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This comes months after the salon owner posted messages on social media saying trans and queer people were not welcome.

One side of the monument reads “It’s Everybody’s Fight” and has a LIFE magazine cover as well as names of other Michiganders who, like Liuzzo, headed down to Selma in 1965 to register voters.

The owner of Studio 8 Hair Lab took to social media and told transgender people in search of hair care to go see a pet groomer instead.

A petition campaign to add LGBTQ protections to Michigan’s civil rights law is over. That’s after the Michigan Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear an appeal of a ruling that the campaign failed to gather enough signatures.

The Michigan Supreme Court has released the list of cases it will hear next month. One is a civil rights challenge to a Grand Rapids Police Department policy that allows officers to fingerprint and photograph people they want to question, but may never be charged with a crime.

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