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Audio This News is So Gay (6/17/26): Unpacking LGBTQ+ Youth Challenges and Threats to Queer Media Representation

Featuring: Sam Donndelinger (Uncloseted Media) and Darian Aaron (GLAAD).

(left to right) Sam Donndelinger, Darian Aaron and Ken Schneck

Here’s what we’ve got coming up on this week’s brand new episode of This News So Gay:

  • LGBTQ+ youth continue to face myriad challenges living their authentic lives. What are some of the latest challenges being covered out there?
  • Representation of LGBTQ+ characters in film and tv is yet again under fire. What is the FCC trying to do now?
  • Corporate support at Prides. How do Americans really feel about brands getting in on the Pride action?
  • 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:

  • Investigative journalist and lead designer at Uncloseted Media, Sam Donndelinger.
  • Senior Director of local news for the U.S. South for GLAAD, Darian Aaron.
  • 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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