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Trans-Led Organization Debuts Research-Meets-Art Gallery at Affirmations
Local Leaders, T/GNC Community Praise Findings, Cultivation of a Safe Space FERNDALE – On the eve of the city of Ferndale's annual Pride weekend, Transcend the Binary debuted its "Finding Our Strength" survey results in the form of an art gallery, [...]
Pride Events: Featured events
MAY 31-JUNE 11 "Company" 8 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays & Mondays; 5 p.m. on June 3 & 10 The Ringwald Theatre 22742 Woodward Ave., Ferndale Tickets: $25 on Fridays & Saturdays; $20 on Sundays; $10 on Mondays theringwald.com/ JUNE [...]
Ypsi Pride Block Party Doubles Local Entertainment 2nd Year in a Row
Ypsi Pride is set to host their second annual block party in Downtown Ypsilanti on Friday, June 1. Ypsi Pride, a program of First Fridays Ypsilanti, brings two stages of lively, family-friendly local entertainment, a children's area, outdoor beer [...]
Casa Valentina' Comes to JET
West Bloomfield's Jewish Ensemble Theatre will be putting on a production of Harvey Fierstein's Tony Award-Winning 'Casa Valentina'. The play opens on May 24 and runs through June 17. It follows the lives of women named Miranda, Bessie, Valentina, [...]
Affirmations Hosts Ferndale Pride Week
For many LGBTQ southeast Michiganders, Ferndale pride is a must-see when celebrating throughout the month of June. This year, the Affirmations LGBTQ community center is hosting its own miniature Ferndale pride in-house to provide Affirmations [...]
Let's Get to the Bottom of This
Across 1 Liquor source in Gomer's Mayberry 6 Hoofbeat of a stallion 10 Gay cable network 14 She hoped Gibson was gay in "What Women Want" 15 Org. against pirates 16 Digital rectal, for example 17 How 37-Across jokingly described the meaning [...]
LGBTQ Politicians Making Impact in Michigan
Voter Involvement is Key As June gets closer and LGBTQ people start marking their summer calendars for over a dozen pride celebrations across Michigan — a huge achievement on its own — it's a great time to take stock of the unprecedented positive [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente John Cameron Mitchell's latest 'Anthem' Here comes your next favorite podcast. Topic Studios, the people who produced "Missing Richard Simmons," recently announced that they're partnering with "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" creator [...]
Most Local Jurisdictions Follow Master Plan, but Struggle with Too Few Planners
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Nearly half of Michigan's largest local governments feel they have little staff capacity for land use planning and zoning, according to a survey from University of Michigan researchers. This survey is the first statewide attempt [...]
Ann Arbor Summer Festival Announces 2018 KidZone Series
ANN ARBOR, Mich — The Ann Arbor Summer Festival has announced its free outdoor KidZone event series at Top of the Park for the 2018 season. From recycled puppet-making to explorations of light, live insect and animal meet-and-greets to instrument [...]
Homophobes in the Cabinet
Across 1 Rainbow banner, e.g. 5 The Riddler, to Batman 10 "Kiss Me ___" 14 1993 title role for Kevin Kline 15 Loads 16 "To be," in Tours 17 Zinke, who pushed for LGBT discrimination in federal agencies 18 Words of compassion 19 Gorsuch, first [...]