Kate Opalewski
LGBTQ Elders and Young People Work to Close the Generation Gap
BTL Photo: Alex Godin A SAGE Metro Detroit community building event was held on May 18 in Detroit to coincide with a national movement to strengthen and unify the LGBTQ community across multiple generations. More than 200 SAGE Table dinners took [...]
Great Weather, Highest Attendance Yet Lead to 'Best' Ferndale Pride
Click here for a gallery of images from Ferndale Pride Ferndale Mayor Dave Coulter set the tone on June 3 as the city kicked off summer with its annual Pride festival. "We're here to be supportive and say 'Welcome,' and by welcome I mean this – [...]
In Memoriam: Michigan Honors Pulse Nightclub Victims in Orlando
For a larger version of the above photo, Click here. LGBTQ Pride celebrations worldwide will honor Pulse nightclub victims in Orlando with many vigils and gatherings. One year later, the community will never forget the tragedy that look the lives of [...]
Motor City Pride is 'Stronger Together' This Year
Motor City Pride is Michigan's largest Pride celebration with more than 40,000 participants in its Pride events. Dave Wait, event chair, said he is feeling "really good" about the festival this year June 10-11 at Hart Plaza in Detroit. "A month or [...]
Summer Pride Calendar
Photo courtesy of David Graff AUGUST 12 Transgender Pride in the Park 12-6 p.m. Donald Red Geary Park, Earle Boulevard at Pinecrest, Ferndale http://www.transgendermichigan.org Celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot AUGUST [...]
Historic Flag Raising Event Honors Symbol of LGBTQ Rights
The rainbow flag, raised in the city of Detroit for the first time, will fly in Hart Plaza during LGBTQ Pride Month in June. Facebook photo As a gay man who has been out since the age of 15, Curtis Lipscomb said he remembers the time when many LGBTQ [...]
Affirmations Appoints New President of the Board, Announces 2017 Board of Directors
Affirmations in Ferndale announced the election of new officers and members to the LGBTQ community center's board of directors on May 24 including new president, Brad Bell. Bell, who joined Affirmations' board of directors in 2012, said he is "very [...]
Courting Drag
Garry Taylor of Ferndale is beyond the time at age 57 that he will present himself as Riva Lucian, but she is still a significant part of him. "We are one in the same. I do not suppress her," said Taylor about the woman he was born to be. While [...]
Summer Pride Calendar
Now thru JULY 28 "Summer of Pride" Exhibit Pittman-Puckett Gallery Hours: 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. Affirmations, 290 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale http://www.goaffirmations.org Honors the struggles of the LGBTQ+ community through activism during Ferndale [...]
Tunde Olaniran Talks Ferndale Pride Performance
Tunde Olaniran built his audience in Michigan through great shows at places like Loving Touch and the DIY Street Fair in Ferndale. The majority of "Yung Archetype" and "Transgressor" (his first full-length album released in August 2015 on Quite [...]
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Comes to Royal Oak
The late John Michael Easley. Photos courtesy of Joan Harrison Staff members at Transcendence Behavioral Health in Royal Oak will host the "Always in Our Hearts" Celebration of Life Display to honor those lives lost to AIDS as well as those [...]
Democratic Legislators Say 'We Will Not Tolerate Discrimination in Michigan'
State Rep. Jon Hoadley (D-Kalamazoo) says it's time for Michigan to step up and provide statewide protections to its LGBTQ citizens and encourages Republicans to join the effort to amend ELCRA. BTL Photo: Kate Opalewski During a Tuesday morning [...]