This Holiday Season, Michigan's LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs Are Building Community Spaces Worth Celebrating
This holiday season, your shopping list can do more than check off gifts — it can support thriving LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs building community spaces across [...]
For Emmy-Winning News Anchor David Custer, Truth-Telling Came With a Price
The anonymous cards started arriving shortly after David Custer lost his job. The first one, addressed to his husband, featured a naked man and handwritten text [...]
Niecy Nash-Betts on ‘All’s Fair,’ Being L.A.’s ‘Mayor of Queerville’ and the Irony of Interviewing Her in a Closet
If there’s one thing Niecy Nash-Betts knows how to do, it’s turn a moment into a metaphor. So it feels almost too perfect — borderline [...]
LGBT Detroit Executive Director Named in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit by Former Employee
One of Michigan's most prominent LGBTQ+ organizations is facing serious allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation in a lawsuit filed by a former employee [...]
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For Emmy-Winning News Anchor David Custer, Truth-Telling Came With a Price
The anonymous cards started arriving shortly after David Custer lost his job. The first one, addressed to his husband, featured a naked man and handwritten text [...]
Ties Like Me: Fostering LGBTQ+ Community Every Third Wednesday for 20 Years
When Reid Beyerlein and Robert Lalicki met at a Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce coffee meeting, they clicked instantly. So did the people seated on either side of [...]
Get More From Your Healthcare Dollars in 2026
With open enrollment season here and many people discovering their 2026 premiums and deductibles have climbed yet again, healthcare affordability is top of [...]
Gov. Whitmer Honors Trans Day Of Remembrance With Promise To Keep Fighting
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer marked Trans Day of Remembrance with an Instagram reel honoring transgender lives lost to violence while calling out the growing wave of [...]
How This Michigan LGBTQ+ Chorus Became a Metro Detroit Tradition
PRISM's holiday concert has become a Metro Detroit tradition — and for many in the LGBTQ+ community, it feels as essential as chosen family. This year [...]
Inside Michigan's First Asian American Drag Night: See the Photos!
Zainab "The Rose" Diva had been performing drag for only a few months when she took the stage at Uplift, an LGBTQ+ bar in Ann Arbor, in June. As a Pakistani [...]
Entertainment
Niecy Nash-Betts on ‘All’s Fair,’ Being L.A.’s ‘Mayor of Queerville’ and the Irony of Interviewing Her in a Closet
If there’s one thing Niecy Nash-Betts knows how to do, it’s turn a moment into a metaphor. So it feels almost too perfect — borderline [...]
Head to Paws & Pride Winter Bazaar, Attend a Sing Out Detroit Show, Reset Your Spirit
As the year winds down (or perhaps skids into the curb like a minivan in February), LGBTQ+ Southeast Michigan is still showing up for joy, art, harmony, [...]
‘These Bitches Just Go For It’: Amanda Seyfried on Camp, Chaos and Queer Energy in ‘The Housemaid’
Chaos, camp and unrestrained power crash through every melodramatic note — and every broken dish — in “The Housemaid." In the film, out Dec. [...]
Yule Be OK, Friends: 76 Ways to Get Through December
OK, queers, it's the winter holidays — that magical time when straight people wear matching pajamas unironically, and every commercial assumes your [...]
Celebrate TheyGay's Festive Array, Observe World AIDS Day, Run Outside in a Speedo, Cheer With Sapphics
The year may be winding down, but Southeast Michigan’s queer calendar isn't. If you're in need of big WLW energy, a variety show with endless surprises or [...]
New Ferndale Gallery Opens Its Doors as a Hub for LGBTQ+ Creativity
On a recent afternoon at the Tacon-Heaslip Gallery, the only thing doing the talking — aside from queer artist and founder Jarrad Tacon-Heaslip — is [...]
Advice to Be Well
Advice to Be Well: Why Doesn't My Doctor Explain My Abnormal Lab Results?
Hi Doc, Whenever I look at my lab results on the portal, there always is a lot of “red” in the results and the provider never goes over them. Should [...]
Advice to Be Well: What Are Your Options When Heart Problems Make Viagra Too Dangerous?
I’m a 74-year-old male. I have a healthy sex drive and have multiple partners. I have difficulty maintaining erections and cannot have sex [...]
Advice to Be Well: Should I Trust My Doctor About Statin Medications Despite Online Warnings?
AB: Hi Doctor. At our last visit, you recommended I start a statin medication to prevent cardiovascular disease, but when I researched the medication you gave [...]
Advice to Be Well: Is Getting Tested for Everything Before Dating Actually Helpful?
Hi Doctor, I am newly single and want to get all possible sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, including testing for herpes today. I want to show my [...]
Advice to Be Well: Can Shock Wave Therapy Help With Erectile Dysfunction if You Can't Take ED Medications?
I’m a 40 year old male living with HIV since 2002. I have been doing very well with that and taking my medications daily. I also have [...]
Advice to Be Well: Is There Really a New Drug-Resistant Strain of Gonorrhea?
My friend told me about a new strain of gonorrhea that is difficult to treat. I have not heard of this. Is it true? – M.B.Dear MB,Gonorrhea is [...]
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Shopping for Trans Loved Ones This Holiday Season? Start Here
Scrambling to find the right gift for each trans person on your holiday list? Let me help.To start, let me suggest you check out the Transanta gift registry [...]
Oklahoma University Offers Exciting New Degree in Anti-Transgender Ideology
A long, long time ago, in a distant era, I used to teach writing at the University of Michigan. I was a lecturer, which is much different than a professor. I [...]
Supreme Court Chooses Cruelty Over Evidence in Transgender Passport Case
Like so many others, I was heartbroken by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that allows the Trump administration to enforce its executive order denying [...]
Trump Declares Dec. 1st World Maids Day, 'But Only If They Wear That Sexy Outfit'
Happy World AIDS Day to everyone except the United States. Actually, I don’t think that Happy World AIDS Day is the appropriate greeting, but currently in [...]
Democrats to the Rescue? I’ll Believe it When I See It
So Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is resigning from Congress. And yes, I am taking credit for it. Not sure if you saw my last column, but I wrote about [...]
When Biology Fails, Chosen Family Shows Up
Note: The non-public sources in this story have requested Pride Source use only their first names as a privacy and safety precaution.Societies tend to assume [...]
Trans Topics
Supreme Court Chooses Cruelty Over Evidence in Transgender Passport Case
Like so many others, I was heartbroken by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that allows the Trump administration to enforce its executive order denying [...]
When Biology Fails, Chosen Family Shows Up
Note: The non-public sources in this story have requested Pride Source use only their first names as a privacy and safety precaution.Societies tend to assume [...]
Gov. Whitmer Honors Trans Day Of Remembrance With Promise To Keep Fighting
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer marked Trans Day of Remembrance with an Instagram reel honoring transgender lives lost to violence while calling out the growing wave of [...]
Supreme Court Lifts Block on Trump Anti-Trans Passport Policy While Lawsuit Continues
The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 6 cleared the way for the Trump administration to enforce a passport policy that forces trans, nonbinary and intersex Americans [...]
Hollywood Rallied to Save Jimmy Kimmel, But the Trans Community Faces Federal Erasure in Silence
Good for Jimmy Kimmel.He got his show back and with it, his bully pulpit from which he can continue battling Trump and his MAGA minions.Kimmel's triumphant [...]
Michigan House Oversight Hearing Sets Stage For Bills Targeting Adolescent Gender-Affirming Care
Three individuals who have gone through the process of “detransitioning,” or seeking to reverse the effects of gender-affirming care, testified [...]
