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2025-26 Guide to Ohio’s LGBTQ+ Legislation (136th General Assembly)

By Ken Schneck ● Policy/Legislation ● November 23, 2025

To help you differentiate one bill from another, we have put together this easy-to-use reference guide to Ohio LGBTQ+ legislation.

Ohio LGBTQ+ Nonprofit Guide

By Caitlin McNally & Jackson Hare ● Community ● July 31, 2025

Our goal with this LGBTQ+ Ohio Nonprofit Guide is to support individuals finding the community they might be seeking.

Ohio Supreme Court hears case on health care ban for transgender youth

By H.L. Comeriato ● Transgender ● March 30, 2026

The case dates to 2024, when the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf two 12-year-old transgender girls and their parents challenging the “SAFE Act.”

Republicans bus in anti-trans ‘lesbian Democrats’ to support Ohio bill protecting parents who reject their trans children

By Ken Schneck ● Policy/Legislation ● March 27, 2026

Wednesday’s hearing featured the claim that gender-affirming care is “homosexual conversion therapy.”

A photo of Van Wert's town sign in black and white with a rainbow superimposed in the background as if it's spilling into the image.

They started as a friend group of LGBTQ+ Ohioans. Now, they’re running their rural county’s first Pride.

By Ben Jodway ● Rural ● March 26, 2026

In the past, Van Wert County residents traveled to Indiana for Pride

House Republicans pass drag ban targeting transgender Ohioans; bill now moves to Senate

By H.L. Comeriato ● Policy/Legislation ● March 25, 2026

Conservative lawmakers said they will use the bill to target transgender Ohioans who use public locker rooms

AudioThis News is So Gay (3/25/26): Exposing How ICE Presence is Impacting HIV Care

By Ken Schneck ● Podcasts ● March 25, 2026

Featuring: Sam Donndelinger (Uncloseted Media) and Darian Aaron (GLAAD)

LGBTQ+ Ohioans mark upcoming Transgender Day of Visibility 2026 with community events

By H.L. Comeriato ● Transgender ● March 24, 2026

Transgender people will celebrate the lives, legacies and futures of transgender Ohioans across the state.

A black-and-white photo of a tent in the lower third that's in front of a Findlay, Ohio city building. Two Pride flags hang from the tent in full color, contrasting against the black-and-white.

Columbus-based Kaleidoscope Youth Center pauses queer expansion into Northwest Ohio, lays off staff amid drop in grant funding

By Ben Jodway & Ken Schneck ● Rural ● March 24, 2026

LGBTQ+ residents attempt to pick up the organizing that no longer has a sponsor

Trans Ohioans create a safe space to teach other trans people how to shoot guns and handle firearms safely

By Ben Jodway & H.L. Comeriato ● Transgender ● March 23, 2026

‘People were smiling and happy and feeling comfortable [because] they have access to firearms for the first time in a safe place.’

Drag queen reads a children's book to a group of children in a library.

Next week in Ohio: One committee hearing, two anti-LGBTQ+ bills and two big (potential) votes

By Ken Schneck ● Policy/Legislation ● March 21, 2026

The drag ban and the bill to legally protect parents who reject their trans children both have hearings on Wednesday

Leaf Home and Blooms is in the business of growing Ohio queer joy

By H.L. Comeriato ● Business ● March 19, 2026

Akron’s LGBTQ+-owned floral and plant boutique is still thriving after more than a decade in West Hill

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