GAY USA: TV’s Weekly LGBT News Hour

Ann Northrop and Andy Humm report and analyze the week’s stories on the LGBT 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.

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This Week on Gay USA 11/19/2025

• The Trans Day of Remembrance is Nov. 20.
• CA Supreme Court upholds law forbidding willful misgendering of patients.
• Catholic Archdiocese of Denver petitions the Supreme Court for the right to receive public money and still discriminate.
• Lesbian activist Nadine Smith is taking on a new leadership role.
• Kazakhstan goes Russian and cracks down on open LGBTQ expression.
• The Olympics takes another step toward banning trans women—and others.
• We’ll visit with the world’s first flock of gay sheep.