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LGBTQ+ Ohio Historical Markers
Summit Street once housed one of Ohio's longest-running female homosexual bars. In , a lesbian bartender at Jack's A Go Go commended that while Columbus had bars for gay men, it needed one geared toward lesbian clientele. Patrons knew the bar as "Jack's," Logan's Off Broadway, and Summit Station. Staff welcomed women from little towns, women working in trades, women of hue, butch/femme lesbians, and trans person people. Regulars recall that stepping through the door felt like finally entering a place of real belonging. Women could gyrate, "get together," break up, sing karaoke, party with friends, and celebrate birthdays and holidays. Summit Station remained a safe general space, despite ongoing police harassment of its gender non-conforming regulars. A signal posted outside declared: "Ladies Night, Every Night. Men $5."
By the s, Summit Station was considered "the largest women's bar in Columbus." It regularly hosted lesbian musicians, comedians, DJs, an all female twist troupe, dart and billiards leagues, drag king and dyke queen performers. In efforts to
My family isn't 'age inappropriate.' Ohio's 'Don't Say Gay' will hurt my kid, others | Opinion
Columbus residentDwayne Steward is executive director ofEquality Ohio.
I grew up in Ohio and — even when I have lived somewhere else — I’ve always considered it home.
The Buckeye State is where I met my husband, where we adopted our son and where we are building our family. This state is where I learned to be an activist, learned what it meant to be Black, to be gay, to be Black and queer and more.
The Midwest is unlike from the rest of the country — it is easier to unite one-on-one with people — and so much of me is tied to Ohio and the people who live here.
Now, if House Bill 8 passes, this “Don’t Say Gay” bill will force harmful censorship into Ohio schools, and tell my son that his family, which has two fathers, is something to be ashamed of.
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HB 8 claims to prohibit schools from education or discussing “sexuality content" that is not “age appropriate,” b
The Gay Ohio History Initiative collects, preserves and shares the history and tradition of LGBTQ+ Ohioans. GOHI began in , when Outlook Media donated a full run of Outlook periodicals to the Ohio History Connection.
Today, GOHI’s labor takes many forms, including building singular archival and museum collections, offering educational programs, recording oral histories and developing relationships with Homosexual individuals and organizations across the state.
GOHI is one critical way the Ohio History Connection fulfills its mission to Spark Discovery of Ohio's Stories by embracing the introduce, sharing the past and transforming the future.
In , we embarked on a three-year project to diversify Ohio’s historical markers to encompass ten new stories of LGBTQ+ Ohioans. Have an idea? We want to hear it! Attain out to us below.
LGBTQ+ History Research at the Ohio History Connection
Periodicals
The Ohio History Connection maintains a rich collection of LGBTQ+ newsletters, newspapers, and magazines from across the state. In some cases, we keep the only known issue of a publication; other titles continued publication for decades. Browse our holdings below, and find even more by searching our online catalog!
Alliance Advisor (Bowling Green, )
Bar Trash (Columbus, )
BRAVO Bulletin Board (Columbus, )
Central Heat: A Guide to Gay Ohio (Columbus, )
Central Ohio Same-sex attracted Newsletter (Columbus)
Columbus Gay Activist ()
Dignity Columbus
Dinah (Cincinnati, ss)
Gaybeat (Cincinnati, )
Gay People's Chronicle (Cleveland, )
GEAR Foundation Newsletter (Cleveland)
Gold (Akron-Canton, )
Good Times (Columbus, )
Greater Cincinnati GLBT News (, )
HeadLine (Columbus)
High Gear (Cleveland, )
In Your Pants (Westerville, )
Index of Homosexual and Lesbian News
Lambda (Athens, )
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