Ken Schneck is the Editor of The Buckeye Flame. He is the author of "Seriously, What Am I Doing Here? The Adventures of a Wondering and Wandering Gay Jew" (2017), "LGBTQ Cleveland" (2018), "LGBTQ Columbus" (2019), and "LGBTQ Cincinnati" (2020). In his spare time, he is a professor of education at Baldwin Wallace University.
City Councilmember Stefanie Hawk’s goal was simple: designate June as Pride Month in Cheviot, a city in west-central Hamilton County, less than 10 miles northwest of…
A 4th hearing (opponent testimony) for HB 454 will be held on Wednesday, June 1 at 9am in the Families, Aging, and Human Services Committee of…
A third hearing for HB 454 was held on Thursday in the Families, Aging, and Human Services Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives. HB 454…
Sometimes change starts with just one person raising their hand. Such was the case at a Canton LGBTQ+ happy hour in the spring of 2021. When…
A second hearing for HB 454 was held on Thursday in the Families, Aging, and Human Services Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives. At its…
As one anti-LGBTQ+ Ohio bill has a hearing this week and another made national headlines without even been assigned a committee, a third piece of legislation…
HB 616 — the bill that would ban the promotion and teaching of “divisive and inherently racist concepts” — was assigned Tuesday to the State and…
A city councilperson in a Cincinnati suburb used a transphobic slur, and after being confronted on its use, doubled down on his language in a wide-ranging…
The president of an Ohio university has taken aim at trans athletes and trans identity in a national syndicated op-ed. Father David Paul Pivonka has been…
The city of Columbus has filed a lawsuit against the state of Ohio challenging the “Medical Practitioner Conscience” law passed in 2021. Governor Mike DeWine signed…