In 1964, David Zimmer and Orn Huntington started a Halloween tradition. The Berwick Ball celebrated and supported Central Ohio's LGBTQ+ community for three decades.
Women have played football in Ohio for decades. In 1965, women’s football teams from Akron and Cleveland began playing games across the Midwest.
Recently the Gay Ohio History Initiative received a new collection from former Ohio native, Bryan Knedler. There is a lot to learn from Knedler’s documentation of his life.
In the Ohio History Connection’s archives, researchers can find documentation of the Columbus community’s fight to raise awareness of AIDS.
As we honor Pride throughout the month of June, we share this post from queer artist Charmaine Renee about their most recent project
Normally historians mention that a historical figure may have been a member of the LGBTQ+ community if they have documentation to support it.
Although she never lived in Ohio, Alice Dunbar Nelson is permanently attached to our history through her husband, Paul Laurence Dunbar.
This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series comes from Anne Delano Steinert, a preservationist, educator, and historian.
