HIRING: The Buckeye Flame seeks two Reporting Fellows to cover LGBTQ+ Ohioans of color
Pay for the six-month fellowship is $15,000 and applications are due by noon on February 13.
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LGBTQ+ Ohio teen publishes poetry collection exploring heartbreak, loss, nostalgia and self-hate
John Colacarro’s work aims to comfort individuals discovering their LGBTQ+ identities.
‘It’s proof of our existence’: How the Ohio Lesbian Archives is recording history as it’s erased
As programs recognizing LGBTQ+ people are cut, an Ohio archive is doing what queer Americans always have: preserving their own history.
Ohio Senate passes budget containing slate of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks
The budget includes language to erase trans identity, ban youth access to LGBTQ+ books and defund homeless shelters that support trans youth.
Ohio budget would ban Medicaid from covering gender affirming mental health care
The proposed budget also requires that driver’s licenses or birth certificates reflect transgender people’s sex assigned at birth.
Teaching Transliterature: How a Cleveland-area academic pioneered a field of study to amplify voices of change
“I had to plant a flag saying transliterature exists, it is important, and it is worthy of study.”
Ohio library systems, advocates push back on House provision to hide LGBTQ+ materials
A provision in the Ohio budget proposal would require libraries to place LGBTQ+ content out of view of minors.
Audio The surprising connection between Florida, a nefarious 1950s committee and LGBTQ+ Ohio
"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.
The Buckeye Flame joins groundbreaking LGBTQ+ media collaborative
“There is such collective power to queer newsrooms working together, and that power is especially and acutely needed right now."
The Buckeye Flame receives two GLAAD Media Award nominations
The Flame's independent journalism and a collaboration with The Marshall Project on outdated HIV laws receive nods.
