Tim Retzloff
Bring Out Your Dead
Oct. 11 marks the 30th anniversary of the first National Coming Out Day. That first NCOD in 1988 is seared in my memory because Charlotte, Ginny, Rob and I painted The Flint Block with a giant pink triangle in a bit of small-scale renegade activism. [...]
Remembering Beth Brant
BY JULIE R. ENSZER and TIM RETZLOFF When writer Beth Brant died on Aug. 6, 2015, she left behind a loving family and a vibrant literary legacy documenting her life as a Native American lesbian. A mother, grandmother and longtime Melvindale resident, [...]
Author and Former Detroiter Carl Mitchell Dies at 86
Carl Mitchell in the 1950s Carl Mitchell, a former Detroiter and author of three memoirs that touched on different aspects of his gay life in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, died May 14 at age 86. According to Robert Stanley, his partner of 47 years, [...]