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1 month ago | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ilona Westfall
Like at most summer camps, the kids at Camp Indigo play tag, do arts and crafts and make friends. Unlike at most summer camps, the kids at the new day camp in Akron are all trans. Eleven years after its founding in Oakland, California, the camp for trans, non-binary and gender expansive kids and teens ages 5 to 17 is returning to Ohio for a second summer: June 30 to July 4. Located in northwest Akron, Camp Indigo joins spots in Oakland, California; Boulder, Colorado and Austin.
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1 month ago | 
ohiomagazine.com | Ilona Westfall
Dozens of colorfully robed figures clutch staffs and parchments in a row across the massive canvas. But the Arhats, or Buddhist saints, depicted in the 9-by-32-foot painting look as if they came straight from the pages of a modern Japanese manga. The painting, “100 Arhats,” is one of roughly 70 paintings and sculptures in “Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow,” at The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 25 through Sept. 7.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ilona Westfall
On Jan. 28, 2025, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia bearing Nicolas Talbot’s name. The suit was filed just 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order moving towards banning transgender Americans from serving in the U.S. military. According to a Jan. 28 press release, Talbot v.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ilona Westfall
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Bryan C. Jones, HIV/AIDS activist, advocate and educator. Jones was one of Ohio’s most outspoken and fearless leaders. From his induction to The Bayard Rustin LGBTQ+ Resource Center’s Hall of Fame in October 2024: “Diagnosed with HIV 42 years ago, Jones has spent over two decades fighting for the rights of people living with HIV, becoming a vital voice in the movement to end stigma and discrimination.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Ilona Westfall
A young Black man wearing an old-fashioned coat and scarf casually leans while gazing into the distance. The vibrant photo, “Jean-Baptiste Belley,” is a self-portrait of contemporary photographer Omar Victor Diop, and a replication of a 1797 painting of Belley, a fellow Senegalese man who worked toward the abolition of slavery in France.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ilona Westfall
Danielle A. Berger, LPN, didn’t expect a routine visit at a drug and alcohol recovery center in rural Ohio to spark a LGBTQ+ healthcare initiative. But when a patient confided in Berger that his primary care physician ignored him when he asked about getting a prescription for PrEP, she was shocked. “It just makes me sad that not only did that doctor not hear this gentleman’s concerns out, but he didn’t even offer him a referral to somewhere else,” said Berger.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Gracie Metz |Morgan Davis Mills |Olivia Montgomery |Ilona Westfall
The arrival of fall means a fresh lineup of art exhibitions and performances happening across the state. From Lin-Manuel Miranda’s revolutionary production that tells the story of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton to BalletMet’s take on Dracula and art exhibits that stretch from the photography of Ansel Adams to to a collection of surrealist works, here are a dozen standout arts events happening this season. Transcendent DreamscapesThru Oct.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Ilona Westfall
A regal figure with blue skin is flanked by two warrior demons, one with three eyes and the other wearing a dragon around its neck like a scarf. This strange trio depicted in “Heavenly King Virudhaka,” a painting on a silk hanging scroll that dates back to the Ming Dynasty, was intended to scare off evil spirits from the Buddhist temple in which it would have hung.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
thebuckeyeflame.com | Ilona Westfall
Two men, a woman and two little girls smile at each other and the camera while they sit on a cozy backyard patio. The photo of the Watson/Hutchins Family (consisting of Sgt. Kenneth Watson, his partner James Hutchins and Watson’s ex-wife Lisa and their two kids) is just one of over 40 photos in the exhibition “Love Makes a Family: Portraits of LGBTQ+ People and Their Families” at the Maltz Museum in the Northeast Ohio suburb of Beachwood.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Ilona Westfall
Today, taking a photo is as easy as pulling a cell phone from your pocket. Though, as the photographic images featured in “Moment in Time: A Legacy of Photographs/Works from the Bank of America Collection” show, it took a lot of innovation to get here. The touring exhibition, on display at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati through Sept. 15, highlights 115 works spanning from the 1840s to the 1960s, a pivotal period in photography history.
