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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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4 weeks 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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1 month ago | 
citybeat.com | Madeline Fening |Ben Jodway
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
