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Audio This News is So Gay (3/18/26): Covering the Fights Against Anti-Trans Legislation & Period Poverty

Featuring: Missy Spears (Queer Kentucky) and Nick Fulton (The Fourth Estate).

(left to right) Missy Spears, Nick Fulton and Ken Schneck

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

  • The legislative attacks on our trans siblings are coming fast and furious. Where are the latest and what do you need to know?
  • Period Poverty. That’s right: period poverty. What is it and what are folks doing to address it?
  • There are some folks out there doing important LGBTQ+ work who you may not know, but you soon will in our latest round of “Who the heck is that?”
  • And, of course, queer joy. Where is our roundtable finding queer joy in the news right now?

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

  • Executive Director of Queer Kentucky, Missy Spears
  • Movement journalist, freelance reporter, and writer of The Fourth Estate, Nick Fulton
  • 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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