Finding Focus in Covering LGBTQ+ News When it Just Keeps Coming

The cuts to gender-affirming care continue to leave families stranded amid growing uncertainty across the country – including Ohio’s Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender affirming care for all patients, including adults. There is so much LGBTQ+ news coming at journalists from every angle. How do they pick the stories they are going to cover? And, of course, where is our roundtable finding queer joy in this news lately? Joining us this week for these stories and more: LGBTQ+ Reporter for The 19th, Orion Rummler Religion and culture reporter at Fresnoland and corps member for Report for America, Gisselle Medina Investigative journalist and lead designer at Uncloseted Media, Sam Donndelinger 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.