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Motor City Pride is Coming: Great for Progressive Organizing

By User from Oak Park, MI - May 22nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm EDT

Are you ready for Motor City Pride? On June 1st Michigan's largest gay pride festival will return to the streets of downtown Ferndale. Triangle Foundation is proud to produce this community event.

The event goes from noon-8pm and is an excellent opporutnity for your group or campaign to organize. With nearly 40,000 mostly progressive folks at MCP it is the perfect opportunity for candidates for office or ballot measure campaigns to enlist new volunteers and gather signatures.

For more information visit us at www.MotorCityPride.org.

Time is running out though.

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Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Spike 133%

By User from Oak Park, MI - May 20th, 2008 at 2:54 pm EDT

Today Triangle Foundation released it's 2007 hate crime report which showed an alarming increase in reported anti-LGBT and HIV positive related hate violence. Advocates with the Triangle Foundation are attributing the huge increase in reported crime to two main reason - increased staff and the anti-gay appeals court decision last year repealing domestic partner benefits from public employers. 2007 began with the MI Court of Appeals doing what no other court in America had ever done - state that a ban on marriage also banned health care benefits for unmarried couples across the state. LGBT advocates maintain that voters never wanted that to happen and polling backs that up. For the Triangle Foundation release go here.

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Bullying/Hate Crimes do not make the State of the State

By User from Oak Park, MI - Jan 29th, 2008 at 11:41 pm EST

Michigan is facing some pretty serious challenges and today's State of the State address was clearly designed to talk about the future of our economy, education and access to health care. We were very impressed with the bi-partisan tone and the commitment to diversifying the economy of our great state, but issues of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community were noticeably absent.

Governor Granholm has been a visible and strong supporter of anti-bullying legislation (Matt's Safe Schools Law-HB 4162) which passed the Michigan House last year. However, that bill is now languising in the Senate Education Committee even though it has more co-sponsors than votes needed to pass the bill. We were hoping Governor Granholm would use the State of the State address to urge Senator leaders to give this bill a hearing, but there was none of that tonight. Read More »

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