Interviews and Guests
Gay USA includes interviews of individuals regarding relevant projects, organizations or entertainment. Guests have ranged from an out-gay, and thus unemployed, priest to a gay male couple with adopted children to political figures and entertainers. Some of the program's notable guests have included:
- Edward Albee, three time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
- Alison Bechdel, comic strip and graphic author, notably of Fun Home
- Wayne Besen, gay rights advocate
- Matthew Bourne, British choreographer
- Rev. Pat Bumgardner, Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church
- Justice Edwin Cameron, senior South African official
- Thomas Duane, New York State Senator
- Martin Duberman, historian
- Marga Gomez, award winning comedian
- Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter
- Alan Hollinghurst, author of award winning The Line of Beauty
- Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, LGBT Synagogue
- Scott Long, Executive Director of LGBT Rights Project, Human Rights Watch
- Joseph Lovett, film maker, notably of Gay Sex in the 70s
- Michael Musto, columnist
- Christine Quinn, Speaker of the New York City Council
- Tully Satre, youth activist
- Sir Antony Sher, actor, novelist and artist
- Lily Tomlin, comedian who publicly came out on the show in 2000
- Tree, Stonewall Inn Bartender
- Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
- Kenji Yoshino, author as well as professor of intellectual life at Yale Law School
Organizations involved in LGBT rights and information dissemination have also been represented on the show by various guests. These include:
- ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Project: Litigation Director James Esseks; Matt Coles
- Equality Ride: Activists Haven Herrin & Jake Reitan
- Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network: Kevin Jennings
- Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund: Attorney Alphonso David
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Executive Director Matt Forman
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States: Monica Rodriguez
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