HELLO HUMAN KINDNESS

St. Mary’s CARE Center in Long Beach provides comprehensive care to LGBTQ+ community members After 10 years of planning, St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach recently unveiled its renovated CARE Center. The CARE Center provides comprehensive care to LGBTQ+ Read more

Stronger Together

Joey Bachrach and Andrew Fox, the founders of Rainbow Hill Sober Living, open an LGBTQIA+ treatment center in the heart of Miracle Mile BY MARK ARIEL  |  PHOTO BY ZIV SADE Joey Bachrach and Andrew Fox, a recently married sober Read more

Raising Visibility

Los Angeles LGBT Center unites California Kink Community for Inaugural Leather Day of Advocacy in Sacramento BY VICTOR MELAMED Mr. LA Leather 2023 Colin MacDougall joined over 60 advocates and members of the California leather community gathered in Sacramento last month Read more

Triple Threat

Non-binary singer, rapper, dancer and actress Janelle Monáe releases her highly-anticipated new single BY ORLY LYONNE Janelle Monáe is back in action with the release of her highly-anticipated single, “Float”—available now via Wondaland Arts Society/Atlantic Records. “Float”—which Monáe recently teased Read more

Upcoming PRIDES

From Los Angeles to Solvang, Pride is everywhere! Save the dates FRIDAY, MAY 19 LONG BEACH PROUD FEST Through May 21, 2023.  Info: www.lbhomeliving.com/lbproud    MONDAY, MAY 22 PRIDE IN IRVINE 5–7pm, Irvine Civic Center Piazza. Info: www.cityofirvine.org SATURDAY, MAY 27 TRANS PRIDE Read more

When It Rains, It Pours

American Idol David Hernandez Releases His First Single from His Don’t @ Me EP American Idol’s David Hernandez has released the first single from his long-awaited autobiographical EP, Don’t @ Me.   “When It Rains, It Pours” is about the Read more

The City

BY PAULO MURILLO LOS ANGELES LA LGBT CENTER RAISES $1M BENEFITING COMMUNITY The Los Angeles LGBT Center raised over $1M to support its lifeline services and advocacy benefiting the LGBTQ community during The Center Gala fundraiser at the Fairmont Century Plaza. Over 800 supporters came together as the Read more

The Event

Dragstrip 66 30th Anniversary Reunion PHOTOS BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM, TONY DIMAIO History repeated last month as the much beloved DRAGSTRIP 66 ended its 10-year club retirement with a sold out “30th Anniversary Reunion” at Los Globos in Silver Lake. Over Read more

The Rostow Report by ANN ROSTOW

“The Bolshoi has just cancelled a ballet tribute to Rudolf Nureyev, the dance icon who was gay. As far as I can tell, the ballet, which premiered in 2017, ‘touches on’ homosexuality, but that’s apparently enough to drop it completely.” Read more

The Share

JOY OF LIVING We asked these three clean and sober individuals from different walks of life what brings joy to their lives now that they are in recovery THE CONNECTION “What’s different in my life now is the connection I Read more