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Little Lambda Review
Members of Ann Arbor's Gay Youth Group started this mimeographed newsletter to reach other gay and lesbian high schoolers. Later editors dropped the…
Leaping Lesbian Collective
Collective members once hand delivered one issue of the Leaping Lesbian to in-town subscribers when postal rates were unexpectedly raised.
John Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh, an autoworker, served as an early leader in the Detroit Gay Liberation Front. He resigned from the militant group after it took on…
Jan Stevenson and Craig Covey at Pride Banquet
Stevenson, as executive director of Affirmations Community Center and co-publisher of Between The Lines; and Covey, as executive director of the…
Hal Lawson & David Whitney Brewer
In 1958, Wayne State graduate students Lawson and Brewer, along with their friend Jai Moore, established a Detroit chapter of the Mattachine Society,…
Gay Protest: Chancery Building in Detroit
These protesters are demonstrating on behalf of Brian McNaught, a Michigan Catholic columnist, who was fired for coming out as gay and helping to…
Gay Liberator Detroit
The publication, Gay Liberator, was first published in 1970 by the Detroit Gay Liberation Front. The Gay Liberator was later published by an…
Gay Day at Cedar Point
Two weeks before the Stonewall riots that would spark unprecedented gay and lesbian activism, gays from group, ONE in Detroit, held an outing at Cedar…
Detroit Together Men's Chorus
Choral groups across Michigan provided a new, creative means for lesbians and gay men to socialize. The women's chorus in Detroit had a short life in…
David Krumroy Obituary
As well as starting Metro Gay News, David Krumroy played a part in founding the Michigan Organization for Human Rights. This obituary was published on…
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