This article first appeared on the Buckeye FlameThe staff of The Buckeye Flame arrived at one of Ohio’s largest Pride celebrations in 2024 to find our table sandwiched between a cellphone company and a grocery-store chain. To our left, the cellphone company was giving out gift cards and T-…

This article first appeared on the Buckeye Flame.I don’t cry easily, but I almost started crying in Cleveland’s FBI field office yesterday, in front of the FBI’s national chief diversity officer (CDO). I had been asked to participate in a roundtable of local community leaders. We were to…

This article first appeared in the Buckeye FlameAn overflow crowd packed the city of Ashtabula’s council chambers on May 20, spilling out into the hallway. Despite no official item on the council’s agenda regarding the northeastern Ohio city’s June 15 Pride Festival, residents showed up…