She also provides advice on the weekly Suze Orman Show on CNBC, which is among the highest-rated on the network, and also airs on XM and Sirius radio. Her work on the program has made her a five-time recipient of Gracie Awards, which honor America's "best radio, television, and cable programming for, by, and about women." The Suze Orman Show was named the outstanding talk show in 2003, 2007, and 2008. Orman herself won awards for individual achievement as a program host in 2005 and 2006.

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In addition, she has been a frequent guest on such television shows as Larry King Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, and The View and has offered her expert opinions on many news broadcasts.

Orman has been especially concerned with the difficulties of same-sex couples in achieving equity, particularly when one of the partners die. She has been a strong supporter of establishing trusts in lieu of wills.

As she has written, "A trust gives the trustee the legal authority to distribute assets immediately to the beneficiaries based on the terms of the trust. No court is involved. No public notice of death is required as it is with a will. All that is required is a death certificate and a trust document that describes how things are to be distributed through the trust. Because a trust bypasses the court system, or probate, there are no fees, and there is no public record of the value of your estate, protecting your privacy."

Orman came out publicly as a lesbian in a February 2007 interview with the New York Times Magazine, acknowledging a seven-year relationship with her partner, Kathy Travis. Orman took the occasion to decry the financial losses incurred by surviving same-sex partners due to the inequality of marriage laws.

For glbt people, television talk shows have been both promising and problematic; they have brought glbt issues to public awareness, but until recently they have also presented glbt people as stereotypes and freaks.

The gay and lesbian press is of prime importance in sustaining a frequently embattled minority and has been crucial in the development of a national mass movement for gay rights.

Lesbian and gay couples have been fighting for the freedom to marry since the dawn of the modern glbtq struggle for equality; despite some success abroad, progress toward same-sex marriage in the United States has been slow.

Financial writer Andrew Tobias, the author of the classic coming out memoir The Best Little Boy in the World (1973), was elected Treasurer of the Democratic Party in 1999.