Launched in June of 2020 as a 501c3 nonprofit newsroom, The Buckeye Flame is filling the lack of a statewide LGBTQ+ news and views platform in Ohio.

May 23, 2024 · Honoring Our Community At The Buckeye Flame, we are honored to provide a dedicated space to commemorate the lives of our cherished community members. Here, we offer a free space for friends, family, and neighbors to celebrate the stories and legacies of those who have passed. If you would like to submit an obituary for […]

6 days ago · The Buckeye Flame amplifies the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans to support community and civic empowerment through the creation of engaging content that chronicles our triumphs, struggles, and lived experiences.

1 day ago · (Image by H.L. Comeriato) On Jan. 7, the Little Miami Board of Education voted to terminate its membership with the nonpartisan Ohio School Boards Association (OSBA) over its public opposition to anti-LGBTQ+ Ohio House Bill (HB) 8, the Parents’ Bill of Rights.. Now passed into law and set to take effect April 9, the measure requires all public school teachers and staff, including counselors ...

Jan 22, 2025 · A group of over 140 organizations, businesses and leaders published a letter to Ohio’s LGBTQ+ community on Friday to deliver a message of solidarity, affirmation and commitment to action. “In a time when hateful rhetoric, threats, and actual acts of infiltrating legal policy aim to diminish our humanity, know that your truth, courage, existence, resistance, joy, and rest are revolutionary ...

Jan 11, 2025 · In just a few days, The Buckeye Flame will celebrate our fourth birthday, which gave me an excuse to go back and read what I penned in 2020 when we launched: This is the perfect time for The Buckeye Flame to ignite and serve its purpose: to shine a light on our LGBTQ+ lives, to (symbolically!) burn down the systems that neither serve nor represent us and to provide a spark to stir the activism ...

The Buckeye Flame amplifies the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans to support community and civic empowerment through the creation of engaging content that chronicles our triumphs, struggles and lived experiences.. Our History. The Buckeye Flame launched in June of 2020 as a 501c3 nonprofit newsroom, filling the lack of a statewide LGBTQ+ newsroom in Ohio.

Dec 30, 2024 · The Buckeye Flame amplifies the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans to support community and civic empowerment through the creation of engaging content that chronicles our triumphs, struggles, and lived experiences.

H.L. Comeriato is the senior staff writer for The Buckeye Flame. A queer and non-binary writer and reporter from Akron, Ohio, they received the 2024 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for the LGBTQ Journalist of the Year from the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists.

Jan 19, 2025 · The Buckeye Flame amplifies the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans to support community and civic empowerment through the creation of engaging content that chronicles our triumphs, struggles, and lived experiences.