Category: HEALTH

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PARTY RESPONSIBLY The shit out there is dirty folks. People we know and love are straight up dying. That’s no joke BY PAULO MURILLO “Bitch, you’re so old, your meth didn’t even have Fentanyl in it,” joked someone I know Read more

It Takes A Village

An interview with Brad Spencer, co-founder of Same Love Surrogacy BY MARK ARIEL What motivated you to create Same Love Surrogacy? Every surrogacy story is so unique but one thing that brought my business partners and I together was the Read more

The Best Egg

Beverly Hills Egg Donation’s Robyn Perchik on the recruiting and screening process, determining the intended parents’ criteria, and insider tips WHAT EXACTLY IS AN EGG DONOR AGENCY? An egg donor agency recruits and screens egg donors with the ultimate goal Read more

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CALL YOUR SPONSOR Los Angeles-based costume designer and stylist Kenneth Hash on being sober, the importance of being of service and the power of guiding someone through a program of recovery BY PAULO MURILLO “I’m someone who washed up in Read more

Man On A Mission

Leon Maultsby, MHA, Associate Director of  Drew CARES, on marginalized communities BY MARK ARIEL Drew CARES is a multidisciplinary group dedicated to ensuring excellence in HIV education, research, and service provision for underserved communities.  “The organization is also focused on Read more

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SOBER IN THE NEW YEAR We asked these three clean and sober individuals with different lengths of recovery time what their goals are for staying the course in 2023 BY PAULO MURILLO FOCUS ON TODAY  “I stay sober by going Read more

Beating The Blues

Coping with prejudice, discrimination and end-of-year stressors BY JAMES GUAY, LMFT Holiday experiences are so wide and varied that they can conjure up a diverse array of thoughts, feelings and memories. For some, they’re the best time of the year Read more

Faces Of Fentanyl

Riverside County’s Dr. Geoffrey Leung on raising awareness about the dangers of fentanyl BY DR. GEOFFREY LEUNG I want to address an issue that is impacting portions of our community, taking the lives of those young and old, from every segment of the Read more

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SOBER IN 2022 With 2022 coming to a close, we asked these clean and sober individuals to reflect on the past year and share how they stayed the course through a challenging year ADAPTING WITH THE TIMES “In the beginning I Read more

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GIVING THANKS With the Thanksgiving holiday in mind, we asked these clean and sober individuals how gratitude shows up in their sober lives BY PAULO MURILLO MY FAMILY  “I’m so grateful I’ve been able to stay sober no matter what. Read more

Starting Your Family

An Interview with Dreams Fertility’s Dr. Luis Murrain BY MARK ARIEL At Dreams Fertility in Palm Springs you will find a caring and highly competent team of professionals providing the LGBTQ+ community with fertility solutions, medical treatment, donor sperm, surrogacy/egg Read more

DOMESTIC ABUSE: GETTING HELP

October is Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Month According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, domestic violence can occur in LGBTQ relationships at rates equal to or even greater to that of cisgender/heterosexual relationships. Domestic violence can Read more

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THE HORROR THAT KEEPS ME SOBER  Paulo Murillo on Satan whispering in his ear, shadow people and the beauty about being clean and sober  BY PAULO MURILLO A crystal meth psychosis can be scary AF. Ask any sketchy tweaker who has Read more

YOU ARE SAFE HERE

Rainbow Hill Sober Living in Los Angeles provides a safe space for gay, bi, non-binary, questioning, and transgender men BY VICTOR MELAMED Rainbow Hill Sober Living was founded in April of 2021 by Joey Bachrach and Andrew Fox when they Read more

YOU’RE NOT ALONE

Vanity Wellness Center’s Armen Akopyan on recovery, hope and courage Armen Akopyan, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Vanity Wellness states that he “got involved in recovery to help people,” in an interview with THE FIGHT. “I have a Read more

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KEEP COMING BACK We asked these clean and sober folks what it was like to come back into the rooms of recovery and start anew after having some previous recovery time  BY PAULO MURILLO PURE GRATITUDE “It was very hard Read more

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NOW AND THEN We asked these clean and sober individuals with different lengths of recovery time what their life is like now using and working a program of recovery BY PAULO MURILLO MY WHOLE IDENTITY  “My life is amazing. It’s Read more

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AUTHENTIC LIVES   We asked these clean and sober individuals with transgender experiences what it’s like to live their true authentic lives as individuals in recovery. BY PAULO MURILLO MORE TRUTHFUL “I think sobriety allows me to be more truthful about Read more

Queer Friendly Recovery

Vanity Wellness Center and The Tarzana Recovery Center warmly welcome the LGBTQ community  BY VICTOR MELAMED Numerous studies have found the the LGBTQ community is statistically at higher risk for substance use disorder development than those who identify as heterosexual, Read more

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SOBER PRIDE We asked three individuals with different lengths of sobriety time about celebrating Pride in recovery—what it was like before getting sober, and what it’s like now. BY PAULO MURILLO A DIFFERENT WORLD “I didn’t celebrate Pride until I Read more