… and for the record, those fries aren’t just any fries … they’re FREEDOM FRIES!

Morris Dees, co-founder of the Souther Poverty Law Center This event is FREE! Join us Dec. 9th, 7-9 p.m. Fountain Street Church 24 Fountain NE Grand Rapids, MI For more info, please call (616) 234-3390 Civil rights and diversity speaker Morris Dees is the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center,...

Donna Rose Join us as we welcome Donna Rose, a nationally recognized speaker, educator, and advocate on transgender and transsexual issues. She is active in the leadership of several national GLBT Advocacy organizations, is the author of an award-winning memoir, is heavily involved in national corporate...

Prince Cedza Mandela Dlamini Prince Cedza Dlamini of Swaziland (born 1976), grandson of King Sobhuza II of Swaziland and of Nelson Mandela, is a humanitarian, youth activist, spokesman for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals, and the founder of the Ubuntu Institute for Young Social...

To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. To Write Love On Her...

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight...

Hello All, It is with great pleasure that I may introduce Speak Equal’s new, official Board of Directors. It is my vision, that through our hard work, Speak Equal will enhance the programs it offers to our community, continue to encourage involvement and community development at all ages, and further...

Just thought we’d share a quick glance at a perfect example of what we’re up against. People, this is exactly why we do what we do.

As the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage grows louder and more polarized, there are people whose support for the proposal is personal but not often talked about. They are the former spouses of marriages that ended when their partner admitted and/or discovered they were gay. Many of these former...

Many in the nation celebrated yesterday as news broke of the U.S. House of Representatives’ close vote to pass a historic health care reform bill. The months leading up to the vote have been tense and packed with emotion, as stories of verbally and sometimes physically violent town hall meetings...