‘Get in, Loser. We’re Going to the Hillsboro Pride Festival.’: ‘Mean Girls’ star Daniel Franzese joins rural Ohio Pride celebration By Ohio LGBTQ+ Events ● Pride ● May 10, 2026 ‘We want the whole region to know that at our festival, you can sit with us.’
Rural Ohio LGBTQ+ org to celebrate 5th annual Pride despite their lawmaker spearheading hate By Ben Jodway ● Rural ● May 8, 2026 Seneca Proud has brought together Seneca County’s queer community for five years and counting
After growing up there without a safe space, a trans man creates his rural Ohio county’s first Pride By Ben Jodway ● Rural ● May 5, 2026 The 24-year-old hopes to bring a sense of community to his home in Adams County
She sued her rural Ohio school for banning LGBTQ+ inclusion in her classroom. Now, she is launching a nonprofit to help people like her. By Ben Jodway ● Rural ● April 17, 2026 New Richmond teacher launches the Rainbow Classroom Advocacy Fund while she appeals her court case
A bi candidate runs to unseat Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman in rural Ohio By Ben Jodway ● Rural ● April 10, 2026 Democrat and Lima Pride Alliance Co-Founder Jeff Givan faces an uphill battle in a region that voted overwhelmingly for Trump
They started as a friend group of LGBTQ+ Ohioans. Now, they’re running their rural county’s first Pride. By Ben Jodway ● Rural ● March 26, 2026 In the past, Van Wert County residents traveled to Indiana for Pride
Columbus-based Kaleidoscope Youth Center pauses queer expansion into Northwest Ohio, lays off staff amid drop in grant funding By Ben Jodway & Ken Schneck ● Rural ● March 24, 2026 LGBTQ+ residents attempt to pick up the organizing that no longer has a sponsor
‘I’ve had more engaging conversations with trees’: Trans Ohioans get a cold reception from Ohio US rep in D.C. trip By Ben Jodway ● Politics ● March 17, 2026 A trans elder, a trans daughter and her father lobbied Ohio US Rep. David Joyce for trans rights on Capitol Hill
Students at an Ohio private Christian university hosted a drag show for over 10 years. This year could be the last. By Ben Jodway ● Rural ● February 26, 2026 University of Findlay’s LGBTQ+ student organizers worry Ohio’s proposed drag ban would jeopardize their main source of funding.
In college, he was ‘MAGA Christopher.’ Now, he’s out as bisexual and running to unseat a Republican By Ben Jodway ● Rural ● February 20, 2026 ‘The whole message of being yourself in the LGBTQ+ community is being yourself in your own ways’