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This holiday, support incarcerated folks by joining Season For Solidarity
by (Briana)
Submitted 12-12-2017 under PLACE-MATTERS
This holiday season, support incarcerated folks by joining us for Season For Solidarity! Join us this Friday, December 15, 2017 from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. at Plymouth Congregational UCC (4010 Kalamazoo Ave SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49508) for A Season for...
Grand Rapids Pride Center celebrates LGBTQ month with series of events, festival
by (Grand Rapids Pr...)
Submitted 06-06-2017 under NONPROFITS
Happy LGBTQ Pride Month! Grand Rapids Pride Center is hosting pride celebration events all month long leading up to Grand Rapids Pride Festival, June 17, 2017 at Calder Plaza. This year GR Pride Fest is proud to welcome headliner, Billy Gilman,...
Trans Day of Visibility enters ninth year of observance
by (finnmarcks)
Submitted 03-28-2017 under OPINION
As March 31st fast approaches, International Transgender Day of Visibility will be celebrating its ninth year of observance. TDoV is an annual holiday celebrated around the globe, dedicated to celebrating the successes and accomplishments of...
Book Launch for Fable the Poet: "Adrift in a Sea of M&Ms"
by (Write616)
Submitted 10-14-2016 under
Support fresh voices at a special celebration for Marcel "Fable" Price in honor of his volume, Adrift in a Sea of M&Ms. Fable will be joined at this free reading and performance by Zerelli, KFG, and Kyd Kane. More details on our...
Grand Rapids Trans Foundation awards first scholarship
by (Grand Rapids Tr...)
Submitted 08-16-2016 under NONPROFITS
On behalf of its Board of Directors, the Grand Rapids Trans Foundation (GRTF) is pleased to award its first $2,500 scholarship to local college student Aaminah Shakur. The GRTF scholarship program invests in transgender individuals in Grand...
The Things People Say
by (queercook)
Submitted 06-28-2015 under VOICES
"The Things People Say" is a comic of actual snippets from real conversations I have had with real people. Out of the countless interactions I have had, I picked only a handful to demonstrate some of the ignorant questions and statements...
Coming Out and Staying In: My Journey as a Bisexual
by (tigerssniffingcatnip)
Submitted 06-28-2015 under VOICES
June is pride month, a seemingly happy time where queer people celebrate their identities and lives. Ideally, it is a time to remember our history and create our future. Unfortunately, my experiences with pride-related events in West Michigan has...
Missing Pride
by (Hollowed)
Submitted 06-28-2015 under OPINION
On the morning of June 26th, 2015, the Supreme Court made marriage equality a reality throughout the country, in a 5-4 vote. This is certainly a major turning point in history, one I’ll surely be telling younger generations about as I...
Pride, GR: A Queer-ies
by (Briana)
Submitted 06-28-2015 under VOICES
Between homophobic signs on U.S. 131, Latina trans women being silenced by the president while protesting discriminatory detention practices for undocumented immigrants, and gay marriage recently being made legal in the US, there's a lot to be...
Living Authentically
by (Scott Burden)
Submitted 06-28-2015 under VOICES
I came out about a year and half ago to both myself and a few very close friends. At the time, I was working for a non-profit Christian parachurch ministry and I was scared out of my mind as to how they would react. After all, I had dedicated nearly...