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.
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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The Flame's independent journalism and a collaboration with The Marshall Project on outdated HIV laws receive nods.
Audio Shift into High Gear as Ohio’s LGBTQ+ history just got a whole lot easier to access
Cleveland Public Library has digitized and made available a legendary LGBTQ+ Ohio publication with so many lessons for today's struggles.
Little Gay Bookstore hopes to leave all of Ohio on read
Hoping to become a permanent fixture in the community, the nonprofit is now searching for a storefront in Columbus.
How one library is offering a lifeline for queer Ohioans with one of the nation’s only LGBTQ+ specialist roles
From programming to policy, the Dayton Metro Library is breaking new ground amid rising censorship.
