Remembering Aut Bar: How the Iconic Ann Arbor Bar Brought a Community of LGBTQ+ People Together
Twenty two years ago, Ann Arbor resident Debra Miller came out at age 44 after a long marriage. The first LGBTQ+ space she went to was the Aut Bar. "When I [...]
A Major Step Forward': New Medicaid Policy Will Finally Recognize Gender-Confirming Surgeries as Medically Necessary
Aleisha, a trans woman of color with masculine facial features, has endured decades of suffering. Because her face "outs" her as a transgender woman, she's had [...]
Michigan Drag Troupe Hopes to 'Heal and Educate' With Upcoming Special Halloween Events
For as long as there have been drag shows, there have been drag fundraisers. Drag queens have raised money for funeral expenses, fallen friends and queens, [...]
Making Care Sexy: Michigan Native Documents Intersection of Sexuality and Disability
Disabled people are sexual beings. Unfortunately, this fact is rarely depicted in the media or even something most able-bodied people [...]
Keeping Palmer Park Neighborhood Together Discussed During Redistricting Effort Hearing
LGBT Detroit is continuing its efforts in support of the Palmer Park neighborhood of Detroit being kept together as one voting block. Yesterday, several [...]
Burlesque and Drag Performance Artist Set to Show Audiences How Art Helps Her 'Breathe in the World'
Allied Media Projects (AMP), a Detroit-based media collective, makes it their mission to shine a light on "all the ways we communicate with the world." Through [...]
This Artist and Historian Are Preserving Michigan LGBTQ+ History With a Comic Book About the State's First Pride March
When Merrilee Melvin, then 24, came out as lesbian to some coworkers in 1972, she didn't expect to lose her job. "I was working at a little print shop in [...]
Dance Music Was Forged in the Shadows': QTBIPOC Collective Producing Secret Halloween Concert in Detroit
In the early days, when Black queer house music was beginning to catch on, queer and transgender Black, indigenous, people of color (QTBIPOC) artists often [...]
How the Design and Function of Nature Is Impacting Auto Manufacturing
"It all started with a Beetle." This could be the beginning of a story about someone who went on to become a "car nut" engineer or somebody who went on to [...]
Affirmations Says LGBTQ+ Youth 'Valued and Loved' After Texas Governor Pressured into Removing Suicide Resources
Earlier this week Texas Governor Greg Abbott bowed to a political opponent and had a web page containing suicide prevention information for LGBTQ+ youth taken [...]
Dana Nessel Threatened With Criminal Prosecution If Trump-Backed Rival Wins 2022 AG Race
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel came under fire at a rally on the Capitol steps in Lansing on Tuesday. Matthew DePerno, a Republican attorney who has [...]
Macomb County's First-Ever Pride Will Show Local LGBTQ+ Community They Live in an'Accepting and Welcoming Place'
For the first time ever, Macomb County Pride (MCP) will take over downtown Mount Clemens this weekend. The event, set for Friday, Oct. 15 to Sunday, Oct. 17, [...]
