Gaywaves

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1 FM, at wruw.org, and includes a great interview with Lorain activist Brandon West, who has been doing some extraordinary work in his hometown to advance the cause of equality.

The show also has a report on H.B. 455 which leaves H.B. 8 intact.  The attempt to amend failed.  H.B. 8 is Ohio's "Don't say Gay bill" and it will remain intact.

U.S. servicemembers over the age of 30 will be tested for sufficient testosterone levels and be given testosterone if deficient.  This is gender-affirming care, to be sure, but it looks like a witch hunt to root out the rest of the transgender servicemembers.

Lady G has left the building.

All this and more.

Dwayne Steward has been the executive director of Equality Ohio since September 2024.  This is his first appearance on Gaywaves.

 

This interview is all about LGBTQ electoral politics in Ohio, empowerment, the Equality Ohio 2026 Candidate Scorecard, and the ongoing divarication with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Amy Acton regarding her endorsement of banning transgender girls from sports and other anti-transgender comments to the Toledo Blade following the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding such ban.

 

This segment is a tough look at the state of the LGBTQ community's influence in Ohio politics as well as Equality Ohio's plans going forward.

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1 FM, at wruw.org, and includes reports and commentary on Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Dr. Amy Acton's comments in the Toledo Blade regarding transgender girls in sports.

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/politics/2026/06/30/trans-sports/stories/20260630088

On the record Acton said she agrees with the law established by H.B. 68,  asserted that transgender girls are boys, and expressed apparent belief that transgender girls playing sports is unsafe.

This has interrupted the narrative about the race being proffered by LGBTQ service and political organizations and caused reactions throughout the community.

The show also features Lis Regula, organizer with Ohio Equal Rights explaining the decision to put the constitutional amendments on the ballot in 2027 rather than 2026.

 

All this and more.

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1 FM, at wruw.org, and includes reports on this week's U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing states to keep their bans on transgender girls playing scholastic sports.

Is Justice Sam Alito, arguably the most ideologically hateful of LGBTQ rights justice about to retire?

Why was Scott Wiener, an out gay California state senator hoping to succeed Nancy Pelosi, run out of San Francisco's Trans Pride?

The marriage equality and equal rights amendments to Ohio's Constitution will not appear on the ballot until at least November 2027.

Find out about the Ohio pastor who called gay themed books a "health risk" for children and was just sentenced for child sex crimes.

 

All this and more.

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1 FM, at wruw.org, and includes coverage of the Trump/Texas lawsuit against WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which provides the standards of care for professionals, the Veterans Administration's end to providing gender affirming care, marriage equality in Nepal, and the Republican governor of New Hampshire's veto of an anti-transgender bill.

 

All this and more.

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1 FM, at wruw.org, and includes 

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1 FM, at wruw.org, and includes the first in a serial report on the Cleveland Clinic's settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that leaves the Clinic unable to medically treat people with gender  dysphoria below the age of 19.

The latest Gallup Poll shows declining support for LGBTQ+ equality in general and transgender rights in particular over the past six years.

We also share impressions of Pride in the CLE.

 

All this and more.

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1 FM, wruw.org, and includes reports  on the incident at Cedar Point where the man assaulted and exposed a transgender woman.

Celina Small Town Pride has been moved to October.

 

All this and more.

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1FM, at wruw.org, and includes reports of 8 congressional Democrats who voted to defund schools that support transgender people.  Ohio's Marcy Kaptur is among them.

The U.S. Department of Justice is issuing subpoenas for records hospital records of people getting gender affirming care.

 

All this and more.

This content is broadcast on WRUW 91.1 FM, at wruw.org, and contains the Gaywaves obituary for Congressman Barney Frank, discussion of Gov. DeWine's choice to fill the Attorney General's office Bing vacated by Dave Yost, and updates on anti-LGBTQ bills in the Ohio General Assembly, SB 113, and HB 838.

 

All this and more.