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Well, folks, it is that time of year again: Kentucky’s legislative session is just around the corner.  State lawmakers head back to Frankfort for the 2025 session on Jan. 7, and will be fighting over legislation and passing laws until the end of March.  Kentucky stopped allowing bills to be pre-filed ahead of the…

A pending U.S. Supreme Court decision will likely have huge ramifications for transgender youth in Kentucky seeking gender-affirming health care. Such care, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers, has been banned in Kentucky for more than a year after Kentucky’s GOP-dominated legislature outlawed it with Senate Bill 150 in 2023.  But a lawsuit hoping…

Former President Donald Trump is now President-elect Donald Trump after he won Kentucky’s, along with the majority of the country’s, votes on Election Day.  It is no secret Donald Trump’s campaign was full of hateful rhetoric aimed at basically every marginalized population, but what exactly could his presidency look like for the LGBTQ+ community?…

Well, y’all, the day is finally here: It is Election Day 2024.  Queer Kentucky, alongside the Queer News Network, will be tracking the results and how they could impact you throughout the day and night.  Here’s a rundown of what’s going on and what you need to know. 1:20 a.m.: Yes, we’re still awake…

Kentucky’s battle over a proposed constitutional amendment on whether or not public dollars should go to private schools is shaping up to be incredibly, incredibly expensive. More than $12 million has been raised across a series of political issue groups in Kentucky aimed at advocating for or against Amendment 2, according to the most…

Kentucky Kernel Managing Editor Casey Sebastiano reports that the University of Kentucky has denied the newspaper’s request for records identifying “non-UK student guests of Chellgren Hall on Sept. 20, 2024,” and of any occasion where Chase McGuire, who has been charged with rape and attempted strangulation of a student in that resident hall, has…

Alarm Bells Are Ringing as it Becomes Legal in the State to Kill ‘Unlawful Campers’ The Grants Pass Supreme Court decision has left unhoused people across the country more vulnerable than ever. Cities and states are wasting no time in passing laws and ordinances that further criminalize homelessness and allow for increasingly cruel and…

Covington — one of Kentucky’s largest cities — might be changing how its local government is structured if its residents give the green light this November. Over the summer, a group of local leaders called Covington Forward launched a petition to put something on the November ballot to make Covington run by a mayor…