This new session of the Ohio Legislature is already making history, simply because of who is IN it. A democratic state representative from Lakewood, near Cleveland, is Ohio’s first openly-gay state lawmaker. Nicki Antonio says she’s proud of her identity….but she wants to be known for a lot more than that. She sat down recently with statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen.
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That is Democratic State Representative Nicki Antonio, Ohio’s first open-gay state lawmaker. She supports a proposal to add sexual orientation to the list of factors that may NOT be used to discriminate against Ohioans….but the idea stalled last year in the Republican-controlled state SENATE. And the G O P now dominates the senate AND the house.