(left to right) Sam Donndelinger, Darian Aaron and Ken Schneck The Buckeye Flame , Ohio's LGBTQ newsroom, welcomed Sam Donndelinger and Darian Aaron to the This News Is So Gay podcast on March 25, 2026. Take a look at what the reporter's roundtable discussed below, and be sure to listen to the full podcast. The intersections of ICE and HIV care. What is going on there that you all need to know? Tons and tons of LGBTQ+ folks marching for healthcare access. Where did that go do
Jordan Taylor Capers (left) and Chad Capers (right), in a moment from their wedding reception at Macon Terminal Station on April 13, 2024. (Photo by LaJoy Photography) When Chad Capers, 31, entered Mercer University as a first-year law student in 2019, socializing and meeting new people, as he’d done as an undergraduate student, was of no interest to him. Capers says he intended to attend the required classes to earn his juris doctorate and then retreat to the solitude of his
GLAAD’s Director of Local News: U.S. South, Darian Aaron, interviews iconic rapper Snoop Dogg during the launch of “Generation Z & HIV” at Jackson State University on October 28, 2025. (Photo: Aron Smith/Jackson State University) The liberal arts building on the campus of Jackson State University (JSU) in Jackson, MS, will never be the same following the surprise celebrity guest appearance of cultural icon Snoop Dogg, in town for the launch of GLAAD’s Generation Z & HIV: Hum
Phillip Williams (left) with his mother Monica Jennings and Corey Perkins (right) with his mother Patrice Manning. (Images: Instagram) If Hollywood depictions and countless real-life stories with unhappy endings were the barometers by which Corey Perkins , 38, measured how his devout Christian mother, Patrice Manning, would react to his coming out as gay, the only scenario he could envision was one heavily influenced by religion that would lead to only one outcome—rejection.
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