The State of Queer Journalism

What life is like in the newsrooms and on the beat for LGBTQ+ reporters in a time when there’s too much news and fewer jobs, according to Los Angeles chapter co-presidents Hansen Bursic and Katie Karl of NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists (in a roundtable with This Way Out’s Lucia Chappelle, interviewed by Brian DeShazor). Plus the reign of a lesbian queen, two music halls, human rights milestones, Southern Hemisphere civil unions and more in The Rainbow Rewind (produced by Brian DeShazor and Sheri Lunn). And in NewsWrap: a raid on an alleged “gay male sauna sex party” in Kuala Lumpur another kind of bust when all 200 arrestees are released without charges, all 27 European Union member nations must recognize the civil marriages of same-gender couples legally performed in any other E.U. member nation under a landmark ruling by the Court of Justice, a ruling in Tokyo’s High Court contradicting four previous district court decisions in favor of marriage equality sends the issue to Japan’s Supreme Court, the United Kingdom’s Women’s Institute is being forced to require new and renewing members to confirm that they were documented female at birth, Reverend Dr. Phillippa Phaneuf tells the North Chili United Methodist Church in upstate New York “I’m giving up pretending to be a man,” and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Melanie Keller and John Dyer V (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the December 8, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/