Gay USA 2/23/2002

February 24, 2022

More assaults on LGBTQ students; Olympic LGBTQ winners. ∎ With LGBTQ students under assault nationwide, our guest is Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, new ED at GLSEN. ∎ Markedly more Americans identifying as LGBTQ. ∎ Supreme Court accepts case of web designer who wants to refuse service to same-sex couples. ∎ Russian plans for the Ukraine include executing LGBTQ activists and other dissidents. ∎ NYC Mayor Eric Adams hires another anti-LGBTQ activist; protest intensifies. ∎ More anti-trans murders to report. But a trans woman in Atlanta wrongly arrested gets some justice. ∎ We mourn the loss of two pioneering gay rights attorneys and Dr. Paul Farmer, a giant in the treatment of HIV worldwide.

Episode Number
1060
Program
Neighborhood
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Gay USA

Gay USA is a weekly news program recorded in the Manhattan Neighborhood Network Studios, that deals with gay, lesbian and LGBT issues and is hosted by longtime gay rights activists and journalists Andy Humm and Ann Northrop.


The hour-long program includes coverage of local, national and...

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