April 20, 2025 The Newspaper Serving LGBT Los Angeles

Category: HEALTH


Mac Wessels, 23, memorial service to be held in Palm Springs Feb. 24

February 8, 2017

February 8, 2017 833

BY SUSAN CANFORA and TROY MASTERS  |  News of Mac Wessels’ death struck deep into the heart of Los Angeles’ LGBT...

HHS Pick Price made ‘brazen’ stock trades while his committee was under scrutiny

February 7, 2017

February 7, 2017 764

BY MARISA TAYLOR and CHRISTINA JEWETT  |   Health and Human Services secretary nominee Tom Price showed little restraint in his personal stock...

Bill would amend CA’s HIV criminal statutes

February 3, 2017

February 3, 2017 189

Legislation to be introduced Monday would update California’s laws criminalizing HIV, which were adopted during the height of the AIDS...

CA State Sen. Toni Atkins & Scott Wiener propose non-binary gender option

January 27, 2017

January 27, 2017 163

BY TROY MASTERS  |  While gender politics evokes outrage among some of the nation’s Republican lawmakers and among many Trump...

CDC Cancels LGBT Youth Healthcare Summit, Despite High HIV Rates

January 26, 2017

January 26, 2017 230

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

Trump’s HHS pick favored drugmakers, device makers and doctors

January 23, 2017

January 23, 2017 122

BY CHRISTINA JEWETT AND MARISA TAYLOR  |   As Cabinet nominee Tom Price faces a Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday, a newly...

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...

AIDS drug assistance program hits a snag

January 18, 2017

January 18, 2017 152

California’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which is supposed to help thousands of people get the care they need to stay...

LGBT healthcare advocates brace for Obamacare repeal

January 18, 2017

January 18, 2017 160

BY MATTHEW S. BAJKO  |  Facing harassment at her old job, Sunnyvale resident Amy Krakar opted to quit last summer...

“F*uck w/out Fear” campaign raises awareness of PrEP

January 12, 2017

January 12, 2017 804

BY JEFF TAYLOR  |  While incredible progress has been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS since the early days of...