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The Detroit musician opens for Jai Rodriguez at Motor City Pride after a recovery that took her off her feet for months.

Baddie Brooks Is Back — and Ready for Her Biggest Stage Yet Baddie Brooks has had a lot of firsts. The first Black trans woman from Detroit to serve as Grand Marshal at the NYC Pride March in 2024. One of the first

Don’t miss the Pride Source table at Ferndale Pride today! Pick up a copy of Between The Lines and our annual Pride Source Magazine with local q***r business listings and enter to win tickets to Boop the Musical and Death Becomes Her! Happy Pride, everyone!

Kesha has always made music for the ones who don’t quite fit — the glitter-covered misfits, the too-loud, the still-figuring-it-out. You know, the animals, as she calls them.

So it feels like more than coincidence that she’s rolling into Pine K**b on June 5, right in the thick of Pride Month, with The Freedom Tour and “Origami!,” a new single that is unashamedly h***y and campy and completely unbothered.

In this conversation — one of her most candid — Kesha talks about what it actually means to be q***r, and how long it took to figure that out. She reflects on growing up in Nashville, dragging her mom from church to church looking for a community that didn’t come with conditions and eventually finding her people at a punk rock drag bar in California. And she talks about what, after that search, it feels like to now stand on a stage with a Pride flag behind her and a whole sea of q***r people in front of her.

Read Kesha’s full interview with at pridesource.com, all you beautiful animals. 🦄

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Q***r icon Kesha brings The Freedom Tour to Pine K**b this Pride Month — and opens up about building safe spaces in unsafe times.

Kesha Talks Pride, Q***rness, Being 'H***y for Life' and Why The Freedom Tour Is for Us Kesha has always made music for the ones who don't quite fit — the glitter-covered misfits, the too-loud, the still-figuring-it-out. You know, the

Short shorts, no apologies — the New York-based producer Zach Witness is closing out Ferndale Pride's Woodward Dance Stage and he's not hiding a thing.

Zach Witness Is Headlining Ferndale Pride, and He's Done Playing It Straight Zach Witness is a musician, producer and audio engineer who has worked with some of the biggest names in the business, like Erykah Badu and André

Pride Source staff members brought home five Detroit Society of Professional Journalists awards for their 2025 coverage at an awards ceremony on May 20, at the San Marino Club in Troy.

Pride Source Wins Five SPJ Detroit Awards for LGBTQ+ Community Coverage Pride Source staff members brought home five Detroit Society of Professional Journalists awards for their 2025 coverage at an awards ceremony on May 20, at

On any given week, Chris Azzopardi might be on the phone with Cher in the morning and, by afternoon, editing a story about a q***r teen in rural Michigan who started a Pride event in a town that had never seen one.

Chris Azzopardi Has Spent 20 Years Asking the Right Questions — For Our Readers, For All of Us On any given week, Chris Azzopardi might be on the phone with Cher in the morning and, by afternoon, editing a story about a q***r teen in rural Michigan

Thank you for showing this country what allyship looks like, Governor Gretchen Whitmer. 🌈

Detroit vocalist Alise King will kick off her Impossible Dreams Tour by headlining Ferndale Pride on May 30, hitting the stage at 8 p.m. on the Credit Union One Performance Stage. You can also catch her on the Pride Stage at Motor City Pride at 4 p.m. on June 7. In our interview, King reflects on building trust with audiences, finding her voice as a q***r artist and how she turns even the most unpredictable stage into something that feels like home.

Alise King on Performing Pride and Finding Her Voice as a Q***r Black Woman Before the first note lands, Alise King is already doing something arguably even harder than singing — she’s reading the room. A Detroit

When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Michigan’s civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people into law, her gay daughter Sherry was standing right beside her. “Signing that law so that she would be protected — as would everyone else in the LGBTQ+ family — felt really good,” Whitmer told Pride Source.

Before the signing, Whitmer nervously asked Sherry how to refer to her during it. Sherry texted back: “LOL, Gretchen, you’re ridiculous.” After some clarification: “You refer to me as a gay woman or a le***an, please.” Whitmer responded: “Thank you for the advice, gay woman.” Sherry’s reply: “You’re welcome, non-community member.”

And the woman who helped make the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act amendment happen isn’t done yet: “I ain’t going anywhere and I’m not leaving the fight.”

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