House approves penalty for colleges that offer partner benefits

The Michigan House approved an amendment to the education budget on Thursday night that will penalize state universities and colleges five percent for offering domestic partner benefits for same-sex or unmarried partners....

Michigan Messenger • May 12, 2011

House approves penalty for colleges that offer partner benefits

The Michigan House approved an amendment to the education budget on Thursday night that will penalize state universities and colleges five percent for offering domestic partner benefits for same-sex or unmarried partners....

Michigan Messenger • May 10, 2011

Cox files brief in Prop. 8 federal appeal case

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox on Friday joined with nine other state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the federal appeal of a ruling overturning California's ban on same-sex marriage. That ruling, by a federal district judge in San Francisco, found that defining marriage as between one man and one woman violated several Constitutional standards, including the equal protection c...

Michigan Messenger • Sep 28, 2010

Dueling gay identity events highlight change in Grand Rapids

The Grand Rapids area is currently in the middle of an "ongoing conversation" about gay identity and gay rights, according to Colette Seguin Beighley, assistant director of the LGBT Resource Center at GVSU. "We learned that the Love Won Out conference was coming to town and wanted to offer another part of the conversation," she told Michigan Messenger in an interview....

Michigan Messenger • Jun 10, 2009

Conyers says he has votes to repeal Defense of Marriage Act

U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, said Saturday in an interview with Michigan Messenger that the votes are in place in the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs, to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)....

Michigan Messenger • May 19, 2009