Controversial comedian Dave Chappelle has a new and unlikely ally in controversial trans reality star Caitlyn Jenner. This partnership comes after Chappelle responded to the media coverage of his Netflix special “The Closer” in an [...]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott continued his attack on the LGBTQ+ citizens of his state Monday by signing a new bill into law that forbids trans students from competing on school teams that correspond with their [...]
Controversy continues to follow comedian Dave Chappelle after his latest special “The Closer,” which premiered on Netflix earlier this month, was criticized for harsh, anti-trans content. The backlash was swift, with trans Netflix employees staging [...]
In the late ’70s, Chicago-born Marsha Warfield started her career by writing for comedy legend Richard Pryor. Then, in the ’80s, she rose to fame in her own right starring as Roz on the popular [...]
For as long as there have been drag shows, there have been drag fundraisers. Drag queens have raised money for funeral expenses, fallen friends and queens, hospital bills and even pageants for girls trying to [...]
LGBT Detroit is continuing its efforts in support of the Palmer Park neighborhood of Detroit being kept together as one voting block. Yesterday, several LGBT Detroit staff members and volunteers spoke at the Michigan Independent [...]
You might be surprised to learn that the LGBTQ+ community is advancing the auto industry — yep, queers are engineering, too. And in addition to owning Backstreet at Large Multiplex, the LGBTQ+ bar in Detroit, [...]
In the early days, when Black queer house music was beginning to catch on, queer and transgender Black, indigenous, people of color (QTBIPOC) artists often kept their creations on the down low, and for good [...]
Earlier this week Texas Governor Greg Abbott bowed to a political opponent and had a web page containing suicide prevention information for LGBTQ+ youth taken down. A part of the Texas Department of Family and [...]
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel came under fire at a rally on the Capitol steps in Lansing on Tuesday. Matthew DePerno, a Republican attorney who has announced his intention to run for attorney general and [...]
For the first time ever, Macomb County Pride (MCP) will take over downtown Mount Clemens this weekend. The event, set for Friday, Oct. 15 to Sunday, Oct. 17, will celebrate the local LGBTQ+ community with [...]
Last month Equality Michigan’s Erin Knott urged LGBTQ+ voters to get involved in the redistricting process to create more local representation and realign Michigan’s voting districts, which have long skewed in favor of Republicans. LGBT [...]
Who says three’s a crowd? Not this Michigan couple who recently welcomed rare identical triplets. Kevin O’Neill and Eric Portenga of Ann Arbor welcomed baby girls Parker, Robin and Sylvie O’Neill via their surrogate Maureen [...]
Detroit native Ka’Juan Hill is a man who wears many hats. By day he works in HIV/AIDS prevention and by night he hosts parties — around town and around the country — as KHAOS. He [...]
“Looking Back Through Stained Glass,” a limited run “live-band drag extravaganza,” will wrap up this weekend at Ant Hall in Hamtramck. “Stained Glass,” a joint project presented by Michigan Stage and non-profit performing arts organization [...]
Gigi’s Cabaret, the Detroit gay bar with the longest-running female impersonation show in Southeast Michigan, is back with their Miss Gigi’s Pageant from Oct. 23-24. Since its opening in 1972, the bar has been known [...]
A new study is underway looking at how the pandemic is affecting sexual and gender minorities (SGM) compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. Ning Hsieh and stef m. shuster, assistant professors at Michigan State University (MSU), [...]
A peaceful protest and candlelight vigil to remember Lance Sutherland drew a crowd of about 100 to the parking lot of the Woodward Bar & Grill, the oldest gay bar in Detroit, on Thursday night. [...]
Affirmations hosted an active shooter training on Monday, Sept. 27. The training, which aimed to teach staff and volunteers at the center how to respond to such an attack, was led by the FBI in [...]
Detroit police are reviewing Green Light video footage taken early Wednesday morning outside The Woodward Bar & Grill, where a man was shot and killed around 3 a.m. The victim, Lance Sutherland, was shot by [...]
The University of Michigan Marching Band had a gay – LGBTQ+, rather – ol’ time at last Saturday’s game. During the homecoming halftime show, the band paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of the university’s [...]
Eastside Pride, in association with Detroit’s Eastside Community Network (ECN), will be screening clips from the Netflix documentary “Disclosure: Trans Lives on the Screen” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29 on Facebook Live and Zoom. [...]
High demand for tickets has caused Geared 4 Life, the organizers of Motorball Detroit Weekend 2021, to change venues for two of their events. John Joanette, one of the weekend organizers, tells Pride Source this [...]
Phoebe Bridgers, the bisexual breakout singer-songwriter whose 2020 album, Punisher, earned her four Grammy nominations, was almost rained out at her Tuesday night show at The Aretha Franklin Amphitheater in Detroit. The single show, which [...]
The iconic former Miss Gigi’s Jennifer Holiday Chanel passed away last year. But now, in celebration of her glamorous life, Gigi’s is planning a memorial show. The beloved performer and Gigi’s staff member will be [...]
Cameron Kasky, the 20-year-old anti-gun violence activist and survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has come out as queer in an Instagram post. “I don’t know [...]
It's not often that a leading religious figure is also a leading LGBTQ+ activist, but Archbishop Carl Bean was both. Founder of the Los Angeles-based Unity Fellowship Church Movement (UFCM) and singer of the 1977 gay [...]
Public relations guru and crisis manager Howard Bragman, a Flint native and University of Michigan graduate, has created a $1 million endowment to his alma mater’s LGBTQ+ resource center. “I don’t care how liberal the [...]
Conservative Midland just got a little more colorful, thanks to an exciting new mural created by area native Joey Salamon and his friend Cam DeCaussin from Arizona. “We’ve had nothing but compliments [about the mural],” [...]
Affirmations LGBTQ community center in Ferndale has recently announced the addition of two new board members. Both new members, Brandon Gleaton and Roxanne Mitchell, are African American. And that was intentional. Affirmations has long struggled [...]
The Human Rights Campaign has followed through with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s demand, firing Alphonso David, the beleaguered (now, former) executive director of the HRC. “At HRC, we are fighting to bring full equality [...]
Subscription-based social media platform OnlyFans has been making headlines recently after announcing an impending ban on the adult porn content that made the platform what it is today. Though the company quickly reversed course after [...]
Minor league baseball player Bryan Ruby has come out as gay. The announcement makes him the only currently active pro baseball player to have done so. Ruby, who is 25 and plays for the Salem-Keizer [...]
There’s no denying the past school year (and-a-half) was challenging for many students. But a new report from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights notes that LGBTQ+ youth experienced stress unique to being [...]
Sticks and stones may break your bones but names don’t hurt Ford Germany. So, when an internet troll remarked that the new performance blue version of the F-150 Ranger Raptor looked “very gay,” a Ford [...]
It’s no secret that gay men love to dance. They’re literally the ones who started the disco inferno of the 1970s. The dancing slowed for a bit as AIDS ravaged the community in the 1980s. [...]
September brings with it a new season and a new day for Metropolitan Community Church – Detroit (MCC-D). The congregation, which has been sharing space with the Clawson United Methodist Church for the last several [...]
Moderna, in the news these days for its successful COVID vaccine, has announced it now intends to start human trials on a vaccine for HIV. The news about Moderna’s mRNA-based vaccine came last week from [...]
Before Charles Pugh is released from prison on or around Dec. 22, the former Detroit City Council president tells Pride Source exclusively that he has learned from his past mistakes. “Missteps are to teach us [...]
The Ann Arbor City Council voted Monday, Aug. 16 to ban conversion therapy in the city. The 10-member board’s vote was unanimous. “This is a good opportunity to remember how Ann Arbor really functions as [...]
Joseph Verran, better known to many as Jolene Sugarbaker, died Tuesday, Aug. 10. He was 47. Verran, a native of Lapeer, grew up and spent most of his life in Metro Detroit. While he held [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled last week that the state’s ethnic intimidation statute extends to transgender individuals. Under the statute, a charge of ethnic intimidation can be levied if the victim was targeted because [...]
Detroit-based rapper Eminem’s child has come out as gender fluid and bisexual. In an Aug. 7 TikTok video that began with the words “Watch me become more comfortable with myself,” the "8 Mile" star’s 19-year-old [...]
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a lesbian, recently announced that she would not accept any donations from the Human Rights Campaign until its president, Alphonso David, is gone from the organization. Nessel's announcement comes amidst [...]
Fair and Equal Michigan, the campaign to amend the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity through a ballot initiative, has appealed a recent Board of Elections (BOE) decision to [...]
A new report released by Washington, D.C.-based LGBTQ Victory Institute found that Michigan ranks fifth in the nation for the highest number of openly LGBTQ+ elected officials. The state, the report shows, has a total [...]
A ruling is expected any day now in the case of a disgruntled wedding venue owner who was banned from the East Lansing Farmers Market for violating that city’s non-discrimination policy. The case dates back to [...]
Meghan Reckling, a 36-year-old Michigan Senate aide and chair of the Livingston County Republican Party, has launched a campaign to get an adults-only, sold out bingo event featuring drag queens banned from the Howell Melon [...]
Could our queer dreams becoming true? Might “The L Word” cast actually cross universes with the cast of the upcoming “Queer as Folk” reboot? It could and should happen. And the veteran cast from “The [...]
Leaders of Fair and Equal Michigan, the campaign seeking to ban discrimination in the state based on sexual orientation or gender identity, say that they are disappointed but not surprised to find out the Catholic [...]
