Ohio ACT UP chapter meets to discuss ‘shocking’ leaked budget that slashes HIV/AIDS funding By H.L. Comeriato ● HIV & AIDS ● April 28, 2025 AIDS advocacy group pushes for strategic plan to keep Ohioans living with HIV on life-saving medications
Political action group ACT UP Cleveland meets for the first time in over 20 years amid threats to HIV/AIDS funding By H.L. Comeriato ● HIV & AIDS ● April 17, 2025 ‘We have lived this nightmare before.’
Trump administration cuts $250k grant to install 10 LGBTQ+ Ohio historical markers By Ben Jodway ● Community ● April 8, 2025 “This is clearly part of a larger effort to erase LGBTQ+ people from any sort of formal recognition by our government.”
‘They want us dead’: Ohio AIDS activist makes desperate call to action amid federal funding cuts By H.L. Comeriato ● HIV & AIDS ● March 18, 2025 ‘They are not coming for your pronouns. They are coming for your life.’
‘Guilty until our status is proven innocent’: Update on Ohio’s outdated HIV criminalization laws By Ken Schneck ● HIV & AIDS ● March 3, 2025 Black Ohioans disproportionately prosecuted.
With uncertainty over the future of Ryan White HIV funding, here’s what we know By Juan Michael Porter II ● HIV & AIDS ● February 11, 2025 A memo sent out to Cleveland-based HIV providers calls into question the future of Ryan White HIV funding.
The Buckeye Flame receives two GLAAD Media Award nominations By The Buckeye Flame ● Community ● January 22, 2025 The Flame’s independent journalism and a collaboration with The Marshall Project on outdated HIV laws receive nods.
After more than three decades, queer men will finally be able to donate their tissue By Cole Williams ● Health & Wellness ● January 16, 2025 The little-known FDA policy caused thousands of members of our community to be denied their dying wishes.
DIRT Brings HIV/AIDS Advocacy Down to Earth for Black Communities in Ohio By Ilona Westfall ● Health & Wellness ● January 5, 2025 ‘Black folks are not hard to reach. People just never take the chance or the time to really reach them.’
Push to modernize Ohio’s outdated HIV laws gets a hearing By Ken Schneck ● Policy/Legislation ● November 20, 2024 Restrictions, penalties haven’t kept up with science, says Republican lawmaker.