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Buckeye Ranch LGBTQ mental health campaign to reduce stigma for youth

Buckeye Ranch LGBTQ mental health campaign to reduce stigma for youth | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The campaign is aimed at encouraging dialogue about mental health within the LGBTQ+ youth community, while reducing stigma and providing resources.

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LGBTQ community to have voices heard during Fremont's first pride event

LGBTQ community to have voices heard during Fremont's first pride event | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Fremont's pride event will feature a parade, entertainment and food and drink, and will be held July 10 at Walsh Park.

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Columbus' Slammers among few remaining lesbian bars in US

Columbus' Slammers among few remaining lesbian bars in US | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Business remains steady for Slammers, a Downtown establishment which received funding from a national campaign to preserve lesbian bars.

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LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance Partners With Ohio Realtors

LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance Partners With Ohio Realtors | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The Alliance formed last June in the wake of leadership controversies at another advocacy group and has been steadily striking up industry partnerships ever since

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UC introduces new program in LGBTQ studies

UC introduces new program in LGBTQ studies | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

UC students and members of the greater Cincinnati community are now able to enroll to earn a certificate in LGBTQ Studies. Offered through UC’s College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), the certificate will explore the political and cultural contributions of the LGBTQ community regionally, nationally and globally, and includes internship opportunities.

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Column: Midwest has shown it’s ready for transgender rights

Midwesterners are ready to protect transgender rights — if lawmakers could listen.In recent weeks, then-presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg twice made headlines as videos surfaced of him making dehumanizing comments about transgender people and suggesting that Midwest voters don’t understand or support transgender rights.The hurtful comments reinforce the dangerous myth that Midwesterners can’t grasp what it means to treat transgender people with dignity and respect.

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Transform: Seth Meyers, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ava DuVernay join fundraiser for transgender youth

Transform: Seth Meyers, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ava DuVernay join fundraiser for transgender youth | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Transform, a nonprofit that gives free clothes to kids and teens transitioning genders, has raised over $30,000 for a new building.

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Equitas Health, Ohio Business Competes Push to Make Ohio More Equitable for LGBTQ Community

Equitas Health, Ohio Business Competes Push to Make Ohio More Equitable for LGBTQ Community | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

On Thursday, March 21, 2019, Equitas Health joined Equality Ohio and Ohio Business Competes—a nonpartisan coalition of more than 600 Ohio businesses committed to achieving statewide nondiscrimination policies—for a press conference about the achieving an important mark of progress for LGBTQ Ohioans.

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Ohio University’s LGBT Center celebrates 20th ‘Rainbowversary’

The LGBT Center is celebrating 20 years of being a part of OU.

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'It just makes my heart swell': Middletown's first-ever LGBT Pride event draws hundreds

'It just makes my heart swell': Middletown's first-ever LGBT Pride event draws hundreds | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
A decade ago, Diana Arnold never would have dreamed of publicly discussing her relationship with her wife. Friday night gave her and other gay Middletonians a chance to be proud.
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Symposium To Focus On Trans And Gender Diverse Communities In Rural America

Symposium To Focus On Trans And Gender Diverse Communities In Rural America | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The Equitas Health Institute for LGBTQ Health Equity has partnered with Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Ohio University LGBT Center on Rural Voices: Caring for Trans and Gender Diverse Communities, a day-long summit taking place June 7 in Athens, Ohio for health and social service professionals. The focus of the summit is improving access to care and the quality of care for the trans community living in rural areas

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Would a law banning LGBT discrimination be good for Ohio business?

Would a law banning LGBT discrimination be good for Ohio business? | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Advocates of LGBT rights in Ohio say a non-discrimination law would benefit business in Ohio — but opponents say such rights could hinder free speech and religious freedom.Both supporters and opponents of a bill that would create LGBT protections discussed anti-discrimination laws and their implications at a Columbus Metropolitan Club event Wednesday afternoon.House Bill 160, also called the Ohio Fairness Act, would make it illegal to discriminate against individuals based on sexual
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Ohio health center debuts LGBT magazine

Ohio health center debuts LGBT magazine | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Equitas Health, based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest LGBT and HIV healthcare providers in the country. Now, it’s also in the magazine business. Prizm, a glossy monthly published by Equitas Health, premiered with its 40-page October 2017 issue.
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West Dayton Stories: The Joy Of Celebrating Black Trans Excellence

West Dayton Stories: The Joy Of Celebrating Black Trans Excellence | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Here on West Dayton Stories, we’re exploring the concept of Black Joy. With so much focus on the trauma of race in America, we turn to this important source of celebration, resistance, and healing. Community producer LB, who’s also known as Leah Byrd, takes us back to the time he found the joy he didn’t know he needed in his life.

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Chris Witherspoon to be keynote speaker at OU Pride Graduation

Chris Witherspoon to be keynote speaker at OU Pride Graduation | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

OU’s 2021 Pride Graduation ceremony will be virtual. The keynote speaker is entertainment journalist and entrepreneur Chris Witherspoon.

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Transgender people share experiences with the military following Biden's order to lift ban

Transgender people share experiences with the military following Biden's order to lift ban | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Three transgender Ohioans share experiences serving in, or trying to join, the military during Trump's ban of their service after Biden reversal

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Ohio's Complicated History with the LGBTQ Community

Ohio's Complicated History with the LGBTQ Community | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Ohio has had a complex relationship with LGBTQ community, going as far as to amend its constitution to declare marriage between a man and a women. This decision didn’t last long though as this amendment was made invalid by Obergefell v. Hodges, which ruled that same-sex marriage was protected by the US...

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Transgender military ban: A year later, Ohio man still wants to serve

Transgender military ban: A year later, Ohio man still wants to serve | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Sunday marks one year since the Pentagon enacted its policy restricting the service of transgender troops, and Talbott, a transgender man, is as resolute as ever.

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Living Openly: Uncovering queer indigenous history

Living Openly: Uncovering queer indigenous history | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

As an eighth grader, Jack Raslich’s first developed a liking for history when they got into an argument with a history teacher over the cause of the civil war.

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Drag show, pride parade stir controversy in Middletown

Drag show, pride parade stir controversy in Middletown | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

A recent downtown event celebrating the LGBT community in Middletown caused some controversy i

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OU announces assistant director for LGBT Center

OU announces assistant director for LGBT Center | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Jan Huebenthal will be the first assistant director of the center.

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Ohio Judge Holds Transgender Teen’s Identity ‘Hostage’

Ohio Judge Holds Transgender Teen’s Identity ‘Hostage’ | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Elliott Whitaker thought that his legal name change would be a “formality.” The 15-year-old transgender boy and his parents had been told that, typically, a judge would just ask benign questions like “Do you like school?” or “What sports do you play” before processing the paperwork that would make Elliott’s feminine-sounding birth name a relic of the past. But that’s not what happened.
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Full Spectrum opens safe haven for LGBT community in Youngstown area

Full Spectrum opens safe haven for LGBT community in Youngstown area | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
The organization offers support groups, resources and a youth program for kids without a stable home life.
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Central Ohio woman featured in new national ad campaign about LGBT discrimination

Central Ohio woman featured in new national ad campaign about LGBT discrimination | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Jimmie Beall says she was fired from her job as a teacher in a rural Ohio school district in 2003 because of “questions about her sexual orientation.”
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Ohio bill looks to add LGBT protections

Ohio bill looks to add LGBT protections | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Bill would bar discrimination in housing, employment.
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