The Kalamazoo Alliance For Equality (KAFE) has endorsed 5 local candidates in Kalamazoo who will help protect our Friends, families and freedom.  To help ensure a pro equality majority, we have committed hundreds of volunteer hours, walking side-by-side with our endorsed candidates. With the help of KAFE, each of these candidates will continue to build important relationships with our community–and also help support fellow candidates to work on the issues that matter most to Kalamazoo LGBT residents.       Stephanie Bell        Bob Cinabro        Don [...]

Join Equality Michigan Pride Pac and KAFE Oct. 11th 5:01 – 7:00pm Please join Equality Michigan Pride PAC and KAFE – Kalamazoo Alliance For Equality – for an event to support pro-equality candidates this November. Come celebrate National Coming out Day with EqMI PAC and KAFE! *October 11, 2011  5:01-7:00pm, * Metro Nightclub *411 N Westnedge, Kalamazoo MI 49007 With hosts: Amy Hunter, David Feaster, Jonathan Richardson, Jon Hoadley, and Kelly Doyle Doors open at 5:01pm. Brief program [...]

 Policy to Practice: Why Diversity and Inclusion are good for business in Kalamazoo  September 15th, 6-8pm at the Borgess Lawrence Education Center, 1521 Gull Road, Kalamazoo.  As the financial, Educational, Health Services, and Scientific hub of Southwest Michigan, Kalamazoo’s leading employers remain on the forefront of variety. Through best hiring practices, internal employee welfare, and external community outreach; effective diversity policies are more important now that they have ever been. Kalamazoo is happy to welcome [...]

PFLAG (Parents, Family, Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Southwest MI Chapter presents gay author and activist Marc Adams and his presentation, “Hope Needs Only Hands & Hearts.” The presentation takes place on Monday, August 8, at 7:00 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library, Van Deusen Rm. 3rd floor, 315 South Rose St., Kalamazoo. Local organizations co-sponsoring this event are: KGLRC-Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center, CARES – Community AIDS Resource and Education Services, Kalamazoo GLBT Professional [...]

KAFE is proud to co-sponsor this year’s Kalamazoo Pride keynote speaker, Ignacio Rivera. Ignacio, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” is a Queer, gender fluid, Trans- Entity, Black Boricua performance artist, lecturer/trainer, activist, new filmmaker and self-proclaimed sex educator. As a lecturer/ trainer, Ignacio has spoken at home and abroad on such topics of racism, sexism, homo/transphobia, transgender issues, trans 101, sexual liberation, anti-oppression, anti-violence, multi-issue organizing and more. Ignacio currently consultants with various organizations [...]

KALAMAZOO – A coalition of advocacy organizations is launching its Equality Action Tour, a series of town hall events to promote equality for all in Michigan. The fourth event in the series will take place at Food Dance in Kalamazoo on Wednesday, June 8 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. It will focus on the social, economic, and legal impact of discrimination faced by gay and transgender people and [...]