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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…
African Americans
Reverend Renee McCoy has played a prominent role in lesbian and gay activism both locally and nationally as founding pastor of Full Truth Unity…
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…
Bars and Nightclubs
W. Dorr Legg helped found the homophile organization ONE and its magazine in the early 1950s. William Kern, a.k.a. Bill Dakota, a member of ONE,…
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
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…