Miss Trans Michigan Speaks Out: Why I Wear This Crown for Every Black Trans Girl Still Searching for Safety
“I used to be so scared to even walk down the stairs.” This line is from my original song “Trans." Unfortunately, this was my reality, as I [...]
From the Bar to the Club: Benito Skinner Talks Masc4Masc Mayhem, Pop Girl Devotion and Mariah Carey
There’s a Mariah Carey canvas in my hands and Benito Skinner on Zoom, and somehow, this feels exactly right. My teenage self — the one who [...]
'We're Not Hiding': Small-Town Michigan Salon Takes a Stand for LGBTQ+ Clients
Being inclusive and affirming can come with a price, but Aimee Schimanski is willing to pay that cost. In fact, she's become more determined as her small-town [...]
Michigan Universities Split on Trump DEI Order as LGBTQ+ Students Face Pressures
While Michigan State joins a Big Ten resistance coalition defending diversity programs, the University of Michigan's president, Santa Ono, is heading for the [...]
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Michigan Universities Split on Trump DEI Order as LGBTQ+ Students Face Pressures
While Michigan State joins a Big Ten resistance coalition defending diversity programs, the University of Michigan's president, Santa Ono, is heading for the [...]
Out Gay State Rep Mike McFall Stuns GOP Lawmaker With Gender Question During Heated Hearing in Lansing
In a packed committee room on May 15, the air crackled with tension as Michigan state Rep. Jason Woolford sat frozen, mouth agape, unable to answer what should [...]
Miss Trans Michigan Speaks Out: Why I Wear This Crown for Every Black Trans Girl Still Searching for Safety
“I used to be so scared to even walk down the stairs.” This line is from my original song “Trans." Unfortunately, this was my reality, as I [...]
How One Michigan Community Events Organizer Is Rewriting What It Means to Belong
One hundred people — mostly gay, mostly men — walk into a bar.It might sound like a punchline to a joke, but it’s how Detroit Staycation Club [...]
How Stacey Hotwaxx Hale Revolutionized Detroit’s Music Scene as a Black Lesbian Woman
Stacey Hotwaxx Hale is the embodiment of Detroit talent and grit.When I meet her at Spot Lite Detroit on a hot spring afternoon, she’s finishing up a [...]
Pride Across Michigan: Over 40 Fests Ready to Roll
Michigan's Pride season is set to meet the moment in a year marked by growing political attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, with more than 40 celebrations scheduled [...]
Pride 2025
Miss Trans Michigan Speaks Out: Why I Wear This Crown for Every Black Trans Girl Still Searching for Safety
“I used to be so scared to even walk down the stairs.” This line is from my original song “Trans." Unfortunately, this was my reality, as I [...]
How One Michigan Community Events Organizer Is Rewriting What It Means to Belong
One hundred people — mostly gay, mostly men — walk into a bar.It might sound like a punchline to a joke, but it’s how Detroit Staycation Club [...]
How Stacey Hotwaxx Hale Revolutionized Detroit’s Music Scene as a Black Lesbian Woman
Stacey Hotwaxx Hale is the embodiment of Detroit talent and grit.When I meet her at Spot Lite Detroit on a hot spring afternoon, she’s finishing up a [...]
Pride Across Michigan: Over 40 Fests Ready to Roll
Michigan's Pride season is set to meet the moment in a year marked by growing political attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, with more than 40 celebrations scheduled [...]
Meet the Fierce and Fresh Drag Newcomers Set to Slay the Ferndale Pride Stage
Get ready to gag on the eleganza, darlings — Ferndale Pride is serving up fresh faces and fierce performances with its 2025 Newcomer Drag Show, putting [...]
Miss Trans Michigan Baddie Brooks Is Taking Over Pride Season
We’re past the point where we can say Baddie Brooks is having “a moment.” In truth, Brooks is having several moments, and she’s been [...]
Opinions
Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump’s Modern Day Lavender Scare
Something that pops into my head a lot (besides the Mentos jingle) is the phrase, “It was a kinder, gentler time.” It’s what my grandparents [...]
Miss Trans Michigan Speaks Out: Why I Wear This Crown for Every Black Trans Girl Still Searching for Safety
“I used to be so scared to even walk down the stairs.” This line is from my original song “Trans." Unfortunately, this was my reality, as I [...]
Nancy Mace’s Obsession with Transgender Women in Bathrooms Continues Unabated
I love The Onion. They truly have their finger on this country’s political pulse. In fact, several of their recent headlines were so believable they could [...]
When Major Media Fails Trans People, We All Lose
As I write this from Michigan, where Planned Parenthood just announced the closure of four clinics that provide gender-affirming care, I find myself furious at [...]
Pride 2025 Reveals True LGBTQ+ Allies
Pride Month is fast approaching, and Pride events nationwide are watching the corporate sponsorships they have been able to count on in the past dry up like [...]
Heinous Loser and Anti-Trans Bigot J.K. Rowling Can Choke on Her Cigar
My son’s high school is doing some kind of Harry Potter production for their spring play and I really wish they had chosen something else. I was trying to [...]
Entertainment
From the Bar to the Club: Benito Skinner Talks Masc4Masc Mayhem, Pop Girl Devotion and Mariah Carey
There’s a Mariah Carey canvas in my hands and Benito Skinner on Zoom, and somehow, this feels exactly right. My teenage self — the one who [...]
Sufjan Stevens Emerges From Two-Year 'Shitshow' With Rare Interview, Calls the Bible 'Very Gay'
In his first interview since revealing both his Guillain-Barré syndrome diagnosis and the death of his partner Evans Richardson IV last year, Sufjan [...]
Frankie Grande on Embracing Queer Joy, His Sexy New Music and Sister Ariana’s Role in His Pop Debut
When Frankie Grande bounces into our Zoom meeting, he radiates enough energy to power a small city. The self-proclaimed “gayest person on earth” is [...]
Catch Flamy Grant, Make and Buy Art, Fund Dreams, Plant Hope
Is it just me or are things getting a little gay in here? Pride season is officially in full swing, friends, so get ready to experience a multimedia, [...]
In Glam and Gospel, Jake Wesley Rogers Finds God in the Margins
Jake Wesley Rogers is a poet in glitter and leather, a kind of spiritual guide for queer kids growing up in a world that still hasn’t fully figured out [...]
Let Loose at All-Women's Weekend in Saugatuck, Dance at the Garden of Gaga, Attend Trans Health Event
Who are we kidding? The days of packing Pride into four tiny weeks is vanishing faster than corduroy in climate change. That's all to say our mid-May calendar [...]
Politics
Out Gay State Rep Mike McFall Stuns GOP Lawmaker With Gender Question During Heated Hearing in Lansing
In a packed committee room on May 15, the air crackled with tension as Michigan state Rep. Jason Woolford sat frozen, mouth agape, unable to answer what should [...]
Jeremy Moss, Michigan’s First Openly Gay State Senator, Defends Trans Rights as He Launches Congressional Campaign
Michigan State Sen. Jeremy Moss announced his candidacy May 8 for Michigan's 11th Congressional District, promising to bring the same bold advocacy that has [...]
Michigan Rep. Josh Schriver to Introduce Resolution Urging Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
Rep. Josh Schriver (R-Oxford) plans to introduce a resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges.
Trans Rights, Healthcare and IDs: Key Takeaways from Emergency Town Hall Hosted By LGBTQ+ Advocates
More than 900 attendees joined a virtual town hall Feb. 5 to learn how recent presidential executive orders and Michigan legislative moves could impact the [...]
Why Scott Bessent, Trump's New Gay Treasury Secretary, Must Denounce Anti-Trans Actions
The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Scott Bessent, President Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary, in a rare bipartisan vote of 68-29.
4 Times Michigan Governor Candidate Jocelyn Benson Championed LGBTQ+ Rights
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who announced her candidacy for governor on Jan. 22 to succeed term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, has built a [...]
Trans Topics
Out Gay State Rep Mike McFall Stuns GOP Lawmaker With Gender Question During Heated Hearing in Lansing
In a packed committee room on May 15, the air crackled with tension as Michigan state Rep. Jason Woolford sat frozen, mouth agape, unable to answer what should [...]
When Major Media Fails Trans People, We All Lose
As I write this from Michigan, where Planned Parenthood just announced the closure of four clinics that provide gender-affirming care, I find myself furious at [...]
What You Need to Know About Two Major Anti-Trans Reports Debunked by Leading Medical Experts
Two controversial reports targeting transgender youth health care have been thoroughly rejected by the world's leading medical organizations, yet continue [...]
10 Years Strong: Stand with Trans Honors Progress and Resilience Amid Anti-Trans Backlash
In the face of unprecedented legislative attacks on transgender rights, Stand with Trans founder Roz Keith sees the organization's 10-year anniversary gala, [...]
Michigan GOP Lawmakers Introduce Three-Bill Attack on Trans Healthcare
Michigan Republicans launched a coordinated legislative assault on transgender healthcare today with a three-bill package that would prohibit gender-affirming [...]
Supreme Court Allows Trump's Trans Military Ban to Take Effect
In the latest federal blow to transgender rights, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to implement its ban on transgender [...]
Books
Doctor Jon Paul Is Here to Help You Love Yourself in 'Black. Fat. Femme.'
Jon Paul Higgins, Ed.D, is an educator, cultural critic, social justice leader — and now, an author. If you've spent any time on queer social media in the [...]
How Tech Can Empower Trans Communities: This Michigan Author Explores the Possibilities
Transgender Day of Visibility is a complex topic for Oliver Haimson. On one hand, he says he loves finding and leaning on community, especially through [...]
Winter Reads to Help You Ride Out the Chill
It’s cold out there, and not just because of the weather — we’re officially in another Trump era. Bearing the frigid temps outside and the [...]
Journalist Nico Lang Wields the Power of Storytelling with ‘American Teenager’
Los Angeles-based writer Nico Lang is fiercely protective of the families they portray in their upcoming book “American Teenager,” and for good [...]
Samantha Irby Is ‘Dying’ (of Appreciation) About Being the Subject of Ann Arbor Library’s Big Gay Read
I’m somehow 30 minutes late calling Samantha Irby, despite all the careful planning and near-stalker behavior I engaged in to get her on my calendar. [...]
Summer Books That’ll Have You Feeling a Sense of Pride
Embrace the vibrant spectrum of LGBTQ+ experiences this Pride Month with our curated list of enlightening reads for readers of all ages. From stirring memoirs [...]