The Buckeye Flame

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.