December 19, 2024 The Newspaper Serving LGBT Los Angeles

Category: HISTORY


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: Michael Weinstein

June 8, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Michael Weinstein is an AIDS activist. Full stop. He exercises his activist muscle as the co-founder...

AIDS @ 35: Dr. Michael Gottlieb and the Early Years of AIDS

June 6, 2016

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BY KAREN OCAMB | On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control published an article entitled “Pneumocystis Pneumonia” written...

Gay and lesbian candidates for your Supreme Court pick, Mr. President

February 18, 2016

February 18, 2016

BY TROY MASTERS & ANGELO CASIANO  | President Obama says he plans to pick a Supreme Court nominee to replace...

Jeanne Córdova, pioneering lesbian activist & author, dies

January 14, 2016

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BY  RIESE  | Jeanne Córdova, the legendary lesbian activist, publisher, and writer, passed away early Sunday morning at the age of...

Part One of a brief history of AIDS in L.A.

November 23, 2015

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BY WES JOE  |  December 2nd.  World AIDS Day.  Thirty-four years of epidemic. In 1981 Michael Gottlieb was a young...

Salt Lake City embraces LGBT candidates for Mayor and City Council

November 5, 2015

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BY TROY MASTERS  |  Salt Lake City, Utah voters appear to have elected former state legislator Jackie Biskupski as the...

From Stonewall to the White House, and activist to author

October 22, 2015

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BY JEN COLLETTA  |  “I’m standing across the street from Stonewall in Sheridan Square. Here I was, an 18-year-old kid...