GOHI Homepage The Gay Oh History Iniative llects, prerv and shar the history and culture of LGBTQ+ Ohans.
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THE GAY OH HISTORY INIATIVE (GOHI)
The Gay Oh History Iniative llects, prerv and shar the history and culture of LGBTQ+ Ohans. Each year June, the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) muny around the natn celebrat Gay Pri Month as a chance to both regnize the achievements and ntributns of gay Amerins to society, as well as to memorate the stggle for equal rights that this group has fought for s. The month was chosen bee was June of 1969 that the Stonewall rts occurred New York Cy’s Greenwich Village–an uprisg that is seen as the talyst that started the Gay Rights Movement Ameri.
THE GAY OH HISTORY INIATIVE
The Gay Oh History Iniative was created January 2006, when Outlook Media (a lol nglomerate whose ma missn is to promote acceptance and equaly both of the gay muny and on a broar sle) and OHS partnered up to prerve, archive and curate Oh’s LGBT history and culture. Some of the rrponnce and ephemera clus a Gay Pri March flyer, Stonewall PAC’s 1992 voter gui, and plat letters about Stonewall’s distributn of GLBT lerature at the 1991 Oh State Fair.
Photographs show everythg om an stance of anti-gay vandalism to the le-up for the annual drag softball game, “Bat N’ Rouge, ” while historil objects clu para banners, flags, and a t-shirt clarg “Nothg my closet but my cloth. The above photograph, taken Augt of 1989, shows prottors downtown Columb marchg rponse to the story of two gay men who claimed to be forced out of their neighborhood bee of anti-gay harassment.
This was the first challenge of a cy ordance which had jt extend rintial discrimatn protectn to homosexuals. Gay Pri March Columb, 1991.
GAY OH HISTORY INIATIVE
The Gay Oh History Iniative. Each year June, the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) muny around the natn celebrat Gay Pri Month as a chance ….