If there’s one thing Niecy Nash-Betts knows how to do, it’s turn a moment into a metaphor. So it feels almost too perfect — borderline ...

Like so many others, I was heartbroken by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that allows the Trump administration to enforce its executive order denying transgender and gender non-binary people the ...

As the year winds down (or perhaps skids into the curb like a minivan in February), LGBTQ+ Southeast Michigan is still showing up for joy, art, harmony, dancing, pets in costumes and the kind of ...

Chaos, camp and unrestrained power crash through every melodramatic note — and every broken dish — in “The Housemaid." In the film, out Dec. 19, Amanda Seyfried — beloved by queer audiences for “Mean ...

In an era marked by backsliding on human and civil rights, any artistic work that centers marginalized voices can feel inherently political simply by existing. Detroit Opera's “Highways and Valleys — ...

With open enrollment season here and many people discovering their 2026 premiums and deductibles have climbed yet again, healthcare affordability is top of mind. But cutting back on medical care isn't ...

Happy World AIDS Day to everyone except the United States. Actually, I don’t think that Happy World AIDS Day is the appropriate greeting, but currently in this country there is no appropriate greeting ...

When Reid Beyerlein and Robert Lalicki met at a Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce coffee meeting, they clicked instantly. So did the people seated on either side of them. Twenty years later, all four ...

The anonymous cards started arriving shortly after David Custer lost his job. The first one, addressed to his husband, featured a naked man and handwritten text so vulgar and homophobic that the ...

One of Michigan's most prominent LGBTQ+ organizations is facing serious allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation in a lawsuit filed by a former employee who says he endured years of unwanted ...

This holiday season, your shopping list can do more than check off gifts — it can support thriving LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs ...

Scrambling to find the right gift for each trans person on your holiday list? Let me help.To start, let me suggest you check ...