Phebe Beiser News Today

The archives, located in Over-the-Rhine, remain a one-of-a-kind collection and resource, documenting decades of LGBQ+ history and activism.

Phebe Karen Beiser is a student of history and spent years working as a local librarian. So, it makes sense she's one of those leading the charge to preserve local LGBTQ+ history, from a room in the basement of a church in Clifton.

June is Pride Month — a time dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities across the country and thinking about progress yet to be made.

Throughout 2021, the Ohio History Connection has offered up a series of workshops called Where My Single Folk? that are all about finding those family members who never married or passed away unmarried, including those who might have been LGBTQ.

0:53 The exhibit is curated by Saad Ghosn and grew out of a workshop created by artist Jay DeFazio. His project "Inside Out" is a community-based art initiative "celebrating the strength, beauty, and resiliency of transgender individuals." He helps workshop participants conceive and create mixed-media self portraits. "It can be abstract; it can be literal," DeFazio explains. "It can be metaphorical; it can be words. This doesnt have to be representative of your entire life, this could be one...