Elliott Larsen Act

The Fair Michigan Justice Project (FMJP), a collaboration between the LGBTQ advocacy group Fair Michigan and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, began a…

A large crowd is expected Monday when the Michigan Civil Rights Commission is asked to revise how the word “sex” is interpreted under the state’s…

LGBT activists say the state’s civil rights law is too vague when it comes to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Now they’re…

The woman who wrote and championed Michigan’s groundbreaking Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act has died.Daisy Elliott was a state representative from…

It’s the upstarts versus the Establishment. Again.And, this time, we don’t mean the Tea Party versus the Republicans. Rather, we’re talking about the gay…

A bipartisan group is forming a ballot committee to put gay and transgender rights into the Michigan Constitution.“Fair Michigan” wants to add protections…

It looks like we won’t be seeing an LGBT rights question on the statewide 2016 ballot.Yet, it was not that long ago that it seemed a near-certainty that…

In Michigan, you can be fired or denied housing for being gay. That's because there are no LGBT protections in the state's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights…

A couple hundred people showed up outside the state Capitol to protest House Bill 5958, which would create a Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration…

The state House passed the Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) yesterday and it’s fair to say it was a little dose of Republican Speaker…