In the news with Ann and Andy (taped 5-27-20):
∎ Gay USA guest co-host and bird watcher Chris Cooper tries to get a woman in Central Park to put her dog on a leash and she calls the cops on him, saying an African American man was threatening her. Chris is OK but it did not end well for her.
∎ As we pass 100,000 dead in the US from COVID-19, Dr. Deborah Birx is criticized for her AIDS work by the State Department’s Inspector General.
∎ Nita Pippins, a southern mom who became mother to many gay men with AIDS in NY after it took her son in 1990, has died of COVID-19.
∎ Same-sex marriages get underway in Costa Rica.
∎ The gay-themed “God’s Own Country” was censored for TV to make more money.
∎ Our guest is veteran TV producer Joe Lovett on his documentary “Gay Sex in the 70s”—streaming free on June 1—and on his breakthrough piece on AIDS in 1983 on “20/20.”
