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Get Noisy With Queer Punks, Take Pride Up North, Network Before Breakfast Who said September can't be fun? Well, probably your ninth grade algebra teacher, but she had no fashion sense and is probably long gone. So forget about imaginary numbers and solving for X and take back early fall by screaming along with a furious queer punk band, getting dressed up for a gala that is deliberately re

A piece of plywood balanced on two sawhorses was not Emily Potter and Amélie Boulanger's original vision for Washed Up Coffee. But when plans for their inaugural location fell through, they had a business to start and bills to pay. So they chopped up a piece of wood, loaded up their coffee gear and hit the streets of Detroit. Not figuratively. For a time, they served coffee on whatever Detroit sidewalk the Michigan De

I want to say Dolly Parton was too good for this world, but I don’t think she’d agree with such a statement. But I think it’s fair to say she was better than most. After her death it seemed like no one had a single bad word to say about her. Unlike, say, Lindsay Graham and Charlie Kirk. The invective hurled at their corpses was understandable, if not exactly equal to the ugliness they perpetuated while alive. 

The first time I set up a table at the local farmers market, people barely made eye contact, let alone opened their wallets. I was a tattooed, masc, blue-haired transplant selling stained glass that had nothing to do with the barns and birch trees everyone else up here paints. It would be years before that same work — sold through queer-owned pop-ups, displayed at art retreats I helped build from nothing — became the thing that finally made this s

For 25 years, the Michigan LGBTQ+ Students Project has worked to make schools safer for the state's LGBTQ+ youth, at a moment when many of those students still describe their schools as anything but welcoming. Now the program itself is at risk. It could disappear in early 2027 unless it raises about $250,000 to replace funding lost to federal cuts and a political climate that's made school districts wary of anything tied to LGBTQ+ students.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed used an unlikely question to expose what he called conservative hypocrisy on medical decisions for minors, asking Fox News host Jesse Watters point-blank whether he's circumcised during a combative interview Monday night on "Jesse Watters Primetime." El-Sayed, a physician and former Michigan health official, entered the segment hoping for what he called a &q

This story first appeared on Uncloseted Media. Editor's note: As a fellow queer independent outlet, we admire the kind of deep, sustained journalism Uncloseted Media does, and we like to spotlight that work when we can. This piece, produced in partnership with the Chicago Sun-Times, examines how coordinated complaints and lawsuits over transgender-inclusive school policies are draining hundreds of thousands of dollars from Illinois school distric

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I have a confession to make. Up until recently, I didn't really understand why everyone loved Madonna so much. I didn't think the Michigan native was uncool — I just never thought much about her at all. I know, I know. I shouldn't be saying that. I'm gay, and this is a queer publication, so I'm essentially a heretic hurling blasphemy. But hear me out: I grew up after the era of Madonna as a brave, ahead-of-her-time queer ico