Photo Gallery: Motor City Pride 2022
Color and joy were on full display at Motor City Pride 2022 as an estimated 40,000 Pridegoers filled downtown Detroit streets and Hart Plaza to celebrate [...]
Gabriela Santiago-Romero on Detroit City Council Win: 'I'm Still Processing My Emotions and Feeling Overwhelmed With Joy and Pride'
Gabriela Santiago-Romero, a first-generation Mexican American from southwest Detroit, became the first Latinx out LGBTQ+ woman elected to the Detroit City [...]
Cool Yule Detroit Together Men's Chorus Holiday Concert
The Detroit Together Men's Chorus was founded in 1982 and since then has been performing music around the Metro Detroit area. One of the first gay choruses in [...]
Transgender Michigan Holiday Party at Affirmations
For many in the LGBTQ community the holidays are a time to spend with chosen family rather than biological relatives. For this reason, the holidays can be a [...]
Bi-Weekly Femme Trans Women (FTW) Bike Ride
Held through Halloween, all femme, trans, genderqueer folk and womyn are invited to a biweekly bike ride through Detroit. Intended to be an inclusive event, [...]
SaveArtSpace and Playground Detroit Present 'Signs of The Time' Exhibit Through Aug. 4
DETROIT — Brooklyn/Detroit-based public art nonprofit SaveArtSpace and Playground Detroit will present "Signs of the Time," a cross-media gallery and public [...]
Motor City Pride 2019
It's the state's biggest Pride festival and this year it's bigger than ever. Motor City Pride takes place Saturday, June 8, and Sunday, June 9, in downtown [...]
BoxFest Detroit Announced at Planet Ant, Submissions Due June 3
by David Kiley DETROIT — The producers of BoxFest Detroit have announced performance dates for BoxFest Detroit 2019, an annual theater festival that showcases [...]
MOCAD Hosts Self-Perception and Storytelling Exhibit May Through August
From May 10 through Aug. 18, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit will be hosting an exhibit targeted at challenging viewers' perceptions of themselves, [...]
Home for the Holidays Dec. 22 Stand-Up Charity Show
In the middle of the winter holidays this year Go Comedy! Improv Theater is hosting a LGBTQ-inclusive holiday stand-up show in which proceeds will go to [...]
MOCAD Hosts Heidelberg Retrospective through Jan. 7
Called "2+2=8: Thirty Years of Heidelberg," Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is letting visitors experience the three decades of variation in one of [...]
Detroit Public Library Holiday Craft Event
Located in the Edwin Conely Branch of the Detroit Public Library, on Saturday, Dec. 15, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. children and tweens up to age 12 are invited to [...]
Queer-Friendly Halloween Celebrations
There's no Halloween like a Halloween with drag queens, burlesque shows and friendly LGBTQ company. With the season kicking into high gear this weekend, our [...]
Pipeline' Opens DPT 4th Season Through Nov. 4
Dominique Morisseau's "Pipeline" opens Detroit Public Theatre's fourth season. Detroit-born Morisseau, is a world-renowned playwright having created such works [...]
MOCAD Teen Council Applications Due Oct. 23
Teenagers interested in impacting the local art scene are encouraged to apply to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit's Teen Council by Oct. 23. "The Teen [...]
Collecting Homegrown Creatives
Hotter Than July Fine Arts Exhibition Spotlights Emerging Artists Artist and curator of this year's event, Geno Harris. BTL Photo: Andrew Potter Geno Harris [...]
Meet Manny Killa: Q&A with HTJ 2018 Visiting Entertainer
He's the newest sensation from porn site BlackBoyAddictionz.com. At 24 years old, 6' 4" tall and equipped a trim, muscular physique he is known simply as Manny [...]
Community Enjoys Free Barbecue Courtesy of Wrigley's Pharmacy
Hundreds of community members came together at Glory Supermarket in Highland Park on Friday, June 22 for a neighborhood summer barbecue hosted by Wrigley's [...]
18 neighborhood groups share $1.5 million from Kresge for projects across Detroit
The Kresge Foundation announced last month that it has $1.5 million in grants for 18 new projects and is planning efforts to revitalize neighborhoods across [...]
WSU Hosts LGBTQ History Panel in Honor of the School's 150 Years
A lot can happen over 150 years, and in honor of a timeline that spans over half of modern U.S. history, Wayne State University is presenting several panels [...]
Q&A with Mayor Mike Duggan
Michigan Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination Series As BTL continues the Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination series, we hear from Mike Duggan, who was elected [...]
From Film to the Stage: Melissa McKamie Refreshes 'The Sound of Music's' Baronness Elsa Schraeder
Although the audience never sees it, a scene change in a musical performance is the product of a well-engineered and well-oiled machine. Many crew members must [...]
Birmingham Native, Actress Nominee Alexandra Silber Comes Home for Intimate Performance
DETROIT, Mich. – Lauded by the Huffington Post as "Broadway's fastest-rising soprano," Birmingham-native Alexandra Silber returns to her hometown in a [...]
