Michigan's Push for Progress: From Pride Flags to Population Growth
For the first time at the annual Mackinac Policy Conference held by the Detroit Regional Chamber, pride flags waved from the porch of the Grand Hotel to celebrate the beginning of LGBTQ Pride Month and the passage earlier this year of an expansion of Michigan's civil rights law to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, employment, education and public accommodations. The decision to put up the flag goes back to 2014, said Brad Williams, vice president of government relations for the Detroit Regional Chamber.