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 2/18/2026

• Conflict over flying a Rainbow Flag at the Stonewall National Monument intensifies.
• GOP judge orders slavery exhibit that Tump removed be restored in Philly.
• Idaho moves to invalidate 16 local laws protecting LGBTQ rights.
• Georgia Republicans step up war on transgender health care—and not just for minors.
• We remember this week: Civil Rights leader and ally Jesse Jackson; a pioneering Buffalo lesbian activist, two prominent authors, and a long-time theater journalist.
• The European Parliament pushes for the full recognition of transgender women as women
• The Church of England votes to halt work on treating same-sex couples equally.
• 24 arrested protesting HHS Rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth.