Posted on Jun 26, 2023
Ohio LGBTQ sites will be honored through new Ohio History Connection effort
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Former patrons of Summit Station say the Columbus bar was once busy every night of the week — full of people playing pool, shooting darts and plotting feminist revolutions.
“Ladies Night, Every Night. Men $5,” declared a sign posted outside.
Summit Station earned its reputation as a safe space for lesbians and queer people when trumpet player Petie Brown sought part-time work behind the bar in 1970.
An out lesbian, her presence attracted scores of other lesbian women, trans and queer people.
“Ladies Night, Every Night. Men $5,” declared a sign posted outside.
Summit Station earned its reputation as a safe space for lesbians and queer people when trumpet player Petie Brown sought part-time work behind the bar in 1970.
An out lesbian, her presence attracted scores of other lesbian women, trans and queer people.
Ohio LGBTQ sites will be honored through new Ohio History Connection effort
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The ultimate goal, Anthony said, is to establish historical markers based on these stories, while simultaneously collecting oral histories, source material and objects to better document LGBTQ history in Ohio.
“We've already heard so many harrowing stories about survival, about joy and about challenge,” he said. “And we want to show the full depth and complexity and breadth of a community that hasn't been seen enough in the Ohio historical marker program.”
For people like Applegate, who advocated for Summit Station to receive its historical marker, the recognition is a big deal.
“To have a historical marker flies in the face of everything that we've been taught about ourselves,” she said. “We were taught that we don't matter, that we're not legitimate, that we should be ashamed of who we are and how we live and who we love. This historical marker, it's a public acknowledgment of the important role that our lives have played in the state of Ohio.”
Having a marker not only legitimizes that history, she said, it encourages more people to engage with it.
“It's not just important to Ohio lesbian history or Ohio LGBTQ history or Central Ohio women's history,” she said. “It is important to the history of the state of Ohio.”
..."The ultimate goal, Anthony said, is to establish historical markers based on these stories, while simultaneously collecting oral histories, source material and objects to better document LGBTQ history in Ohio.
“We've already heard so many harrowing stories about survival, about joy and about challenge,” he said. “And we want to show the full depth and complexity and breadth of a community that hasn't been seen enough in the Ohio historical marker program.”
For people like Applegate, who advocated for Summit Station to receive its historical marker, the recognition is a big deal.
“To have a historical marker flies in the face of everything that we've been taught about ourselves,” she said. “We were taught that we don't matter, that we're not legitimate, that we should be ashamed of who we are and how we live and who we love. This historical marker, it's a public acknowledgment of the important role that our lives have played in the state of Ohio.”
Having a marker not only legitimizes that history, she said, it encourages more people to engage with it.
“It's not just important to Ohio lesbian history or Ohio LGBTQ history or Central Ohio women's history,” she said. “It is important to the history of the state of Ohio.”
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MSgt Dale Johnson
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I am actually glad they have a safe place to go, I really would just like them to leave me and everyone else that does not choose that lifestyle alone.
Get in my face and try to tell me I have to accept you and you may not like my response.
--- Are there people trying to "convert" you into being LGBTQIA? No. So I'm not sure where anyone is "in your face" at all. I guarantee you those people don't want to be around you if you're just going to tolerate their existence. I have never once had anyone in the LGBTQIA community come up to my door to solicit or stop me on the street to harass me about their beliefs. I have had so called Christians try to solicit at my door, or stop me on the street or on the sidewalk or in the hospital and harass me with pamphlets. Or all these "Christians" who protest outside clinics that provide abortion as one of many services and they harass the people going in.
This has nothing to do with "safe places" it says historical markers will be put up to recognize historial aspects of those places that deal with LGBTQIA and its place in history. I'll take you it you didn't even read the headline let alone the article.
It's also not a "choice." If it is - when did you "choose" to be heterosexual? Why did you "choose" to be heterosexual? If you chose it that means you have homosexual tendencies right? By your "logic."
Posted 3 h ago
I am actually glad they have a safe place to go, I really would just like them to leave me and everyone else that does not choose that lifestyle alone.
Get in my face and try to tell me I have to accept you and you may not like my response.
--- Are there people trying to "convert" you into being LGBTQIA? No. So I'm not sure where anyone is "in your face" at all. I guarantee you those people don't want to be around you if you're just going to tolerate their existence. I have never once had anyone in the LGBTQIA community come up to my door to solicit or stop me on the street to harass me about their beliefs. I have had so called Christians try to solicit at my door, or stop me on the street or on the sidewalk or in the hospital and harass me with pamphlets. Or all these "Christians" who protest outside clinics that provide abortion as one of many services and they harass the people going in.
This has nothing to do with "safe places" it says historical markers will be put up to recognize historial aspects of those places that deal with LGBTQIA and its place in history. I'll take you it you didn't even read the headline let alone the article.
It's also not a "choice." If it is - when did you "choose" to be heterosexual? Why did you "choose" to be heterosexual? If you chose it that means you have homosexual tendencies right? By your "logic."
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I am actually glad they have a safe place to go, I really would just like them to leave me and everyone else that does not choose that lifestyle alone.
Get in my face and try to tell me I have to accept you and you may not like my response.
Get in my face and try to tell me I have to accept you and you may not like my response.
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