When Backlash Triggered Pushback: A History of LGBTQ+ Resilience in Michigan

When Backlash Triggered Pushback: A History of LGBTQ+ Resilience in Michigan

What LGBTQ+ Michiganders — and all Americans — are living through in 2025 with the bombardment of attacks on our community is, in many ways, all too familiar. We’ve been here before and we’ve resisted. We've fought back and come out of the battle stronger than before. And we've done it again and again for more than a half century. As a historian who has researched Michigan’s LGBTQ+ for more than three decades, I see many instructive instances wh…