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 3/26/2025

• – Another victory in court for trans troops. 
• – The relentless Trump revenge tour intensifies: closing Dept. of Ed., massive cuts to LGBTQ health grants, defunding universities over trans issues, extorting money from private law firms that offended him, and demanding the governor of Maine apologize to him or see her state lose all federal funds. 
• – The State Dept. dumps women & LGBTQ people from its report on human rights.
• – Rise & Resist hits back at investigations by the DOJ and FBI.
• – Texas takes anti-LGBTQ initiatives to a whole new level.
• – 99% of Disney shareholders vote to keep participating in HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.
• – Court sides with Idaho in banning trans students from restrooms aligned with their gender identities. 
• – International calls for LGBTQ people to boycott World Pride in June in DC.