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2 days ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Pride celebrations in Columbus and Cleveland pull tens of thousands of attendees from across Ohio, but smaller, more rural Stark County seeks to bring just as much joy and resilience to its LGBTQ+ celebration. Stark Pride will be held rain or shine on Saturday June 14, with the walk stepping off from the Cultural Center for the Arts on Market Ave in Canton.
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6 days ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
The Ohio city of Portsmouth is located in ruby-red Scioto County, but its city council has passed several progressive measures in the past five years. They include a COVID-19 mask mandate, establishing a local human rights commission and an anti-discrimination ordinance protecting the city’s Asian community. But a recent proposed resolution to declare Portsmouth welcoming to LGBTQ+ residents didn’t receive such a warm reception.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
When Jordan McLaughlin founded Rookie Mage Games in 2018, he said, the tabletop gaming industry was still growing in acceptance. Finding success by fundraising with Kickstarter, he and other LGBTQ+ game designers were able to get their ideas off the ground. He was hoping 2025 would be a big year for his company.
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1 month ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Last year, Springfield, Ohio, was thrust into the national spotlight after both President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance made false claims on the campaign trail about the rural town’s Haitian migrant population.
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1 month ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Republican lawmakers in Ohio are pushing through bills in both the state House and Senate that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in public K-12 schools and would also apply to hiring practices and staff workshops. However, bills Senate Bill 113 and House Bill 155 do not define what DEI is, leaving educational advocacy organizations unsure how the legislation would affect public education in the state. The Senate bill was introduced by sponsor Sen. Andrew Brenner (R-Delaware) on Feb.
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1 month ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Darke County, Ohio, on the border of Indiana, is a ruby-red rural voting district that’s home to nearly 52,000 people – just under the population of Youngstown. It is also home to the LGBTQ+ Community Center of Darke County, one of the few rural organizations in Ohio serving the queer community with a dedicated building that hosts regular drop-in hours and themed events each week. _The center is celebrating its first anniversary on May 1.
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1 month ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway |“LGBTQ Cleveland”
A rural Ohio fairgrounds has canceled the contract to host a “conference” that LGBTQ+ advocates say was a conversion therapy bootcamp. A group called the Pastors Action Coalition signed a contract to rent the Market Hall at the Mercer County Fairgrounds on the western edge of Ohio.
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1 month ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
The state budget is headed to the Senate after Ohio Republicans pushed through the bill on Wednesday which would legislatively erase trans identity in the Buckeye State. Embedded within House Republicans’ 4,491-page budget (Sub. HB 96) – introduced on April 1 – are the following two sentences:“It is the policy of the state of Ohio to recognize two sexes, male and female.
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2 months ago | 
citybeat.com | Madeline Fening |Ben Jodway
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2 months ago | 
citybeat.com | Ben Jodway |Marty Schladen
Pankuch’s stipend is only one slice of the $250,000. They said Ohio History Connection used the grant to hire a full-time staff member dedicated to the project, along with stipends for other advisors. But now all that work has been terminated, and Pankuch will not be getting paid. And the amount of money is a drop in the bucket in terms of governmental funding, they said. Federal funding towards researching and teaching history was previously seen as a value to American society.
