Living at Odds | 4. A Quiet Fight for LGBTQ Rights

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Our series Living at Odds concludes with a special episode of Slate’s Death, Sex & Money. Host Anna Sale returns to her native West Virginia to talk with the state’s only full-time lobbyist for LGBTQ rights. Andrew Schneider of Fairness West Virginia has spent years cultivating working relationships with conservative allies in state and local government. Aided by those relationships, Andrew helped pass 20 local anti-discrimination ordinances across the conservative-leaning state. Now, those policy victories—and Andrew’s alliances—are facing dire challenges in an increasingly hostile political landscape. Plus: How To!’s Courtney Martin looks back at Living at Odds, a series about what holds us together when so much threatens to break us apart. If you enjoyed this series, check out: How To Get Things Done in a Divided Nation with Samantha Power or How To Harness Your Citizen Superpowers. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. This episode was produced by Anna Sale, with the Death, Sex & Money team: Zoe Azulay, Cameron Drews, Andrew Dunn, and Daisy Rosario. This series was produced by Maura Currie and Rosie Belson. How To’s technical director is Merritt Jacob and our supervising producer is Joel Meyer. Special thanks to The Hearthland Foundation, which provided funding for Living at Odds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.2	Hey, how-to listeners, it's Courtney.
1:02.5	I hope you've been enjoying our series Living at Odds,
1:05.2	and I just have to say I am very excited for our fourth and final installment.
1:10.1	It comes from one of my favorite slate podcasts,
1:12.6	death, sex, and money. Host Anna Sale headed back to her home state of West Virginia to report this one,
1:19.1	and I think you're going to like it. Here's Anna. In the U.S. right now, all day, every day, we breathe in the awareness that we're incredibly polarized.
1:31.2	Yet many of us live pretty siloed lives.
1:34.6	So other than barbs traded on the internet or town halls that go crosswise and security intervenes, we don't really talk.
1:43.0	Along with my colleagues over on the Slate podcast How To,
1:46.9	we've been working on a series called Living at Odds.
1:50.5	It's our effort to capture Americans who right now see things really differently
1:55.0	and still have real relationships.
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