From 1994 an activist group, Camp Trans, protested near Michfest every year. It pressed performers to boycott the festival, and was supported by civil-rights groups such as the ACLU and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (now simply GLAAD). ‘We are pretty over spending a lot of our time and energy having an event of seven thousand womyn be focused on three or four guys,’ Lisa Vogel, one of Michfest’s founders, told a reporter. ‘Men feel like they get to be whatever they want, even if it’s a lesbian.’ But by 2015 the pressure had become too much and Michfest closed.
