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Gay Day at Cedar Point
Two weeks before the Stonewall riots that would spark unprecedented gay and lesbian activism, gays from group, ONE in Detroit, held an outing at Cedar…
Gay Liberator Detroit
The publication, Gay Liberator, was first published in 1970 by the Detroit Gay Liberation Front. The Gay Liberator was later published by an…
Gay Protest: Chancery Building in Detroit
These protesters are demonstrating on behalf of Brian McNaught, a Michigan Catholic columnist, who was fired for coming out as gay and helping to…
Gayscene Detroit, no. 1
This racy entry into Detroit's gay publications was short-lived, but provides important insight about early 1970s bar life, particularly the leather…
Go-Go Dancers at Gold Coast Saloon
With a relaxing of laws against obscenity and consequent bar raids, gay strippers became a popular mainstay at several Detroit bars. Some even…
Papyrus rolls found in a hollow threshold of a door in Karanis, Egypt, in the 1920s.
Photograph by George R. Swain
1920s
KM 5.1801
Boxes used to transport papyri from Egypt to Ann Arbor in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Photograph by Randal Stegmeyer
2010
Papyrus fragments that have not yet been conserved or studied.

Found in Karanis (Kom Ushim), Egypt
First-Fourth Centuries C.E.
P.Mich.inv. 6827 (unpublished)
From Trace to Text
Hal Lawson & David Whitney Brewer
In 1958, Wayne State graduate students Lawson and Brewer, along with their friend Jai Moore, established a Detroit chapter of the Mattachine Society,…
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