EPISODE · Apr 29, 2026 · 34 MIN
Dissecting the Tale of Two Wildly Different State Legislatures
from This News is So Gay · host Evergreen Podcasts
A tale of two legislatures – how are Ohio and Kentucky’s legislative bodies, which are only a few miles from each other, having such vastly different outcomes in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation? There are also countless LGBTQ+ education stories to cover between the states; including a failed bill that attempted to prevent trans Kentuckians from being teachers, and how an Ohio teacher was forced to remove a “Hate Has No Home Here” sign from his classroom because there were LGBTQ+ flags on it. This week’s roundtable: Rural LGBTQ+ beat reporter for The Buckeye Flame and a corps member for Report for America, Ben Jodway Editorial manager for Queer Kentucky, Divya Karthikeyan Keep up with The Buckeye Flame online: Website: https://thebuckeyeflame.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebuckeyeflame/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thebuckeyeflame.com Support for This News is So Gay comes from the LGBTQ+ Opportunity Fund of the Cleveland Foundation, leveraging philanthropy to empower LGBTQ+ communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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A tale of two legislatures – how are Ohio and Kentucky’s legislative bodies, which are only a few miles from each other, having such vastly different outcomes in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation? There are also countless LGBTQ+ education stories to cover between the states; including a failed bill that attempted to prevent trans Kentuckians from being teachers, and how an Ohio teacher was forced to remove a “Hate Has No Home Here” sign from his classroom because there were LGBTQ+ flags on it. This week’s roundtable: Rural LGBTQ+ beat reporter for The Buckeye Flame and a corps member for Report for America, Ben Jodway Editorial manager for Queer Kentucky, Divya Karthikeyan Keep up with The Buckeye Flame online: Website: https://thebuckeyeflame.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebuckeyeflame/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thebuckeyeflame.com Support for This News is So Gay comes from the LGBTQ+ Opportunity Fund of the Cleveland Foundation, leveraging philanthropy to empower LGBTQ+ communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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