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The publication, Gay Liberator, was first published in 1970 by the Detroit Gay Liberation Front. The Gay Liberator was later published by an…
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These protesters are demonstrating on behalf of Brian McNaught, a Michigan Catholic columnist, who was fired for coming out as gay and helping to…
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In 1958, Wayne State graduate students Lawson and Brewer, along with their friend Jai Moore, established a Detroit chapter of the Mattachine Society,…
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Stevenson, as executive director of Affirmations Community Center and co-publisher of Between The Lines; and Covey, as executive director of the…
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Kavanaugh, an autoworker, served as an early leader in the Detroit Gay Liberation Front. He resigned from the militant group after it took on…
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Members of Ann Arbor's Gay Youth Group started this mimeographed newsletter to reach other gay and lesbian high schoolers. Later editors dropped the…
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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…
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Introduced by Rep. James K. Dressell, a Republican from Ottawa County, this legislation would have added "sexual orientation" to Michigan's…
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With headquarters based at various times in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing, the Michigan Organization for Human Rights (MOHR) served as a critical…
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Considerably more conservative than the new generation of post-Stonewall politicized gays, ONE in Detroit served a more social than political role…