pride flags removed from classrooms.

DETROIT (AP) -- The state of Michigan says it has spent $40,000 on witnesses who testified as experts at a recent trial on same-sex marriage.

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan's nearly decade-old ban on gay marriage is going to trial Tuesday, with two weeks set aside for testimony from experts about whether there's a legitimate state interest in restricting marriage to a man and a woman.

(LA Blade) One of Michigan’s most prominent LGBT activists, Jim Toy, who many consider being the first out gay man in state history, died Saturday on New Year’s Day.

DETROIT (AP) — The elected clerk of Oakland County says she'll follow the orders of a judge when it comes to same-sex marriage, not Michigan's attorney general.

DETROIT (AP) - Oral arguments have been officially scheduled by a federal appeals court about Michigan's dispute over gay marriage.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Five pastors and a deacon met with Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear's chief of staff on Tuesday to again urge the outgoing governor to accommodate Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis' wishes to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

N. Melville Jones, an openly gay Philadelphia police officer, settled his antibias lawsuit against the city in return for expanded LGBT-related sensitivity training within the police force and other concessions.

(CNN) -- A Michigan woman lost her Planet Fitness membership over the "inappropriate" manner in which she complained about a transgender woman in the locker room, a gym spokeswoman said.

DETROIT — A sociologist testifying Wednesday at Michigan's gay-marriage trial said children raised by same-sex parents suffer no handicap when compared to other kids.

DETROIT -- The author of a controversial study of adult children often cited by opponents of gay marriage defended his work in court Monday but also said it's too early for social scientists to make far-reaching conclusions about families headed by same-sex couples.

When filmmaker David Thorpe finds himself jilted once again by a boyfriend, he begins to wonder if his efforts at love are being sabotaged by a pretty obvious neurosis.

(CNN) -- The weddings have happened -- but will they count?

HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) _ An effort by a transgender student to use the girls bathroom is splitting Hillsboro High School, with some of her peers walking out in protest and others holding a counter demonstration to show their support.

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan lawmaker said he won’t resign after sending an email to Republican supporters falsely claiming he was caught having sex with a male prostitute and said in a statement released Monday he was the target of a blackmail attempt.

Over the last 16 years, Pizza Girls, on Clematis Street has been voted a Palm Beach County favorite by readers of New Times, Ocean Drive, and SFGN.

DETROIT (AP) – A judge has denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a group of transgender people against Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson.

You can tell we are heading for an economic recovery.

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