She did it! Amy Schneider won the 2022 "Jeopardy!" Tournament of Champions Monday. Schneider cinched her third win in the best of seven series beating fellow finalists Andrew Ye (with two wins) and Sam Buttrey [...]
Before you bust out those leftovers to embark on that annual quest for the world’s best Thanksgiving sandwich, take a break and make plans to ease into the next phase of the holiday season: the [...]
As news trickles in about the Colorado Springs shooting at Club Q, where a gunman killed five people and injured at least 25, Michigan government leaders and queer-focused organizations are taking to social media with [...]
Michael Lavers | Washington Blade Courtesy of the National LGBT Media Association A gunman has killed at least five people at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. The New York Times reported the Colorado Springs Police [...]
“Jeopardy!” super champ and 2022 Tournament of Champions finalist Amy Schneider testified before a committee of the Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday. The committee was discussing a bill that would restrict gender-affirming medical care [...]
When my 12-year-old son came out as gay, it was an exciting time. But it was also a little stressful. I wasn’t totally sure how to support him, or even what questions to ask. A [...]
Although Grosse Pointe is shedding its reputation as a conservative bastion, it’s still notable voters in the Grosse Pointe Public School System (GPPSS) just elected their first LGBTQ+ school board trustee. Even the winner herself [...]
Christopher Kane | Washington Blade Courtesy of the National LGBT Media Association The Respect for Marriage Act is expected to be called for a full Senate vote as early as Thursday after clearing an initial [...]
Newly appointed Ruth Ellis Center (REC) Executive Director Mark Erwin says he felt a connection to the organization the first time he visited in 2011, as a guest of Laura Hughes, former REC executive director. [...]
Brody Levesque| Washington Blade Courtesy of the National LGBT Media Association LGBTQ Victory Fund President Annise Parker always tells prospective LGBTQ+ candidates that her best advice is to “knock on doors and tell voters what [...]
For the second year in a row, Michigan native Brian Michael Smith has been named one of People magazine’s “Sexiest Men Alive." Smith, a trans man, has starred as a series regular on the Fox [...]
And then there was one. “Jeopardy!” super champion and all-around trans rockstar Amy Schneider has returned triumphantly to the show, battling in the franchise’s “Tournament of Champions” (TOC). Schneider (who won 40 games) was the [...]
The journey to becoming Miss Trans Michigan USA 2023 has been a long and winding road for Jamie Ashby. The 38-year-old HR professional from Holt, a small town just south of Lansing, has faced more [...]
The predicted Nov. 8 “Red Wave” that became a “Blue Tsunami” in Michigan brought some hopeful results, with the legislative future in Lansing essentially flipping from hostility to optimism for the LGBTQ+ community. Here are [...]
Corporal Danielle “Dani” Woods, a 20-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department, was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Detroit this week. In 2013, she was assigned to the [...]
There’s a mood in Michigan today, and it’s very, very blue. And in a good way! Democrats now control both chambers of the state house, the governorship, the attorney general seat and the secretary of [...]
Progressive LGBTQ+ groups celebrated the pro-equality LGBTQ+ candidates running in key midterm races across the country on Tuesday, several of whom claimed victory as Election Day stretched into the night. Becca Balint and Maura Healey [...]
The bigoted efforts of those attempting to ban books in Dearborn has garnered national attention. It happened last week when late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert expressed skepticism at a claim made by Michigan's anti-queer, [...]
When Kate Peterson and Sarah Cleaver take the stage at The Ark on Nov. 11, expect some happy tears from the duo known collectively as Nervous But Excited. After all, it’s been a decade since [...]
Hayden Davis. DeDe Ricks. Ray Muscat. Naomi Skinner. Four lives lost to violence in the Detroit area in 2022. Other than the abrupt and horrifying way their lives were lost — to homicide — they all had [...]
It’s getting colder, but on the plus side, that means more excuses for cuddling (or not leaving the house). On the plus plus side, the election is over, for better or worse. As we move [...]
She hasn’t even taken office yet as the new president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and already Kelley Robinson, who’ll take the big chair Nov. 26, is on tour. She's been stumping to get [...]
“Jeopardy!” superstar and trans activist Amy Schneider is about to make her heavily anticipated return to the show in this year’s “Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.” The tournament began this week, but Schneider, along with fellow [...]
In a move disappointing to Michigan progressives, the state’s Chamber of Commerce came out earlier this week in support of gubernatorial candidate Republican Tudor Dixon. The candidate has devoted much of her campaigning to anti-LGBTQ+ [...]
It was not your typical anti-queer rally. There were hundreds — four, five, maybe six — packed in so closely together it was hard to count the number of angry, mostly Arab American men in [...]
Veteran film, television actor and viral sensation Leslie Jordan has died after suffering an apparent medical attack and crashing his car into a building in Hollywood Monday morning. Tributes from around the world about the [...]
The Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center, a brand new facility in Detroit’s Piety Hill neighborhood, is giving LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness in Southeast Michigan new hope just before the winter cold sets in. According to the [...]
As we near the end of a year that has already been chock-full of horror thanks to the general state of, well, nearly everything, lean in to the abject terror of our shared existence and [...]
Kyra Harris Bolden knows the Michigan Supreme Court (MSC) will be critical in deciding issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community. The two-term Democratic state representative from Southfield is seeking a seat on the state’s highest court [...]
Parenting a queer child comes with unique considerations. After all, LGBTQ+ people, despite advances in protections and rights (though, more recently, some terrifying pushbacks), may be better off than they were 20 or even 10 [...]
Susan Estep, a Saline Area Schools Board of Education trustee, says she’s passionate about her role as an elected official. But openly queer Estep possesses an unusual determination to carry out her official duties in [...]
38th State House District candidate Joey Andrews is on a mission to get the word out about Southwest Michigan. Despite a general sentiment he sees coming out of Lansing, the area is not strictly an [...]
Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist's LGBTQ+ allyship began when he was just a kid because of, he says, "someone I had a great deal of love for." That person was his Uncle Glen. Gilchrist’s father’s [...]
By Chris Johnson, Washington Blade The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it has declined to take up a case on video recordings from the 2010 trial against the California’s marriage ban known [...]
Yes, Jaye Marie Carolan is the trans woman who owns the bear bar. She bought the Hayloft Saloon four years ago, knew exactly what it was — a gay bar for men — and promised [...]
A new bill introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives would make it illegal for parents and guardians to get gender-affirming care for minors. HB 6454 would make obtaining such care a felony, punishable by [...]
Dame Angela Lansbury has died. Just days shy of her 97th birthday, the legendary lady of stage, screen and television took her final bow Tuesday. The proud gay icon leaves behind a legacy of rich [...]
October is filled with fall delights, from crunchy leaves to orange-y … sights? Look, you didn’t come here for the poetry. Get out and experience Michigan in all its golden-hued glory (before those pretty leaves [...]
There are three statewide proposals on the Nov. 8 ballot in Michigan, and while not explicitly about the LGBTQ+ community, each of them has a connection worth considering. Proposal 22-1: Voters for Transparency and Term Limits [...]
For years, people have debated what actually happened that night in June 1969 when the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City was raided and a new, more militant struggle for equality was born. [...]
The efforts to get queer-related books banned from Dearborn high school libraries continues. Those on both sides of the issue are planning to attend the Dearborn School Board meeting Monday, Oct. 10 to voice their [...]
Trevor Noah, longtime host of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” says he will leave the show after seven years, opening up an opportunity for a fresh voice to fill that influential role. In a [...]
Megan Cottington-Heath, an attorney who owns a family law practice, calls it the worst divorce she’s ever seen. The candidate for an open seat on the Saginaw County Circuit Court made that assessment after reading [...]
Move over, Mrs. Robinson. There’s a new cougar in town. And she’s a lesbian. You can find her in Michigan resident Meryl Wilsner’s new novel “Mistakes Were Made,” available Tuesday, Oct. 11 from St. Martin’s [...]
By Chris Johnson, Washington Blade The U.S. Supreme Court, after a decision overturning Roe v. Wade that still leaves many reeling, is starting a new term with justices slated to revisit the issue of LGBTQ+ [...]
He ended up a controversial figure but was popular and beloved at his peak. Tom Giuseppe, former owner of the nightclubs Backstreet in Detroit and Cobalt in Ferndale, died June 12, Pride Source has just [...]
Haters are gonna, well, hate, but we're on the side of the lovers over news that the next "Scooby-Doo" movie will have Velma embracing her open lesbianism. Conservatives are predictably up in arms. After all, [...]
Chris Kipp, Macomb County Pride (MCP) board member, is candid about the fact that the county doesn’t have a stellar reputation on LGBTQ+ issues. “[Macomb] has been in short supply of resources and spaces for [...]
“Welcome to Pure Michigan” reads the sign greeting drivers entering the Wolverine State. The license plate in front of them might read “GOBLUE” with a little “Pure Michigan” on the upper margin. Checking into a [...]
Mark Latunski, 53, of Morrice, northwest of Lansing, pleaded guilty last week to the grisly death of 25-year-old Kevin Bacon on Christmas Eve in 2019, averting a trial that would have subjected Bacon's family and [...]
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