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 8/12/2026

In the news with Andy Humm & Mick Meenan

• LGBTQ+ results from the primary elections.
• Republicans roll over for Trump’s picks for AG and CDC.
• Anti-gay bigot in Tennessee loses Republican primary for his House seat.
• In VA, parent sues over school board blocking a Gay-Straight Alliance at a middle school.
• A NJ school district ignored bullying of a trans student and now must pay him almost a million dollars.
• In KS, police called on trans men using women’s restroom to comply with law.
• Gay New York legislators seek to lift ban on gay bathhouses.

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