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6 days 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 week 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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2 weeks 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 weeks ago | 
citybeat.com | Madeline Fening |Ben Jodway
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2 weeks 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.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Gil Kudrin was in Washington, D.C. last week lobbying Congress to protect HIV/AIDS funding for medication and services. “At the same time, [the Trump administration] was at home in my own backyard trying to destroy the history of the work that I have devoted the last 35 years of my life to,” Kudrin said. For decades, Kudrin has worked with Nightsweats & T-Cells, a screen-printing company that provides employment to those unable to find work due to discrimination around HIV/AIDS.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Gil Kudrin was in Washington, D.C. last week lobbying Congress to protect HIV/AIDS funding for medication and services. “At the same time, [the Trump administration] was at home in my own backyard trying to destroy the history of the work that I have devoted the last 35 years of my life to,” Kudrin said. For decades, Kudrin has worked with Nightsweats & T-Cells, a screen-printing company that provides employment to those unable to find work due to discrimination around HIV/AIDS.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Since 2019, the Cleveland International Film Festival has honored LGBTQ+ filmmakers with the DReam Maker Award. Kimberly Reed, a transgender filmmaker known for the documentaries “Dark Money” and “Prodigal Sons”, received the honor on stage this year on Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31. The award comes with $5,000 to support the honoree’s future works and is named in honor of David K. Ream (1949–2017), a former CIFF trustee.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Fox Nguyen emigrated to the United States with his mother when he was 15. Though he grew up Buddhist, he was in a Catholic high school where he struggled as a gay teenager. Once he was an adult at 18, he ran away from home and was homeless. Now, he’s 27-years-old and making award-winning nail art in the shadows of the Appalachian mountains. Despite the multiple obstacles thrown his way, Nguyen overcame them, all while sticking to his most valued advice from his mother – stay humble.
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4 weeks ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ben Jodway
Almost 9,000 feet above sea level sits a small mining town in Colorado with no stoplights. Creede is home to an award-winning theater with diverse casts that presents challenging plays like – The Royale and Native Gardens – to a predominantly white conservative population.
