Stacey Hotwaxx Hale is the embodiment of Detroit talent and grit. When I meet her at Spot Lite Detroit on a hot spring afternoon, she’s finishing up a business meeting, dressed to the nines in a cozy ...

Get ready to gag on the eleganza, darlings — Ferndale Pride is serving up fresh faces and fierce performances with its 2025 Newcomer Drag Show, putting baby queens and kings center stage to help kick ...

One hundred people — mostly gay, mostly men — walk into a bar. It might sound like a punchline to a joke, but it’s how Detroit Staycation Club started. James Staycation, 36, and his friends grew bored ...

When Frankie Grande bounces into our Zoom meeting, he radiates enough energy to power a small city. The self-proclaimed “gayest person on earth” is about to release his debut album and he’s turned all ...

In a packed committee room on May 15, the air crackled with tension as Michigan state Rep. Jason Woolford sat frozen, mouth agape, unable to answer what should have been the simplest of questions.

“I used to be so scared to even walk down the stairs.” This line is from my original song “Trans." Unfortunately, this was my reality, as I was raised in an environment that was not inclusive of ...

Two controversial reports targeting transgender youth health care have been thoroughly rejected by the world's leading medical organizations, yet continue influencing laws that restrict care for ...

In the face of unprecedented legislative attacks on transgender rights, Stand with Trans founder Roz Keith sees the organization's 10-year anniversary gala, which takes place May 17, as a powerful ...

I love The Onion. They truly have their finger on this country’s political pulse. In fact, several of their recent headlines were so believable they could have come from the Washington Post. Examples ...

Who are we kidding? The days of packing Pride into four tiny weeks is vanishing faster than corduroy in climate change. That's all to say our mid-May calendar is bulging bigger than a baby queer who ...

As I write this from Michigan, where Planned Parenthood just announced the closure of four clinics that provide gender-affirming care, I find myself furious at the Washington Post's shameful ...

Michigan's Pride season is set to meet the moment in a year marked by growing political attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, with more than 40 celebrations scheduled across the state from May through September.