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Gay USA: Dec. 20-26, 2011
Andy's out of town, so Chris Cooper joins Ann at the anchor desk. Next week, Andy returns and we'll do our annual end-of-the-year roundtable discussion with our guests Sarah Schulman, Bill Dobbs and Pauline Park. The Republican Presidential candidates continue to get hammered on LGBT issues by regular citizens, who are much better at asking questions than the professional journalists. Bradley Manning finally has his first hearing on charges of leaking thousands of pages of U.S. government secrets. His lawyer makes provocative arguments about Manning's struggles with gender entity, and Lt. Dan Choi is forcibly ejected from the courtroom. The California Secretary of State approves a proposed ballot intiative to repeal Prop. 8, clearing it for signature-gathering. The United Nations issues its first report on violence and discrimination perpetrated on LGBT people worldwide. Congress reinstates a ban on federal funding for syringe exchange. ABC-TV is under attack for its reputedly horrible new cross-dressing sitcom, "Work It," scheduled to premiere in January. Ann & Andy interview Dee Rees, writer-director of the wonderful new independent film "Pariah," about an African-American teenage lesbian's search for identity in Brooklyn. The film opens Dec. 28th in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. And we end with a Christmas gift to you--the popular YouTube video of British sailors on the HMS Ocean acting out Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas."
Email this pageGay USA: August 2-8, 2011
Andy is away, so Chris Cooper joins Ann at the anchor desk. New polling shows a dramatic increase in U.S. support for same-sex marriage. A federal judge tells the Republican lawyer to answer some tough questions in defense of DOMA, and he comes up with some really stupid answers. The Constitutional Court of Colombia orders the legislature to give full recognition to same-sex couples within two years. But at Dollywood, in Tennessee, guards force a lesbian to turn her "marriage is so gay" T-shirt inside out. The NAACP annual convention features its first panel on LGBT issues, and it gets a little contentious. We'll show you some of it. The Conservative Political Action Conference marginalizes GOProud, but out gay Republican Presidential candidate Fred Karger may be making progress on getting included in the Republican debates. We'll show you an amazing TV commercial from a bank in Argentina. Out gay Sen. David Norris withdraws from the race for president of Ireland under a cloud. The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services will re-evaluate the ban on blood donations by gay men. And there's a new gay comic book superhero. NEXT WEEK: Andy and Ann's special hour-long interview with veteran British activist Peter Tatchell. For more on Peter's work, go to www.petertatchell.net.
Gay USA: Jan. 29-Feb. 4, 2010
With Chris Cooper sitting in for Ann Northrop this week with Andy Humm: The defense has opened in the Proposition 8 trial in federal court; a discussion of what mightl happen to LGBT rights in the wake of the Massachusetts election and Supreme Court decision on corporate free speech; Portland mayor Sam Adams is facing a second recall effort; and in N.J. firefighters who engaged in anti-gay actions are asking to be reinstated. "Gay USA" is a weekly news-hour that offers comprehensive news and analysis by and about the LGBTQ community and features lively repartee between hosts Ann Northrop and Andy Humm and interviews with special guests.
