Michael and his company have been major sponsors of The Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and together were the original corporate sponsor of the movie "Inlaws & Outlaws", a documentary on attitudes about marriage rights and marriage experiences.
Michael
is a member of the Red Umbrella Club of major donors at Seattle's Lifelong
Aids Alliance and The Ruby Slipper Club for major donors to the scholarship
fund for LGBT & allied students.
Michael taught "Home Buying for Gays" at Seattle's Gay City University.
You may have seen Michael
in Alan Brocka's movie "Boy
Culture," or one of Alan's earlier Seattle movies, "Quentin."