Elliot Forhan remembers his moms Linn and Pattie sitting he and his sister down when they were kids. It was the 1990s, and news reports of…
(This commentary was provided by Policy Matters Ohio, a nonprofit public policy institute.) Last year, while candidates for mayor and city council ran for office, a…
Rather than using International Women’s Day to commemorate the cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women across the world, Jane Timken instead used the occasion to…
Morgan Harper is not your typical politician. And she sure as heck isn’t trying to be. The candidate currently vying for the Democratic nomination to represent…
The queer community has seen huge leaps in advancements since I came out in 1975. Out gay politicians were extremely rare back then and Black, gay…
I can’t quite explain my obsession with writing about Josh Mandel. And I do acknowledge that my fixation on this Ohio U.S. Senate candidate is an…
Voters in Ohio’s Fourteenth Congressional District could send the state’s first openly gay representative to the US House this November, when Democrat Matt Kilboy will face…
Jim Obergefell has announced his plans to run for a seat in the Ohio House. The named lead plaintiff in the 2015 landmark case that brought…
With the start of the new year comes the start of new terms for over 20 out LGBTQ+ Ohioans who will be serving their local communities.…
With 2021 now officially behind us and a new year on the books, 2022 promises to have some major developments in store for LGBTQ+ Ohioans. To…