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 12/4/2024

Andy Humm is joined this week by guest co-host Merryn Johns

– Supreme Court hears arguments over whether states can ban gender affirming care for minors.
– More frightening picks—and the threat to public health they pose.
– Peggy Caserta, a counter-cultural legend and lover of Janis Joplin, dies.
– Bidens mark final World AIDS Day at the White House.
– A rare win in Uganda.
– More antigay raids in Moscow.
– Cole Escola in the Thanksgiving Day Parade—and the woman replacing Cole on Broadway.
– Andy reviews London theatre including a hit gay revival from the 19th century.
– Our guests are human rights activist Peter Tatchell and director Rosemarie Reed about her new documentary on Alan Turing and others persecuted under the UK’s anti-gay laws.

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