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‘Guilty until our status is proven innocent’: Update on Ohio’s outdated HIV criminalization laws

Black Ohioans disproportionately prosecuted.

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A one-month status update on Trump’s LGBTQ+ executive orders

As lawsuits against the administration grow, here is where some of the orders that affect LGBTQ+ people and women stand.

Ohio Sen. Beth Liston speaking is superimposed on top of a march with a banner that says "Ban Conversion Therapy."
Ohio senators introduce bill to end conversion therapy statewide – their fourth attempt

SB 71 was introduced in February as more municipalities ban conversion therapy on minors within their city limits.

A public commenter speaks at a podium. She is superimposed onto a screengrab of Westerville City Council discussing an ordinance.
After passionate public comment, Westerville becomes the 13th city in Ohio to ban conversion therapy on minors

Westerville City Council voted 5-2 to ban conversion therapy on minors after three readings of the ordinance in the Columbus suburb.

A black and white photo of a billboard with the Ohio tobacco quit line. In color are two Pride bracelets on people holding hands
Big Tobacco targeted the LGBTQ+ community. An Ohio health department and LGBTQ+ org team up to break that grip

Medina County Health Department and OutSupport deliver smoking-cessation resources directly to the queer community.

With uncertainty over the future of Ryan White HIV funding, here’s what we know

A memo sent out to Cleveland-based HIV providers calls into question the future of Ryan White HIV funding.

Dear Exhausted Ohio LGBTQ+ Community: Rest is resistance. Rest is action.

"If you’re struggling to rest because you feel you need to fight and survive, know that rest is a form of fighting back."

‘I had to be a warrior:’ How one Black, LGBTQ+ Ohioan blazed a trail in Alzheimer’s caregiving

Deneen Day has bravely navigated support systems designed for people who don't look like her or love like her.

Ohio’s Center for Christian Virtue called our LGBTQ+ youth crisis hotline ‘dangerous.’ Here are the (life-saving) facts.

"Our hotline typically received about 284 calls a month from Ohio. Following Governor DeWine's signing of HB 8, calls surged to 1,134."

After more than three decades, queer men will finally be able to donate their tissue

The little-known FDA policy caused thousands of members of our community to be denied their dying wishes.

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