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Cleveland and Columbus offer an LGBTQ+ business certification process. So why aren’t any businesses actually certified?
LGBTQ+ Business Enterprises are part of an intentional effort to create jobs, provide opportunities and build equity…if people sign up. By Kim Schneider Since 2014, more than 25 public entities — such as Houston, Miami Beach and Nashville — have signed on to offer the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC)’s process to certify Lesbian,…
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Coming out while stuck inside: LGBTQ+ youth and young adults face unique mental health risks as pandemic rages on
By Jordan Walker When Tyler, a sophomore at Cleveland State University, started hormone replacement therapy two months before spring break, the last thing he expected was to spend the rest of the semester with his parents in Westbrook, New York. Tyler had been living with three other trans students he befriended through CSU’s LGBTQ+ Student…