Literary Archives – The Buckeye Flame

HIRING: The Buckeye Flame seeks two Reporting Fellows to cover LGBTQ+ Ohioans of color

By Ken Schneck ● Community ● January 26, 2026

Pay for the six-month fellowship is $15,000 and applications are due by noon on February 13.

By Caitlin McNally ● Youth ● July 22, 2025

John Colacarro’s work aims to comfort individuals discovering their LGBTQ+ identities.

By The 19th ● Community ● July 5, 2025

As programs recognizing LGBTQ+ people are cut, an Ohio archive is doing what queer Americans always have: preserving their own history.

The budget includes language to erase trans identity, ban youth access to LGBTQ+ books and defund homeless shelters that support trans youth.

The proposed budget also requires that driver’s licenses or birth certificates reflect transgender people’s sex assigned at birth.

By The Land ● Literary ● June 3, 2025

“I had to plant a flag saying transliterature exists, it is important, and it is worthy of study.”

A provision in the Ohio budget proposal would require libraries to place LGBTQ+ content out of view of minors.

By Ken Schneck ● Politics ● May 16, 2025

“American Scare” tells the story of how Florida destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens and what that has to do with LGBTQ+ Ohio.

By The Buckeye Flame ● Community ● March 27, 2025

“There is such collective power to queer newsrooms working together, and that power is especially and acutely needed right now.”

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The Flame’s independent journalism and a collaboration with The Marshall Project on outdated HIV laws receive nods.