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Michigan art organizations are spending the fall inviting audiences to explore identity, community and discovery — whether through a new musical about astronaut Sally Ride, exhibitions reconsidering women's places in art and fashion, or queer choruses opening new doors to holiday traditions. Theater Michigan stages are raising the curtain on both familiar queer classics and new work between now and the end of the year. Fisher Building lobby and theatre entrance.

It's been a long time since I thought about Lauren Boebert. I think the last time she was on my radar was when she was giving Beetlejuice handies to some guy and then crying that she was acting out while going through a divorce and "simply fell short" of the values she's happy to legislate for everybody else.

We know him as Kumar in the “Harold & Kumar” movies, but Kal Penn has spent the past two decades happily refusing to stay in one lane. He left acting for a stint in the Obama administration, returned to Hollywood and, in 2021, wrote “You Can’t Be Serious,” a memoir that many assumed was partly his coming-out story. Now, in his new film, “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor,” in theaters Oct. 16, he plays Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, a gay doctor who finds himself pulled into Anna Nicole Smith’s orbit.

Ten porn creators walk into a Baja California villa expecting a week of sex, sun and content collaborations. Instead, they find out they’re on a reality competition show. That’s the bait-and-switch premise behind “Crush House,” the new series from Mencrush.com, a subscription-based platform best known for its documentaries on adult performers. The series, which premiered Sept.

Stop telling trans people they have to vote for anti-trans Democrats. Stop telling them they'll be responsible for the fall of democracy unless they do. I've been thinking a lot about something @nome.bsky.social posted to Bluesky on Sept. 15: "I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they've been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable," he wrote.

There's a version of this story that starts with a list. Like many good stories, though, it's better to start at the bar, under a pressed-tin ceiling, past mirrors that don't quite match and gnarled, wax-drenched candles that have melted into their own small sculptures. Roses, the 29-seat diner on Detroit's east side, has always felt like this. A little worn-in, a little romantic, entirely itself.

Dr. Abdul El Sayed with campaign volunteers. Courtesy photo The Human Rights Campaign PAC has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, calling the Detroit Democrat a "pro-equality champion" in a press release announcing the endorsement Sept. 17. HRC President Kelley Robinson frames the race as pivotal for LGBTQ+ Michiganders and for Congress overall, given that LGBTQ+ adults make up nearly 11% of the state's population, according to HRC Foundation population data.

Artwork by Funky Ferndale Art Fair artist Megan Krol. September is doing that Michigan thing where it cannot decide whether you should be wearing shorts, a hoodie or both (let's be real here: you're going to wear both) but, fortunately, your social calendar can be considerably more decisive.

Kevin Heard didn't set out to build a networking group. When he moved back to Detroit years ago, he noticed something missing: no organization existed to cultivate LGBTQ-owned businesses, only informal networks tucked inside corporate employee resource groups. That gap became the Detroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Now, it's the Michigan Pride Chamber of Commerce, and Heard, its executive director and founder, is taking that same mission to all 83 counties.

This article originally appeared on Uncloseted Media. Tristan Schukraft started his first business when he was 21, selling Razor scooters out of his pickup truck to help finance his idea for an e-ticketing platform for the airline industry. Today he's founder and CEO of MISTR, a major LGBTQ+ telehealth platform expanding access to PrEP and STI testing, and he boasts a broader portfolio of 68 businesses, which he says have led him to become a billionaire.