Gay USA, the longt-nng LGBT news show history, offers prehensive news and analysis by and about the LGBTQ muny.
Contents:
- WHEN GAY JOURNALISTS WERE CLOSETED: A HISTORY OF AIDS COVERAGE AT 'THE TIM'
- WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
- GAY USA
- THE JOURNALIST WHO CHANGED HOW WE SEE GAY AMERI
- ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER
- GAY USA
- GAY JOURNALISTS LEADG A REVOLUTN
WHEN GAY JOURNALISTS WERE CLOSETED: A HISTORY OF AIDS COVERAGE AT 'THE TIM'
Neda Ulaby looks at the current landspe of gay characters on televisn, om the hight brows of Downton Abbey to the surprisgly welg world of realy shows. * gay journalists in usa *
Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist.
WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
GAY USA is TV’s weekly LGBT news hour, hosted by longtime gay rights activists and journalists Andy Humm and Ann Northrop. Ann and Andy report and analyze the week’s stori on the LGBT activist movement, polics and ernment, legal s, AIDS and muny health, and entertament. This long-nng TV show origat at Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) New York Cy and has been telest ntuoly sce 1985. * gay journalists in usa *
The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn.
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Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. @rgayA ntributg edor at Blutem Prs and the founr of Ty Hardre Prs, Gay is a renowned profsor and mentator and New York Tim ntributor wh several fictn and nonfictn books to her name.
@Locs_n_LghsGranrson is equally astute at polics and sports, and he's perhaps the most proment openly gay sports journalist the U. Now an enthiastic proponent of gay marriage, The Tim was then a place where gay reporters feared beg exiled to obscure beats and watchg their reers wher. Produced as an oral history of dozens of Schmalz’s lleagu and iends, the book and an acpanyg rad documentary foc on how journalism rpond to the AIDS crisis the 1980s and early ’90s, when many gay and lbian journalists felt tremendo profsnal prsure to rema closeted, and discrimatn agast them was wispread.
THE JOURNALIST WHO CHANGED HOW WE SEE GAY AMERI
The first openly gay printial ndidate to mount a major mpaign has attracted an equally pneerg prs rps. * gay journalists in usa *
“Jeff’s reportg played a real role startg to turn opn, certaly wh The Tim, but also wh the broar public, om fear, spicn, fger-potg and blamg gays, to empathy and acceptance, ” said Freedman. “Abe Rosenthal hired me and promoted me, and I owe him a lot, but dog this rearch I beme very aware of his antipathy toward gay staffers at The Tim, ” said Freedman.
Meanwhile, gay TV pneer Ellen DeGener is a face of the multibilln-dollar smetic pany Cover Girl, and televisn overflows wh gay and lbian characters, om the pudgy bro Max on the ABC show Happy Endgs to the csadg lbian journalist on the ble h Amerin Horror Story. Today, there's no ntroversy at all when Glee, arguably the gayt show on work televisn, mols what 's like to be a gay kid or how to parent one.
If anythg, Murphy says, Glee has had to al wh a kd of oppose ntroversy — fans plag vociferoly about gay characters not beg affectnate enough wh each other.
ON AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPORTER AT A MAJOR NEWSPAPER
Sudnly, TV screens swelled wh gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr characters on realy shows, om Survivor to The Voice to RuPl's Drag Race.
Gay USA is a weekly news program rerd the Manhattan Neighborhood Network Studs, that als wh gay, lbian and LGBT issu and is hosted by longtime gay rights activists and journalists Andy Humm and Ann Northrop. Northrop worked wh WCBS and ABC Sports, was a wrer and producer for "Good Morng Ameri" and "CBS Morng News" and worked as an AIDS tor before jog Gay USA 1996.
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From 1991-1995, Humm hosted WNET-TVs Informed Sourc, a weekly prime-time public affairs roundtable; he has been the host or -host of Gay USA (or s precsor on the Gay Cable Network, Pri and Progrs) sce 1985.
GAY JOURNALISTS LEADG A REVOLUTN
The first openly gay reporter to ver gay issu for a mastream outlet, he thored the first bgraphy of a gay Amerin polician and a mammoth, five book on the AIDS epimic.