COLUMBUS, OH – Today, Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood), who is Ohio’s sole LGBTQ+ lawmaker serving in the 135th General Assembly,  reintroduced the Ohio Fairness Act (OFA) along with a bipartisan slate of eight ally cosponsors. The Ohio Fairness Act is a pivotal measure aimed at eradicating discrimination against Ohio’s LGBTQ+ community by adding sexual orientation and gender

Honda is the latest Ohio employer to join Ohio Business Competes, a coalition of corporations, universities, law firms, and small and medium enterprises doing business in Ohio in favor of statewide LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination policy.  Honda began manufacturing in Ohio in 1979 in Marysville, Ohio, and is the first automaker to join Ohio Business Competes. “Honda joined Ohio Business Competes because

The Ohio Fairness Act does a simple thing. It adds “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” to the laws that make discrimination illegal in Ohio, and it would bring Ohio in line with 21 other states with a similar law. On Monday, Senator Nickie Antonio announced the bill would be back in the Ohio’s 133rd Senate, and on Tuesday

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State University has joined the statewide Ohio Business Competes Coalition. Ohio Business Competes is a nonpartisan coalition of businesses committed to achieving nondiscrimination policies at the state level in order to attract the best talent, to increase business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships, and to grow Ohio’s economy. In 21 U.S. states, consumers and employees are protected from

The most important thing we can do right now is to make the Ohio House Government Oversight & Accountability Committee aware of how important the #OHFairnessAct is. It is time to protect LGBTQ Ohioans from discrimination at work, in access to housing, and in access to public accommodations.