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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.

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Sailors gather at the Newport Naval Training Station in Rhode Island during World War I

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The Wild Saga of FDR’s $1 Million Gay Military Sex Sting

by Kate Sosin, The 19th April 11, 2026

In 1919, before he was president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved a secret operation that led senators to say he should never be allowed to hold public office.... Read more.

Frozen Talks on ICE Tactics

Senate Democrats Surrender Shutdown Fight, Leaving Health Care and Aid at Risk

Shutdown Politics We Understand

Trump to Workers: Drop Dead

Blowing Away Wind Farms

2025: The Year the US Gave Up On Climate, and the World Gave Up On Us

Jane Goodall, the Gentle Disrupter Whose Research on Chimpanzees Redefined What It Meant To Be Human

Defending the Earth Is Deadly Work. A New Report Illuminates How Much.

Holding Our Breath: Who Doesn’t Love A Good Rescue Story?

Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Talk” and the Death of Democratic War Rhetoric

Trump’s Iran War: Bombing Without a Plan, Authority, or Endgame

Trump Bombed Ayatollah’s Home But Not Putin’s?

Blowing Away Wind Farms

Energy Transition: What It Means for Oil and Gas Trading

Trump Is Fast-Tracking New Coal Mines — Even When They Don’t Make Economic Sense

Trump’s Coal Fetish

Presidential Words Can Turn the Unthinkable Into the Thinkable − For Better or For Worse

This Is Why Iran Wanted Nukes

Knocking Off Iranian Leaders

Avoiding Any Blame in Iran

Drugs Would Be Cheap but for Patents That Make Them Expensive

What to Do When “What’s Next?” Becomes Impossible to Ignore

Autism Services Blocked by Administrative Barriers

How Your Medical Bills Get Paid After a Crash

Understanding When It Is Actually Legal to Turn Left on Red in Texas

Pocket Witnesses: How Portable Cameras Reshape Public Accountability

No Goals, No Game Plan: The U.S. And Iran Enter Ceasefire Talks From a Worse Position Than Before the War

The Wild Saga of FDR’s $1 Million Gay Military Sex Sting

Author: Kate Sosin, The 19th

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The Wild Saga of FDR’s $1 Million Gay Military Sex Sting