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Pride Month arrives with the start of June, and summer 2024 in metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan is bursting with celebrations.
The Detroit Area Gay & Lesbian Council organized PrideFest from 1982 to 1992. In 1993, PrideFest became its own organization known as South East Michigan Pride and held at the Oakland Community College in Royal Oak, MI with Michael Lary as the event director. In 2001, PrideFest was moved to downtown Ferndale under the new direction of the ...
An LGBT film festival, Reel Pride Michigan, ran from 2002 through 2008 in Royal Oak. Hotter Than July has hosted a film festival since 2008 as part of their annual festivities. [19] The film festival continued through at least 2016. [20] In 2017, a film festival for queer filmmakers, Trans Stellar Film Festival, was founded. [21]
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the bill on March 16, 2023. [5] In 2024, Michigan repealed “the last ban on commercial surrogacy within the US” - for individuals and couples and reformed the parentage laws, that acknowledges same sex couples and their families with children. [6] Michigan is home to a vibrant LGBT community.
Affirmations, a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m 2) LGBT community center in Downtown Ferndale, opened its new, expanded building on Sunday June 3, 2007, [20] the same year the city elected the first openly gay mayor in Michigan. In 2011, Motor City Pride moved to Detroit's Hart Plaza. Ferndale Pride was started that year. [21]
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Equality Michigan is an American civil rights, advocacy and anti-violence organization serving Michigan's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.Equality Michigan serves Michigan's LGBT community through victims services, lobbying on behalf of the LGBT community, public education on LGBT issues, and organizing Michigan's largest LGBT events such as Motor City Pride.