COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Sunday morning shooting in Columbus’ Harrison West neighborhood has sent one person to the hospital. The shooting happened around 7:15 a.m. near a townhome building in the 400 block of West 4th Avenue, according to Columbus police dispatchers. Medical crews took one person from the scene to Ohio State University […]
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“The initial introduction wasn’t necessarily positive, but it grew into a very positive experience,” Levitt said.
In line with his broader mission of teaching self-love and acceptance, Levitt more commonly known by his drag queen stage name Nina West has joined Buckeye Ranch, one of central Ohio s oldest and best known youth services agencies, in its new campaign to promote discussions about mental health in the LGBTQ community.
The campaign, “I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me,” features video and written testimony from people about the messages they wished they had received as young people exploring and questioning their gender orientation and sexual identity. Dr. Patricia Gentile, psychiatric director at Buckeye Ranch, said the campaign aims to not only promote open conversations about mental health in the LGBTQ community, but to highlight LGBTQ-specific resources.
On a typical April weekend in the past, Candace “Chainsaw” Moser would be whirling around a roller derby track, smashing into competitors.
But with the Ohio Roller Derby league now in its second season of hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moser instead on Saturday was walking along S. 17th Street on the South Side, picking up cigarette butts and candy wrappers.
Along with her husband, Drew Stafford, and daughter Ember Stafford, 12, Moser was among about a half-dozen of her roller derby teammates who joined Saturday’s cleanup, organized by the nonprofit volunteer group Green Columbus as part of its Earth Day Columbus effort.