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Bars and Nightclubs
This racy entry into Detroit's gay publications was short-lived, but provides important insight about early 1970s bar life, particularly the leather…
Activism
These protesters are demonstrating on behalf of Brian McNaught, a Michigan Catholic columnist, who was fired for coming out as gay and helping to…
Activism
The publication, Gay Liberator, was first published in 1970 by the Detroit Gay Liberation Front. The Gay Liberator was later published by an…
Activism
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…
Lesbians
Women's softball has long provided a friendly place for many lesbians to meet and socialize. Metro Gay News reported the opening of Softball City in…
Books
When Better Angel was reissued by the publisher Alyson in 1987, 86-year-old Forman Brown, a University of Michigan alumni, came forward as the author.…
Colleges and Universities
Saved from the electric chair by famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow, Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life in prison. Loeb was killed by a…
Organizations
Choral groups across Michigan provided a new, creative means for lesbians and gay men to socialize. The women's chorus in Detroit had a short life in…
Activism
Like the first Detroit pride march and rally the year before, the 1973 event was sparsely attended, but nonetheless it attracted gays and lesbians…
Activism
Like the first Detroit pride march and rally the year before, this 1973 event was sparsely attended, but nonetheless it attracted gays and lesbians…