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Businesses
Organized by a feminist collective in the mid-1970s, the bookstore served as a safe space for lesbians and other Ann Arbor women until the early…
Photographer hired by Scott Dennis
Activism
Scott Dennis and Jeff Schunk, along with Mark Paron, formed the core of Ann Arbor's first organization for gay high school students. Initially…
Activism
On numerous occasions during the early 1970s, Ann Arbor lesbians and gays took to the streets to protest discriminatory actions by businesses and…
Bars and Nightclubs
Detroit's Palmer Park neighborhood became a magnet for gays in the late 1970s and early 1980s which lead to the establishment of many businesses and…
Activism
Considerably more conservative than the new generation of post-Stonewall politicized gays, ONE in Detroit served a more social than political role…
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…
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
Members of Ann Arbor's Gay Youth Group started this mimeographed newsletter to reach other gay and lesbian high schoolers. Later editors dropped the…
Lesbians
Collective members once hand delivered one issue of the Leaping Lesbian to in-town subscribers when postal rates were unexpectedly raised.
Lesbians
For three years, beginning in 1977, the Leaping Lesbian provided news and support for Ann Arbor's lesbian community. The item shown here is the…