LGBTQIA+

An LGBTQ-focused health clinic in Detroit and the Catholic church in Michigan have been given permission to weigh in on opposite sides of a court case challenging a state civil rights policy.

A group of Democratic Michigan lawmakers is trying to ban the so-called LGBT panic defense.

People who identify as non-binary have the option to list their sex designation as "X" on state driver’s licenses, while new rules went into effect on Wednesday.

A petition drive to add LGBTQ rights to the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act hit a dead end Tuesday. That’s as the Michigan Supreme Court refused to reconsider a lower court decision that the Fair and Equal Michigan campaign failed to gather enough signatures. That means the question will NOT go to the Legislature or appear on the ballot.

The Michigan Court of Appeals says the state law that punishes intimidation based on gender protects transgender people from threatening behavior.The case centers on a victim who identifies as female. She was threatened, taunted and shot in the shoulder during an altercation at a gas station.

The campaign to add LGBTQ protections to Michigan’s civil rights law has appealed a court decision that stalled the petition drive. The Fair and Equal Michigan campaign filed its paperwork Monday with the state Court of Appeals.

The Michigan Court of Appeals is the next stop for the petition campaign to add LTBTQ protections to the state civil rights law.

A state board will meet Monday to determine whether an initiative to expand Michigan’s civil rights law to include LGBTQ protections will move ahead.

The campaign to expand Michigan’s civil right law to include protections for LGBT people has been given more time to prove it’s gathered enough signatures…

A petition drive to add LGBTQ+ status to Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act has likely failed to collect enough signatures.That means voters won't…