This event is in the past.It took place on June 5, 2026 at Shapiro Library.
Literature TalkLiterature TalkHistorical Perspectives on Queer Detroit: Narratives of the Motor City
June 5 at 1:30pm
Burns Park, Ann Arbor
📚Book signing with books for sale after
🎤Three formats: memoir, research, and comics
⏳Covers 1970s-1980s Detroit queer history
Pride Month brings three writers unpacking Detroit's queer past. Curtis Chin shares his gay Chinese American childhood in 1980s Detroit, Mix Mann spotlights Black lesbian activist Ruth Ellis, and Tim Retzloff reads from his comic about Michigan's first pride march in 1972.
Pride Month event
local LGBTQ+ history
author readings
memoir and comics
Literature TalkLiterature TalkHistorical Perspectives on Queer Detroit: Narratives of the Motor City
June 5 at 1:30pm
Burns Park, Ann Arbor
📚Book signing with books for sale after
🎤Three formats: memoir, research, and comics
⏳Covers 1970s-1980s Detroit queer history
Pride Month brings three writers unpacking Detroit's queer past. Curtis Chin shares his gay Chinese American childhood in 1980s Detroit, Mix Mann spotlights Black lesbian activist Ruth Ellis, and Tim Retzloff reads from his comic about Michigan's first pride march in 1972.
Pride Month event
local LGBTQ+ history
author readings
memoir and comics