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 [...]
When work began on "A Century of Progress — 100 Years of LGBTQ History in Saugatuck-Douglas," now on exhibit at the Saugatuck-Douglas History Center's (SDHC) Old School House Gallery, curator and executive director Eric Gollannek [...]
When Jay-Z’s grandmother says “I was served lemons, but I made lemonade” on Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” she could've been talking about J. Santino, a Detroit-based Motor City Pride headliner. For years, the 23-year-old pop artist has [...]
Never underestimate the power of a hug. It just might save your life. Tyler T. Cooper, best known as Detroit's beautiful, bald and bold drag queen Sabin, knows this all too well. See, Cooper was [...]
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 [...]
You’ve likely seen Garrett Clayton, Dearborn native and alum of Dearborn Heights' Crestwood High School and Oakland University, on screens large and small. The versatile actor has starred in Disney’s “Teen Beach Movie” and “Teen [...]
In what appears to be the act of a small, extremist group of parents whose children attend Clarkston Community Schools (CCS), an online form is being circulated that encourages community members to "report" suspect curriculum [...]
Longtime LGBTQ+ allies and parents Gary and Sheila Bigelow are ready to open their home to a local teen in need of stable housing. It’s been a long journey for the pair. In the '90s, [...]
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 [...]
After the long COVID months and virtual Pride events, Motor City Pride is finally upon us. But planning this year's event has been, as you can imagine, a bit different than previous years. “More stressful [...]
Through his use of colloquialism and allusions, Flint poet Jonah Mixon-Webster ruminates on Black societal confines with “Stereo(TYPE).” Originally released in 2018, the second edition of his debut poetry collection, available through Penguin Random House [...]
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. [...]
Highland Park-based queer artist Allison Scout Waite tells Pride Source it's "amazing" to be named one of six “Artists Next Door” by WDET, Detroit’s National Public Radio station. The program, according to WDET, “illuminates and [...]
As a professional drummer, Rikki Bates knows something about keeping time. And time, over the past year, has moved at an agonizing tempo. “You’ve got to go straight up the trail and, you know, cut [...]
Jason Porter is confident he can bring his "whole self" to work. Porter, who is gay and has worked in the financial services industry for 15 years, said that wasn't always the case. Before he [...]
A recent Michigan Court of Appeals decision in People v. Rogers points the way to civil rights protections for Michigan’s LGBTQ+ community. In July 2018, Kimora Steuball, a transgender woman, had a terrifying encounter with [...]
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 [...]
The COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective and widely available at no cost. For many people, going to get the shot is easy. For these individuals, returning for a second shot might be a minor inconvenience, [...]
Redistricting to align with the new U.S. Census results has become a hot-button political issue for a host of reasons. The way states redraw their maps will have lasting consequences for voters and communities at [...]
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 [...]
Representation matters. And since media representation has a long reach, it matters a whole lot. Leo Sheng knows this all too well, which is why his role playing Micah Lee on “The L Word: Generation [...]
Remember that drag queen bingo event in Howell? The one Meghan Reckling, a 36-year-old Michigan Senate aide and chair of the Livingston County Republican Party, tried to ban from the Howell Melon Festival? Well, it [...]
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 [...]
Raise a glass and make a toast: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten are going to be parents! On Aug. 17, Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Senate-confirmed Cabinet member, made the [...]
After a national search, SAGE Metro Detroit welcomes its new executive director, Angela Gabridge. Gabridge, an LGBTQ+ ally, has an extensive career in human services and social justice, making her an ideal candidate to succeed [...]
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 [...]
Most people will never hear their own voice when watching an ad for Beyoncé’s own clothing line. But most people are not Milfie, a self-described “bad bitch” whose music is featured in the newly released [...]
The LGBTQ+ community lost a local legend when George Jonte-Crane passed away after a short battle with esophageal cancer on Aug. 3 at age 72. “We were called half the Beatles because we were George [...]
“I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let the government get back to governing,” said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a televised [...]
The world is on fire right now. Forest fires in California and 14 other states, not to mention those in Greece, British Columbia, and Ontario. Thanks, global warming. But an image revealed via social media [...]
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 [...]
The best Detroit techno artists produce the kind of music that practically demands the audience to get up and move. DJ Kelli Hand (K-Hand for short) had it down to a science. “First of all, [...]
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 [...]
It’s no secret that LGBTQ+ people face a range of financial challenges that heterosexual people simply don’t need to contend with. Less discussed are the effects of financial discrimination on building LGBTQ+ generational wealth. The [...]
While most open spaces exude an emptiness, Affirmations’ 17,000-square feet in Ferndale doesn’t feel like that at all. It feels like a safe space the moment I enter it. Like many there for Affirmations’ reopening [...]
Michigan’s August 2021 primary elections will be held today, Tuesday, Aug. 3, and, like Michiganders in the rest of the state, Detroiters are gearing up to vote. But if reviewing the candidates on the ballot [...]
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 [...]
