LGBTQ

The event, a family-friendly story hour featuring performances from drag queens, was scheduled for Saturday morning at the Red Oak Community School.

A fundraiser for a local, independent community school has drawn the attention of a group known for hateful rhetoric against the LGBTQ community, but the school’s leadership say they won’t be bullied into canceling Saturday’s family-friendly story hour featuring performances from drag queens.

A gunman killed five people and injured 18 others at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs, Colo. The district attorney's office said the investigation is ongoing.

Efforts to roll back protections for LGBTQ+ students and trans youths are moving along two fronts in the state – as the Ohio Board of Education and the state legislature consider controversial proposals.

The Ohio State Board of Education could vote on a resolution on Tuesday that would push back on a Biden administration anti-discrimination policy.

The executive committee of Ohio’s State School Board heard testimony on a controversial anti-discrimination resolution to oppose federal changes to Title IX rules and the effect on parental rights and LGBTQ issues.

The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments for and against a lower court’s decision to bar probate judges from allowing transgender individuals to request gender corrections to their birth certificates.

Testimony on the resolution that opposes a change made in federal policy in Title IX programs went on for more than four hours.

The proposed resolution urges the state legislature to pass bills that prevent transgender students from using girls bathrooms and locker rooms, supports a lawsuit being waged by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost over federal non-discrimination rules and more.

Gay conversion therapy is widely discredited but remains legal in Ohio. Now cities, including Cleveland and Cleveland Heights are moving to ban the practice, which many say is damaging and even dangerous.