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 Monday 29 July 2024

LGBT-related
The Dixie Chicks have equated their experiences with the fallout from the Iraq War controversy with the hatred felt by the LGBT community. Maines, who has a home in Chelsea, Manhattan near band-mate Maguire, confirms that the gay community has fiercely returned the support. When an interviewer from The Advocate said that the Chicks have probably gained a whole new group of gay fans, Maines responded, "We’ve wiped the slate clean as to whom we think our fans are, but we do think we have more liberals and more gay men behind us. We have a gay hairdresser and gay makeup artist who are with us every single day, so they fill us in."

In 2005, the Chicks recorded the song "I Believe in Love" for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) album Love Rocks. Procedes from the album go to HRC which is an organization that "work[s] towards equality" for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

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Gay USA

History

Gay USA is a weekly one-hour TV program of news, analysis and interviews co-hosted by Andy Humm and Ann Northrop.

For more than two decades, Gay USA has covered LGBT people and our struggle for equal rights here and around the world.

The program began in 1985 as Pride and Progress, a gay news and features show on Lou Maletta's Gay Cable Network, and evolved into Gay USA, now produced by Manhattan Neighborhood Network and distributed nationally by Free Speech TV through the Dish Network and other cable outlets. It is also simulcast Thursdays at 11 PM at www.MNN.org channel 34. We began podcasting the show in 2006.

Andy Humm has been with the show since 1985. He has co-hosted with Ann Northrop since 1996.

In addition to all the latest LGBT news, Gay USA features an AIDS News segment covering that pandemic and other LGBT health issues. We also do an Entertainment News segment on LGBT people in show business and on gay-themed movies, TV, theater, and books.

In over twenty years of weekly programming, Gay USA has built up a loyal fan base in New York and around the nation.

Under Lou Maletta, the Gay Cable Network covered the Democratic and Republican national conventions from 1984 to 2000, mostly with Ann and Andy as correspondents asking hard questions of delegates and national political figures on LGBT and AIDS issues, while covering gay and AIDS demonstrations outside the convention halls.

For more information on who has appeared on the show and what we've covered, read the biographies of Ann and Andy and the insert on guests.