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.

This Week on Gay USA 5/20/2026

• Out former Congress Member Barney Frank dies at 86.
• Stonewall National Monument on list of 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
• Judges in CO, RI, and KS hit back at Trump attacks on trans youth care.
• TX Children’s Hospital opening a “detransition clinic” to settle suit from AG Paxton.
• Trans student at U. of Washington murdered—stabbed 40 times.
• The Trump White Power Movement accelerates.
• In Wisconsin, 350 high school students walk out in protest of anti-LGBTQ censorship.
• Poland’s leader pledges to abide by EU ruling and recognize same-sex unions.

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