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Audio This News is So Gay (8/20/25): Marriage Equality Fearmongering & Disappearing Queer Data

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

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

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

  • Kim Davis and marriage equality. How much should the LGBTQ+ community really be worried?
  • Yet another report was released from the Trump administration that appears to scrub LGBTQ+ data. What is missing and how important are these omissions?
  • Native leaders are pushing back on gender-affirming care restrictions for tribal citizens. What does this resistance look like?
  • And yes, queer joy. Where is our reporters roundtable finding it this week?

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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