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 […]
Vegas Link To Stonewall
In the 1960s at a gay bar in Long Island there was a beauty contest, in which a petite Southern-raised glamorous blonde, Judy Bowen, took first place. Immediately after, she was arrested, beaten and later released. Suddenly, having nowhere to live, Bowen, then in her 20s, returned to the bar where she’d been arrested. Luckily, […]
LGBTQIA+ UNLV student group on the forefront of the queer narrative, finding safety in others
By Kristen Peterson On the fifth floor of Lied Library, a small group of students occupy a center table, bemoaning the agonies of organic chemistry and celebrating “Buffy,” now on Hulu, while knitting and eating snacks. Normally they’re in a room at the Student Union, but they gave the space up for rehearsal. The drag […]
Trans Remembrance names 200+ violent deaths; Trans Pride celebrates ‘who we are’
Trans Pride was held Nov. 13-19 with a week of activities that included a bowling night for trans youth. The event kicked off Monday with a Transgender Day of Remembrance, where more than 200 names of transgender people, who have died by acts of violence, were read aloud. Jamie Lee Sprague Ballou is the pastor […]