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An Interview with Dana Nessel
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Drag Therapy
The Queer History of Saugatuck
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Do you know the feeling of stepping into new shoes? You hope that they’ll fit easily and break in quickly.
In what we hoped to be a calm year, we were greeted by all of the changes that the pandemic has brought
us — while trying to break in these new shoes. Of course, it’s a privilege to be able to pivot and meet these
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community centers, services and businesses across the state and beyond. We profile Michigan Attorney
General Dana Nessel about her life outside of government service. We share the history of Saugatuck and its
transformation from a small lumber town to a Midwestern queer vacation spot. We connect with a therapist
who uses drag to help others heal.
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Dana Nessel
The (Cat) Person Behind the Politics
A scroll through Michigan Attorney been anything, she’s chosen to be herself. one thing. She holds many contrasting state’s very first out LGBTQ+ elected state proud of her wife and her family and seems
General Dana Nessel’s Facebook feed is Relentlessly. Joyously. roles. She’s a mom (to twin teens, Alex official, a leadership role she takes quite to see no reason to downplay that part of
The Attorney General an exercise in contrast. Mostly, Nessel posts “I’m not shy about who I am,” Nessel and Zach). She’s a doting wife (to Alanna seriously. The AG is acutely, personally her life for the sake of some perceived risk
about issues directly affecting Michigan tells Pride Source from her kitchen during a Maguire, president of Fair Michigan). She’s aware that representation more than to her political career. The obvious political
Just Wants to Make residents: important legislative decisions, recent interview. Amidst the world of politics an accomplished lawyer and a former All- “matters.” It’s vitally important. double standard — the one where straight
a Difference, and education about emerging financial scams, in 2021, it’s a bold statement. It takes more State high school soccer player. Lately, Growing up, Nessel says, she didn’t men in politics are practically rewarded for
she’s a birdwatcher. have LGBTQ+ role models to look to for being “honest” about their infidelities while
Sometimes Watch Birds the evolving legal battle over COVID
restrictions.
than bravery to deal with what Nessel has
faced, including a seemingly endless stream It was their time spent at home inspiration. “There wasn’t anybody on TV women are held to puritanical standards
But then, there are the cat videos. And of acidic criticism from her detractors — not during the lockdown that led Nessel or in the movies except for people that that haven’t evolved much in the past
the one with Nessel curled up on her couch to mention multiple, literal death threats — and Maguire to their new, unexpected were ... made to look foolish, or a mockery,” 200 years — is of little concern for Nessel.
BY in her pajamas, just like the rest of us mid- but to push forward despite it all. interest in ornithology. “I cultivated this she says. “It was a tough way to grow up It’s almost laughable to imagine a male
ELLEN KNOPPOW lockdown, relating to viewers like a wise Maybe it’s the thick skin she developed whole relationship with the animals in my because there just wasn’t anybody that I counterpart triggering headlines like “Dana
& SARAH BRICKER HUNT aunt who expects more from you because over her years spent as a trial attorney, or backyard,” she says. That relationship, in could look to in life, in any realm, to feel like Nessel Kissed Wife Upon Winning Election,”
she believes in you: “Remember when you her participation in highly competitive sports true Nessel style, led to deeper exploration it was OK for me to be who I was. but here we are.
Photos: Tina Miller used to have to put on pants and even as a high school student, or her years spent and self-education. “My wife and I are now “I didn’t want that to happen to the next Given her openness now, it’s hard to
shower in order to vote?” she asks her in the closet — an experience she reflects experts on Michigan birds, something I generation,” she adds. “Being the first believe Nessel is the same person who
Facebook followers. “Not anymore!” on today as “miserable.” Maybe it’s all of never expected to have even an interest in, statewide elected LGBTQ person brings spent years in the closet, feeling a sense
And, despite all the political turmoil, these experiences, and more, that have let alone an expertise in.” with it a certain responsibility, and I’m not of embarrassment and shame about her
including the slowly fading Trump era, led Nessel to a place where authenticity is Nessel’s approach to understanding going to be shy about it. I’m not going to identity. That’s not who she is today.
Nessel still believes in Michigan — all of it. always at the forefront, haters be damned. the world right outside her back door hide.” “I talk about the issues that are important
In a world where someone as ambitious To unravel who Dana Nessel really “is” reflects her approach to serving the state of For Nessel, representation is more than to my constituents, but I also am not shy
and sharp-minded as Nessel could have is to accept that she, like all of us, isn’t just Michigan as its top-ranking attorney and the lip service. It’s part of who she is. She’s about who I am,” she says. “And honestly,
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indication, much of her sons’ senior year
was a far different experience than the
I’m proud of my family. I worked very hard As for her own kids, Nessel says she typical focus on prom and graduation. At
to have a legal family. And yeah, sometimes understands all too well what it has been the beginning of the lockdown in 2020,
I want to shout it from the mountaintops like for both parents and the younger she tweeted, “Distancing from my wife
because I’m just so proud. generation during the pandemic. who has an immune deficiency means
“I talk about my wife a lot,” she continues, “It’s been tough on parents who have to living in the basement where I spend hours
referring to Maguire, who Nessel married in work while taking care of their kids,” Nessel each evening watching my teen sons play
2014, “because she’s also my best friend, acknowledges. “At the same time, I’d say Grand Theft Auto while shouting out MCL
and she’s the person who means the most it’s really tough on the children, to really (Michigan Compiled Laws) statutes being
to me in the world. And I’m not going to be not have any semblance of a normal life for violated. No one seems to appreciate how
ashamed of my marriage. a long time.” Even though she recognizes this might add value to the experience.”
“I am not going to run away from my that there are “worse things in the world,” Nessel’s own high school experience
sexual orientation,” Nessel adds. “And I her sons didn’t get to make the same kind included a deep focus on athletics. The
hope it will be impactful to people later of memories in their senior year of high former West Bloomfield High School All-
on, and there’ll be kids that grow up being school that she remembers making, the State soccer player spent time on the
able to look to me and feel like they can experiences “you learn from, that make you Olympic development team, though
accomplish anything they want to in life and into an adult,” she says. she didn’t go all the way to the Games.
not be held back by their LGBTQ status.” If Nessel’s social media accounts are an Nessel is the first to aknowledge being
a stereotypically sports-loving lesbian (“I
completely fit the mold,” she says). Partly,
playing sports appeals to Nessel because
she has “an element of competitiveness,”
“I talk about the issues that are important to but more importantly, she adds, “Sports
teaches a lot about life in terms of being
my constituents, but I also am not shy about able to work as part of a team.”
Nessel may be a team player, but she’d
who I am.” really prefer it if that team were always
winning. “I don’t like to lose,” she admits,
laughing. “I don’t know anyone who does.”
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and shutting down the Line 5 pipeline
project. “I’ve done everything I can to try to
do that job,” she says.
Nessel says she’s followed through
on her commitment to the LGBTQ+
community, as well. She issued an opinion
It’s no wonder Nessel’s political very important message about voting in that allows transgender people to change
opponents seem hyper-focused not only Michigan? You be the judge!” the gender on their birth certificate without
on Nessel’s tenure as AG, but on her If you sense a theme — and that theme undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
uncanny ability to simply relate. This quality is cats — you’re onto something. Nessel, She rewrote her predecessor’s policy on
is at the heart of why her social media Maguire and their boys are basically defending LGBTQ+ people before the
videos are so popular, including her PSA in running a cat sanctuary out of their home. Department of Civil Rights. She wrote an
March focused on imposter scams. In the “We have maybe a few cats too many, but amicus brief in support of Kym Worthy’s
short clip, Nessel and her cat companion we love cats in this household,” she says. efforts to include gender identity as a class
patiently explain to her “parents” over the “You’re never alone when you have your under Michigan’s Ethnic Intimidation Act.
phone that they shouldn’t actually send four cats... except when you have one And at the time of print, Nessel said she
the water company Edible Arrangement who won’t leave your side, which is what “can’t wait” to argue a case before the
gift cards to take care of an outstanding I have, although when I do interviews, I Michigan Supreme Court “where I expect
balance. “Say ‘objection!’” she instructs the have to shut her out of my office.” Nessel it to add sexual orientation and gender
cat before answering back with “I object!” is referring to Facebook-famous “Daisy,” a identity to Elliott-Larsen through the court
in a spot-on cat-person impression. constituent favorite. system.”
It’s a lighthearted take on an issue It’s not all cats and impeccable comedic Once the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights
affecting many Michiganders, especially timing 24/7, however. Nessel is, rightfully, Act has been amended to include
older populations, delivered in a way that’s proud of her record as attorney general sexual orientation and gender identity
wholly relatable on both sides of the call. so far, and is in a race against time, just in as protected classes, Nessel said she
“What are you doing?” asks the actor case. If a Republican succeeds her in office wants to see LGBTQ+ people protected
playing her mother. “Attorney General and the cases her office has worked so wherever other marginalized groups are
stuff,” Nessel replies. Toward the end of hard on are still pending, Nessel believes protected.
the video, Nessel’s mother asks, “Where that person will simply dismiss all of them. However, Nessel adds, “I’m very aware
do I file a complaint that my daughter That would include countless hours of the fact that if I don’t get a second
hasn’t visited in over a month?” spent creating new initiatives to combat term in office, all of my initiatives will just
Nessel’s descriptions of her videos hate crimes, elder abuse, and insurance disappear, and many of the cases that I
are almost as inspired as the videos and payroll fraud, issues she campaigned brought that are so important.”
themselves. Take this Twitter introduction on leading up to her election in 2018. A second term isn’t a given, but no
from last October, centered on early “What I’m most proud of is that I am an matter where Nessel lands next, the
voting: “Is it unfortunate the cat in this office holder who has largely kept my people of Michigan are sure to benefit. “I
video spent the entire shoot cleaning campaign promises,” she says. Among am addicted to trying to make a difference,”
its nether-regions?” tweets the Attorney those fulfilled promises is providing she says. “There’s so many different ways
General. “Yes. Does it distract from the support to wrongfully convicted prisoners you can do that.”
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“Drag therapy is an extension
of drama therapy in that drama
therapists understand that our
identity is made up of many different
roles, characters or personas.”
internal insecurities through external tune different parts of myself that make
experimentation.” This is what Silvers up who I am,” St. Clair tells Pride Source.
aims to do with his drag therapy clients. It’s this kind of practice that is at the
Silvers’ hybridized theory of drag center of HBO’s Emmy-nominated reality
therapy is primarily derived from the show “We’re Here.” In the series, former
With Drag Therapy, To Mask
Internal Family Systems methodology in “Drag Race” contestants Bob the Drag
can reach in and access the roles that
addition to drama therapy practices. An Queen, Eureka O’Hara and Shangela
we need when we need them, like our
evidence-based psychotherapy method arrive in various locations of small-town,
internal superheroes, kings or queens.
Is To Unmask
developed by Dr. Richard C. Schwartz in majority-conservative America to teach
We call this developing a ‘flexible role
the 1980s, IFS is the idea that there are their “drag daughters” how to step outside
repertoire,’ or what drag therapists might
multiple sub-personalities, or “parts,” to of their comfort zones in preparation for a
refer to as a ‘drag repertoire.’”
the self. Drag therapy is about getting one-night-only drag show.
Though pro queens spend hours
to know those parts in order to develop “Our show really focuses a lot on this
crafting head-to-toe looks, Silvers said
mental healing. inner confidence that everyone has in
It’s Not Just Costumes Art can be therapy, and drag is an art.
So why not “drag therapy”?
personas,” says Dr. Sajnani, who also
spearheads the university’s Theatre
that participating in drag therapy doesn’t
Silvers emphasizes play, role theory them and how much power there is in
always mean getting into full drag. “[Drag]
and Wigs, Henny Leon Silvers, a licensed mental health and Health Lab, a research hub that can be as much or as little as you want,”
and the IFS approach with his patients taking control of that confidence,” O’Hara
counselor and psychotherapist based studies why theater and theater-related during therapy sessions in order to shares.
Silvers says. “It can be like just wearing
in New York, uses drag as a mixed processes advance psychological well- address his client’s shame. “Shame is “[Drag] is this idea of having this
one necklace and what part of yourself
medium psychotherapy method rooted being. underlying many, if not all, our mental camouflage on and being protected by
you can access while wearing that
in role play and drama therapy. He began Drama and drag therapies aim to find, health issues and how we feel about this costume where you can act or say or
necklace.”
BY ANNA JACOBY exploring how drag can be harnessed as identify and apply the different layers ourselves,” he says. “Being in different be whatever you think that character will
British art therapist and drag queen
a therapeutic tool as a grad student in of the self in order to achieve healing. parts can demystify some of the feelings be. That is what I think is therapeutic. You
Abba Cashier explored drag as a
the drama therapy program at New York During sessions, therapists encourage that we’re afraid of having that maybe get stuff out that you’re afraid to get out
therapeutic tool during a TEDx event in
University, where Dr. Nisha Sajnani is the movement, costumes and stories in we’re ashamed of. When you embody as your normal self.”
Brazil last year where she argued that
associate professor and director of the a playful atmosphere. These layers, them, there’s nothing to be ashamed of.” On “We’re Here,” Eureka (who uses
each time one does drag, a new therapy
program. or “roles,” open up a range of means IFS inadvertently helped “RuPaul’s Drag they/them pronouns) and their castmates
session begins.
“Drag therapy is an extension of to express oneself, reach goals and Race” alum Blair St. Clair embody different form visibly deep connections with the
In these sessions, Cashier says, one
drama therapy in that drama therapists problem solve. Dr. Sajnani explained that parts of herself when she discovered locals selected to be drag daughters.
works on a new part of themself, “drawing
understand that our identity is made up this “helps us explore and externalize theater. “When I stepped onto the stage Similar to Silvers’ IFS approach, the
on different references, emotions and
of many different roles, characters or our internal cast of characters so that we in someone else’s shoes I learned more queens attempt to address their
inspirations every time so that you treat
about myself. That escape helped me fine daughter’s shame through the process
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Eureka O’Hara (left) and Blair St. Clair (above)
as much as the student. Eureka views it Photo on page 18 by Tony Lowe.
as more than just their job: “When I found
Queen: Sabin
drag it gave me an outlet to feel confident Representing: Five15 Royal Oak, Pronto Royal Oak,
and powerful that translated into my GiGi’s Show Bar, Miss Dunes 2021
everyday life.” Makeup and Fashion: Sabin
Dr. Sajnani emphasizes that whether Instagram: @sabindetroit
through drag or theater, trying on various
Therapist: Craig Nichols-Fleming
roles gives us access to our own power.
Representing: Five15 Royal Oak, Choreographer
Meanwhile, Silvers has already taken the and Dancer
of getting into drag. Eureka said that first step toward giving the term “drag Fashion: Sweater, Shoes, (Barbie) Notebook, and
out of drag “our insecurities really play therapy” further legitimacy. He recently Glasses provided by Grayson Vine Pre Loved
became the proud owner of the term Clothing Store
into our inner saboteurs. The biggest
thing is learning how to change the inner “drag therapy,” which he registered as an
Special thanks to Vogue Vintage in Ferndale for
narrative. That’s what I coach a lot.” official trademark in 2020. He is currently providing the space and set.
The potential of drag as therapy goes conducting the first research study on
deeper than the physical makeover, as the the effectiveness of drag therapy with Styled by Repop
the support of Kansas State University Instagram: @Det.Repop
daughters featured in the series are visibly
empowered from merely the experience in the hopes of becoming an evidence-
of doing drag. “Transforming yourself into based practice. As Silvers does drag
this high-glam creature teaches you how recreationally under the name “Pink
much you can just love who you are as Freud,” his research team is aptly dubbed
an individual,” Eureka says. “You’re telling the “Haus of Freud.”
yourself you’re a queen. And that’s what
Anna Jacoby is a writer and editor based in
you should be telling yourself every day. Washington, D.C. In addition to drag culture,
Whether you have makeup on or not.” she loves true crime, Dolly Parton, craft beer,
Drag as art therapy serves the teacher and her bully rescue, Jack.
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could choose from. It’s hard to believe true partner. to be made in these special places —
what’s happening now — booties, masks Dobek says she decided to join her whether it’s your first home, an upgrade
and gloves, and an unbelievably fast aunt as a real estate agent in 2019 after or a downsize, it’s such a big life event.”
market.” surviving what she calls a “rough” work For now, Stange and Dobek split some
Stange has managed to navigate environment. “I knew it was time for a duties and share others. “I’ve been able
these unpredictable waters by applying change,” she says. “After some back and to take the reins on the technology side,
the same consistent, unique approach forth, I decided to take the plunge, get while Lynn is a natural at nurturing her
that has served her (and her clients) well licensed and join Real Estate One.” client relationships,” Dobek says.
throughout her three decades in real Making a career move right before Stange says she loves working with
estate: by tying in her background clients in the Southeast Michigan
in education. Stange holds an market because the area is
education degree from Central diverse, growing and always
Michigan University and taught at changing. Dobek feels a strong
Kimball High School in Royal Oak connection to the area, as well.
for a few years, experiences that
“A house is so much “It’s been my home for a lot of my
inform the way she operates in a more than just living life,” she explains. “I adore it here
wholly different career. and found my way back [after
“Buying and selling a home is quarters,” she says. college].”
a huge life decision,” she says, Dobek says she finds the
“and teaching taught me to break “There are stories personality of Southeast Michigan
down the selling process to ‘A, to be unlike anywhere else.
B, C, D.’ This approach makes it to be told and new “We are a ‘Get-up-and-go, work
easier for clients to understand hard for what you want’ type
the process, complete it, and be
memories to be made of community,” she says. “It’s
satisfied with the results.” inspiring.”
Essentially, she says, real
in these special places When Stange and her romantic
Elisabeth “Eli” Dobek (left) and Lynn Stange (right). Photo: Andrew Potter
estate transactions are puzzles — whether it’s your first partner of 29 years, Nan Greeley,
where all the pieces need to manage to secure some free time,
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fit. “Our job comes down to home, an upgrade or a they tend to take full advantage
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love to golf, hike, ski, swim, boat
and play tennis,” she says. She
and Greeley enjoy time together
the Roller-Coaster Housing Market confidence.”
Utilizing a teaching approach
versus high-pressure selling
at their lake house in Hubbard
and around the Traverse City and
Alpena areas, as well as farther-
tactics, Stange says, has allowed flung locations like Sedona and
“The LGBTQ community needs agents amazing at what she does AND she is a her to remain successful in Lake Tahoe.
How the Agent’s Love they can talk to openly about communities, really wonderful person to boot!” a highly competitive field within an the COVID pandemic hit has led to an Often, they bring along their two furry
schools and housing requirements,” says The real estate game has changed unpredictable, roller-coaster market. experience that she calls a “crash course female companions, Kotie and Irma IV,
Affair with Michigan Drives Lynn Stange, real estate agent at Real significantly since Stange sold her first Maintaining success can be in flexibility to keep up with changing small bichon mixes who love long walks
Her 30-Year Career Estate One. Given the many effusive home. These days, she says, technology challenging, especially when the market expectations, requirements and safety and boat rides. These getaways happen
compliments from her clients, Stange is is front and center. “We went from local is hot. That’s one reason Stange invited measures to make our clients happy.” when the couple can fit them in, but with
just the person for that job. paper books displaying homes for sale her niece, Elisabeth “Eli” Dobek, to join Despite the unprecedented challenges retirement in sight, time spent traveling
“From the very first time we contacted to a nationwide, online market,” she her as a real estate agent. “In this fast the real estate market has faced since will surely become more frequent. For
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love, their expression — it’s tough to pin it soon erected institutions to reflect that. “It seems pretty clear that she would
down. And it also changes over time: the By 1909, the Big Pavilion (since burned probably identify as a lesbian today,” says
language, [and] the way people express down) was built as a massive dance hall Gollannek, noting that her identity wasn’t
themselves and choose to identify.” along the water; in 1910, the Ox-Bow wholly unique in the local community.
In a September exhibit at the Saugatuck- School of Art, a still-active wing of the “We have a number of examples like that,
Douglas History Center, entitled “A School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was looking back to the 1920s and ’30s, where
Century of Progress: 100 Years of LGBTQ established in Saugatuck. There, as in we can point to women in relationships
History in Saugatuck-Douglas,” Gollannek Provincetown, Mass., old industrial spaces with some pretty strong evidence to say
and his collaborators point to newspaper and a picturesque setting provided an ‘these are same-sex couples.’”
articles documenting — sometimes with affordable, inspiring setting for practicing While the area’s gay male history has
concern — incidents of men sunbathing art while still catering to the tastes and tended to be more visible, according to
together on Saugatuck’s beaches as early needs of former and visiting city-dwellers. Gollannek, queer women vacationed and
as the 1890s. While it’s uncertain all these At the same time, a sense of seclusion moved into the area over the same spans
men would identify as gay today, the and separation from city life allowed men have, but tended to live out their
reports mirror a later history from at least for certain freedoms in expression — identities in ways that were “more subtle”
as early as the 1950s to the ‘90s, in which something that may have appealed just and “less conspicuous” throughout the
a nearby stretch of private beach area’s early history. While
became a popular bathing and queer women’s activities
cruising spot. In both instances, in the area included the
the record suggests that the establishment of businesses
presence of dunes along the like Hunn’s from the 1930s,
beaches allowed for some they extended, too, to the
discretion, providing a kind of establishment of women-run
cover. queer campgrounds in the
In the time between those area much later, in the 1970s,
early stirrings of queer activity and to ownership of many
and the mid-20th century, local businesses today.
Gollannek says the area Throughout the 1950s,
evolved from an industrial hub queer culture found traction
to an attractive arts and tourist not only via Saugatuck’s
destination, drawing an eclectic beaches, which remained
Photos courtesy of Saugatuck-Douglas History Center and The Dunes Resort. mix of middle- and upper-class popular, but unofficially
visitors from cities like Chicago within business settings,
Refuge in The Dunes
and Saint Louis by car and, as well. By 1961, the area
often, steamship. Part of the was supporting businesses
area’s attraction lay in leisure, like the Blue Tempo, a bar
but for many longtime urbanites, that hosted a robust queer
it also lay in art, something he clientele, albeit grudgingly,
suggests made the area more alongside a sizable straight
patronage.
How Sagatuck Became an For many queer Michiganders,
Saugatuck-Douglas is a space they’ve felt
as a shipbuilding and lumber town and a
small port around 1830 before evolving into
inviting for queer folk.
“Artists were kind of fanning
One of the earliest advertisements
“The owner was clearly
Unlikely Queer Oasis free to take for granted, whether they’ve a farming community and, later, a tourist out from Chicago from art
for The Dunes Resort, from 1984.
Courtesy of The Dunes Resort / Mike Jones bigoted. He’s definitely not
been or not. destination — became a queer hotspot schools in Chicago, seeking out a gay ally in the modern
A small, upscale oasis of relaxed and aren’t nearly as clear as the reasons it’s spots where they could paint ‘en plein as much to prominent queer practitioners. sense of the term,” says Gollannek. “The
BY GEORGE ELKIND open queer expression on Michigan’s remained one. Even for historian Eric air’ and be out in nature, really looking Among these was Florence “Dannie” Blue Tempo is a place where you [could]
conservative-leaning west coast, the pair Gollannek, executive director of the to the Midwestern landscape as a kind of Ely Hunn, a renowned designer and order a drink [as a queer person], and the
of neighboring towns no longer hosts only Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, vernacular inspiration,” says Gollannek. architect who took up residence just bartender doesn’t pour it out on the bar
Grand Rapidians or Chicagoans looking researching and understanding the area’s “There’s this kind of free-thinking open- south of Saugatuck in the 1930s and and tell you to leave after you give him
for a change of pace. With its rolling hills, queer history has involved reckoning with mindedness, this bohemian ideal, a designed many cottages and homes over your money. And we have some stories of
picturesque dunes and small, well-kept serious obstacles. desire to get away from the constraints of a thriving design career which stretched places in Saugatuck doing exactly that in
downtown, the area has grown into a well- “It’s challenging talking about queer Victorian society and get closer to nature.” across nearly seven decades, from 1915 the 1960s and 1970s.”
known destination for queer vacationers, history,” he tells Pride Source. “You’re This set of ideals, both an extension and until her death in 1984. For most of her By 1981, one of Blue Tempo’s
residents and business owners across the looking at the history of people at the retreat from big-city tastes and culture, life, she lived with a partner, Mabel “Jims” bartenders, Carl Jennings, along with his
Midwest and even beyond. margins, and the degree to which people helped set Saugatuck apart from other Warren, with whom, historians say, she partner, Larry Gammons, sought to create
But the reasons Saugatuck — founded are out, people are open about who they resort towns along Lake Michigan — and enjoyed a romantic relationship. a dedicated, openly queer resort space
22 | PRIDE SOURCE MAGAZINE | 2021 - 2022 WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM | 23PRIDE SOURCE | FEATURES FEATURES | PRIDE SOURCE in Saugatuck, one actually owned and gay business right on the Blue Star. I think people I come into contact with that met at operated by queer people. the town was afraid of what that meant. the Dunes over the course of time,” says After being rebuffed repeatedly by How that would impact tourism, how Jones, suggesting that the Dunes’ early Saugatuck’s leadership, the pair looked that would impact the overall society of presence as a queer hub helped clear a further south, to neighboring Douglas, Saugatuck and Douglas. [What was on] path for later queer businesses — spaces and found a space called the Amity Motel everybody’s minds in 1981 was that we’d which today can operate openly as such, along the Blue Star Highway. Amity had be bringing a bunch of perverts to town.” festooned year-round with Pride flags. a liquor license, a pool, and a modest Over time, Jones said, this perception ”We have a big community of people number of rooms at the time, and it was lessened in the minds of neighbors. that live here that originally came [to the up for sale. Soon, the pair made their Under Carl and Larry’s stewardship, The Dunes, and to Saugatuck-Douglas] for move. Dunes Resort had been marketed as an the first time back in the ‘80s and ‘90s. “Before the [Douglas] city council even explicitly queer travel destination in queer And then they decided to buy a second understood what Carl and Larry were publications around the country, bringing home, they ultimately retired here or they gonna do, they got approval for a liquor not just queer visibility but a more openly decided to open shops here.” license. And so, there was a little bit of a expressive queer culture to Saugatuck — The Dunes became such a local fight in the beginning,” recalls Mike Jones, a tradition Jones and his partners were institution by the time Jones and his who’s now a co-owner of the space, eager to continue. business partners purchased it that their now known as The Dunes Resort. The Over the ensuing years, the resort first changes — aimed at modernizing opposition was more than theoretical. drew acts as varied as Eartha Kitt, the the space (“to make it less Brady Bunch- Jones remembers finding a bullet hole Weather Girls and Jack Wagner. The looking,” quips Jones) and keeping it in a window shortly after purchasing the space also played host to cabaret acts, afloat financially — triggered a new sort Dunes in 1998. striptease, and all sorts of queer events. It of pushback, this time from within the “There was pushback because [at the was as though the Big Pavilion had been queer community. Shifts like a restaurant time], even though there had always been queered. closure, new sound systems and more a gay presence, there’s now a great big “What I think is interesting is how many contemporary acts that moved past a 24 | PRIDE SOURCE MAGAZINE | 2021 - 2022 WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM | 25
PRIDE SOURCE | FEATURES FEATURES | PRIDE SOURCE disco-heavy playlist, all divided certain “I think COVID actually helped because the sense of inclusion, of openness, of diehard, longtime fans. Offerings have of [Saugatuck being a] drive destination. progressiveness about the place, and since evolved, too, to become more Last summer, there were a lot of younger several of these people are straight, inclusive, with the Dunes’ calendar people that came up for the weekend cisgendered, or couples.” featuring leather competitions, trans- because one, they weren’t afraid of Like many moving to the area today, focused celebrations, and more events COVID, and two, they didn’t want to Jones recalls being surprised at himself for queer women. get on an airplane,” says Jones. “I think for undertaking the shift from a big city to “Because we were a little younger — I COVID actually introduced the Dunes to such a small town. was 33 when we bought the dunes, which a new audience again, which is beneficial “I thought Chicago was the greatest city is kind of scary,” remembers Jones, “we because we need to find a new audience ever,” Jones remembers of his time there. brought with us a younger clientele. And I every few years.” “So, the idea of living in some town where think that kind of scared people because Gollannek, too, noted a shift in the everyone knows what car I drive and can all of a sudden, we’re bringing circuit- makeup of the area since the onset of the say, ‘Oh, I saw you at the dentist’s office quality DJs to town, and with that came pandemic. Even as real estate prices have the other day,’ is all a little odd and overly circuit-quality people that the old-timers skyrocketed, a new audience appears to familiar. But it’s just peaceful enough.” and people that had been there [a long be migrating into the city. And as small a Though Jones foresees some time] weren’t used to.” population as Saugatuck has, especially obstacles ahead for the Dunes and for the This bumpy transition is a distant given what Jones describes as a lacking area on the whole in the form of COVID, memory for most visitors today, but the supply of affordable housing (the latest of labor and housing shortages, he also COVID pandemic has brought new, unique census put the population at 964), every voices a sense of contentment at the challenges. As an increasingly expensive new arrival carries weight. sense of community in the area’s small resort town, Saugatuck has over time “The Saugatuck area is definitely a site of bubble. And, just like with generations attracted an older, more financially secure constant reinvention,” remarks Gollannek, past, perhaps it’s this sense of refuge and crowd than it welcomed during its more acknowledging that the “next chapter” for intimate community that city-dwellers, bohemian past. But the pandemic has the area remains to be determined. “I see queer and otherwise, continue to find shaken things up. Saugatuck-Douglas and people move to Saugatuck who work in appealing. the Dunes are welcoming new audiences Grand Rapids or work in Chicago because these days. there’s a lot of telecommuting. They love 26 | PRIDE SOURCE MAGAZINE | 2021 - 2022 WWW.PRIDESOURCE.COM | 27
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