Las Vegas Spectrum

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...

In Denise Duarte’s exhibit “Unraveling Identities,” on display at The Studio inside Sahara West Library, there is a particular work of art in which...

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...

Missed opportiunities. In Nevada, we finally elected a Democrat as governor and had a Democrat majority in both the Assembly and the State Senate. I...

By ISLAGAR LABRADA Spectial to the Las Vegas Spectrum Hemos tenido una gran perdida de amigos y amigas en nuestra comunidad gay Latina de la ciudad...

In what may be a first in the US, the Las Vegas Spectrum announces the creation of a database of married or partnered, same-gender...

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...

MAY 2020

It was a dark month throughout the Kingdom of Vegas and all the dragons were in the sky. I sure do need one of...

I have been doing a great deal of investigating - amongst and from my constituents, and one of my most recent discoveries is that...

By John (Rob) Phoenix, APRN, FNP-C and Christina M. Madison, PharmD, FCCP, BCACP, AAHIVP Special to the Las Vegas Spectrum Worldwide, every day, there are over...

“Where’s the cheesecake?” asks director Troy Heard as he ransacks the small fridge on the set of “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” the last...

Yes, this June is Stonewall 50! World Pride is in NYC with events all month but focused on June 26-29 and the Stonewall Inn...

  Is anyone else feeling exhausted as hell and more than a little conflicted? Might give the world a hug. Might run away. Might go...

The CALL came in on March 4. Because I did not recognize the number, I let it go to voicemail. I listened to the...

Diane Freedman, a longtime social worker whose private practice created a safe haven for the New York City LGBTQ community, began her career in...

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,...

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raided a mafia-owned-and-operated, rundown, ramshackle gay bar on Christopher Street in the West Village, an...

Over drinks after the opening reception of “Axis Mundo,” a colleague of mine, Anita Revilla, told Alisha Kerlin that, the show had been the...

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...