Hank Plante

Winner of the George Foster Peabody Award and multiple Emmys,[1] he covered California for three decades for TV stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

One of the first openly gay TV reporters in the United States,[3][4] Plante is the recipient of various honors from LGBT rights advocacy organizations and trade groups.

A native of Detroit, Plante worked in both radio and television journalism, including 25 years at KPIX-TV (CBS 5) in San Francisco, before retiring in April 2010.

At KPIX-TV, he interviewed a range of national and state political figures, including five U.S. Presidents and numerous Governors, legislators and opinion makers from Richard Nixon to Al Gore, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown and Hillary Clinton.

[3] Plante's community service has included work with the Human Rights Campaign,[9] the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, GLAAD, Project Open Hand, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.