2024 was certainly a lot for LGBTQ+ Ohioans. As 2025 begins, what can we expect from the year ahead? Here are some questions and predictions. Let’s face it: 2024 ended pretty terribly for LGBTQ+ ...

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story indicated the bill was voted out of the legislature and awaited Gov. DeWine’s signature. Although SB 71 was passed by the Senate and then amended in the ...

All is not calm, and all is not bright in America. For millions of citizens and non-citizens, the waning December days are filled not with hope but foreboding. The president-elect felon and his ...

After midnight on Wednesday—the last day of Ohio’s two-year legislative session—the Ohio House voted to approve HB 8. The Ohio Senate Democratic Caucus sent a letter to Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday ...

After midnight on the last day of Ohio’s two-year legislative session, the Ohio House voted to approve HB 8, the Parents’ Bill of Rights. HB 8 will force teachers and school staff to out LGBTQ+ youth ...

Editor’s note: This bill passed the Ohio House after midnight on Wednesday and is now headed to Gov. Mike DeWine for his approval. He has previously indicated he will sign the Parents’ Bill of Rights ...

Real Housewives of New York OG Luann de Lesseps is bringing her wildly popular cabaret tour to two Ohio locales. Things are about to get a whole lot classier here in Ohio as the Countess is coming to ...

“The GOP in DC and in Columbus seem to have their heads in the toilet, wasting taxpayer dollars on bathroom bans.” As a proud Democrat, conservatives often tell me that I will eventually vote ...

In the midst of Ohio Republicans’ onslaught of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, two LGBTQ+ equality bills received hearings in the Ohio House Civil Justice Committee during lame duck on Tuesday, Dec. 17.

As Ohio’s lame-duck Congress sessions draw to a close, The Buckeye Flame spoke with GLSEN Executive Director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers about how bills like the “bathroom ban” and the Parents’ Bill of ...

As one of the fastest growing cities in the country, Columbus is in for major changes in the coming years—and local queer community leader Densil Porteous wants to be a part of the conversation to ...