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 8/19/2026

In the news with Andy and Cathy

• LGBTQ angles on Tuesday’s primaries.
• Breakthrough LGBTQ elections in Delaware and Tennessee.
• Trump certified as a sexual assaulter by the US Supreme Court.
• Trans CIA officer who served VP Pence now purged.
• In CO, gay couple shot in anti-gay road rage attack.
• Passings: a leading New Orleans gay activist, a legendary lesbian voice coach, groundbreaking Black gay pastors in DC and Cincinnati, and the doctor who linked throat cancers to HPV.
• Lesbian couple wins right to marry in Bolivia.

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