How Lil Nas X Is Leading Black Queerness Out of Purgatory
If it feels like Lil Nas X releases a new video for “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” every day, it is because the Twitterverse and Lil Nas himself haven’t had a moment’s pause since [...]
Pride & Poise: How Community Leaders Cornelius Wilson, Robert Tate Shaped Hotter Than July into Detroit’s Premier Black LGBTQ Pride Event
When most Pride celebrations are winding down at the end of June, Pride is only just beginning in Detroit thanks to Hotter Than July, the second-longest LGBTQ Pride celebration in the country. But whereas the [...]
Car Craftsman
In his work as senior creative designer at General Motors Industrial Design, Christopher J. Webb draws on a childhood fascination for the engineering and elegance of automobiles.
Distant Dispatches
To take a trip requires a ticket, but only a journey begins with friends. Such is one of many themes stowed away in author Julién Godman’s debut work "Andanzas, Vol. I, Friends" published by Bang [...]
Boy-lesque
International Erotic Art Exhibition Detroit Saturday, Feb. 9 and Saturday, Feb. 16 Russell Exhibition Center Russell Industrial Complex 1600 Clay St., Detroit Tickets start at $40. For more information, go online to dirtydetroit.com. As soon [...]
Close Quarters
If Alexander Weyer had to put a postmark on when he decided to build a tiny home, he’d guess it started about three years ago just as most of his thoughts begin: under the stars. Weyer, an openly gay practicing astrologer and herbalist, was visiting a friend one night in Detroit, thinking about life’s grand design and how freeing it would be to downsize.
Team-WERK: Gays Bond Over Scoring Goals in the Detroit Drive Soccer League
Considering the number of LGBTQ athletes who have taken center stage in the last five years — Caitlin Jenner, footballer Michael Sam, ice skater Adam Rippon and freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, to name a few — the stereotype that gay people are not interested in sports is practically obsolete.
Wayne’s World
A Local Designer’s Breathable, Butt-Hugging Underwear Line for Men Who Want to Feel Comfortable While Feeling Sexy […]
Healing Words
Poetry for the Purpose of Community Engagement […]
The Pope of Pride
Longtime Ferndale Pride ‘Mascot’ Gordon Matson on Living Long, Proud and Out Loud Whenever someone references “standing on the shoulders” of those who came before them in the fight for equality, they are talking about people like Gordon Matson. Today, it's simply part of local tradition to witness him, ever-changing rainbow costume and all, out and proud as Ferndale's pride mascot. However, before he could become the rainbow headdress-wearing, acceptance-spreading, veritable pope of pride, like most in his position, the Ferndale native spent a large portion of his formative years in the closet.
Talking Body
Decorative Artist Matt Lambert Explores Queer Body Politics To fully consume the queer concepts in Matt Lambert’s body of work, use your primordial senses: touch, sight, sex. The 28-year-old decorative artist has a BFA in [...]
Making It: A Native Detroiter Makes His Mark in New York
Jeremy Martin was nearly 5 years old when he received an art kit of paints, drawing pencils and brushes from a family friend. With his newfound creative tools, Martin began experimenting with coloration, he remembers, [...]
Being Paula Holly: A Trans Woman, Long Suppressed, Reclaims Her Time
Pain wells up in Paula Holly's eyes as she recounts the life that she was never meant to live. As early as 3 years old, she remembers trying to articulate what it meant to be [...]