October 16, 2024 The Newspaper Serving LGBT Los Angeles

Author: Karen Ocamb


APLA Co-Founder Matt Redman remembered at WeHo memorial

February 20, 2017

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Matt Redman, who co-founded AIDS Project Los Angeles in 1982 with Nancy Cole Sawaya, Ervin Munro and Max Drew, was...

Gay Ex-Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet charged with corruption

February 17, 2017

February 17, 2017 190

BY KAREN OCAMB | The long Palm Spring sun seems to be setting on Steve Pougnet, the one-time fair-haired gay politico...

Gay author, historian Stuart Timmons dead at 60

January 28, 2017

January 28, 2017 574

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Author, historian, gay activist Stuart Timmons died Saturday morning at the Serrano North Convalescent Hospital in...

CHIRLA Seeks Extras for ‘Know Your Rights’ Video

January 28, 2017

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KAREN OCAMB | The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), a 30-year old Los Angeles-based social justice...

CDC Cancels LGBT Youth Healthcare Summit, Despite High HIV Rates

January 26, 2017

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Progressives are still finding their footing since unpredictable but vengeful Donald Trump was inaugurated as the...

Women’s March draws estimated 4 million worldwide…but does it matter?

January 22, 2017

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |   The Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles swelled so significantly on Saturday, the jubilant crowd...

Women’s March in Los Angeles on Saturday

January 20, 2017

January 20, 2017 214

BY KAREN OCAMB |  The day after one of the darkest inaugural addresses in American history, women and their allies...

UPDATED: Trump Inauguration marred by dark rhetoric, rain and protests

January 20, 2017

January 20, 2017 124

BY KAREN OCAMB  |   The Etch-a-Sketch of history shook the American consciousness and seemed to instantly erase LGBT visibility...

Thank You, Meryl Streep – from an LGBT journalist

January 9, 2017

January 9, 2017 165

  BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Like so many in the audience at the Golden Globes Sunday night, I held my breath...

Eric Bauman to CA LGBTs: Democrats have your back but get engaged

January 6, 2017

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  First Lady Michelle Obama choked up delivering her final message to young people from the White...