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Terry Gonda, a music director at her parish near Detroit, was told she would be fired because she is married to a woman. Days later came the Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ workplace rights.

Twin brothers Zack and Michael Zakar began to realize they were gay in high school in Oak Park, but it wasn't until a rumor went around when they were 16, says Zack, that they came out to each other. Then a year later, their mother, a devout Catholic, asked Zach if he was gay, and when he and Michael finally came out to her, she didn't take it so well. "She left our house for three days and when she came back, sh

To celebrate Between The Lines’ silver anniversary, the Livonia, Mich.-based newspaper plans on revisiting milestones from the Detroit area’s LGBT history.

The Detroit Tigers are showing their support for the LGBT community. The team is collaborating with the Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce to offer a “Pride Pack” ticket package for the Aug. 22 game against the Chicago Cubs.

Detroit will again be blanketed in colors of the rainbow this weekend (June 9-10) celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) culture at Motor City Pride, an annual two-day festival and parade that is the largest LGBTQ gathering in Michigan. As a key sponsor of the festival and the lead sponsor of the parade, FCA US LLC and the FIAT brand will celebrate their longstanding commitment to LGBTQ employees, communities, customers and issues.

The Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau (DMCVB) debuted its new advertising campaign themed, "Detroit: It's Go Time" at its Annual Membership Meeting today at Sound Board at MotorCity Casino Hotel.

...Ayoub went to his first Arabian Nights event at Menjos in Detroit, which celebrates 15 years on Saturday with DJ Andrew and Middle-Eastern Princess Samantha Divine.

Wayne State unveils 88th annual spring dance concert; Guild of Artists & Artisans launches new event in Royal Oak

The Woodward Bar and Grill Still a Safe Space for LGBT People - In the heart of Midtown is the Woodward Bar and Grill, the most popular gay bar in Detroit as early as 1960. While there weren't a lot of choices at the time, this establishment was the place of choice for most LGBT people, and for many still is.

The Pistons will host a series of virtual events from Monday through Thursday for Pistons Pride Week.

Through his nonprofit, LGBT Detroit, Curtis Lipscomb has been working to build a stronger LGBTQ community and help educate young black men about HIV.

When Metro Times last spoke to Mike Flores, the year was 2001 and the then-20-year-old had just come out as gay. A native of Houston, Texas, the first-generation Mexican-American moved to Michigan to study business at University of Detroit Mercy. Despite being a young gay man at a Catholic school, Flores found an accepting and tolerant community in Detroit, and soon became the Latino outreach coordinator for La Comunidad, a support group and HIV education and prevention initiative for gay Latin men. "It was actually word of mouth, 'Hey there is a new gay Latin group,' and I had never heard of such a thing," Flores told MT of finding La Comunidad. "I was like, 'Wow, that's a paradox.'"

Whistles and cheers echoed through Downtown Detroit Sunday afternoon as the Motor City Pride parade made its way toward Hart Plaza despite the misting rain.

A new show in Detroit celebrates the artist’s campy, celebratory, erotic world of men. It’s a place where everyone just wants to have some fun.

SAGE (Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders) Metro Detroit was recently awarded a $400,000 grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund. The grant will fund a two-year project that seeks to reduce isolation and improve care to LGBT older adults in three Michigan regions by replicating a successful Detroit-area collaborative pilot project between local LGBT service organizations and the Area Agencies on Aging (AAA).

The co-editors, Lourdes Dolores Follins and Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, of the academic text, "Black LGBT Health in the United States: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation," will be available to discuss their work from 6-8 p.m. on June 2 at the Ruth Ellis Health and Wellness Center, 77 Victor St. in Highland Park. 

The Michigan LGBT ComedyFest returns to the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn for its 21st installment March 4 at 8 p.m. Formerly a production of Equality Michigan, the ComedyFest is now under the Motor City Pride umbrella - MCP having recently spun off from EQMI to become its own entity.