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 9/23/2026

In the news with Andy and Cathy:

• Republicans warned of limits on anti-trans ads in their campaigns—though Trump, Vance, and Musk are still pushing them hard.
• GOP tries to sink gay Dem candidate in NY for Congress by surfacing sexy pics of him.
• Trump orders the US Census to stop collecting data on us.
• More US hospitals cave to Trump extortion and deny gender-affirming care to minors.
• Hegseth digging into medical records to rid the military of trans people.
• Seattle moves to protect polyamorous relationships.
• Remembering dress designer Bob Mackie and poet Edward Field.
• Progress in Hungary. Crackdown in Turkey.
• The Trump Mob moves to take control of all NIH grants.

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