Powered by Max Banner Ads  by Harry Balsagna You don’t know her, you don’t love her, and frankly you have no Goddamned clue who she is. But you’re about to, because we’re giving her a regular column! She’s Furby Lohan, and she was a bad idea at inception. We don’t get it either, so let’s just go with it. Furbs, as she prefers to be known, was born in some shitbox factory... 

Wall Street Nightclub: 25 Years of Community and Change by Christa Sidman Around the corner from the downtown Y sits an important part of Columbus GLBT history: Wall Street Nightclub. For the past 25 years, it’s been bringing people together to dance their butts off – and to explore, express and celebrate who they are. Owner Scot Hafler knows this better than anyone. He’s been around almost... 

Equality Federation Supports Ohio’s Push For Gay Marriage Open Statement to the Community: The Equality Federation, a national alliance of state-based LGBT advocacy organizations, strongly supports the decision of Equality Ohio to focus on building support for the long-term success of marriage equality in Ohio. Rather than moving forward with a ballot initiative now, the Equality Federation believes... 

Yay for Bikes! Yay for Ray! by Michael Daniels   Ray George is no stranger to urban readers. An avid urban and rural recreational cyclist who goes on the occasional adventure cycling trip, Ray rides to experience the sense of freedom that cycling provides him. His day job is the Marketing Manager at Homeport (aka Columbus Housing Partnership). Since his 2007 arrival in Columbus, Ray has organized... 

Our Diversity and Differences Can Be Our Greatest Asset in the Fight for of Marriage Equality by Ed Mullen I know you all missed hearing from me last month (right?), but I had writer’s block. I wrote a long, boring article about communications we do around the state outside of the LGBT community and deleted it because I felt like it was dishonest. Not because anything in the article itself was dishonest,... 

Two Kentucky Men Indicted In Federal Hate Crime Based On Sexual Orientation Two Harlan County, KY, men were indicted April 12 for their roles in kidnapping and assaulting a gay man because of his sexual orientation. A federal grand jury in London, KY, returned a three-count indictment charging David Jason Jenkins, 37, and Anthony Ray Jenkins, 20, with kidnapping and assaulting Kevin Pennington. The... 

Man Kills Long Term Intimate Partner In Reported Self-Defense In Short North Area Of Columbus Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization (BRAVO) responds to the recent arrest of John Reed, 54 for the murder of his Long Term Partner Jeffrey E. Caldwell, 56 on April 6, 2012. Jeffrey Caldwell was reportedly shot by longtime intimate partner, John Reed, 54, in Columbus, Ohio on April 6. According to reports,... 

Local Celeb Steven by Chris Hayes If you’re a connoisseur of good cocktails, then odds are you’re a big fan of this month’s local celebrity. Steven Clark grew up in a small farm town on the west side of Kansas called Dighton. Graduating high school valedictorian in a class less than 30, this Hornet headed 256 miles Northeast to the big city of Manhattan, Kansas that is, to attend Kansas State... 

We ♥ Mouton by Abbey Miller At Mouton on High, you won’t find your favorite sports team playing on the big screen, or bubble-gum flavored vodka – and they like it that way. Business (and life) partners Jonathan Klingler and Todd Hellman strive to ensure Mouton is a place for people to meet, connect and enjoy a damn good cocktail. “We want Mouton to be like digital detox. We want... 

The Reel Deal – Queer Cinema at the Wexner by Michael Daniels David Filipi has been with the Wexner Center’s media arts department since 1994. He has organized retrospectives of and visits by such filmmakers as Richard Linklater, Milos Forman, Peter Bogdanovich, Pedro Costa, Philip Kaufman, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Ellen Kuras, D.A. Pennebaker, Arnaud Desplechin, Gus Van Sant, Guy Maddin,...