Pride Source Media publishes Michigan's LGBT Weekly Newspaper Between The Lines; the Michigan Pride Source Yellow Pages and the web site: www.pridesource.com.
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Choosing to seek help for a substance use disorder takes courage, and taking the first step toward recovery isn't always easy. For members of the LGBTQ+ community, worries about being accepted or understood can make that decision even more difficult. At Macomb County Community Mental Health (MCCMH), we believe everyone deserves compassionate, affirming care. We offer person-centered care to help…
If you’ve ever gone out clubbing around Detroit and stumbled across two men dressed to the nines in disco attire, singing their hearts out to covers of hit songs like “It’s Raining Men” or “I Feel Love,” then you’ve probably met AJ and Bookie, better known as the Detroit Disco Daddies. The Daddies, a staple at the cocktail bar Lowkey in Detroit, are couple Adam (AJ) and Jerome (Bookie)…
A recent New York Times opinion piece titled “Cutting Your Parents Off Isn’t the Answer” has resulted in a lot of chatter by people I follow on Bluesky about whether or not queer people who aren’t accepted by their parents or other family members should cut ties with them. The author of the piece discusses her relationship with her father and how both of them worked to repair that relationship.…
Michigan's LGBTQ+ community is celebrating its first Transgender and Nonbinary Pride and History Month this August, an initiative born from one advocate's decades of work and a rally that brought old friends together. Michelle Fox-Phillips, who serves on the boards of MiGen and the Gender Identity Network Alliance , says the idea had been on her mind for years. It took shape last year at a rally…
This article was originally published by Uncloseted Media . Editor's note: Uncloseted Media is one of a growing number of independent, queer-led newsrooms doing the kind of sustained investigative work that national outlets often miss, and we like to spotlight that work when we can. This piece also hits close to home: Joanna Whaley and Toni Mua, two of the candidates featured here, ran in…
Summer may theoretically be winding down, but apparently nobody told Michigan's queer calendar. The next couple of weeks offer everything from an old-school picnic to sword swallowing, open-stage drag and an all-new way to find an endless parade of LGBTQ+ events throughout Michigan. In other words: Summer isn't over until the queers say it's done. 1. Picnic With Pride Transgender Michigan's…
The Michigan Supreme Court has issued its opinion in People v. Jade , a ruling that reshapes how courts across the state must evaluate entrapment claims arising from police sting operations, and one that could mark a major turning point for Evan Lakatos, the Muskegon man convicted after a fake Grindr profile was used to arrest him in 2021. Lakatos' case has been held in abeyance in the Michigan…
She’s back, baby! Rosie O’Donnell is back in the United States after moving to Ireland shortly after Trump was elected for the second stupid time. She was on the cover of People magazine, has a one-woman show called “ Common Knowledge ” that she’s performing on Broadway and she’s slated to guest-host Jimmy Kimmel Live. Oh, and she still hates Trump. As one should. The media likes to talk about…
At this point, performing on a national stage is second nature to Adam Lambert, who shot to fame 17 years ago during the eighth season of “American Idol” in May 2009. Just six months later, Lambert went on to release his hit album “For Your Entertainment,” which included the Billboard Top 10 single “Whataya Want from Me.” “I have a better sense of what my voice can do,” Lambert tells Pride Source,…
We are fighting our fight all wrong. We have accepted the terms of battle, of our very existence, from those who seek to demean us, reduce us to insignificance, to erase us from society. It’s time to stop and it starts with the way we define ourselves. To begin: Why do we continue to call ourselves “transgender"? By definition, the prefix “trans” connotes a change from one form to another. That is…
When I was in elementary school, my twin sister and I played in a youth soccer league. We were the only girls on an otherwise all-boys team. Now, I don’t know how or why this happened. I do not know if this was a league where boys and girls played together on the same teams or if our dad talked our way onto a boys’ team (which is something he probably would have done, overstating our talent and…
