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bjodway.com • 22 days ago

In this story, I listed off the ten markers that could be affected by this cut. These were the ten candidates... (1/11)🧵

Reposted from The Buckeye Flame

“This is clearly part of a larger effort to erase LGBTQ+ people from any sort of formal recognition by our government.”

Trump administration cuts $250k grant to install 10 LGBTQ+ Ohio historical markers

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karlkimpo.bsky.social•20 days ago

👎👎👎

dlauri.bsky.social•21 days ago

In 2009 I was one of many LGBT Daytonians who donated towards the installation of the Natalie Smith Barney marker, and I contributed again a few years later towards a replacement marker after the first one was vandalized.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-BygT-wMU

bjodway.com•22 days ago

Crazy Ladies Center / Ohio Lesbian Archives in Cincinnati. From 1979 to 2002, the feminist bookstore was a central hub for community organizing. The third floor housed the Ohio Lesbian Archives, which has amassed lesbian historical documents and objects since 1989. (2/11)

bjodway.com•22 days ago

Pater Noster House in Columbus. It was a volunteer hospice and care center for people living with HIV/AIDS from 1985 to 2000. The nonprofit received national attention when LIFE Magazine published a photo of gay rights activist David Kirby on his deathbed at the hospice. (3/11)

bjodway.com•22 days ago

Louis P. Escobar in Toledo. Escobar was the first out LGBTQ+ and first Latine individual elected to Toledo City Council in 1997. The marker would have been placed at the corner of Adams and 13th St in Toledo, dubbed “Louis P. Escobar Way,” and included a rainbow crosswalk. (4/11)

bjodway.com•22 days ago

Nightsweats & T-Cells in Cleveland. It’s a screen-printing company in Kent that provides employment to those unable to find work due to discrimination around HIV/AIDS. Since their founding in 1990, a portion of the company’s proceeds have gone to HIV/AIDS research and community care. (5/11)

bjodway.com•22 days ago

Edmonia “Wildfire” Lewis in Oberlin. Lewis was a Black mid-to-late-19th-Century sculptor known best for “The Death of Cleopatra.” Her work broke gender and racial norms, and she later joined a group of self-identified queer women artists in Rome. (6/11)

bjodway.com•22 days ago

Dr. Dolores Noll in Kent. She formed the first LGBTQ+ student organization at Kent State University and was the school’s first professor of gay and lesbian studies. (7/11)

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