Health
At Black Soil KY’s Farmacy Markets, Narcan Sits Beside the Produce
How Black Soil KY harm reduction works: training farmers to give Narcan, opening farmacy markets, and registering people in recovery to vote.
Oct. 8·Lexington
Culture
How Missy Spears’ Humor and Advocacy Evolved Into Powerful Local Leadership
The National LGBTQ Task Force profiles Missy Spears, Queer Kentucky’s executive director, on satire, Covington organizing and Creating Change 2027.
Oct. 7·Northern Kentucky
Culture
‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Review: Queer Pleasure, Excess and a Bowling Green Theater
Review of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), a queer slasher send-up seen in Bowling Green, hometown of John Carpenter.
Oct. 7·South Central Kentucky
Gov & Politics
Federal Cuts “Handcuffed” BIPOC Harm Reduction in Kentucky. Communities Are Stepping Up.
SAMHSA cut funding for syringes and fentanyl test strips. Kentucky groups serving Black communities explain what they lost and how they are…
Oct. 2·Lexington
Gov & Politics
It’s a Pause, Not a Ban: Liz Sheehan on Lexington’s Data Center Moratorium
Lexington is the first major Kentucky city to pause data center development. Councilmember Liz Sheehan explains what the moratorium does and what…
Oct. 1·Lexington
Cover art by Emil Wiersma.
Culture
After Death Before Detransition, Trans Youth Across the River Make a Magazine of Their Own
Made entirely by Cincinnati trans and nonbinary youth ages 18 to 24, Queer Cincinnati: Beyond the Binary launches Oct. 23. It follows Queer Kentucky’s Death Before Detransition, our 2025 magazine made by…
Oct. 20 By Jules Crawley
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Culture
Old Forester’s Melissa Rift Took the Long Way to Master Taster, and Found Belonging in Bourbon
Old Forester Master Taster Melissa Rift on her unconventional path into bourbon and why the industry has become a welcoming place to be out.
Sept. 25 By Macey Fix
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Culture
Smoke & Queers: How a Queer Burlesque Troupe Built a Stage for Everyone Else
Sept. 24·Northern Kentucky
Culture
From Appalachia to Western Kentucky, Drag Artists Are Building Queer Community Across the Commonwealth
Sept. 11·Appalachia
Gov & Politics
Western Kentucky’s LGBTQ+ Crisis: The Most Harm, the Least Protection
Sept. 9·Western Kentucky
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Aug. 26·Western Kentucky
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Northern Kentucky Communities Push Back Against Flock Safety Surveillance Cameras.
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‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Review: Queer Pleasure, Excess and a Bowling Green Theater
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