Las Vegas Spectrum

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 Sheldon's Big Bang concoctions. TV shows come and go, My favorite is still M.A.S.H. and I watch all the reruns. When I was kid, I wanted to be like Hawkeye. Being a doctor and drinking all...

I have been doing a great deal of investigating - amongst and from my constituents, and one of my most recent discoveries is that Dionne Warwick has a brand-new album out. She is looking for a Las Vegas residency! By the way, SO AM I!! When you think of how many stars, how many “used-to-bes,” it is all about...

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 one million new sexually transmitted infections (STI). With this extremely high rate of new infections and the link between prior STI and HIV infection, more work needs to be done in expanding access to HIV...

“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 show of Majestic Repertory Theatre’s brilliant third season. “It’s a Japanese cheesecake,” says Marcus Randolph, the show’s lighting designer. “Japanese?” Heard asks. “It’s from that really good French bakery in Chinatown,” Randolph says, running through a light check...

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 in the West Village. Let’s take an LGBTQ history tour around NYC and the USA. Probably the “First” bar in The Village was lesbian, Eves Tearoom in 1925, 44 years before Stonewall. While there, visit...

  Is anyone else feeling exhausted as hell and more than a little conflicted? Might give the world a hug. Might run away. Might go full-Targaryen and burn them all. IDK (I don’t know). Between the near constant assaults on hardfought civil liberties – marriage equality, women’s health and trans rights – and stalemates on social issues i.e. gun safety,...

The CALL came in on March 4. Because I did not recognize the number, I let it go to voicemail. I listened to the message when I wasn’t driving and, OMG, it was the frickken executive producer for “Jimmy Kimmel!” “Hi, Mona, we’re calling from ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live,’ and we would like to do a comedy segment with a psychic...

Diane Freedman, a longtime social worker whose private practice created a safe haven for the New York City LGBTQ community, began her career in the field working with the AIDS crisis. A decade later she paved the way in New York City for trans women and men to get affordable therapy She is, we could argue, an LGBTQ hero from...

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, she ran into a friend...