Examining the first phase of a three-year study of adolescent boys engaged in preprofessional dance training, Doug Risner's "Stigma and Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance: An Empirical Study of Male Identities in Western Theatrical Dance Training" broadly identifies the challenges facing male students pursuing dance education. His book…

Allison Buenger graduated from the Ohio State University with a bachelor of fine arts degree in ceramics in December 2009. Her works morph domestic objects into vessels of meaning, sculptures displayed in larger installations of textiles and found objects. Originally from Northeast Ohio, Allison resides in Columbus, Ohio, and works at Open Door…

Briden Cole Schueren, a 21-year-old Columbus State University visual art student, was born female-bodied. His recent artworks have explored the transitions he is experiencing and confronts the transphobic and heteronormative violence experienced in a state that denies equal protection and human rights to LGBT youth. This profile of Briden Cole…

Five Frameline short films by and about LGBT youth's coming-out narratives are reviewed by a professor and his (under)graduate university students studying visual culture and the socio/cinematic construction of (homo)sexualities. Respondents collectively found the group of films moving and well suited for viewing by middle- and high-school-age…

Krystle Merrow, a recent graduate of the Ohio State University, is a victim of the declining economy and is currently searching for opportunities in the photographic field. The photographic essay at the heart of this interview establishes a range of autobiographical narratives and coming out stories of LGBT youth in central Ohio. The interview…

The article discusses the work of Casey Doyle, and the narrative metaphors and personal explorations that inform his sculptures and how, for his undergraduate thesis, he selected a body of work whose central theme explores his identity as a gay man, informing his relationships with family, friends and society. (Contains 5 figures.)