- Andy Humm
Andy Humm (born 1954 [Heredia, Christopher. (5 November 2001) [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/05/MN136227.DTL Gays searching for ways to help after terror attacks] "San Francisco Chronicle". Accessed 13 April 2007.] ) is a journalist, activist and currently co-host of TV news program "
Gay USA ".Career
As a gay news reporter, Humm has covered virtually every major gay and AIDS news story since the 1980s. Humm began writing regularly for the gay press in the 1970s and 1980s when he worked for
New York City News . [http://web.mac.com/depeche7/Site/Andy_Humms_Bio/Entries/2007/1/6_.html Meet Andy Humm] "Gay USA". Accessed 12 July 2007.]Humm began hosting gay news programs with "Pride and Progress", aired on the
Gay Cable Network (GCN), in 1985. He co-anchored GCN's nightly coverage of the 1988 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Humm also did floor coverage of the1992 Democratic National Convention . From 1986 to 1995, Humm was Director of Education at the Hetrick-Martin Institute for Lesbian and Gay Youth.Following "Pride and Progress", Humm became the host of "
Gay USA ". In 1996, he began co-hosting the show with veteran journalist and activistAnn Northrop .In 2000, Humm provided floor coverage of the Republican National Convention.
Humm has interviewed numerous people from both the public and private sectors. Politicians interviewed by Humm, titled according to their political position at the time of the interview, include Governors
Bill Clinton andGeorge Pataki ; SenatorsBill Bradley ,Joseph Lieberman ,Chuck Schumer , andBob Dole ; RepresentativesNewt Gingrich ,Dick Cheney , andRichard Gephardt . Activists interviewed by Humm includeJesse Jackson ,Gloria Steinem ,Al Sharpton , andLarry Kramer . Humm has interviewed actorsMatthew Broderick andIan McKellen as well as authorsAlan Hollinghurst ,Ned Rorem , andMartin Duberman .Humm has been interviewed on the
CBS Evening News , the Geraldo Show, Charlie Rose, Fox TVsHannity & Colmes , America's Talking withChris Matthews , The Maury Povich Show, the Alan Colmes and Barry Farber radio shows, all New York City TV newscasts, and is a frequent guest on NY-1 TVs Inside City Hall. Humm's opinion-ediroials have appeared in the "The New York Times ", "New York Post ", "Daily News" and "Newsday ".Activism
Humm became President of the Gay Student Union at the
University of Virginia in 1974, marking the beginning of his activism. From 1977 to 1991, Humm served as a spokesperson for theCoalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights which helped guide New York City'sLGBT rights law through the City Council. He was aNew York City Human Rights Commissioner from 1991 to 1993.Humm’s work in the LGBT and
AIDS Communities has been honored by theHuman Rights Campaign ,New York University , theAIDS and Adolescents Network ,Advocates for Youth , theParents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays , the Cincinnati Gay and Lesbian Coalition, theOffice of the Public Advocate , the Bar Association for Human Rights of Greater New York, and the Arkansas Lesbian and Gay Task Force. In 1990, Humm was named anArkansas Traveler by then-Governor Bill Clinton.References
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