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

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Dissecting the Tale of Two Wildly Different State Legislatures