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 8/26/2026

In the news with Andy and Kate Barnhart:

• Data says there are now 25 million of us in the USA.
• Log Cabin Republicans jettison trans rights.
• Another defeat for anti-LGBTQ school board members in Florida.
• NJ’s Dem governor moves to protect reproductive and trans rights.
• Federal judge blocks Trump from gutting teen pregnancy prevention program.
• Rightwing attacks on the WNBA over its support for trans rights intensify.
• We remember LGBTQ icon and ally Dolly Parton.
• The out gay Prime Minister of the Netherlands has a message for the world.

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