Kate Sosin

Hiya, I’m Kate Sosin, one of two LGBTQ+ beat reporters here at The 19th and our (very) unofficial chief chaos officer. I try to report stories or angles that you won’t find anywhere else, the ones that disrupt our assumptions about the world and queer people in it.

In my career, I’ve witnessed the fallout of gay leaders pushing trans-exclusionary employment protections in 2007 (they didn’t pass). I watched as some of the first couples got their civil unions and then marriages as a reporter at Windy City Times in Chicago. I reported as the numbers of transgender homicides rose. I saw the streets fill with people to celebrate the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the ban on openly gay military service. I spoke with transgender people a few years later who were barred from service by the Trump administration at Logo TV. I watched kids in South Dakota beg their lawmakers not take away their healthcare. I documented trans women fighting to be placed according to their gender in prisons across the country for NBC News. 

I feel like every story I have told and lived comes back to gender and constraints. I am so proud to be part of a team committed to that work. Still my true joy is my partner Jane and our family, a mutual addiction to paint-by-numbers and a shameless addiction to bad TV.

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