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‘There Will Be Blood’: How neo-Nazis and white supremacists are fueling Ohio’s anti-LGBTQ+ movement

Across the state, white supremacists are targeting LGBTQ+ communities, driving and capitalizing on a massive uptick in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and legislation. This is how we got here — and why experts warn that a grim history could repeat itself.

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‘Say Gay Dance Night’ brings LGBTQ+ nightlife option to Athens

The dance nights, hosted by DJ Mooseknuckle at Casa Nueva, offer an LGBTQ+ dance party for community members and students.

Audio LGBTQ+ Pride steadily growing in one of Ohio’s least populous counties

You may never have heard of Preble County, but that only makes some residents even more determined to provide critical LGBTQ+ visibility.

A rural and vibrant LGBTQ+ Ohio community is looking for a leader to help usher in a new era of development and pride

LGBTQ+ Spectrum of Findlay is searching for a new Executive Director to support this nonprofit's critical work in Northwest Ohio.

A first for tiny Weston, Ohio: an out LGBTQ+ council member

‘I want everyone in the village to feel comfortable being who they are.’

‘It’s about listening to people’: Out LGBTQ+ candidate Arienne Childrey to run against Rep. Angela King in Ohio’s 84th district

Transgender candidate Arienne Childrey has announced a run against Rep. Angela King, who protested alongside neo-Nazis at Celina’s Small Town Pride festival earlier this year.

Ohio Supreme Court to hear challenge to Bellefontaine ballot initiative to ban public drag performances

This case follows Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose's tie-breaking vote to allow a vote to move forward to ban public drag shows.

Rural community submits ballot initiative to become first in Ohio to ban public drag; LGBTQ+ advocates claim ‘fraud’

A group of residents claims that the language on the petition was fraudulently changed after voters signed it.

Scenes from the Drag Ban Protest in Celina [GALLERY]

The setting of the protest was intentional: Mercer County is the home to Rep. Angela King (R-Celina), one of the primary sponsors of HB 245.

Protest to be held against Ohio’s ‘drag ban’…in the hometown of the representative who proposed it

'When they take their bigotry statewide, we're going to take our peaceful protest local...to their hometown.'

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