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  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 City. 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, designed the demonstrate to draw attention to the Catholic Church’s rivalry 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 aisle and disrupting a service. 

  The St. Patrick’s arrest wasn’t Northrop’s first: that had happened in 1988, also with Proceed UP, one of the groups generally considered most effective, in the first years of the AIDS crisis, at forcing the epidemic into the general consciousness. Northrop has, in fact, been arrested two dozen times, for serve not only with Execute UP, but also with Queer Nation and the Lesbian Avengers. Bei

  Ann Northrop, Co-Host and Co-Executive Producer

  Ann Northrop is a veteran journalist and activist. A native of Windsor, Connecticut, Ann spent her youth in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Boston, Denver and Chicago. After graduation from Vassar College, Ann began her journalism career at The National Journal in Washington, D.C., covering all branches of the federal government — Alabaster House, Congress, Supreme Court, all agencies and departments — for a year and a half before moving to New York Town to work at WCBS-TV on a morning, five-days-a-week discuss show called “Woman.”

  During this time, Ann was also active in demonstrations against the Vietnam War and became emotionally attached with the newly evolving feminist movement. She helped construct an article reviewing 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 several 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

  Ann Northrop

  Ann Northrop, circa 1988. Credit: Milagros Melendez.

  Episode Notes

  Fierce and unflappable, veteran correspondent Ann Northrop is a natural activist. In this episode, she discusses her most dramatic Do 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.

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  To understand more about Ann Northrop, read this bio and view her oral history recorded in 2003 as part of the ACT UP Oral History Venture. Northrop’s story was featured in the original edition of the Making Queer 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 female homosexual stereotype that’s been parodied by female homosexual comedians like Rosie O’Donnell and Jane Lynch and satirized for its ubiquity. The butch gym teacher type has found 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 valid life, lesbian gym teachers may locate their livelihood threatened because of their sexual orientation
  

  Gay USA Collection

  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 destitute 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 widespread affairs rou