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 7/9/2025

• The big ugly GOP bill signed by Trump.
• US Supreme Court poised to ban trans athletes from school sports.
• HHS on the warpath against gender affirming care in hospitals.
• Idaho’s AG bars schools from welcoming all.
• Wisconsin KOs conversion therapy; Virginia OKs it.
• We lost a leading gay playwright, the matriarch of LA’s Black LGBTQ community, and a pioneer in LGBTQ sports.
• Israel bombs Iranian prison, killing 100 trans inmates.
• More on historic significance of the Pride march in Budapest.
• Pope Leo will continue to allow the blessing of same-sex couples.