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.

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer isn't just a regular mom — she's a cool mom. She'll tell you herself. Or rather, her outfit will. She strides into the living room of her Lansing residence in all black, a ...

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 ...

For LGBTQ+ community members in Michigan and beyond, assaults from the anti-queer federal government have felt unrelenting — and show no sign of letting up. Since the Trump administration returned to ...

I’ve noticed that for many people in the queer community, allyship can be a difficult concept with numerous pros and cons. For example, every time a straight actor portrays a gay character, it helps ...

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 ...

During a recent interview with comedian Joe Dombrowski about his upcoming special "Dad on Arrival," he was, fittingly, in the middle of it all — juggling new fatherhood in real time. At one point, the ...

I've talked to Tori Amos enough times now that I no longer blink when the conversation drifts to witches, demons, fairies or the slow-motion collapse of democracy — often within the same sentence. Her ...

She walked into the room in a rainbow sweater her gay daughter refused to keep, and immediately started dressing her dogs in Pride accessories for the photo shoot. If you needed a single image to ...