Mr. Maletta’s work had s roots a program showg gay pornographic movi but expand to clu news, entertament, polil and health programmg.
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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.
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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. ”Among those voic was Andy Humm, who is now the -host, wh Ann Northrop, of “Gay U. ” and the troductn 2005 of Logo, a primarily gay-oriented 24-hour ble channel that is part of MTV Networks, have part fulfilled his dream.
Maletta’s work began the early days of the AIDS epimic, and he enlisted officials om New York Cy’s health partment and Gay Men’s Health Crisis, a nonprof AIDS advocy group, to provi segments. From 1984 to 2000, he provid verage of the Democratic and Republin Natnal Conventns, terviewg polil lears om the floor and gay rights monstrators the streets.