There’s a whole big world out there.
With The Buckeye Flame’s hyperlocal focus on LGBTQ+ Ohio, it can be easy to forget that there are 49 other states out there. And, similar to Ohio, so many of those other state legislatures are also spending their time devising legislation demonizing the lived experience of LGBTQ+ individuals.
To throw some national perspective into our Ohio outlook, we chatted with Dr. David J. Johns, the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black LGBTQ+ individuals.