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A counseling student won her legal battle against Eastern Michigan University, who expelled her over her refusal to treat a gay client, and will be awarded $75,000 by the college.

The parents of a gay Michigan teenager said he took his own life last month because he suffered frequent bullying inside and outside of school. The high school’s superintendent, however, says staff was not informed of the bullying.

The conservative mayor of Troy, Mich., was voted out of office on Tuesday after making anti-gay comments where she said the "homosexual lifestyle" was dangerous and likened being gay to smoking cigarettes.

A man has admitted to assaulting a man at a Detroit gas station because he believed he was gay and standing too close to him.

The mayor of Troy, Mich., who faces a recall election, is making headlines again for making anti-gay comments.

Trevor Thomas on Monday announced his campaign to unseat Michigan Congressman Justin Amash. The announcement caps off weeks of speculation that the former Servicemembers Legal Defense Network staffer would challenge the first-term Republican.

A counseling student from the Eastern University Michigan was expelled for refusing to see gays and lesbians. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the student can argue "religious discrimination" in her suit against the university.

Mich. Gov. Rick Snyder recently signed a new law that prohibits unmarried public employees from extending benefits to their partners. A number of civil rights groups are upset with the governor’s decision.

A newly passed law in Michigan makes bullying a crime--unless the target is a GLBT youth and the perpetrator claims to be harassing him or her out of religious convictions.

The bizarre behavior of an assistant state attorney who hounded and harassed a gay student leader at the University of Michigan is now emerging in greater detail with a new report by the Mich. A.G.’s office. The lawyer, Andrew Shirvell, was fired.