Rural Archives – Page 8 of 10

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

By Ken Schneck ● Community ● November 6, 2023

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

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

By Ken Schneck ● Community ● November 3, 2023

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

By Peter Kusnic ● Politics ● October 2, 2023

‘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

By H.L. Comeriato ● Politics ● September 27, 2023

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

By Ken Schneck ● Policy/Legislation ● September 24, 2023

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’

By Ken Schneck ● Policy/Legislation ● September 5, 2023

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]

By The Buckeye Flame ● Galleries ● September 3, 2023

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

By Ken Schneck ● Policy/Legislation ● August 30, 2023

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

Rural Ohio community under assault; hundreds of screenshots, videos depict anti-LGBTQ+ attacks

By H.L. Comeriato & Ken Schneck ● Community ● August 22, 2023

For months, organizers in Celina have faced an onslaught of harassment and threats from anti-LGBTQ Christian and white-supremacist groups

Roll Call of an Ohio Anti-Pride Protest: Neo-Nazis, Christian Grandmothers and…a State Representative

By Ken Schneck ● Pride ● June 28, 2023

The elected official stood side-by-side with those protesting the small town Pride, which included masked ‘Aryan White Nationalists.’