Tag Archives: Ohio

A man with Parkinson’s disease attended a teabagger rally in Columbus, Ohio yesterday, holding a sign asking attendees to consider people with debilitating illnesses as they protested health care reform. Watch how they treated him.

An Ohio woman has filed a federal lawsuit against her son’s elementary school after his teacher mocked his long hair by tying it into pigtails. According to the suit, the teacher then brought the boy to the front of the class and encouraged his classmates to mock him with feminine versions of his name. Allegedly, the teacher finished by taking …

Yesterday the Cleveland City Council unanimously passed a weakened transgender rights bill. Via Spangle: By adding the words “gender identity or expression” to a criminal law that provides protection in areas of employment, housing and public accommodations, council members took a huge step forward, supporters said. “Basically, it means that I won’t have to worry about being fired,” longtime activist …

Two days after it went up, yesterday a Cincinnati billboard promoting atheism was removed after the landlord of its site received “multiple serious threats.” The group that funded the billboard, the United Coalition of Reason, was contacted by Lamar Advertising of Cincinnati. Lamar reported that the landowner of the site had been threatened over the billboard’s message and wanted it …

In an announcement just live-streamed from Cologne, Germany, organizers announced that the 2014 Gay Games have been awarded to Cleveland. Washington DC and Boston were the other finalists. Two weeks ago the Cleveland city council pledged $2M in cash and in-kind services to support the games.

The mayor of East Cleveland, Ohio has found himself in the middle of a controversy after photos of him in drag (NSFW) were leaked, presumably by his opponent. Barring the possibility that he’s campaigned against LGBT rights, who the hell cares how the mayor gets his private jollies? Cross-dressing is not a crime, but it will surely be the end …

Ohio’s House of Representatives has passed a sweeping gay rights law that would provide LGBT residents with discrimination protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations. It is the first time in history that an LGBT rights law has passed in either chamber of Ohio’s legislature, a state where an anti-marriage equality law passed easily at the ballot in 2004. Law …

The city council of Cleveland has pledged $700K in cash and $1.3M in in-kind donations in their bid to bring the 2014 Gay Games to Ohio. An additional $500K in private donations has been pledged to defray the expected $8.2M cost of the games. A delegation from Cleveland will be in Cologne, Germany at the end of the month to …

Last night Keith Olbermann pointed out that Schmidt has previously denounced the birther movement publicly. “So she was either lying then, or she’s lying now.”

A high school student in Ohio has won a $121K settlement from his school district after his science teacher burned the image of a cross on his arm. School board members in Mount Vernon agreed Wednesday night to resolve a federal lawsuit by paying $5,500 to the boy and his family and $115,500 to their lawyers. The family still has …

Congregations at six Ohio churches have agreed that their clergy will not sign marriage licenses until same-sex marriage is legal there. Clergy at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in Cleveland no longer will sign state marriage licenses until gay unions are legal in Ohio. That means heterosexual couples exchanging wedding vows at the 461-member church in the Tremont neighborhood …

Pimpin’ ho’s makes dat baby Jeebus cry, yo. The former head of faith-based programs in Ohio was arrested Wednesday on charges he promoted prostitution, local news organizations report. WCMH-TV reports that Robert McFadden, director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland until October 2007, faces seven felony charges, including promotion of prostitution. He is …

Back in May, the University of Toledo’s head of human resources, Crystal Dixon, was fired from her job after she penned an anti-gay column in the Toledo Free Press which read in part: As a Black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo’s Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at …

A gay sex sting in Ohio resulted in the arrest of the CFO of Cincinnati Christian University. Cincinnati Christian University’s chief financial officer entered a written plea of not guilty Monday after he was arrested Saturday in Mount Airy Forest and charged with sexual imposition. Robert Williams, 52, of Independence, was arrested at 9:23 a.m., accused of getting into a …

More from BloggerInterrupted. It gets worse. Listen for the little kid who says, “You need gloves to touch him,” referring to Obama.

Remember that clip with the drunk rednecks railing against Obama? Here’s the non-drunk, non-redneck, but just as stupid Midwestern version. BloggerInterrupted found these douche-nozzles in the parking lot of a McCain/Palin rally in Strongville, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. (Via – Wonkette)

As always, Ohio and Florida are where it’s at.

In Hamilton, Ohio, an 8th grade boy is getting grief for wearing makeup to school. I’m guessing that this is only a story because schools are now terrified of having their own Lawrence King tragedy. A Garfield Middle School student and his family are challenging the Hamilton City School District over his right to wear black eyeliner and lipstick to …

On April 18th, University of Toledo vice president of human resources Crystal Dixon penned an opinion piece in the Toledo Free Press in which she said: As a Black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo’s Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual …