Equality Ohio

The Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index evaluates a city’s non-discrimination policies and practices to encourage improvement each year. All eight Ohio's cities that were surveyed scored above average, with six earning the highest score of 100 points.

Ohio lawmakers will not be considering the proposal before the General Assembly adjourns at end of the year.

Provision would allow medical professionals to deny treatment to patients if doing so would violate their personal beliefs.

A new bill at the Ohio Statehouse would prevent doctors from prescribing drugs to delay puberty or perform surgery to change a child’s gender. Statehouse…

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has joined a U.S. Supreme Court case siding with states that think federal civil rights laws do not protect LGBTQ…

A conservative Christian organization is filing a lawsuit against an Ohio city for its laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and…

LGBTQ advocates are cautiously optimistic about the future of an executive order signed by Gov. John Kasich that bars discrimination against transgender…

A bill that sponsors say ensures religious freedom when it comes to marriage ceremonies is moving through the Ohio Legislature. However, opponents are…

A bill that two conservative Republican lawmakers say asserts a parent’s right to decide if their transgender child should undergo treatment is getting…

A proposed Ohio law that would ban discrimination for LGBTQ people is seeing a new wave of support. Business groups say sexual orientation and gender…