Kay Tobin Lahusen, Gay Rights Activist and Photographer, Dies at 91
She and her partner, Barbara Gittings, were on the front lines long before Stonewall, and Ms. Lahusen photographed protests during the movement’s earliest days.
The photographer and activist Kay Tobin Lahusen, right, at a gay rights demonstration in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1967. She and her partner, Barbara Gittings, helped organize a number of protests in the 1960s.Credit.Associated Press
May 27, 2021
Kay Tobin Lahusen, a prominent gay rights activist whose photographs documented the movement’s earliest days and depicted lesbians who were out when they were virtually absent from popular culture, died on Wednesday in West Chester, Pa. She was 91.
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The 25-acre development on land owned by Corporex and developed and managed by Columbus-based PromoWest has sweeping views of the Ohio River and downtown Cincinnati at 101 West Fourth Street in Newport.
Depending upon the size of the concert, Ovation can easily switch between an inside pavilion and an outdoor amphitheater, according to PromoWest s Fred Campo. It involves raising a garage door and pushing the stage out. Ovation can fit 7,000 people outside and 2,700 inside. There really isn t one bad viewing site inside, wherever you sit, he says. You re going to get an immaculate view of the show.
Just 283 seats of the 7,000 outside are permanent. Those will be reserved for platinum or season box seats. The space is in a grassy area between the building and the courthouse.
Opinion: I have the experience and reputation to lead in troubled times
Cecil Thomas
The next mayor of Cincinnati should be someone with vision who you trust to lead our city through troubled times into greater prosperity. The best way to trust what someone will do is look at what they have done.
For 27 years as a police officer, five years as executive director of the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission, eight years on Cincinnati City Council and the last six years as Cincinnati’s state senator, I have spent my entire career serving this city.
But I’m also more than my job titles. I grew up in rural Alabama until my family had to flee our home because the Ku Klux Klan came looking to lynch my father. We then left the South for the hope of a better tomorrow in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Magazine
April 7, 2021
In some aspects, Cincinnati is a very different place than it was two decades ago. But when it comes to race relations, it’s almost exactly the same. Black people living and working here can attest to the structural racial divide that continues to undergird their experiences.
Illustration by Kingsley Mebechi
Beneath the city’s shiny new buildings, popular restaurants, and everyday wheeling, dealing, and power brokering lie the ashes of April 2001. That’s when Over-the-Rhine exploded in an uprising after the death of Timothy Thomas, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of then-Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach, and it was a reckoning that some say was a long time coming.
Cincinnati native and famed conductor James Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for more than four decades before being eased aside when his health declined and then was fired for sexual improprieties, has died. He was 77.
He died March 9 in Palm Springs, California, of natural causes, his physician of 17 years, Dr. Len Horovitz, said Wednesday.
Levine was the music director of Cincinnati s May Festival, the oldest choral music festival in North America from 1974 to 1978. He served as guest conductor in 1973 and was guest pianist in 1978. He returned as a guest conductor at the May Festival in 1980 and 2005.
The maestro, once described by Newsweek magazine as America s greatest conductor, came from a musical family, studying the violin and piano as a child.