Gay USA 5/28/2020

May 28, 2020

In the news with Ann and Andy (taped 5-27-20):

∎ Gay USA guest co-host and bird watcher Chris Cooper tries to get a woman in Central Park to put her dog on a leash and she calls the cops on him, saying an African American man was threatening her. Chris is OK but it did not end well for her.

∎ As we pass 100,000 dead in the US from COVID-19, Dr. Deborah Birx is criticized for her AIDS work by the State Department’s Inspector General.

∎ Nita Pippins, a southern mom who became mother to many gay men with AIDS in NY after it took her son in 1990, has died of COVID-19.

∎ Same-sex marriages get underway in Costa Rica.

∎ The gay-themed “God’s Own Country” was censored for TV to make more money.

∎ Our guest is veteran TV producer Joe Lovett on his documentary “Gay Sex in the 70s”—streaming free on June 1—and on his breakthrough piece on AIDS in 1983 on “20/20.”

Episode Number
967
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.


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