Las Vegas Spectrum

The Center is the hub for the Las Vegas LGBTQ+ community and offers a variety of activities and services. Here is a roundup of...

Set Jetters believe Travel should be an Adventure. They choose vacation/travel destinations for what they can see and experience. This is often inspired by a...

What do 8,000 athletes from around the world know that you don’t? Well to start, it’s that the self-proclaimed, largest, international LGBTQ+ sporting event...

With Donald Trump in the White House, the Democrats were expected to have several contenders to take him on. What no one initially guessed...

Last week, the Las Vegas City Council passed a controversial proposal that makes it a misdemeanor to sleep or camp on sidewalks in and...

A lot has happened since several friends and I decided to begin publishing the Las Vegas Spectrum. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading and will...

Conventional political wisdom tells those running for federal offices, “It’s the economy, stupid!” This was coined by James Carville, a campaign strategist for Bill...

The Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival (LVQA) returned for a second year Nov. 8-10, screening films at the Gay and Lesbian Center of...

When I discovered Rain Nightclub in 2010, it would soon become the club that invented Las Vegas mega clubs in my eyes. In...

Open enrollment for a 2020 ACA (Affordable Care Act) health insurance plan ends Dec. 15. The Affordable Care Act, also known as the ACA or...

As always, each December is all about letting go of the things that no longer serve you. Purging away what you are not using,...

  We made it fam! Mariah is about to have your radio on lock (just as she has every holiday season since 1994). And, if...

Cortez Masto stands up to Ben Carson’s transphobic comments It seems appalling enough that Ben Carson, the secretary for Housing and Urban Development, described trans...

Marrying my partner Larry was something I’d never dreamed of before 2012, largely because I thought politicians weren’t willing to risk their office to...

Do all things Donald Trump have to be so confusing? All we’ve heard the past month-and-a-half, has been “quid pro quo,” and it’s not...

Special to the Spectrum I’ll never forget Valentine’s Day of 2004. I was San Francisco District Attorney at the time, and two days earlier, then-Mayor...

Special to the Spectrum Last month, on National Coming Out Day, my husband Chasten marched in the Las Vegas Pride Parade with over one hundred...

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An excerpt from The Center's Executive Director John Waldron’s speech at the 2019 Honorarium, held Oct. 5 at the Palms. Tonight, we celebrate 50 years...

Anyone who met Nikki Woods realized quickly that she was a woman of grace, strength, spirituality and love. She was steadfast in fighting for...