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Stateside: AAPS on COVID safety; Ruth Ellis Center expands; Detroit water shutoffs

By • Dec 9, 2020
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Today on Stateside, COVID has turned life upside down for many people. For homeless LGBTQ youth, their lives were already in a state of crisis. We speak with two people at the Ruth Ellis Center about what life looks like for these youths right now. Plus, Detroit extended its water shutoff moratorium until 2023. What that will mean for residents and the city.

Hear what activist Ruth Ellis gave Detroit's LGBTQ community

By • Feb 3, 2020
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Sarah Uhle

Ruth Ellis was one of the oldest openly gay black women in the world when she died at 101 years old in 2000. She was born in 1899, 36 years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, and 15 years before the First World War started.

This was a time when our country was hostile to women, black people, and gay people. Ellis just happened to be all three.

Striking Detroit Symphony musicians play for homeless

By • Dec 22, 2010

A small group of striking musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra brought holiday music to three area homeless shelters Wednesday.

 

The musicians’ made their final stop at the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park, which provides shelter and other services for homeless and other at-risk gay and lesbian teens.

 

But the free concert attracted more than just the shelter’s clients.