Gay Cable Network (GCN) was one of the first ble televisn works which openly appealed to a gay and lbian dience. It was tablished 1982 New...
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Mr. Maletta’s work had s roots a program showg gay pornographic movi but expand to clu news, entertament, polil and health programmg. * gay cable network *
In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. 9, 2011Lou Maletta, who found the Gay Cable Network 1982, when the gay rights movement was not receivg broad media attentn, died on Nov.
Maletta showed gay pornographic movi that he had eded to make ls explic, and the programmg grew to bee a fom for the range of issu facg gay had been gay-oriented televisn shows before the Gay Cable Network was started.
Rights movement, ” said Kenh Sherrill, a polil science profsor at Hunter College who has wrten extensively on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights.
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”Among those voic was Andy Humm, who is now the -host, wh Ann Northrop, of “Gay U.