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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has requested that a special prosecutor be appointed to bring charges against several people she says conspired to tamper with the state’s 2020 election results, and they include her likely opponent in this year’s election.Nessel, a lesbian, was Michigan’s first statewide elected official from the LGBTQ+ community, and one of the first out statewide officials anywhere in the nation. A Democrat, she was first elected in 2018 and is running for reelection this year.Matthew DePerno, a lawyer from Kalamazoo, is one of the people Nessel says engaged in a conspiracy to change the Michigan vote count in the last presidential election.

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through the city plenty of times (maybe upwards of 50!), it was always on the way to Atlanta or Orlando or Memphis, or some other distant place. We’ve even overnighted there, but that was only because it was a convenient stopping spot, and we never ventured far from our highway-side hotel.

Detroit Free Press reports.Leader Shirkey is facing a lot more problems than Senator Moss. Last week two nonprofits tied to Shirkey were accused “of improperly raising millions of dollars for Unlock Michigan,” MLive reported, “to limit the executive branch’s powers during health emergencies.”But in the LGBTQ Pride Month resolution, Shirkey wanted “language saying not all Michiganders support the LGBTQ ‘lifestyle’ but that all people are ‘created in God’s image,'” despite it being the exact same one that was approved last year.“I thought we were over this,” Moss said on the Senate floor Tuesday (video below). “But this month, the Senate majority has sent the LGBTQ Pride Month resolution to committee just so that they can not adopt it.”“It is a nonbinding resolution,” Moss says in his speech.

ABOVE: Legend.

by Lillian FishmanThis one had me hooked from the first sentence: “I had hundreds of nudes stored in my phone, but I’d never sent them to anyone.” I was ready for a story about sexual awakening, but I had no idea the journey Acts of Service would take me on. In addressing relationships in all their messy glory, Lillian Fishman has written one of the most entertaining books about sex I’ve ever read. Like any good dating experience, it’s heady, exhilarating, and will change the way you look at the world.

To the delight of his fans, singer and rapper Lil Nas X revealed earlier this week that he’s heading out on his first North American and European tour.The ‘Long Live Montero Tour’ will kick off September 6th in Detroit, and will be followed by 13 other dates in North America, including Chicago, Toronto, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Nashville, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. It will be followed by dates in Europe in November.Related: Lil Nas X powerfully explains why he was “delusional” to chase his dreamsOne US state the gay superstar won’t be playing this time around is Texas.

Just days after the pandemic made landfall in New York City in the spring of 2020 — and right as the city streets became ghostly reminders of what was — I began to run every morning. I’d run down the West Side Highway as the sun slowly crawled across Manhattan from the East River. I’d run through the empty avenues that dice up the West Village, passing bars and restaurants I used to get too drunk in.

Lil Nas X is set to embark on his first-ever solo tour in support of his critically acclaimed debut album, Montero.

As Mallory McMorrow awoke last Monday morning, she found herself transformed into a creature she didn’t recognize. A colleague in the Michigan State Senate, Lana Theis, had sent a fund-raising email accusing her of wanting to “groom and sexualize” children. Theis, a Republican who has latched on to Donald Trump’s fantasy of a stolen 2020 election, had invented an outrageous smear against someone who wasn’t even a direct political opponent.

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James Craig, seems to have reversed his allyship to the LGBTQ community, saying he'd want a "more aggressive" version of Florida's controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill.Last Thursday, Craig, a former Detroit police chief, told WJBK that if he were to be elected governor, he would go even further than lawmakers in Florida, banning classroom discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation beyond kindergarten through third grade all the way up to middle school."I'd be a little more aggressive with it. I would go beyond the third grade.

A Strange Loop is likely to throw Broadway audiences for one — in an entertaining and enlightening way.The musical play centers on the experiences of Usher, a queer Black man writing a musical about a queer Black man writing a musical, while working as a theater usher and being assailed by thoughts that threaten to undermine him. It’s already had two acclaimed productions and won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it’s premiering on Broadway in April at the Lyceum Theatre, one of the first Broadway productions with a Black queer protagonist.

A Strange Loop is likely to throw Broadway audiences for one — in an entertaining and enlightening way.The musical play centers on the experiences of Usher, a queer Black man writing a musical about a queer Black man writing a musical, while working as a theater usher and being assailed by thoughts that threaten to undermine him. It’s already had two acclaimed productions and won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it’s premiering on Broadway in April at the Lyceum Theatre, one of the first Broadway productions with a Black queer protagonist.

Associated Press reports.The lawmaker’s comments quickly took off on social media. A viral video of him repeating the claim received more than 825,000 views as of Thursday morning.

The Detroit News reports. They found Skinner in a hallway with a fatal gunshot wound to her neck.Wayne County prosecutors told the News that Skinner and her boyfriend, Michael Cortez Norris, 26, had engaged in an argument that ended with the shooting. They said Norris dragged her body from an apartment into the hallway and fled the scene.Police eventually tracked Norris down and arrested him.

Supreme Court that allowed a Catholic charity in Philadelphia to do the same thing.Michigan child welfare officials said they will continue to contract with adoption and foster care agencies that do not work with same-sex, LGBTQ or unmarried couples after the state settled a lawsuit with a Catholic charity that had sued in 2019 when the state stopped contracting with agencies that refused same-sex or LGBTQ individuals, The Detroit News reported."While this outcome is not what we hoped for, we are committed to providing support to the many members in the LGBTQ+ community who want to open their hearts and their homes," the Associated Press quoted a statement from Demetrius Starling, executive director of the Children's Services Agency.In 2021, the Supreme Court found that the city of Philadelphia had violated the First Amendment rights of a Catholic adoption and foster care agency when the city refused to work with the agency until it agreed to place children with same-sex couples.Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a majority opinion last year that the Catholic Social Services agency "seeks only an accommodation that will allow it to continue serving the children of Philadelphia in a manner consistent with its religious beliefs; it does not seek to impose those beliefs on anyone else," according to the AP.The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services followed the SCOTUS ruling and settled the lawsuit Tuesday with Lansing-based St. Vincent Catholic charities, the agency that sued the state in 2019 after it refused to contract with adoption and foster care agencies that wouldn't place children with same-sex and unmarried couples, The Detroit News reported."We are relieved and overjoyed to know that St.

The Lansing City Pulse. A spokesperson for the city told the paper that the city had transferred the case to the Michigan State Police to investigate.Chatfield’s sister-in-law, now 27, claims that the former politician began assaulting her when she was 15 and attended Northern Michigan Baptist Bible Church and the Northern Michigan Christian Academy School, her attorney Jamie White said.

Barbara-Rose Collins was the first Black woman from Michigan elected to the U.S. Congress, serving as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997.Collins first entered public service in 1971, when she was elected to the Detroit Public School Board.

It was a hard night for Democrats November 2, as candidates for governor in two heavily Democratic states lost enormous support — and at least one of the two seats — to Republicans. But LGBTQ candidates scored some milestones according to preliminary returns.

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come out.“June is Pride Month, so it felt like a good time to share a bit more about me. MY life — which is something I haven’t always found easy to do,” she wrote.

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Rapper 42 Dugg is apologizing to his fans after unleashing a controversial homophobic rant on his Instagram story.The 25-year-old Detroit native (real name) released the rant in response to a viral video seen of him kissing and licking his three-year-old son's neck on an airplane.While many saw the video as simply innocent fun between a father and son, others saw it differently which lead to the rant where he let loose some homophobic language that he's now apologizing for.

Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow is the Board President of Inclusive Justice of Michigan, a staff member of The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion, and the Senior Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit.

The Detroit News reports.“The actions we take today will serve as a starting point in protecting our LGBTQ+ youth from the damaging practice of conversion therapy and in ensuring that Michigan is a reflection of true inclusion,” Whitmer said in a statement.Funding covered by her directive includes Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, juvenile justice programs, and child welfare services, the News reports. The directive also provides for training mental health professionals about the harm done by conversion therapy and opens the door for licensing boards to discipline professionals who violate ethical standards.Every major health group in the U.S.

grew up in a million-dollar house in the Detroit suburbs. Apparently, he said, "You fucking f*****s with your iPhones out!"If Kid Rock using the word faggot offends you, good chance you are one. Either way, I know he has a lot of love for his gay friends and I will have a talk with him.

Chuck Da MF Buck in his rap career, and Chuck Da Dollasign on adult entertainment websites where he has appeared in pornographic videos, appeared in court for a probable cause hearing earlier this month, where he entered a plea of not guilty, according to court records.He is currently being held without bond, and is next scheduled to appear in Detroit’s 36th District Court on April 8 for a preliminary hearing on the felony murder and weapons charges.Johnson was charged with the robbery last year, but wasn’t in custody at the time the charges were handed down. He was arrested in Indianapolis on Dec.

release from Michigan's out attorney general, Dana Nessel, the victims are believed to have been targeted through dating apps for being members of the LGBTQ+ community, although the name of the app was not included in the statement.Nessel is offering county prosecutors throughout the state assistance through the office's Hate Crimes Unit, which she created in 2019 in order to investigate crimes tied to a victim's race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Johnson was arrested in December.

(above) Fort Worth’s Jubilee Theatre kicks off its 40th season with a streaming presentation of Katori Hall’s HooDoo Love, a tale of love, magic, jealousy and secrets, directed by Wambui Richardson and starring Jade Massentoff as Toulou, J.R. Bradford as JIB, Kris Jasper as Candy Lady and Nathan D. Thurman as Ace of Spades. Streaming through Feb. 28 at Vimeo. Tickets are $20 to access the video for a 48-hour period. For details visit JubileeTheatre.org. SUN 02.0

Roman Catholic cardinal Joseph Tobin and Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, shared a message of support for LGBTQ+ youth, along with a handful of other US bishops. The bishops released a statement in collaboration with the Tyler Clementi Foundation, named for the Rutgers University student who took his own life in 2010 after his sexuality was made public, saying: “All people of goodwill should help, support and defend LGBTQ+ youth.”Along with Tobin and Wester, the statement was signed by bishops John Stowe of Lexington, Robert McElroy of San Diego, Steven Biegler of Cheyenne, and Edward Weisenberger of Tucson.

Detroit Free Press reports. There were no signs of trauma, police said, but members of her family suspect foul play.The fact that she was on the passenger side of the vehicle was suspicious, her mother, Bernetha Shelton, told the paper.

There’s no question that transphobia and homophobia persist, even five years after marriage equality. Yet, today, many people don’t bat an eye when celebs say they’re LGBTQ.

Deb Price from a June 1995 issue of Dallas Voice promoting her visit to Crossroads Market.

One of the Trump campaign’s key witnesses at a hearing about alleged voter fraud before the Michigan legislature just got off probation for an unspecified “computer crime,” the Daily Mail and the UK Independent reports.

The Michigan state legislature held a bizarre marathon hearing on Wednesday evening as Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis continued their crusade to defy the will of the American people by overturning President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory over President Trump.

was fired by Detroit-area company R.G. & G.R.

The Detroit News.Stephens, a former embalmer and funeral home director from 2007 to 2013, sued the funeral home chain for sex discrimination in response to being fired after telling her boss, Thomas Rost, that she was transitioning from male to female and planned to begin wearing women’s business attire to work.Rost raised personal religious objections to Stephens’ transition, arguing that Stephens’ transition would be a distraction, and demanded that she continue to adhere to dress code standards for male employees. He ultimately fired her, leading Stephens to file a complaint with the U.S.

The Bay Area Reporter. Her wife, Joyce Murdoch, told the paper Price died of interstitial pneumonitis, an autoimmune lung disease with which she was diagnosed nine years ago.

Pose fame, with the closing keynote given by adrienne maree brown, an American author, women’s rights activist and Black feminist from Detroit and the former executive director of the Ruckus Society.

Frederick Weston, a belatedly recognized New York artist who inhabited the cramped apartments of the city’s single-room occupancy hotels for decades, hermetically creating meticulous collages exploring the male body and Black queerness, died on Oct. 21 at his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Please…..take a seat….A post shared by Tom Ernsting (@tomdeanernsting) on Meet Tom Ernsting.He’s a professional model and Instadaddy with over 150,000 followers and scores and scores of women who hate him, despite the fact that he’s never met any of them and is actually a really sweet guy.“They scream at me and they yell at me for ruining their lives,” the 60-year-old tells Detroit Free Press. “The stories I’ve heard are insane.”Ernsting, who is gay, says internet catfish have been using his photos to scam unsuspecting women for years.

(RELATED: Trump's Lame Duck Months Could Be America's Scariest Era)Trump warned us that he would stoop to the lowest common denominator in order to destroy the presidency and our republic all in a selfish effort to save only himself if he lost. He is viciously attacking the record number of Americans who used their voices to vote this year.

In case you haven’t heard, Anderson Cooper compared Donald Trump to an obese turtle yesterday evening.

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a lesbian, announced Thursday she has filed felony charges against conservative hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman — who have a history of deceit and unscrupulous dealings — for misleading robocalls discouraging Michigan residents from voting by mail.

suing the state police, claiming that its new diversity initiatives discriminate against white people like her. She also alleges in the suit that she was subjected to a homophobic atmosphere by her supervisor.The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Michigan, stems from a promotion LaMay didn’t get in January that instead went to a Black woman, The Detroit News reports.