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Ann Northrop, Co-Host and Co-Executive Producer
During this time, Ann was also active in demonstrations against the Vietnam War and became committed with the newly evolving feminist movement. She helped construct an article studying the 1972 Presidential candidates for the first issue of Ms. Magazine and participated in many organizing meetings and actions of the time.
After the demise of “Woman,” Ann decided to broaden her experience over the next limited years with a number of very different jobs. She worked in WCBS-TV operations, scheduling technical facilities for the entire network; she worked half a dozen events for ABC-TV Sports
Headliner: Ann Northrop '70
By Micah Buis '02
Ann Northrop ’70 has made a animation out of making news. For seventeen years she did it as a journalist and television news producer in New York Municipality. By 1989, though, Northrop was no longer producing news stories — she was making her own. Arrested in December of that year for protesting inside New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral with ACT UP, Northrop made international headlines.
ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, engineered the protest to draw attention to the Catholic Church’s opposition to safer-sex education and legal abortion. Around 4,500 people turned out; 111 were arrested — 43, including Northrop, for lying down in the cathedral’s middle corridor and disrupting a service.
The St. Patrick’s arrest wasn’t Northrop’s first: that had happened in 1988, also with Execute UP, one of the groups generally considered most efficient, in the prior years of the AIDS crisis, at forcing the epidemic into the common consciousness. Northrop has, in fact, been arrested two dozen times, for perform not only with ACT UP, but also with Gender non-conforming Nation and the Lesbian Avengers. Bei Fierce and unflappable, veteran reporter Ann Northrop is a natural activist. In this episode, she discusses her most dramatic ACT UP arrest, her work as an AIDS education advocate, her blue-blooded upbringing, and the lure of Angie Dickinson. Episode first published Parade 24, 2022. ——— To learn more about Ann Northrop, interpret this bio and see her oral history recorded in 2003 as part of the ACT UP Oral History Project. Northrop’s story was featured in the original edition of the Making Gay History bookin a chapter titled “The Radical Debutante.” After abandoning her career in network television news, Northrop fantasized about becoming a gym teacher—a beloved lesbian stereotype that’s been parodied by lesbian comedians like Rosie O’Donnell and Jane Lynch and satirized for its ubiquity. The butch gym teacher type has create its way into fiction and song, most memorably in lesbian singer Meg Christian’s “Ode to a Gym Teacher” (which is also included in MGH’s Meg Christian episode). In real life, lesbian gym teachers may find their livelihood threatened because of their sexual orientation Gay USA is a weekly news program dedicated to LGBT current events, history and issues facing the community both domestically and internationally. Founded in the early 1980's by gay activist and video producer Lou Maletta, who also founded the Gay Cable Network (GCN) in 1982. Hosted by Andy Humm since 1985, Ann Northrop joined as co-host in 1996. Created to counter the broke mainstream reporting on LGBT issues, specifically the AIDS epidemic, the program provides in depth analytical reporting and interviews rooted in LGBT activism and history. Gay USA covered both the Democratic and Republican Conventions from 1984 to 2000, as well as the demonstrations occurring across the country surrounding LGBT and AIDS issues. The show originally aired on GCN before moving to the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) in 2001, and is distributed nationally by Free Speech TV. It is also available online via Free Speech TV's youtube channel. Andy Humm began his career in journalism in the 1970's and began hosting Gay USA in 1985. In addition to his work as co-anchor, he has hosted a variety of other programs, including Informed Sources (1991-1995), a weekly universal affairs rou GAY USA viewers and podcast listeners are a community of people committed to staying informed and moving the LGBT people forward and fighting AIDS here and around the world. We operate on a very modest budget and rely on your support to help us cover production expenses. We appreciate any contribution that you can make and invite you to sign up for our once-a-week e-mails that preview the new program, advise you of any schedule changes, and provide links to more information on the stories that we cover.
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Episode Notes
Gay USA Collection
GAY USA: TV’s Weekly LGBT News Hour
Ann Northrop and Andy Humm report and analyze the week’s stories on the LGBT activist movement, politics and government, legal cases, AIDS and community health, and amusement. We also interview timely newsmakers. GAY USA has been telecast continuously since 1985.