Motor City Pride, the area's pre-eminent summer festival to showcase our LBGTQ community, will move from its long-entrenched digs in Ferndale to Hart Plaza downtown. The shift symbolizes a new commitment to Detroit proper and may broaden the scope and outreach generated by the celebration, but it's also generated lots of anger and disappointment from members of Southeast Michigan's gay community. Supergay Detroit took to his blog to champion the Pride relocation, calling it "a huge upgrade and it means a big increase in visibility for the GLBT community."
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Pride moving downtown kind of shows that the general gay community views
Detroit as a place with promise too. And a successful Pride could go a
long way toward changing perceptions of the city for the gays and
lesbians who spend most of their lives outside of it.
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