He got elected to the Wheeling City Council from the city's Third Ward. Could be wrong, but that probably suggests that a much higher percentage of the residents of Wheeling's Third Ward are lighter in their loafers than the residents of the city's other wards. He is apparently an associate director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Greater Wheeling, which means he is well-qualified in that position, at least - because he has certainly experienced a whole lot more of mental illness in his personal life than most anyone else.
"LGBTQ Victory Fund, an organization dedicated to helping LGBTQ people get elected to political office, said that Ketchum 'has shattered a lavender ceiling in West Virginia.'"
Oh, wow ... he "shattered a lavender ceiling" ... OOOOOOOOOOOOH, how butch of him!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence