GAY USA: TV’s Weekly LGBTQ+ News Hour

Andy Humm and co-hosts report and analyze the week’s stories on the LGBTQ+ activist movement, politics and government, legal cases, AIDS and community health, and entertainment. We also interview timely newsmakers. GAY USA has been telecast continuously since 1985.

This Week on GAY USA 9/2/2026

In the news with Andy and Jay:

• In a first, the South is sending an out gay Black man to Congress.
• Anti-gay murders in Tucson and assaults in Sacramento and Paris.
• More on Dolly Parton’s lifelong commitment to LGBTQ people.
• Federal judge blocks TX ban on drag, invoking Dolly Parton.
• Appeals court blocks Trump’s attack on medical records of trans people.
• Right-wingers: Milo Yiannopoulos and George Santos taken down.
• Actor Tim Curry, star of ROCKY HORROR, dies.

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