Call us your genie in the bottle because all your fall wishes are about to come true. Whether you’re into the gore of Halloween or a relaxing experience sans the costumes, we’ve got an event [...]
Twenty two years ago, Ann Arbor resident Debra Miller came out at age 44 after a long marriage. The first LGBTQ+ space she went to was the Aut Bar. “When I came out, I didn’t [...]
Aleisha, a trans woman of color with masculine facial features, has endured decades of suffering. Because her face “outs” her as a transgender woman, she’s had to deal with discrimination at work and when looking [...]
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 [...]
Disabled people are sexual beings. Unfortunately, this fact is rarely depicted in the media or even something most able-bodied people consider. Photographer and Yale MFA graduate Robert Andy Coombs seeks to change that with his [...]
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, [...]
Allied Media Projects (AMP), a Detroit-based media collective, makes it their mission to shine a light on “all the ways we communicate with the world.” Through their connections — locally and throughout the country — [...]
When Merrilee Melvin, then 24, came out as lesbian to some coworkers in 1972, she didn't expect to lose her job. "I was working at a little print shop in Detroit, and I had come [...]
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 [...]
"It all started with a Beetle." This could be the beginning of a story about someone who went on to become a "car nut" engineer or somebody who went on to become an entomologist. In [...]
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 [...]
Covid worked hard to cancel any semblance of joy these almost two years, but the LGBTQ+ community worked harder. At every obstacle, we've pivoted and cultivated space for the community to feel seen and supported [...]
Artist Bryan Hoffman, a Michigan native, was recently awarded the Muskegon Museum of Art’s Best of Show Award at the 92nd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition for his painting “Kellie Looks Left.” The piece depicts a [...]
The death of a child is the stuff of nightmares for parents. The pain and the anguish never really go away, and the entire family is reshaped by such a tragic event. Such was the [...]
Affirmations LGBTQ community center has announced the launch of a three-year collaboration of community partners across the state designed to increase the rate of Covid vaccination throughout the LGBTQ+ community. The Michigan Department of Health [...]
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 [...]
The return to safe and comfortable live events has been a bumpy road for most everyone after many months of Covid-related ups and downs. For the organizers behind the fifth annual Trans Stellar Film Festival, [...]
Marshall Kilgore couldn't make it to Motor City Pride this year. Instead, the 22-year-old candidate for Kalamazoo city commission stayed close to home, juggling work, family and campaign responsibilities. Kilgore was still able to celebrate [...]
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), [...]
In middle school, when she bemoaned that cars were causing pollution and contributing to climate change, Gabriela Santiago-Romero’s teacher suggested she pursue a career as a scientist. Not interested in math and science at the [...]
Simply put: gender dysphoria is a bitch. It's that nagging voice attacking a person's self-esteem when they look in the mirror, walk out of the shower or gaze down at their body. And it's even [...]
Kyle Constable is a young man with a promising future. The 23-year-old Jamaican, who came to the U.S. from the island nation three years ago, is studying to become a physician assistant within the emergency [...]
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 [...]
Zoe Steinfield, an openly transgender queer woman, has joined the Affirmations team as the LGBTQ+ community center’s first full-time behavioral health program manager. “It’s kind of a dream come true to work as a clinical [...]
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 [...]
A scroll through Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s Facebook feed is an exercise in contrast. Mostly, Nessel posts about issues directly affecting Michigan residents: important legislative decisions, education about emerging financial scams, the evolving legal [...]
Ferndale Pride performer and Detroit-based Reginald Hawkins is living a double life. By day, they’re a college student worrying about a looming lab deadline. By night, they’re becoming a pop and dance music sensation, expressing their [...]
Jason Misleh is not a magician, nor is he a puppeteer. He is, however, an expert in making bodies move. Misleh, better known on the club circuit as DJ Jace M, has 20 years of [...]
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. [...]
Aaron Foley, a journalist and Detroit native, is taking on fiction in his first novel, “Boys Come First," a story about the dating scene for gay Black men in Detroit. The book will be published [...]
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 [...]
If you attended the Motor City Pride parade over the weekend, you no doubt noticed that not only did Gov. Gretchen Whitmer participate, but she also was wearing a very special jacket. On the back [...]
Being at Motor City Pride for many over the weekend was like coming home. After a 15-month wait due to COVID, Michigan's LGBTQ+ community members came out in droves from throughout the state to attend [...]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who led Sunday’s Motor City Pride parade in Detroit, has been one of Michigan’s biggest LGBTQ+ allies. Along with Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, she officially proclaimed June as Pride Month. That same [...]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer seemed as delighted and grateful to finally be at Motor City Pride as the LGBTQ+ Michiganders who attended the delayed event, which took place on Sunday in Detroit. The in-person event was [...]
Erin Knott, Equality Michigan's executive director, is calling for more LGBTQ+ voices in the state's "once in a decade" redistricting opportunity. Every 10 years, states get the opportunity to redistrict their maps – to create [...]
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 [...]
Being a DJ during a pandemic is tough. But Taylor "DJ LiXxer" Anderson has learned a few things during her decade-long DJ career. So when weddings and other events started getting canceled and clubs closed [...]
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 [...]
