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.
The original Stonewall Uprising was a protest against police brutality led by LGBTQ people of color.
Natalie Clifford Barney was an out lesbian when she said, “being other than normal [was] a perilous advantage.”
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This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series come from Julia Applegate, Director of the Equitas Health Institute and a long time activist.
LGBTQ Pride events are meant to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969. This year, 2019, marks 50 years since the pivotal moment at Stonewall.
Ohio History Connection’s Eric Feingold discusses several objects in the GOHI collection!
Eric Feingold, History Curator at the Ohio History Connection discusses Columbus’s robust LGBTQ community in WOSU’s Curious Cbus series: Eric Feingold, curator at the Ohio History Connection, works with the Gay Ohio History Initiative. He says that the city was, in general, far ahead of the rest of the state. “Columbus has been holding, for instance, […]
