Breaking The Stigma

While 23 million people in the US need help with addiction and mental illness, only 3 million are getting help. Outreach, social challenges and programs geared towards the LGBT population. BY MARK ARIEL Heroes in Recovery is a movement ignited Read more

It Gets Better

The short film “Love Is All You Need?” about a girl who is bullied because she is straight in a world where everyone is gay—is being developed into a feature length project—to bring bullying and social justice to light for Read more

MAKING AMENDS

Amending my past behavior has been hard. Getting an amends from someone I hated for so many years was not much easier. BY PAULO MURILLO | PHOTO BY RICK GALIHER I was up against it that spring of 2010, and going Read more

San Gabriel Valley Pride

Save the date: Saturday, September 20th from 11am to 6pm in Memorial Park and the Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena. Entertainers include Abi Ann, Dario and The South Pasadena Transit Authority. Free admission! BY VICTOR MELAMED The Board of Directors of Read more

Thank You For Sharing

September is National Recovery Month. A few local clean and sober folks, from different walks of life, with different lengths of sobriety, share what they love most about their journey in recovery. BY PAULO MURILLO SENSE OF BELONGING “There are Read more

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Contributing writer Robert E. Blackmon on his new book, “The Gay Groom’s Guide to Planning Your Perfect Wedding.”  BY VICTOR MELAMED In an interview with THE FIGHT Robert E. Blackmon, a fixture in the Los Angeles gay leather community, reveals Read more

The City | 09.14

  HUGE TURNOUT FOR OC LGBT PRIDE Thousands turned up to for Orange County Pride 2014—some say the largest turnout to date, which took place last month in Downtown Santa Ana.  The festival offered plenty of booths that featured youth Read more

The Epidemic | 09.14

DETECTING THE VIRUS SOONER New HIV testing guidelines for laboratories could detect HIV weeks earlier than before. BY VICTOR MELAMED Roughly half of the 50,000 new HIV infections each year are transmitted by those who don’t know they are carrying Read more

The Final Fight | 09.14

To PrEP Or Not To PrEP? As someone who is both black and gay, I’m in one of the highest-risk categories for HIV infection… so why am I so wary about PrEP? BY ROB SMITH The specter of HIV infection Read more

The Law | 09.14

WAITING FOR JUSTICE The vast majority of individuals, who are not members of the legal profession, are not aware of the increasing level of injustice that has emptied from the state of California’s civil judiciary system. BY DAVID HAKIMFAR In Read more

The State | 09.14

BRYAN HIGGINS ALLEGED HATE CRIME DEATH IN SF Bryan Higgins, 31, a gay San Francisco man known as Feather Lynn, was taken off life support last month, after being found unconscious in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle neighborhood on Aug. 10. Read more