Motor City Pride is Coming!!!!!

Motor City Pride is coming. Are you ready.

40,000 of your closest friends and allies will be in downtown Ferndale on Sunday, June 1st. Come have fun and enjoy seeing our communtiy in full strength.

For more details on the entire series of events that weekend, visit www.MotorCityPride.org

Media Coverage of Triangle's Hate Crime Report

Triangle Foundation released their 2007 anti-LGBT hate crime report today.

Below is the news media wrap-up.

Detroit Free Press
Progress MI Blog
Lansing State Journal
Mlive.com (AP)
Fox 2 Detroit

2000 Queers Laughing at ourselves

One of the reasons I love ComedyFest is that it is one of the rare opporunities our community gets together outside of the bar scene (and don't get me wrong I love our local Detroit clubs). There is no smoke, free parking and nearly 2000 LGBT people just being ourselves.

It is a great opportunity to meet people, socialize and just plain relax. The Michigan Lesbian and Gay ComedyFest is now the largest LGBT comedy event in the nation.

I have gone every year since Triangle Foundation started producing it and believe it is a terrific bargain for your money. For just $30 dollars you get four national LGBT comics.

By the end of the evening, everyone has had a good time seeing old and new friends and just laughing. Too often we take our lives and our movment too seriously. ComedyFest allows us to just have fun and detach from the seriousness of it all.

To check it out or order tix for you and your friends/family go to www.ComedyFest.org

Major Article in Detroit Free Press about Jeffrey Montgomery

The Sunday Detroit Free Press (the most read paper on the most read day in Michigan) ran a huge story about the transition of our Executive Director (and my dear friend) Jeffrey Montgomery. You can read it here.

Presidential Forum

Not much to this post, but the local GLBT newspaper ran a piece about the Triangle Foundation/SOHO viewing party for the HRC/Logo Presidential Forum.

There were about 150 people there which is very exciting. I could not be there for our own party because I was at a viewing party in Albuquerque with the Equality Federation.

Here is a recent column of mine in the same newspaper.

Duck eat Duck World.

Barry Lynn is Coming, Barry Lynn is Coming!

I am a proud member of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Barry Lynn, the UCC Minister and Executive Director of AU has been a hero of mine for years.

I was fortunate enough a few years ago to hear him speak at the Creating Change conference produced by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. As member of AU and NGLTF I was very excited to see AU have visible presence on GLBT issues. I think, officially, AU has no position on GLBT issues, but universally their campaign to block religious extremists from turning America into a theocracy, has landed them in our court nearly every time.

Every month I receive the newsletter for AU called Church and State and I read it cover to cover. AU is probably one of my favorite organizations and I cannot think of a patriot committed to church/state separation more dynamic than Barry Lynn.

This year Lynn will be the keynote speaker at the Triangle Foundation Annual State Dinner. The dinner is Sept. 29th and will be held in Dearborn, MI. The fact that Triangle will have someone of Barry's caliber is very exciting to me. Barry effectively is able to weave together a narrative that will unify our dinner attendees so they can see the interconnectedness of GLBT organizing and defense of the Constitutional principle of church/state separation.

Please consider coming to the Triangle dinner and find out more about Americans United, too.