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Gaywaves Annual Reminder All Star Panel talks about the state of the queer community in Ohio

Jeanne Powell Ogden of TransAllies, State Representative Beryl Brown Piccolantonio, Dara Adkison of TransOhio, and State Senator Nickie Antonio, who talk about the state of our community in Ohio today. The discussion is inspiring and terrifying as well as informative.

 

https://transalliesohio.org

 

https://www.transohio.org

 

https://www.nickieantonio.com

 

https://berylforohio.com

 

This segment aired July 4, 2024

 

Small Town Pride in Celina, Ohio president and co-founder Kyle Bruce talks about this Pride event

Celina, Ohio, on Ohio's west coast, is representative of a small, conservative rural town that has a very successful annual Pride event.

 

Co-founder and president of Small Town Pride - Celina, Kyle Bruce, promotes the event on Gaywaves.  The discussion also veers into a look at queer life in areas often overlooked.

 

https://celinapride.org

 

https://www.facebook.com/smalltownpridecelina/

 

 

This segment aired June 27, 2024 

Yellow Springs Pride president Phillip O'Rourke highlights this weekend's event

Yellow Springs, Ohio has a long history of liberalism and inclusion, and its LGBTQ community reflects those traditions.

 

Yellow Springs Pride president Phillip O'Rourke joins Gaywaves to preview this weekend's event and talk about what participants should expect.

 

https://www.yspride.com

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/2174982432880877/?acontext=%7B"event_action_history"%3A[]%7D

 

This segment aired June 27, 2024

Minna Zelch of Geauga SOGI joins Gaywaves to talk about Third Annual Pride in Geauga

Gaywaves' Ohio Pride festival rounds this week take us to Burton, where the Third Annual Pride in Geauga will be held June 22.

 

This is a great example of a Pride celebration in a small, rural, religiously conservative town that came together to serve its LGBTQ and allied members.

 

This year the event has grown into a venerable Pride venue, and SOGI vice president joins us to tell the origin story and preview the events.

 

https://geaugasogi.org/news-events/#events

 

https://www.facebook.com/GeaugaSOGI

 

MasQUEERade Dance: https://onrealm.org/fedchurch/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=MjZmZjNkMjctYzk4MC00NGM0LWJlODEtYjE1ZDAxMDUxMjI4&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3N1RWZgB7EVMFuyElgIZufcHFnz9m-0_N6W_kr41po3hX5PbfNc4uWuzE_aem_kG2nybVp8eo2jMfHUgm1tQ

 

Donations: https://givebutter.com/ZeIOR5

 

 

This segment aired June 20, 2024

Stonewall Columbus director Densil Porteous joins Gaywaves to highlight Columbus Pride

This week the Gaywaves Ohio Pride Celebration Train pulls into Columbus for Ohio's oldest and largest, and one of the largest in the region.

 

 

Stonewall Columbus director Densil Porteous joins us for the run down, the low down, and all the goodies you should expect this weekend at Columbus Pride.

 

Columbus Pride runs June 14 and 15.

 

 

https://stonewallcolumbus.org/pride/

 

 

This segment aired June 13, 2024

 

This segment aired June 13, 2024

Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen joins Gaywaves to preview the merger between NCTE and TLDEF

It's not often that two major national LGBTQ organizations merge, but that is exactly what is happening, perhaps as early as July 1, when the National Center for Transgender Equality and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund are coming together to form Advocates for Trans Equality (and BTW, Alana Jochum has left Equality Ohio to become the Policy Director of the new organization).

 

 

Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen will become the executive director of A for TE, and makes his first appearance on Gaywaves to talk about why the decision to merge and what they hope to achieve. He is also optimistic about the state of transgender rights long term, and shares that optimism as well as some of his personal story as a member of a family that is Republican Royalty.

 

https://transequality.org

 

https://transgenderlegal.org

 

 

This segment aired June 13, 2024

Stark Pride Entertainment Director Jonathan Becker joins Gaywaves to talk about this weekend's festival

The third annual Stark Pride festival is running in downtown Canton Saturday, June 8.

 

In his second Gaywaves appearance Stark Pride Entertainment Director Jonathan Becker tells listeners what to expect, how to negotiate downtown Canton, and everything you need to know to enjoy the event.

 

https://www.starkpride.org/#/

 

https://www.facebook.com/starkpridefestival/

 

https://cantoncentennialplaza.com/event/stark-pride-festival-6-8-2024/

 

 

This segment aired June 6, 2024

Gay presidential candidate Chase Oliver joins Gaywaves as he prepares for the Libertarian Convention

There have been lesbian and gay candidates for president. While one, Angela Walker, made it to the Vice Presidential spot on the Green Party ticket in 2020, none have reached the top spot as a national party nominee for president of the United States.

 

 

That may change this weekend, as the Libertarian Party is holding their nominating convention in Washington, D.C., and will likey nominate a proudly out gay man, Chase Oliver-Libertarian to be their standard bearer.

 

 

Chase joins Gaywaves for a second time to share his experiences on the campaign trail and his moment -- what he calls the biggest moment of his life -- as he prepares for the convention.

 

https://www.votechaseoliver.com

 

@ChaseforLiberty

 

 

LGBT Center Development Director William Marion joins Gaywaves to talk about Pride in the CLE 2024

Pride in the CLE is June 1, and Cleveland LGBT Center Development Director William Marion joins co-hosts John Graves and Eric Resnick to tell us all we need to know to enjoy this year's event.

 

https://lgbtcleveland.org/pride/

 

This segment aired May 23, 2024

Queer CWRU graduate student and pro-Palestine protester Harley Rubin joins Gaywaves

As protests of the Genocide in Gaza are spreading across U.S. college campuses, including three in Ohio at Case Western Reserve University, Oberlin College and The Ohio State University, one cannot help but notice the Pride flags flying in solidarity and the high visibility of queer activists.

 

 

Our guest this week is Harley Rubin, a graduating graduate student at Case who has been out on Hind Oval and shares what it's like and why it's important to spend the last week of college, exam week, out making a statement. The message is one you don't want to miss.

 

 

Instagram:  cwru_sjp

 

Twitter:  @Cle_Palestine

 

Twitter:  @jvpcle

 

 

This segment aired May 2, 2024