Compiled By Tim Retzloff Wh s 20th anniversary, Between The L ntu as the longt published LGBT newspaper Michigan. The Gay Liberator
Contents:
- MICHIGAN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN, PROMENT ANN ARBOR LGBTQ ACTIVIST, DI AT 91
- THE EVOLUTN OF GAY PRI ACROSS MICHIGAN
- MISS GAY MICHIGAN AMERI PAGEANT PROMIS GRAND GLAM
- GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020
MICHIGAN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN, PROMENT ANN ARBOR LGBTQ ACTIVIST, DI AT 91
The Miss Gay Michigan Ameri pageant is returng to the state after a 30-year absence. Though the pageant system is 50 years old this year, there’s * michigan gay news *
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THE EVOLUTN OF GAY PRI ACROSS MICHIGAN
Mark Latunski was charged the killg and mutilatn of gay hairstylist Kev Ban, who was last seen Christmas Eve after gog to meet someone om Grdr. * michigan gay news *
Maybe too gay, acrdg to anti-gays. “For 40 long years, amendg Elltt-Larsen has been the battle cry of our muny, ” gay Sen. The expansn of the Elltt-Larsen Act is the first piece of pro-LGBTQ+ legislatn ever passed Michigan, she Jason Hosks, a Black man who’s the first out gay person of lor the legislature, sponsored the Hoe versn of the bill.
Whmer said she had always been an LGBTQ+ ally, but the issue is also personal for her, as she is the mother of a gay woman. (WOOD) — Homosexualy and queer liftyl have been a part of human culture for lennia. Michigan’s first gay pri event was held 1972.
The 1969 Stonewall Uprisg is nsired a flashpot for the gay muny that sparked a change thkg, but queer anizatns fightg for civil rights existed long before that fateful week. The first known gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat was the Society for Human Rights, found 1924 Chigo.
MISS GAY MICHIGAN AMERI PAGEANT PROMIS GRAND GLAM
Known as the homophile movement, was the first major effort to try and speak publicly support of homosexualy. “This was a perd of time when people uld be fired (for beg gay) and be fired for even beg spected of beg gay. Bee of the hidn nature, there were relatively few plac for gay people to meet and socialize openly.
Gay bars and clubs quickly beme plac of refuge.
In New York Cy, wasn’t until 1966 that regulatns on public gay behavr were changed. But those chang didn’t stop police raids, and 1969, after a surprise raid at the Stonewall Inn, a known gay bar Greenwich Village, members of the gay muny cid to fight back. While wasn’t the first public monstratn, ma an outsized impact and galvanized gay muni across the untry.
GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020
“There was this utn, this awarens among people that there are nsequenc (to beg known publicly as gay), ” Retzloff said. Prr to Stonewall, Michigan had small anizatns dited to gay rights, cludg chapters of the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis.
One of the major anizatns to grow out of the Stonewall protts was the Gay Liberatn Front.
A ver of the Gay Liberator magaze published by the Detro chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front om 1970-1976.