City Councilmember Stefanie Hawk’s goal was simple: designate June as Pride Month in Cheviot, a city in west-central Hamilton County, less than 10 miles northwest of…
On Wednesday, the Cincinnati City Council voted to update their municipal code to offer more protections for the LGBTQ+ community. The previous “Unlawful Discriminatory Practices” ordinance…
Despite hundreds of comments from local community members speaking out against his actions, an Ohio county sheriff has refused to take down his Facebook post, which…
As one anti-LGBTQ+ Ohio bill has a hearing this week and another made national headlines without even been assigned a committee, a third piece of legislation…
HB 616 — the bill that would ban the promotion and teaching of “divisive and inherently racist concepts” — was assigned Tuesday to the State and…
My discomfort with the commodification of Mothers’ Day intensified this year as non-birthing politicians continue to make decisions about birthing bodies. The news site Politico stirred…
A city councilperson in a Cincinnati suburb used a transphobic slur, and after being confronted on its use, doubled down on his language in a wide-ranging…
With anti-LGBTQ+ legislative action in the Columbus statehouse and a looming Supreme Court decision that leaked documents indicate will overturn Roe v. Wade, a number of…
Senator Nickie Antonio has made state LGBTQ+ history many times over. In 2005, she became the first out LGBTQ+ person elected to Lakewood City Council before…
Jim Obergefell brought the fight for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States in 2015 – and won. Now he…