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Michigan to consider dropping health benefits for unmarried partners of state employees
A pair of measures is due for consideration and a vote in the Michigan House of Representatives on Thursday that would eliminate health care benefits for unmarried partners of public employees.
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Equality Michigan: Hate violence against gay, transgender citizens is not slowing
While overwhelming public support is growing for including gay and transgender people in hate crime laws, Michigan is still one of the states that doesn’t, and hate violence against gay and transgender citizens is not slowing.
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Michigan Supreme Court refuses to hear lesbian partner’s child custody case
The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to review a case that could have given gay, lesbian, and unmarried heterosexual couples legal standing to obtain joint custody of their children.
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Michigan school board denies use of coming out, anti-bullying video
The school board in Saugatuck, Mich., this week voted against a motion that would have allowed a video on coming out to be part of the eighth-grade sex education curriculum.
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Michigan GOP lawmakers seeking to ban partner benefits for unmarried couples
During a legislative committee session, the Michigan House Oversight and Reform Committee’s GOP-majority on Tuesday voted to bar public employers from giving benefits to anyone not married or related to an employee.
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Appeals court upholds ruling that ‘gay panic’ was not sufficient defense
A Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision rejecting use of the so-called “gay panic defense” in a case where the defendant attacked and severely beat another man for what he testified was unwanted sexual advances.
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Andrew Shirvell claims he’s the ‘real victim’ in gay student’s ‘activist agenda’
Andrew Shirvell, the former Michigan Assistant Attorney General who, for six months, waged an online campaign against the University of Michigan’s openly gay student body president, now says he’s the real victim, and that his reputation and livelihood have been ruined.
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Law school graduates stage walkout to protest Senator’s anti-gay voting record
More than 100 University of Michigan Law School graduates on Saturday staged a walk out during Ohio Sen. Rob Portman’s commencement speech in protest of his anti-LGBT voting record.
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Michigan law students call graduation speaker ‘openly hostile’ toward gay rights
Students at the University of Michigan Law school have expressed outrage over the selection of Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to deliver the commencement address, saying his “openly hostile” position on gay rights makes him an inappropriate choice.
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U-M student president files suit against former assistant AG for harassment
A University of Michigan student has filed a lawsuit against the state’s former Assistant Attorney General, alleging the official stalked and defamed him for months.