Following Middle Schooler’s Attack, Allies Rally Around LGBTQ+ Youth in Defiance, Ohio
Supporters in rural county grappled with the viral video showing the assault of a boy for wearing a rainbow flag across his shoulders.
Supporters in rural county grappled with the viral video showing the assault of a boy for wearing a rainbow flag across his shoulders.
Within two days of asking if Fremont residents wanted a Pride Month celebration, Fremont Pride was born.
"They say we’re divisive because we’re proud. Somehow our very presence in rural Ohio is too big and too much."
Residents say that Pride Month did not meet the new mayor's criteria for a proclamation.
"We wanted to give people a space to speak for themselves," says co-editor Kevin Whiteneir.
"We are the first and the only LGBTQ+ organization in Lake County, so even saying the word LGBTQ here, you say it in a whisper."
"I know what it feels like to be a queer kid in Zanesville and not really understand what queerness is."