April 24, 2024 The Newspaper Serving LGBT Los Angeles

Author: Karen Ocamb


19 Year Old Kyra Fox Responds to Orlando in Spoken-Word Video

June 15, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  19 year old Kyra Fox wrote, edited and produced a spoken-word video entitled “Authentic Love” in...

Supervisor Kuehl, LGBT County Leaders Call for End to Bigotry

June 14, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  | Out Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl has spent a lifetime fighting bigotry, most prominently perhaps when her...

LGBT communities hold Orlando vigils around the world

June 13, 2016

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Several hundred people gathered in the Paris on Monday evening for a “We Stand With Orlando” vigil in response to...

Pioneer: Jewel Thais-Williams

June 9, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Jewel Thais-Williams opened the famed Jewel’s Catch One Disco as a business venture during the economic...

Pioneer: David Mixner

June 8, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  There was a moment in time in the early 1990s when David Mixner was briefly considered...

Pioneer: Fred Karger

June 8, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  When he retired from his long career as a Republican political operative in 2004, Fred Karger...

Pioneer: Diane Abbitt

June 8, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Growing up, Diane Abbitt never expected “lesbian activist” to be on her resume. But in college...

Pioneer: Arthur Dong

June 8, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  In the early 1990s, KCET, then the PBS TV station in Los Angeles, featured a public...

Pioneer: Connie Norman

June 8, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  “That’s Big Red over there. The tall one with the red hair,” one of a gaggle...

Pioneer: Phill Wilson

June 8, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  “Our house is on fire,” Black AIDS Institute founder Phill Wilson proclaims at every opportunity.  He’s...