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Audio This News is So Gay (4/15/26): Debriefing the Impact of HIV Funding Cuts and… The Real Housewives? 

Featuring: Orion Rummler (The 19th) and Joe Reberkenny (The Washington Blade)

(left to right) Orion Rummler, Joe Reberkenny and Ken Schneck

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

  • Despite Ken being an unabashed Bravo-holic, this will be our first time talking about the Real Housewives. How did they find their way onto This News is So Gay?
  • There are threats to HIV funding all over the country. Where are some regional providers seeing these effects?
  • State legislatures continue to prioritize anti-LGBTQ+ legislation over bills that would help us buy groceries and gas. What are some of our siblings in other states seeing?
  • 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:

  • LGBTQ+ Reporter for The 19th, Orion Rummler.
  • White House Correspondent for The Washington Blade, Joe Reberkenny.
  • 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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