Sarah Bricker Hunt
Sarah Bricker Hunt, a proud Eastern Michigan University alum and director of content and community engagement for Pride Source/Between The Lines, believes in the power of intentional journalism focused on people building their communities through everyday acts of love and service.
A Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Students in Michigan Schools Is Running Out of Money
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. [...]Read more about A Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Students in Michigan Schools Is Running Out of Money
El-Sayed Turns Tables on Watters in Fiery Fox News Clash Over Trans Healthcare
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 [...]Read more about El-Sayed Turns Tables on Watters in Fiery Fox News Clash Over Trans Healthcare
Christian Styles, Metro Detroit Adult Performer, Dies at 29
Christian Styles, a gay adult performer and content creator with Michigan roots, has died at 29. His family confirmed his death in an obituary stating he passed away Aug. 20.Styles, whose birth name was Zachary Christian Jaghab, was born and raised [...]Read more about Christian Styles, Metro Detroit Adult Performer, Dies at 29
Michigan Celebrates First Transgender and Nonbinary Pride Month
Michigan's LGBTQ+ community is celebrating its first Transgender and Nonbinary Pride and History Month this August, an initiative born from one advocate's decades of work and a rally that brought old friends together.Michelle Fox-Phillips, [...]Read more about Michigan Celebrates First Transgender and Nonbinary Pride Month
Michigan Supreme Court Clarifies Entrapment Standard After Stings Targeted LGBTQ+ Men
The Michigan Supreme Court has issued its opinion in People v. Jade, a ruling that reshapes how courts across the state must evaluate entrapment claims arising from police sting operations, and one that could mark a major turning point for Evan [...]Read more about Michigan Supreme Court Clarifies Entrapment Standard After Stings Targeted LGBTQ+ Men
Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Senate Primary as LGBTQ+ Candidates Make Historic Gains
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's closely watched U.S. Senate Democratic primary Tuesday with 49% of the vote, narrowly edging out moderate U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens' 47% in a race that became a proxy battle between the party's [...]Read more about Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Senate Primary as LGBTQ+ Candidates Make Historic Gains
Haley Stevens Faces Backlash Over Ad Featuring Anti-LGBTQ+ Pastor
With just one day before Michigan’s Aug. 4 Democratic Senate primary, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens released a campaign ad featuring Bishop Christopher Martin of Flint’s Cathedral of Faith Ministries Church of God in Christ — a pastor with a documented [...]Read more about Haley Stevens Faces Backlash Over Ad Featuring Anti-LGBTQ+ Pastor
Be Well Medical Center’s New Owners Continue Dr. Benson’s Legacy of Care
When Dr. Paul Benson opened Be Well Medical Center in Berkley on Dec. 1, 1980, modern medical imaging was still in its infancy, and the disease that would shape much of his career didn't yet have a name. Within a few years, he was petitioning [...]Read more about Be Well Medical Center’s New Owners Continue Dr. Benson’s Legacy of Care
Why Trans Candidate J. Aaron 'Lola' Bailey Isn't Waiting for 'Someone Else' to Fix Her City
Mount Pleasant gets forgotten about. That's what J. Aaron "Lola" Bailey says when asked about her city, and she's right. A mid-Michigan city of about 21,000 built around Central Michigan University in Isabella County, Mount [...]Read more about Why Trans Candidate J. Aaron 'Lola' Bailey Isn't Waiting for 'Someone Else' to Fix Her City
Haley Stevens or Abdul El-Sayed? Michigan's LGBTQ+ Voters Are Split
Ask two different left-leaning LGBTQ+ Michigan voters who they're selecting in the Aug. 4 U.S. Senate Democratic primary and there's a decent chance you'll get two different, strongly held answers. The Democratic primary to succeed [...]Read more about Haley Stevens or Abdul El-Sayed? Michigan's LGBTQ+ Voters Are Split
Senate Candidate Haley Stevens Shows Us Her Receipts
When many of the country's centrist Democrats found reasons to lower their voices on LGBTQ+ rights after the 2024 election, Haley Stevens went in the other direction. The four-term congresswoman from Birmingham has spent the closing weeks of [...]Read more about Senate Candidate Haley Stevens Shows Us Her Receipts
When Allyship Looks Different: 9 People Showing Up for the LGBTQ+ Community
Allyship doesn't always look the way we expect. It's not always the loudest voice in the room, or the most predictable place. Sometimes it's an Army veteran couple tending a Pride arch in Detroit. Sometimes it's a parent with a [...]Read more about When Allyship Looks Different: 9 People Showing Up for the LGBTQ+ Community
As McMorrow Exits, Amanda Treppa Brings Authentic Queer Energy to State Senate Race
When asked how her identity as a bisexual woman informs her campaign for Michigan’s District 10 state senate seat, Amanda Treppa is unequivocal. "It informs all of it, because that's who I am," she told Pride Source in a recent [...]Read more about As McMorrow Exits, Amanda Treppa Brings Authentic Queer Energy to State Senate Race
Toni Mua, Trans Candidate for Michigan Legislature, Has Faced Bricks and Ballot Challenges. She's Still Knocking on Doors.
When Toni Mua first ran for Michigan's state legislature in 2022, she put her deadname on the ballot. She didn't make a big deal of it — running as a trans woman in a district that also covered the Grosse Pointes felt like enough of a [...]Read more about Toni Mua, Trans Candidate for Michigan Legislature, Has Faced Bricks and Ballot Challenges. She's Still Knocking on Doors.
Pete Buttigieg Targeted by False Child Welfare Report at His Traverse City Home
An anonymous caller sent Child Protective Services and police to Pete Buttigieg's Traverse City home last week, falsely alleging that the former Transportation Secretary had confessed to violent crimes and that his twin 4-year-old children were [...]Read more about Pete Buttigieg Targeted by False Child Welfare Report at His Traverse City Home
Abdul El-Sayed Vows to Be a ‘Lion’ for LGBTQ+ Rights in Senate
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed isn't running a typical Senate campaign, and at this point it's hard to miss. The physician and former health director for both the city of Detroit and Wayne County has spent the past several months drawing national [...]Read more about Abdul El-Sayed Vows to Be a ‘Lion’ for LGBTQ+ Rights in Senate
Jocelyn Benson’s Plan to Protect LGBTQ+ Rights in the Race for Michigan Governor
With the August primary weeks away, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is deep in the race for governor — and she's making the case that she’s ready to lead on LGBTQ+ issues in an era that has been defined by devastating, anti-equality [...]Read more about Jocelyn Benson’s Plan to Protect LGBTQ+ Rights in the Race for Michigan Governor
Chuck Tingle's 'Bury Your Gays' Gets the Big Gay Read Treatment For 2026
The Ann Arbor District Library's sixth annual Big Gay Read is diving into "Bury Your Gays," a darkly funny horror novel by masked author Chuck Tingle that somehow predicted the exact AI controversy currently roiling Hollywood. The [...]Read more about Chuck Tingle's 'Bury Your Gays' Gets the Big Gay Read Treatment For 2026
Mallory McMorrow on Allyship, Her Viral Pro-LGBTQ+ Statehouse Speech and Running for U.S. Senate
Update: Sen. McMorrow suspended her U.S. senate campaign on July 5, 2026. U.S. Rep Haley Stevens and Detroit public health leader Dr. Abdul El-Sayed are still running in Michigan's Aug. 4 Democratic primary. Read our Q&A with El-Sayed here; [...]Read more about Mallory McMorrow on Allyship, Her Viral Pro-LGBTQ+ Statehouse Speech and Running for U.S. Senate
LGBTQ+ Senior Housing Takes Center Stage at a Free Summit This Weekend
When University of Michigan researcher Beth Glover Reed led a housing survey for the HOMES Coalition in 2024, the findings were sobering. Ninety percent of LGBTQ+ older adults surveyed had experienced discrimination. Eighty percent said they would [...]Read more about LGBTQ+ Senior Housing Takes Center Stage at a Free Summit This Weekend
Who Counts as Family? Hazel Park Expands Protections to All Relationship Structures
On June 9, Hazel Park became the first Michigan city to pass a non-discrimination ordinance explicitly protecting people in non-monogamous and diverse family structures from bias in housing, employment and public accommodations.City Councilmember [...]Read more about Who Counts as Family? Hazel Park Expands Protections to All Relationship Structures
Bestselling Author and Delightful Weirdo Chuck Tingle on Proving Love in a Difficult Era
Pride Source spoke with Tingle ahead of his June 6 appearance at Ann Arbor District Library.Chuck Tingle has "love is real" scrawled across the top of his ever-present pink burlap mask, and when he arrives in Ann Arbor for a one-buckaroo [...]Read more about Bestselling Author and Delightful Weirdo Chuck Tingle on Proving Love in a Difficult Era
Detroit's Pride Season Goes Beyond the Festival
Looking to step outside the festival circuit this Pride season? Metro Detroit's LGBTQ+ choral community is offering two milestone anniversary concerts that make a strong case for celebrating with song.PRISM Chorus brings its 10th anniversary to [...]Read more about Detroit's Pride Season Goes Beyond the Festival
Madison Heights Cancels Drag Queen Storytime Days Before Pride Event
Update: Madison Heights has reversed this decision. Check out Jadein Black's Facebook page for the latest.A Madison Heights City Council vote to cancel a planned Drag Queen Storytime just days before the city's annual Arts & Pride [...]Read more about Madison Heights Cancels Drag Queen Storytime Days Before Pride Event
Baddie Brooks Is Back — and Ready for Her Biggest Stage Yet
Baddie Brooks has had a lot of firsts. The first Black trans woman from Detroit to serve as Grand Marshal at the NYC Pride March in 2024. One of the first Michigan artists to fuse house, pop and R&B into a sound that feels distinctly, defiantly [...]Read more about Baddie Brooks Is Back — and Ready for Her Biggest Stage Yet
Every Box Tells a Story at This Ferndale Pride Fundraiser
If you handed a dozen Southeast Michigan artists a plain cigar box and told them to make something, you'd get a dozen completely different answers, and Small Packages wouldn't want it any other way. The annual Ferndale fundraiser, which [...]Read more about Every Box Tells a Story at This Ferndale Pride Fundraiser
Chris Azzopardi Has Spent 20 Years Asking the Right Questions — For Our Readers, For All of Us
On any given week, Chris Azzopardi might be on the phone with Cher in the morning and, by afternoon, editing a story about a queer teen in rural Michigan who started a Pride event in a town that had never seen one. He has been doing some version of [...]Read more about Chris Azzopardi Has Spent 20 Years Asking the Right Questions — For Our Readers, For All of Us
Ypsilanti Fundraiser Rallies Community Around Trans Youth
For trans youth and their families in southeast Michigan, the question of where to find gender-affirming care has grown more urgent by the month. In Washtenaw County, many patients are finding one answer at Corner Health Center in Ypsilanti — and the [...]Read more about Ypsilanti Fundraiser Rallies Community Around Trans Youth
Wisconsin Brewery Steps Up After School Board Bans Trans-Inclusive Song
When the Watertown, Wisconsin school board voted 7-1 on May 12 to pull an instrumental piece honoring transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson from a high school wind symphony concert, they probably didn't expect the backlash to arrive in the form [...]Read more about Wisconsin Brewery Steps Up After School Board Bans Trans-Inclusive Song
Deadnamed and Done With It, This Former Megachurch Pastor Is Focused on Your Power Bill
The Wayne County Clerk made it official May 12: Joanna Whaley is on the August primary ballot, and no amount of legal maneuvering from a fellow Democrat is going to change that.Wayne County Clerk Cathy M. Garrett formally rejected a challenge filed [...]Read more about Deadnamed and Done With It, This Former Megachurch Pastor Is Focused on Your Power Bill
Mental Health Urgent Care Is Here When You Can't Wait
If you've ever tried to get a mental health appointment in a hurry, you know the feeling: You need to talk to someone now, but the earliest opening is three weeks out. By then, you might feel completely different — or you might have spent three [...]Read more about Mental Health Urgent Care Is Here When You Can't Wait
Pride Is Loud This Summer, and That's the Whole Point
Look, nobody is pretending this is a normal summer. Every seat in the Michigan Legislature is on the ballot this fall. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — one of the most reliably pro-LGBTQ+ governors this state has ever had — is in her final year in office. [...]Read more about Pride Is Loud This Summer, and That's the Whole Point
Ditch the Car: Your Next Queer Getaway Is a Train (or Bus) Ride Away
There’s a particular kind of road-trip exhaustion that has nothing to do with the miles. It’s the highway hypnosis, the merge anxiety, the GPS rerouting you through a construction zone outside Kalamazoo at 6 p.m. on a Friday. Flying, of course, is [...]Read more about Ditch the Car: Your Next Queer Getaway Is a Train (or Bus) Ride Away
President Buttigieg? 2028 Buzz Builds as Pete Signals a Run
If you've been waiting for Pete Buttigieg to just say the thing out loud, his remarks at the National Action Network convention in New York on April 10 came pretty close.When the Rev. Al Sharpton asked whether he should reserve a table at [...]Read more about President Buttigieg? 2028 Buzz Builds as Pete Signals a Run
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund Backs Five Michigan Candidates in 2026 Races
With Michigan's Aug. 4 primary drawing closer, five candidates across the state have earned endorsements from the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, the national organization that has worked since 1991 to elect out LGBTQ+ leaders at every level of government. [...]Read more about LGBTQ+ Victory Fund Backs Five Michigan Candidates in 2026 Races
Christian John Wikane’s 'A Night at the Disco' Explores Disco Music’s Role in LGBTQ+ History
In the summer of 1979, 16-year-old French Canadian singer France Joli stepped onto a stage on Fire Island as a last-minute replacement for Donna Summer. She had no idea what she was walking into. The crowd was filled with thousands of gay men [...]Read more about Christian John Wikane’s 'A Night at the Disco' Explores Disco Music’s Role in LGBTQ+ History