For further study: LGBT TELEVISION PROGRAMMING: GET USED TO IT (1995 – ) COLLECTION Produced by the City of West Hollywood and airing on cable stations throughout the country, the public affairs talk show Get Used To It addresses national and local issues of interest to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community as well as allies. Hosted by California Senator Sheila James Kuehl, the first openly gay or lesbian person to be elected to the California Legislature, the program also highlights individuals whose lives and work have left a lasting legacy in the LGBT community. Issues examined by the series cover such topics as the gay civil rights movement, domestic violence, gay marriage and hate crimes. Interviewees have included activist Jean O’Leary, a founder of the Lesbian Feminist Liberation group, and Phill Wilson, founder and Executive Director of the Black AIDS Institute. The UCLA Film & Television Archive holds over 100 installments of this groundbreaking series from the year 1995 to the present, which are available for onsite research viewing. Installments of Get Used To It are added to the collection on a periodic basis. Please check with the Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC) for additional listings. For more information, or to arrange research viewing, please contact ARSC at (310) 206-5388, or by e-mail: [email protected] 1990s Get Used To It. Show No. 23: AIDS Today (1995-01). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Mark Katz, Mary Lucey, Phill Wilson. The impact of AIDS on the gay community fifteen years after the disease was discovered. Inventory Number: T07006 Get Used To It. Show No. 23: Defunding Homophobia (1995-02). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Tim Miller, Patrick Scott, Robin Podolsky. Includes: Homophobia in the Republican Party’s “Contract with America;” efforts to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Public Broadcasting System. Inventory Number: T07007 Get Used To It. Show No. 24: 3 Funny Lesbians (1995-03). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Amanda Bearse, Kate Clinton. Sitcom actress Amanda Bearse and stand-up comedian Kate Clinton RE discuss their lives as lesbians. Inventory Number: T07008 Get Used To It. Show No. 25: Kuehl in the Hot Seat (1995-04). CityChannel 10. Guest Host, Alan Acosta. Interview with Senator Sheila James Kuehl, covering her early career on television and her election to the California State Assembly. Inventory Number: T07009 SOURCES Get Used To It. Show No. 26: Adoption (1995-05). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Roberta Bennett, Stephanie Farrington-Domingue, Greg Travis. Gay adoption and parenting. Inventory Number: T07010 Get Used To It. Show No. 28: Torrie Osborne – Portrait of an Activist (1995-07-07). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with the Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Inventory Number: T07011 Get Used To It. Show No. 29: Education (1995-08-03). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Simon LeVay, Virginia Uribe, Paulino Tamayo. LGBT educational programs designed to reach citizens outside of the gay community. Inventory Number: T07012 For further study: LGBT TELEVISION PROGRAMMING: GET USED TO IT (1995 – ) Get Used To It. Show No. 32: Domestic Violence in the Lesbian & Gay Community (1996-01). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Vallerie Coleman, L. Jan Fogelman, Lara Bloomquist. Roundtable discussion of the emerging problem of domestic violence between lesbian and gay partners. Inventory Number: T07013 Get Used To It. Show No. 33: Current Legal Challenges (1996-02-09). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, John Heilman, Taylor Flynn, Carmel Sella. Conservative challenges to gay legal rights in regards to marriage, discrimination, employment and harassment. Inventory Number: T07014 Get Used To It. Show No. 34: Voices of Our Lives – Elizabeth Birch (1996-03). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign, Elizabeth Birch. Inventory Number: T07015 Get Used To It. Show No. 35: Psychology of Being Gay (1996-04). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Linda Garnets, Jim Babl, Terry Gock. Mental health issues faced by the gay community. Inventory Number: T07016 Get Used To It. Show No. 36: Gay & Lesbian Values (1996-05-10). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Rabbi Denise L. Eger, Phill Wilson, Robert Dawidoff. Issues of values, ethics and morals as they relate to the gay community. Inventory Number: T07017 Get Used To It. Show No. 37: Roemer v. Evans (1996-06-19). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Mary Newcombe, Jon Davidson, Sky Johnson. Colorado’s anti-gay “Amendment 2” overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996. Inventory Number: T07018 Get Used To It. Show No. 38: Voices of Our Lives – David Mixner (1996-08). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with David Mixner, adviser to President Clinton on gay issues. Inventory Number: T07019 Get Used To It. Show No. 39: Communities of Faith (1996-10). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Rabbi Denise L. Eger, Rev. Daniel E. Smith, Rev. Jenenne Macklin. Religious groups and churches that welcome the gay community. Inventory Number: T07020 Get Used To It. Show No. 40: All God’s Children (1996-11). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Dee Mosbacher, Sylvia Rhue. Political attempts to paint gays in a negative light and responses by the gay community. Inventory Number: T07021 Get Used To It. Show No. 41: Hawaii, Part 2 (1997-01). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Deborah Stewart, Christine Littleton, Charlie Makinney. Hawaiian Supreme Court case that promises the potential legalization of same-sex marriage for the first time in the United States. Inventory Number: T07022 Get Used To It. Show No. 42: Substance Abuse (1997-04). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Kathy Watt, Susan Chacin, Kevin Williams. The growing problem of substance abuse within the LGBT community. Inventory Number: T07023 Get Used To It. Show No. 43: Voices of Our Lives – Kerry Lobel (1997-04). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with Kerry Lobel, Executive Director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. Inventory Number: T07024 For further study: LGBT TELEVISION PROGRAMMING: GET USED TO IT (1995 – ) Get Used To It. Show No. 44: Ambiguity, Paradox & Maturity (1997-05). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Rabbi Denise Eger, Robert Dawidoff, Phill Wilson. How age and maturity impacts an individual’s ability to cope with complex issues. Inventory Number: T07025 Get Used To It. Show No. 45: Voices of Our Lives – Carole Migden (1997-05). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with Carole Migden, California State Assemblywoman from San Francisco. Inventory Number: T07026 Get Used To It. Show No. 46: Gay Rights and the Left (1997-08). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Jackie Goldberg, Torrie Osborne, Charles Stewart. The possibility of a leftward turn in American politics and the potential impact on the LGBT community. Inventory Number: T07027 Get Used To It. Show No. 47: Voices of Our Lives – Morris Kight (1997-09). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with Morris Kight, Los Angeles-based pioneer in the gay civil rights movement and co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front. Inventory Number: T07028 Get Used To It. Show No. 48: Voices of Our Lives – Jewel Thais-Williams (1997-11). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with Jewel Thais-Williams, African-American lesbian activist, champion of gay marriage and civil rights and owner of the “Catch One” lesbian disco in Los Angeles. Inventory Number: T07028 Get Used To It. Show No. 49: Judith Light and Family – You Don’t Have to be Gay to be Queer (1997-12). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Judith Light, Robert Desiderio. Actress Judith Light appears with her husband Robert Desiderio to discuss how many members of the straight community feel at home with their gay friends and family members. Inventory Number: T07030 Get Used To It. Show No. 50: The Best of the Best (1998-03). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Program celebrates its 50th episode with a look back at previous guests. Inventory Number: T07031 Get Used To It. Show No. 51: Voices of Our Lives – Michael Kearns (1998-05). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Kearns discusses his life as an actor, performance artist, political activist and author. Inventory Number: T07032 Get Used To It. Show No. 53: Voices of Our Lives – Virginia Uribe (1998-07). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with Virginia Uribe, former teacher at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles who, after witnessing the gay bashing of a student at her school, founded “Project 10,” an advocacy group for gay teens. Inventory Number: T07033 Get Used To It. Show No. 55: Sex & Morality (1998-10). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Sue Burnside, David Mixner, Sky Johnson. Religious and political right wing targeting of the gay community during election years. Inventory Number: T07034 Get Used To It. Show No. 56: Labor and Gay Rights (1998-11). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, KipuKai Kauli’i, Torrie Osborne, John Perez. The gay community’s past and present relationship with the labor movement. Inventory Number: T07035 Get Used To It. Show No. 57: Holidays (1998-12). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Guests, Phill Wilson, Rev. Malcolm Boyd, Rabbi Denise L. Eger. How the LGBT community celebrates faith during the holiday season. Inventory Number: T07036 For further study: LGBT TELEVISION PROGRAMMING: GET USED TO IT (1995 – ) Get Used To It. Show No. 58: Voices of Our Lives – Bruce Vilanch (1999-01). CityChannel 10. Host, Sheila James Kuehl. Interview with Bruce Vilanch, actor and comedy writer.