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This News is So Gay (2/18/26): Celebrating Some Major Queer Media Milestones

Featuring: Jason Villemez (Philadelphia Gay News) and Jake Wittich (Windy City Times).

(left to right) Jason Villemez, Jake Wittich and Ken Schneck

Here’s what we’re covering this week’s all new episode of This News is So Gay:

  • There are huge milestones in queer journalism. Why are these important for us to know?
  • Activism and queer journalism. Where’s the line? Is there a line? Should there be more of a line?
  • A new tool in HIV prevention and care. What does that look like?
  • 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:

  • Managing Editor for Windy City Times, Jake Wittich.
  • Former editor of and current frequent contributor to Philadelphia Gay News, Jason Villemez.
  • Hosted by Ken Schneck, editor of The Buckeye Flame



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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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