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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).

In 1996 Northrop joed longtime activist Andy Humm as host of the weekly news program GAY USA.

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.

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.

GAY USA IS THE TV SHOW FOR OUR TIM

Cred: Courty of Gay USA TV.

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

———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.

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.

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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. 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.

———Many thanks to our dited Makg Gay History crew, cludg story edor Inge De Taeye, associate producer Ali Lemer, d engeer Cathleen Conte, rearcher Brian Ferree, photo edor Michael Green, and our social media producers, Cristiana Peña and Nick Porter. 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.

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

The hour-long program clus verage of lol, natnal and ternatnal news of tert to the gay muny.

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. Gay USA airs Thursdays, 11 pm/ET on MNN1 (FiOS 33, RCN 82, Spectm 34 & 1995) and MNN HD (Spectm 1993). GAY USA has been telest ntuoly sce 1985.