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...
Contents:
LOU MALETTA, GAY-TELEVISN PNEER, DI AT 74
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. ”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.
GAY CABLE NEWS
“He was this tremendo character, generally wearg spanx, a black leather jacket, the Gay Network T-shirt and a wboy hat, ” Mr. After servg the Army, he beme a eelance photographer and a travel agent, bookg gay cis. He was outsi the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village summer 1969 when a police raid helped igne the gay liberatn movement, said Mr.
Maletta told Gay Cy News 2009, was watchg a 30-year-old iend “turng to someone who looked 90 six months after beg diagnosed” wh what at one time was lled gay-related immune ficiency. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 28 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lou Maletta, 74, Pneer of Gay-Oriented TV Programmg.