Nestled on Detroit’s east side and full of historic homes, restaurants and coffee shops, the Indian Village and West Village neighborhoods have become a destination for the LGBTQ community to take up residence.
Indian Village has been a long-time home to affluent LGBTQ professionals, and businesses like Marrow, The Red Hook and Two Birds are queer-owned or LGBTQ-friendly.
To honor and celebrate the queer residents who make up the area, friends and Village residents Steth Huebner and Xavier Kimbrough launched Village Pride Detroit in 2024, which highlighted several businesses in the neighborhood and featured entertainment from local artists.
“I saw that there were other events happening during Pride Month, and we said, ‘What can we do to make that happen?’ And so, we put our heads together,” Kimbrough said. “It’s the combination of preserving what’s happened over here (in the Villages), but understanding that there also is a larger scale of queer people in the city.”
Now, the event is back for its third year, taking place 2-8 p.m. Saturday at the Village Biergarten, 1428 Van Dyke. Feel free to donate to Village Pride using the form below! 100% of donations go directly to Village Pride.