Sarah Bricker Hunt
Lessons From Michigan's LGBTQ+ Trailblazers for a New Year
Over the past year, our “Where Are They Now?” series has reconnected readers with some of Michigan’s most influential LGBTQ+ advocates — people who built the institutions, fought the battles and created the spaces that made it [...]
22 Pride Source Stories from 2025 We Can't Stop Thinking About
From a biochemist-turned-activist organizing rallies in nine state capitals to a rural Upper Peninsula salon owner facing vandalism for welcoming trans youth, 2025's most compelling Pride Source stories capture Michigan's LGBTQ+ community at a [...]
Get Help (Or Be The Help) This Holiday Season
The holidays can feel heavy when you're queer. Maybe you're heading home to family members who don't get it, or avoiding home altogether. Maybe you're spending the season solo or building something new with friends who became family. This time of [...]
Three LGBTQ+ Metro Detroit Professionals Charged in Child Sex Abuse Sting
Editor’s Note: This story contains explicit details about child sexual abuse material and exploitation.Three prominent Metro Detroit professionals — a doctor, an attorney and a psychotherapist — are facing federal charges after an [...]
This Holiday Season, Michigan's LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs Are Building Community Spaces Worth Celebrating
This holiday season, your shopping list can do more than check off gifts — it can support thriving LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs building community spaces across Michigan. From Dexter to Detroit, queer-owned coffee roasters, boutiques and gift shops are [...]
LGBT Detroit Executive Director Named in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit by Former Employee
One of Michigan's most prominent LGBTQ+ organizations is facing serious allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation in a lawsuit filed by a former employee who says he endured years of unwanted sexual advances before being fired for speaking [...]
For Emmy-Winning News Anchor David Custer, Truth-Telling Came With a Price
The anonymous cards started arriving shortly after David Custer lost his job. The first one, addressed to his husband, featured a naked man and handwritten text so vulgar and homophobic that the couple spent days "side-eyeing everyone" in their [...]
Ties Like Me: Fostering LGBTQ+ Community Every Third Wednesday for 20 Years
When Reid Beyerlein and Robert Lalicki met at a Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce coffee meeting, they clicked instantly. So did the people seated on either side of them. Twenty years later, all four still show up to Ties Like Me, the LGBTQ+ networking [...]
Get More From Your Healthcare Dollars in 2026
With open enrollment season here and many people discovering their 2026 premiums and deductibles have climbed yet again, healthcare affordability is top of mind. But cutting back on medical care isn't the answer. Instead, it's about being strategic [...]
Gov. Whitmer Honors Trans Day Of Remembrance With Promise To Keep Fighting
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer marked Trans Day of Remembrance with an Instagram reel honoring transgender lives lost to violence while calling out the growing wave of anti-trans legislation sweeping the country."Today is Trans Day of Remembrance, a day to [...]
How This Michigan LGBTQ+ Chorus Became a Metro Detroit Tradition
PRISM's holiday concert has become a Metro Detroit tradition — and for many in the LGBTQ+ community, it feels as essential as chosen family. This year proved it. In October, when the organization opened sales for "Holiday Movie Magic" at Motor [...]
Inside Michigan's First Asian American Drag Night: See the Photos!
Zainab "The Rose" Diva had been performing drag for only a few months when she took the stage at Uplift, an LGBTQ+ bar in Ann Arbor, in June. As a Pakistani trans woman and Muslim, she'd spent years searching for spaces where all of who she is could [...]