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 IDs, insurance coverage for gender affirming medical services, school gender diversity policies and laws regarding access and discrimination. We are at a pivotal moment in...
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 means Our Community Center, and it serves as a community meeting and educational space. NCC is home to public aff airs team, responsible sex education...
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 a couples pages to honor them, and in some cases, just remember the impact they've had on our lives. This year we decided to share...
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 America in a U-Haul truck. You go girl! I’ve heard that Florida alligators love chicken. There's a hilarious video of Kelly on FB, painting her...
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 season.
Frank Marino was on the phone recently. Frank is the one who actually put me together with Rob Schlegel, the publisher of this great magazine,...
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 third big year, this massively attended multifandom convention featured more than 40 actresses, producers, writers and directors to mingle with throughout the weekend. Described as...
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 of the original 1,600 acre Gilcrease Ranch.
Stolen Aces Farms is a 15-acre ranch and home to about 30 horses. They vary in ages, sizes, colors,...
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 snacks. Normally they’re in a room at the Student Union, but they gave the space up for rehearsal. The drag show is that weekend, “kings,...
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 over half of the country has no explicit statewide laws protecting LGBTQ Americans from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations.
“Nevada has those basic civil...
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 half have been diagnosed. COPD progressively robs a person of their breath.
Although once thought of as an “old man’s disease,” women are disproportionately impacted...
