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.
Contents:
- ‘AMERI’S ONLY GAY TELEVISN NETWORK’ HERE TV ANNOUNC ITS FIRST ORIGAL S, ‘FROM HERE ON OUT’
- GAY USA
- 14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
- GAY RIGHTS
‘AMERI’S ONLY GAY TELEVISN NETWORK’ HERE TV ANNOUNC ITS FIRST ORIGAL S, ‘FROM HERE ON OUT’
'Ameri's Only Gay Televisn Network' Here TV Announc Its First Origal S, 'From Here on OUT' * lgbt tv network *
The A-List: New YorkFollow the personal and profsnal enavors of a group of gay and bisexual men livg the Big IslandKhasan, Je, Brandon, Cheyenne, Jt and Patrick enjoy everythg Fire Island has to offer. When Damian Pelliccne and his partner bought a new Apple TV 2015, they immediately searched the apps for lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr ntent—and did not fd a sgle one that tered to the LGBT muny.
There’s even mic: REVRY featur licensed podsts like Homoground that are already wildly popular wh LGBT the fall, the work is lnchg two new origal documentary seri: Hoe of Trans (about the Los Angel drag ball scene) and After Orange (a seri followg female mat after they get out of prison). “Back when I was llege, I would go to Blockbter and go to the ty gay and lbian sectn, ” Pelliccne told the Daily Dot, lghg as he admted to “datg myself” wh the Blockbter reference.
GAY USA
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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. 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.
14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * lgbt tv network *
Lifetime also offers Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story, about a teenage girl who is sent to “nversn therapy” after g out to her vout Mormon parents (June 6), and Prayers for Bobby, about a profoundly relig woman who qutns her fah after the suici of her gay son (June 20). 16, 2017Last year was a remarkable time when me to the reprentatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr or queer regular characters on televisn, acrdg to the latt Glaad report monorg diversy on the small screen.
People, or beg able to help people unrstand who we are, pecially those tim when so many people lived hidn and visible, ” said Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and chief executive of Glaad (formerly known as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn). 1972 — ‘THAT CERTAIN SUMMER’ A divorced father (Hal Holbrook) his his lover (Mart Sheen) om his teenage son Lamont Johnson’s movie for ABC, nsired the first sympathetic pictn of gay people on televisn. ”)1977 — ‘SOAP’ In this ABC s, Billy Crystal plays Jodie Dallas — a gay man havg an affair wh a famo quarterback and ntemplatg genr-reassignment surgery — who be one of the first gay dads on televisn.
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]1985 — ‘AN EARLY FROST’ A Chigo lawyer (Aidan Qun) returns home to reveal to his parents that he’s gay and has AIDS this NBC movie by John Erman, settg the stage for feature films like Jonathan Demme’s “Philalphia.
1994 — ‘MY SO-CALLED LIFE’ In the episo “Life of Brian, ” this ABC drama about high school angst als wh young gay love when Rickie (Wilson Cz) velops a csh on his new classmate, Corey (Adam Bik).
2009 — ‘MODERN FAMILY’ This ABC s — featurg a gay uple, Mchell (Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (Eric Stontreet), and their adopted dghter, Lily (Aubrey Anrson-Emmons), as part of a larger fay — “is geni the way tegrat edy and cln, and is able to te and open people’s hearts and mds, ” Ms. Featurg proment members of the scene proment rol — Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, Angie Xtravaganza, and Willi Nja clud — the movie featur credible footage of the ball petns that the var ho take part , and sh a light on how s subjects al wh the racism, poverty, and homophobia surroundg them durg the peak of the AIDS crisis. The charmg Jeff Hiller, too often relegated to cliched character bs, is given center stage as a sweetly optimistic gay man makg the bt of datg the Midwt.