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Lesbians
Collective members once hand delivered one issue of the Leaping Lesbian to in-town subscribers when postal rates were unexpectedly raised.
Activism
Members of Ann Arbor's Gay Youth Group started this mimeographed newsletter to reach other gay and lesbian high schoolers. Later editors dropped the…
Organizations
Mark Paron, along with U-M librarian Scott Dennis, were members of the Michigan's Gay Youth Group (the first in Michigan) that started meeting in 1978…
Activism
David Krumroy, Brian McNaught, and others launched Metro Gay News following the demise of the Gay Liberator. During its 21 issue run, it covered such…
Activism
With headquarters based at various times in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing, the Michigan Organization for Human Rights (MOHR) served as a critical…
Activism
Considerably more conservative than the new generation of post-Stonewall politicized gays, ONE in Detroit served a more social than political role…
Organizations
Ann Arbor native W. Dorr Legg helped found the homophile organization ONE and its magazine in the early 1950s. Legg remained leader of the Los…
Bars and Nightclubs
W. Dorr Legg helped found the homophile organization ONE and its magazine in the early 1950s. William Kern, a.k.a. Bill Dakota, a member of ONE,…
Activism
Ann Arbor activist and massage therapist David Rosenberg organized Michigan's first Radical Faerie gathering at a camp in Watervliet. Celebrating…
African Americans
Reverend Renee McCoy has played a prominent role in lesbian and gay activism both locally and nationally as founding pastor of Full Truth Unity…