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...
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 area known to be frequented by gays, lesbians, prostitutes, street kids and drag queens.
About 200 people were in the bar, which had not been tipped off, per usual. The lights came on, the music shut...
Over drinks after the opening reception of “Axis Mundo,” a colleague of mine, Anita Revilla, told Alisha Kerlin that, the show had been the first time she had seen herself in the museum in her 14 years working for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
On walking in hours before the opening, I myself was taken aback by the Spanish...
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 has many names and monikers, Stonewall was a turning point for LGBTQ equality. The movement had been marching along for many years with organizations like the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitus leading the way....
