Pride Is Loud This Summer, and That’s the Whole Point
More than 40 fests across Michigan are ready to meet the moment — with glitter, community and zero plans to be quiet about it
Look, nobody is pretending this is a normal summer. Every seat in the Michigan Legislature is on the ballot this fall. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — one of the most reliably pro-LGBTQ+ governors this state has ever had — is in her final year in office. Michigan’s political landscape is shifting in ways we’ll be reporting on and living with for years.
And yet, here comes Pride season anyway. Forty-plus festivals, stretching from Ironwood to Adrian, from Mackinac Island to the Indiana border, rolling out from late May through September. Sequins will be worn. Parade routes will be walked. Someone will cry at a drag performance and immediately claim they had something in their eye.