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Metro Gay News
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…
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…
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…
Gay Pride Rally in Detroit (1973)
Like the first Detroit pride march and rally the year before, the 1973 event was sparsely attended, but nonetheless it attracted gays and lesbians…
Gay Liberation Front at Detroit Gay Pride Rally
Like the first Detroit pride march and rally the year before, this 1973 event was sparsely attended, but nonetheless it attracted gays and lesbians…
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