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Author, playwright and performance artist Kate Bornstein sums it all up in hir presentation "Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws."
Bornstein headlined the first TransOhio Transgender and Ally symposium and workshop held in Columbus from August 22-24, also performing "On Men, Women, and The Rest of Us" that Saturday night at East Village.
The event, which was originally set for March but was snowed out, drew 85 participants, mostly Ohioans.
TransOhio's mission is education, and the symposium at the Center on High included workshops on legal issues, health and safety, issues relating to people of color, being transgender on campus, sex and other topics as well as celebrations of the arts. TransOhio can be reached at www.transohio.org.
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"And I'd like you to get to know me and what I stand for."
Fudge said she has contributed to the HRC and attended the group's dinners and a gay wedding.
Fudge said she would vote to repeal the 1996 federal defense of marriage act and to boost funding for comprehensive sex education, including HIV and AIDS prevention.
Fudge said she believes U.S. foreign policy should address discrimination, torture, and executions of gay, lesbian, and transgender people in countries where it occurs.
"If we believe what we say [as Americans], we would have that discussion with the world," Fudge said.
Marvin McMickle
"Don't judge me by members of my profession," McMickle, a Baptist minister asks of the LGBT community.
During his U.S. Senate race in 2000, McMickle quoted scripture during a television interview, which some interpreted as anti-gay.
McMickle said he was pointing out the two biblical passages used to discriminate against LGBT people, but not adopting the views as his own.
McMickle recently published a book titled Time to Speak, which criticizes African-American pastors who pick and choose verses to support their political agenda.
Where McMickle admits he has a hang-up is around marriage.
"I have no problem with the rights and benefits of marriage [for same-sex couples]," McMickle said. “I just get a little stuck on the word 'marriage.'
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"To me, marriage means the relationship between a man and a woman," McMickle said. "It has to do with children. There's no third party necessary. It just flows naturally."
McMickle, however, is fiercely in favor of all the benefits married couples have for same-sex partners, as long as it's called something else.
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"As a Baptist minister, I am for traditional marriage," McMickle said, "but on everything else, we line up pretty closely."
McMickle said he supports employment non-discrimination legislation and immigration equality for same-sex partners. He also supports a requirement that schools protect LGBT students in order to receive federal funds.
He said the LGBT community should support his selection because he's reasonable, not because of disagreements on the single issue of marriage.
McMickle opposes amending constitutions, both state and federal, to ban same-sex marriage. He opposed and voted against Ohio's amendment in 2004.
Antioch Baptist, McMickle's church, has sponsored a faith-based AIDS prevention and care program called Agape since 1999. The program has grown to include outreach into area high schools and nail salons and other points of influence. It is an LGBT-affirming program.
CJ. Prentiss
In 2005, Senate Minority Leader Prentiss quit her position on the Capitol Square Advisory and Review Board because the board wouldn't add sexual orientation to the nondiscrimination clauses in two contracts it awarded.
Also, as the state's top Democrat, Prentiss led the Senate opposition to the “defense of marriage act." Though the measure passed, Prentiss got a party line vote, and made one of the most moving speeches in favor of marriage equality ever heard in the Statehouse while wearing a rainbow ribbon.
Standing behind Prentiss were other Democratic senators and staffers, also wearing rainbow ribbons in support of LGBT equality.
Prentiss has a relationship with Equality Ohio, and helped launch the group's first lobby day.
As minority leader, Prentiss visited county Democratic parties throughout Ohio, speaking on issues including LGBT equality.
Prentiss unequivocally supports marriage equality as well as full rights and protections across the board for LGBT people in the U.S. and internationally.
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