H.L. Comeriato is the staff writer for The Buckeye Flame. A queer and non-binary writer and reporter from Akron, Ohio, they covered public health for The Devil Strip via Report for America.
Ben Garcia still believes in magic. “When I was a little kid, I used to think about fantasy realms and faeries, sort of what’s behind the…
Ember Zelch loves the view from behind home plate. “I’m a catcher,” says the 17-year-old. “So I love the adrenaline rush and everything involved. I love…
On July 16 — after a particularly brutal year for transgender Ohioans — LGBTQ+ people and their allies rallied in support of transgender people across the…
On an otherwise ordinary day, Terry Helbling found an unpleasant voicemail waiting for him at work. Helbling and his husband, David, are the owners and operators…
On June 27, police officers in Akron, Ohio, shot and killed 25-year-old Jayland Walker. After a brief car chase, eight officers fired more than 90 rounds…
On June 27, just after midnight, eight Akron police officers shot and killed 25-year-old Jayland Walker as he fled on foot through an empty parking lot.…
At his home in Berlin, Germany, Prem Krishnamurthy sits opposite a bright window. Over Zoom, he recites a couplet from a 1957 poem by Langston Hughes:…
Stonewall Sports Cleveland — the largest local chapter of national LGBTQ+ sports organization Stonewall Sports — will host the eighth annual Stonewall Sports National Tournament and…
In Celina, Ohio, residents celebrated the town’s third annual Pride, organized by local nonprofit Small Town Pride – Celina. Small Town Pride was founded in 2020…
In New Richmond, Ohio — a village about 20 miles southeast of Cincinnati — residents publicly celebrated LGBTQ+ Pride for the first time in the history…