This year marks the 35th year AFAN has held the Black & White Party fundraiser. The event started as a grassroots effort held in the Green Valley apartment of founding AFAN members Bill “Trip” Oldfield and Darryl Thomas. It was called the Generic Black & White Party because of its theme of grocery store generic […]
Mother speaks out on gay son’s murder, community demands answers
Tonight is pretty tough…sitting on the side of my bed staring into the ceiling and thinking of you, Giovanni. What would you have (been) doing today? You would have been on school break and getting ready for school. Instead baby, I am going to court tomorrow to see your father’s face. The monster that took […]
200 performers take the stage in Golden Rainbow benefit
by ANTHONY DEFELICE The show kicked off with a musical performance to the 5th Dimension’s “Age of Aquarius.” “Zumanity’s” Mistress of Sensuality, EDIE, and Sean McAllister, from FOX 5’s MORE Show, returned as host, and introduced over 200 performers from more than 21 Strip shows and community organizations as they sang, danced, and defi ed […]
Boulder City priest finds his home
By FATHER JIM LYONS Priest at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church I just celebrated 23 years of ordination and it has been quite a ride. Our family started on the more Evangelical part of the Body of Christ. After a long windingå road through the major denominations I was ordained priest by the Roman Catholic Church. […]
An open letter to UNLV School of Medicine: Annual sensitivity classes specifi cally addressing transgender patients needs added to the curriculum
By Roxanne Okeke Nationwide, we are seeing a growing focus on a part of our community that has too often been ignored or abused in the past: a focus on members of the LGBTQIA (or LGBTQ+) community. This is a good thing as it is important that people who identify as LGBTQ+ are treated with […]
Corporations that love us, then kick us
Pride is celebrated across the nation, mostly around June, but here in Las Vegas, it’ll be with a night parade on Saturday, Oct. 11 and a festival on Sunday, Oct. 12. While the celebration of pride is about “coming out” and being proud enough to tell the world about one’s sexual orientation, over the years […]
As We See It: Locally, we can force change
Our July editorial will be a wrap-up of a lot of short issues. The Modern World As you can see from this issue, we are carrying a new comic, The Modern World by Tom Tomorrow. It’s actually drawn and written by Dan Perkins, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist, and in past years, has appeared in local, […]
As We See It: Legislators Let Us Down; Counties, Cities Must Act
Change can be forced by local, ‘power of the purse’ In Nevada, we finally elected a Democrat as governor and had a Democrat majority in both the Assembly and the State Senate. I suppose we should be thankful for the scraps we were given but why, oh why, didn’t they do more? Thinking about the […]
The Center To Celebrate Stonewall
By AJ HUTH The Center Youth Services Manager June 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, or as some say, rebellion or uprising. Though it has many names and monikers, Stonewall was a turning point for LGBTQ equality. The movement had been marching along for many years with organizations like the Mattachine Society […]
The Center adds more gender services
By RAY MACFARLANE Program Manager at The Center Across the country and in our state, policies and resources are in flux for transgender and gender diverse people: transgender military exclusions, new nonbinary gender markers available on IDs, insurance coverage for gender affirming medical services, school gender diversity policies and laws regarding access and discrimination. We […]