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Contents:

• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• GAY USA
• GAY USA IS THE TV SHOW FOR OUR TIM
• 'GAY USA' HOST WISH MEDIA WOULD LOOK EPER AT 'WHO WE ARE'
• GAY USA
• GAY USA
• GAY USA: BULLIED GAY CHILD TAK HIS OWN LIFE, BISEXUAL ARIZONA SENATE CANDIDATE

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

Northrop’s story was featured the origal edn of the Makg Gay History book a chapter tled “The Radil Debutante.

In real life, lbian gym teachers may fd their livelihood threatened bee of their sexual orientatn, a prediment explored pth this 1990 the suggtn of Joyce Hunter at the Harvey Milk High School, Northrop beme an AIDS tn advote at the Hetrick-Mart Instute (now known as HMI and origally known as the Instute for the Protectn of Lbian and Gay Youth). Shapiro was also a foundg member of ACT UP, the AIDS Coaln To Unleash Power, which was formed on March 10, 1987, at New York Cy’s Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center (now the LGBT Communy Center).

GAY USA

In 1996 Northrop joed longtime activist Andy Humm as host of the weekly news program GAY USA. Episos om 2000 to 2012 are available through NYU’s Fal Library & Special Collectns the Gay USA Collectn.

Pre-2001 episos n be found the Gay Cable Network Archiv. Northrop has also been active Gays Agast Guns, which scrib self as “an clive direct actn group of LGBTQ people and their alli mted to nonvlently breakg the gun dtry’s cha of ath—vtors, manufacturers, the NRA and policians who block safer gun laws. ” The anizatn was formed shortly after the June 12, 2016, mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, that left 49 people the episo, Northrop mentns harborg a csh on actrs Angie Dickson.

GAY USA IS THE TV SHOW FOR OUR TIM

Take a moment to immerse yourself the screen legend’s charms: learn about her life and work this short vio, pese the glamor photos, watch her discs her reer, and eat her lic honeymoon Humm and Ann Northrop have hosted the weekly news program Gay USA sce 1996. Cred: Courty of Gay USA TV.

———Eric Marc Narratn: I’m Eric Marc, and this is Makg Gay History.

But by the time I terviewed Ann for my Makg Gay History book, she’d left her enviable reer work TV news and was workg for the Instute for the Protectn of Lbian and Gay Youth—a small nonprof later renamed the Hetrick-Mart Instute honor of s founrs.

'GAY USA' HOST WISH MEDIA WOULD LOOK EPER AT 'WHO WE ARE'

When did you first get volved any, any aspect of, of gay rights, uh, the gay rights movement?

GAY USA

Uh, I did not feel fortable talkg to another soul the entire world about my homosexualy until I had a lover and felt there was one other person who red enough about me not to hate me for who I was. Well, I thk that is the pervasive image of gay people this untry, or has been.

Cred: Donna When you left, when you cid to leave CBS, you had stat, …AN: … you had power, you worked for the work, for god’s sake… You threw all out the wdow to work for an unrfund, overworked stute that works for the livery of social servic to gay and lbian youth and, uh, do tn work.

GAY USA

And by that time thkg, adjtg my thkg to the Harvey Milk School, I thought, oh, okay, what I’ll do is, I’ll—I had grandse dreams—I said to myself, I’ll take, uh, all the, uh, gay boys and I’ll make them to the cy champ softball team and will stroy all the stereotyp of gay boys. I had not been hired to go talk about homosexualy to people.

GAY USA: BULLIED GAY CHILD TAK HIS OWN LIFE, BISEXUAL ARIZONA SENATE CANDIDATE

In the mid-1990s, Ann returned to her roots journalism and sce then she’s -hosted the weekly natnal ble TV show Gay USA together wh Andy Humm, another legendary activist.