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...

Planned Parenthood opens HIV programs headquarters in Las Vegas.

By Planned Parenthood staff Special to the Spectrum Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM) has opened a new Las Vegas facility, Nuestros Centro Communitario, at 2785 E. Desert Inn Rd., Suite 260. Nuestros Centro Communitario...

Happy Mother’s Day! Spectrum staff salutes their moms

May means Mother's Day. And yes, The Las Vegas Spectrum staff does have mothers, too. Considering some of them have to put up with us, even when deadlines approach, we thought we would take...

Kitty Litter: Frank Marino, Aussie Heat and drama-free glamping

Holy Hoover Dam! May is already here. So much gossip and some of it will be served up cold. Did you hear Mike and Kelly Smith moved to Florida They took those damn chickens across...

The Rock Report: Frank Marino’s new show and celebrating divas over 50

By Monti Rock III Easter has come and gone. Did you get to play with your Peeps? I asked the Easter bunny to bring me lots of pastel colored Peeps this year to celebrate the...

ClexaCon draws women actresses, producers, writers and directors to Las Vegas

If you’re a fan of TV shows with super-hot women, often playing strongwilled, independent characters or outright-lesbians then ClexaCon is the place you should have been last month! Returning to Las Vegas for its...

Time for the outdoors: LGBTQ groups in Las Vegas, hikes and other activities

By ROB SCHLEGEL AND LYN COLLIER Photos by TONYA HARVEY Andy Marlett is the head trainer at Stolen Aces Farms in the northwest part of Las Vegas. It’s on land that at one time was part...

LGBTQIA+ UNLV student group on the forefront of the queer narrative, finding safety in...

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...

Rosen presser: “Members of the LGBTQ community are still not fully protected by the...

The proposed Equality Act got a shot in the arm April 23, when U.S. Sen. Jackie Rosen held a press conference at The Center. John Waldron, The Center’s executive director, opened the presser by explaining...

Smoking in the LGBTQ community is nearly 70 percent higher, women are more likely...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD may not roll easily off your tongue, but it is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. COPD affects some 24 million persons; of whom only...