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Colleges and Universities
Daniel Curzon grew up in Detroit and attended Wayne State University and the University of Detroit. Once seen as a gay Joyce Carol Oates, he left…
Colleges and Universities
Deborah Bacon served as Dean of Women at The University of Michigan during the 1950s and 1960s. Her policing of homosexual affection was in accordance…
Books
Anita Skeen's poems have been published in numerous literary journals. As a professor at Michigan State University, she co-chaired the University-Wide…
Books
When Better Angel was reissued by the publisher Alyson in 1987, 86-year-old Forman Brown, a University of Michigan alumni, came forward as the author.…
Activism
In 1958, Wayne State graduate students Lawson and Brewer, along with their friend Jai Moore, established a Detroit chapter of the Mattachine Society,…
Colleges and Universities
Originally from New York, Raphael moved to Michigan in the early 1980s to attend Michigan State University. He was last reported to be living with his…
Colleges and Universities
Two female students caused a scandal at the University of Michigan in 1953 with their defiant expressions of same-sex desire and were forced to leave…
Colleges and Universities
Saved from the electric chair by famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow, Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life in prison. Loeb was killed by a…
University of Michigan
Saved from the electric chair by famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow, Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life in prison. Loeb was killed by a…
Colleges and Universities
During the nineteenth century romantic friendships among women were considered as innocent and non-sexual. By the early 1900s, however, passionate…