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Friday, May 16
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Source: Gay People's Chronicle , Toledo Blade , Toledo Free Press Toledo, Ohio -- The University of Toledo administrator who claimed in a newspaper opinion piece that gay people can become straight and are not deserving of civil rights told a group of supporters Wednesday that her constitutional rights were violated when she was fired from the University of Toledo for writing the column. Crystal Dixon said she had a divine mandate to write the column for the Toledo Free Press as a private citizen and that she should not have been fired from her position as associate vice president for human...
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Friday, May 09
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Source: Columbus Dispatch , Outlook Weekly , Stonewall Columbus press release Columbus, Ohio -- Gay, lesbian, bi, and trans residents of the Columbus metropolitan area are mostly healthy, in committed relationships and happy with central Ohio's social scene. But they also report high levels of depression, face threats because of their sexual orientation and, often suffer discrimination in the workplace. Those are some of the highlights from a first-ever survey of LGBT residents of central Ohio, Columbus Dispatch reports. The findings show that Columbus, although known as a gay-friendly city...
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Saturday, April 26
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Source: Providence Journal , Arizona Republic , Rochester Democrat and Chronicle , Modesto Bee , Seattle Times , Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum The school's namesake peak overlooks the entrance to Mount Si High in Snoqualmie, WA. Only about 100 anti-gay demonstrators showed up at the school Friday, despite a month of promotion of the demonstration by national anti-gay groups. seaQwa photo: Robin Evans Throughout the country yesterday, tens of thousands of students at thousands of schools quietly observed a day dedicated to tolerance and respect. A few of the students who participated in yesterday's...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Ravenna Record-Courier , Akron Beacon Journal Akron businessman Harry Jackson has pledged at least $2 million to support the first endowment for scholarships and programming for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students at Kent State University. Jackson, a former B.F. Goodrich tax attorney, has owned the Odd Corner, a shop that sells erotica, tobacco and whatnot on the edge of the University of Akron campus, for more than 35 years. He chose Kent State because it is more gay-friendly and progressive than other universities. He said he hopes to fund programming that will inspire LGBT...
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Thursday, April 03
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Source: Record Courier A new contract for Kent State University faculty comes up for review this year, and an early draft released Wednesday includes a clause that could trigger a legal wrangle over a constitutional amendment adopted in 2004 by state voters. The proposed clause extends the same health benefits enjoyed by spouses to domestic partners of faculty members in a same-sex or opposite-sex relationship. University spokesman Ron Kirksey confirmed Wednesday the domestic partnership clause is "part of" the new contract, though talks on the contract remain informal at this time. Several...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Anchorage Daily News Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn denied that he was involved in an altercation on New Year's Day in which a man claimed on an emergency phone call that Quinn made an anti-gay slur at him. In a statement released Wednesday through the Browns, Quinn said he had dinner on New Year's Eve with his girlfriend and other couples but that nothing else happened. See summary of original charge "At no time that night was I involved in a verbal or physical altercation, nor did I have any interaction with the police," Quinn said in the statement. "I...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer and UPI Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn photo via Flickr Columbus, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn, a Columbus native, was part of a group of men shouting insults at gay passers-by outside a Columbus bar early on New Year's Day, according to a 9-1-1 call made to police. An emergency call to police was placed by Seth Harris at 2:35 a.m. Jan. 1 who reported that he encountered the group near a restaurant next door to one of Columbus' most popular gay bars. Update: Quinn denies the charges On the 9-1-1 call, Harris said that "Brady...
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Thursday, January 17
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Source: Dayton Daily News Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman, who is openly gay, should excuse herself from cases involving the state constitutional ban on gay marriage and Dayton's new law banning discrimination against gays, her Democratic primary opponent says. Montgomery County Area Court Judge James D. Piergies cited Wiseman's role in writing an earlier, failed version of the anti-discrimination law when she was a Dayton city commissioner in 1999. He said it would create an ethical problem as well if she were to consider cases involving the Ohio constitutional amendment...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: Ohio University Post Ohio University has already made the charts as one of the 100 best campuses for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, but the university doesn’t offer a certificate or minor in gay studies. Associate Professor Jeremy Webster, who teaches Lesbian and Gay Literature this quarter, is one faculty member trying to expand OU’s understanding of the gay community. “I thought it was important to create a class comparable to other classes like Women and Literature and African American Literature,” Webster said. “I also think it’s important for gay and lesbian students...
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Saturday, December 29
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer Philadelphia does it. So do Toronto, Dallas and a number of other cities. And in January, Cleveland's convention and visitors bureau announced plans to join in and create marketing specifically for gay tourists. The bureau worked with the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland to produce a 28-page guide filled with gay-friendly businesses, attractions and events. They've distributed about half of the 15,000 copies and plan to print an updated guide in June. Some of the guides will be distributed at Columbus' 2008 Pride Parade...
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Thursday, November 22
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Source: Dayton Daily News DAYTON, Ohio -- The gay and lesbian community got long-sought protection under the city's anti-discrimination law Wednesday night. "Justice delayed is justice denied. It's time to do the right thing," Mayor Rhine McLin said Wednesday. The City Commission voted 3-1 to add sexual orientation and gender identity to a list of protected groups. Commissioner Dean Lovelace was the sole "no" vote. "The (City Commission) is keeping Dayton on the cutting edge," Roger McKay, president and founder of Diversity Dayton said. "This shows the...
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Tuesday, November 13
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Source: Toledo Blade Toledo, Ohio -- Toledo City Council has approved an ordinance making Toledo the first large city in Ohio to offer gay and other unmarried couples the opportunity to register their relationship with city hall. Under the ordinance approved late Tuesday, couples who cannot or don’t want to marry can register their “domestic partnership” with the clerk of city council. The purpose of the registry is to create a centralized process that employers can use to verify relationships when they offer benefits that typically are offered for spouses and dependents. The measure passed 10...
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Saturday, November 10
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Source: Toledo Blade Toledo, Ohio -- An ordinance that would make Toledo the second Ohio city to offer gay and unmarried couples the chance to register their "domestic partnership" passed through a city council committee yesterday and is set for a vote Tuesday. The registry would not grant couples any direct benefits or bestow the legal rights of marriage. But by paying the city a $25 fee, the couples would receive a certificate and cards to carry that proclaim their partnership. City Law Director John Madigan told council's law and criminal justice committee that such a registry...
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Saturday, November 10
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GRANVILLE, Ohio -- The Denison University campus was quiet Friday after two weeks of unrest that peaked Wednesday with claims of racial and sexual intolerance. On Wednesday, the university sponsored a forum for discussion of issues of discrimination after a campus group's flier stirred emotions because it contained the image of a noose. About 2,000 attended, and discussion lasted seven hours. On Thursday, about 200 students gathered for a rally after learning a flier with a swastika had been shoved under the door of LaForce Baker, a black student. Denison President Dale Knobel, who called for...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: Associated Press via Washington Blade (AP) Three men who sought permits to burn ceremonial items in public, including the rainbow-colored flag of the gay rights movement, can continue with a lawsuit against the city of Columbus, a federal appeals court ruled. The plaintiffs include Charles Spingola and Thomas Meyer, who were convicted in Franklin County Environmental Court and fined $100 each for the misdemeanor charge of open burning without a permit. The plaintiffs argued that they were arrested in 2001 in violation of their First Amendment right to free speech because city officials...
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Saturday, November 03
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Source: CentralOhio.com GRANVILLE, Ohio -- The use of a symbol that has powerful negative overtones for African-Americans has caused an outcry on the Denison University campus and prompted the university to take a wider look at intolerance on campus. Flyers advertising a Halloween concert by the Hilltoppers, a student singing group, showed a noose with a caption involving the expression "hang out with us," a university spokesperson said. The flyers, posted around campus earlier this week, prompted strong reactions from members of the Black Student Union, who associated the noose image...
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Tuesday, October 30
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Source: Dayton Daily News Mary Wiseman got the call from Gov. Ted Strickland the day after running the Columbus Marathon. Strickland told the former Dayton city Commissioner she was being appointed to fill the post of retiring Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge John Kessler. "I wanted to jump up, but my legs were too sore," Wiseman said. It had taken "hope and persistence and determination" for Wiseman, admittedly not the most gifted of athletes, to complete her second marathon — a full six minutes faster than her six-hour goal. Those same qualities were required for...
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