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Audio This News is So Gay (12/10/25): LGBTQ+ Tech Drama & More on Trump’s ‘Cancelation’ of World AIDS Day

Featuring: H.L. Comeriato (The Buckeye Flame), Juan Michael Porter II (The Sero Project) and Jasmine Mithani (The 19th).

(left to right) Ken Schneck, H.L. Comeriato, Juan Michael Porter II and Jasmine Mithani
(left to right) Ken Schneck, H.L. Comeriato, Juan Michael Porter II and Jasmine Mithani

On this week’s episode of This News is So Gay:

  • Last week we mentioned the Trump administration’s cancelation of the recognition of World AIDS Day, but didn’t really dive into implications. What effects did we actually see?
  • LGBTQ+ issues and technology. What are some of the intersections between those two sectors that have us talking?
  • Falling birthrates. How concerned should we be and how queer of an issue is this?
  • And, of course, queer joy. Where is our roundtable finding queer joy in the news right now?

Joining us this week to answer those questions and and so many more are:




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Author

Dr. Ken Schneck (he/him) is the editor of The Buckeye Flame, Ohio’s LGBTQ+ newsroom. For this work, he was honored with the Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for National LGBTQ+ Journalist of the Year. He is the author of “Seriously, What Am I Doing Here? The Adventures of a Wondering and Wandering Gay Jew” and three LGBTQ+ Ohio history books. Schneck spent 25 years working in higher education, including 10 years as a dean of students and 13 years as a tenured professor of education. He is a graduate of the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

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