I was the youngest “girl” — meaning assigned girl — in a large Midwestern farm family in the 1970s. We didn't talk much about gender, but masculinity wasn't exactly an abstract concept. It was ...

For nearly three decades, Jessica Kirson has built a stand-up career the long way: performing night after night, city after city, trusting that if she stayed honest, vulnerable — maybe even just a bit ...

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed used an unlikely question to expose what he called conservative hypocrisy on medical decisions for minors, asking Fox News host Jesse Watters ...

If you’re still wondering about those homoerotic undertones 25 years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized Woodsboro in Wes Craven’s “Scream,” you’ve been on the right track all along. Ahead of ...

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The pitch is perfectly crazy in Anna Kendrick's walk on the dark side of filmmaker Paul Feig's warped sense of humor, "A Simple Favor." It's martini-sipper mom versus martini-swigger mom. Target mom ...

There’s been something troubling me for the last couple of years about what the Trump administration has been doing. It ...

Four days of live music, drag, and LGBTQIA+ showcases take over the Pronto Patio during the 2026 Michigan — Pronto! Lounge & ...

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For 25 years, the Michigan LGBTQ+ Students Project has worked to make schools safer for the state's LGBTQ+ youth, at a moment when many of those ...

The first time I set up a table at the local farmers market, people barely made eye contact, let alone opened their wallets. I was a tattooed, masc, ...