Saturday, October 5, 12noon-7pm, Mayme Moore Park, 867 Mt. Vernon Ave.

Join us at Mayme Moore Park on Saturday, October 5 for a full day of free festivities and merriment by and for us!

• Live music and performances by local LGBTQ+ bands and artists!

• Vendor booths by local LGBTQ+ artists and entrepreneurs!

• Info fair for local LGBTQ+ organizations!

• Kids activities!

• Food trucks!

• Workshops!

• Beautiful queer people and our love!!!

Accessibility information (please email us at <columbuscommunitypride@gmail.com> if you have any questions).

• The festival is all outdoors, except for the workshop and sensory tent as they are covered. There will be air purifiers in the tent spaces.

• Masks are required; we will provide masks for those who need one.

• There is a paved pathway that runs throughout the park that will be clearly marked on the festival map.

• There will be ASL interpreters for the performances.

• There will be hand sanitizer stations throughout the park.

There are two famous songs called “Ohio.” One is from the 1953 musical “Wonderful Town,” sung by NYC transplants Eileen and Ruth. From the “gossipy neighbors and everyone yapping who’s going with who” and “dating those drips that I’ve known since I’m four,” the women remember exactly “why, oh, why, oh, why, oh” they “ever left Ohio.” But they also recall what is good about the place.

Our GREEP zoom #192 begins with a furious renunciation of the death penalty in the wake of the unconscionable official murder of MARCELLUS WILLIAMS.

Mr. Williams’s extensive appeals have been rejected by a “pro life” Supreme Court despite the appeal by the family of the alleged victim and many others.

At a minimum more than 200 innocent victims have been put to death by “pro life hypocrites” despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence.

STEVE ROSENFELD then gives us a detailed exploration of the mechanics of the upcoming fall election, focusing on the contrast of the legal landscape alongside the administrative landscape.

Steve is joined by RAY MCCLENDON of Georgia and JOHN BRAKEY of Arizona in arousing massive popular turnout at the voting booth.

JOHN STEINER introduces DAVID NEVINS of The Fulcrum.us and The Overtime Project, also aimed at voter enthusiasm.

MIKE HERSH urges us to view VIGILANTES INC. by Greg Palast with its warning against voter suppression in 2024.

At the one-hour mark we hear from CAILEY UNDERHILL of the Solar Rights Alliance.  Cailey explains the horrendous anti-solar veto by CA. Gov. Gavin Newsom. 

The phenomenon of “mental health disorder” has become so influential that, according to recent studies, every second person has—or will have—at least one diagnosed mental illness in their lifetime. This figure presents an existential and statistical impossibility: when more than half of the population is inflicted with psychological abnormality, the norm has become abnormal.

How can it be that the majority of us are sick? To answer this troubling question, some point to modern realities—social media, social isolation, environmental doom—while urging for societal change.

Others see an aggravating factor. Maybe, they argue, there isn’t a true rise in mental illness, but that one distinctive force is inflating what is a relatively stable emotional landscape—no worse or better than before.

In such a scenario, the seeming escalation of mental illness is largely due to an increase in the identification of psychiatric disorder, and not a rise in genuine illness. That is, people are not suffering more, but rather, normal suffering is, more and more, being called “sickness.”