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Audio This News is So Gay (4/29/26): Dissecting the Tale of Two Wildly Different State Legislatures

Featuring: Ben Jodway (The Buckeye Flame) and Divya Karthikeyan (Queer Kentucky).

(left to right) Ben Jodway, Divya Karthikeyan & Ken Schneck


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

  • A tale of two legislatures. How are two state legislative bodies only a few miles from each other having such vastly different outcomes when it comes to anti-LGBTQ+ legislation?
  • A slew of new stories at the intersection of LGBTQ+ identity and K-12 education. What’s the latest there?
  • And, of course, queer joy. Where is our roundtable finding queer joy in the news right now?

Joining us to answer these questions and so many more:


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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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