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Trish Brown narrowly lost her re-election bid to the Wayne-Westland School Board in a nasty campaign in which her sexuality was targeted with "Take a…
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
After having a gay rights ordinance vetoed in Lansing during the early 1980s, one was finally enacted in March 1996, only to be rescinded by voters…
Olan Mills Photographers
Activism
In revealing his and Randy Block's same-sex union ceremony, Byron Center music teacher Gerry Crane set off a firestorm of protest among parents who…
Activism
Ann Arbor activist and massage therapist David Rosenberg organized Michigan's first Radical Faerie gathering at a camp in Watervliet. Celebrating…
Activism
On numerous occasions during the early 1970s, Ann Arbor lesbians and gays took to the streets to protest discriminatory actions by businesses and…
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…
Activism
Considerably more conservative than the new generation of post-Stonewall politicized gays, ONE in Detroit served a more social than political role…
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
Introduced by Rep. James K. Dressell, a Republican from Ottawa County, this legislation would have added "sexual orientation" to Michigan's…