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Credit Card Debt: Problems, Fixes, and Prevention
Credit Card Debt: Problems, Fixes, and Prevention

Credit Card Debt: Problems, Fixes, and Prevention

America’s outstanding credit card debt topped $930 billion in 2019, according to the statistics from the Federal Reserve. On a practical level, the average indebted household owes more than $8,000, the highest amount since the start of the Great Recession.

Save Our Bars – The Phoenix Bar and Lounge
Save Our Bars – The Phoenix Bar and Lounge

Save Our Bars – The Phoenix Bar and Lounge

The cultural, historical, and community impact of LGBTQ+ bars (gay bars) cannot be overstated. As the COVID-19 global pandemic has left us isolated, thick in the thighs, and more anxious than ever, we are issuing a call to action: Save Our Bars.

ClexaCon 2021
ClexaCon 2021

ClexaCon 2021

The first and largest multi-fandom event for LGBTQ+ women and allies, ClexaCon, brings together thousands of diverse LGBTQ+ fans and content creators from around the globe in Las Vegas to celebrate positive representation in media.

Finding Common Ground
Finding Common Ground

Finding Common Ground

As Latoya Holman dares to have a vision and dreams for Nevadans and for our country in 2021, she is filled with energy, focus, and hope. Her vision for all of us? To embrace respect, learn with openness, focus on common ground, have empathy for others, and collaborate like our future depends on it.

The Center Adapts Programming
The Center Adapts Programming

The Center Adapts Programming

For nearly 30 years The Center has risen to the challenge of meeting the ever-changing needs of the LGBTQ+ community of Southern Nevada.

Crushing It with Kortney Olson
Crushing It with Kortney Olson

Crushing It with Kortney Olson

Kortney Olson is at it again. The CEO of the multi-million dollar GRRRL Clothing brand and certified badass is (still) on a mission to empower womxn and see diet culture burn.

PRIDE Explorer Series – She Fest, San Diego, CA
PRIDE Explorer Series – She Fest, San Diego, CA

PRIDE Explorer Series – She Fest, San Diego, CA

She Fest was founded in 2013 by community member Kelcie Kopf. “The convergence of two realizations led to: there was a scarcity of events that supported and encouraged community among women,” said Kopf.

HerStory Movement Presents HerJourney Retreat
HerStory Movement Presents HerJourney Retreat

HerStory Movement Presents HerJourney Retreat

Her voice, her story. The herstory movement has origins dating back to the 1970s and has evolved into a culture that is rewriting history to include women that were erased from history and their contributions.

You Are Not Alone
You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone

The pandemic will end and we will eventually return to a world that allows social activity. It is just going to take time. The reality is it still may be hard. But you are not alone.

WNBA League MVP A’ja Wilson
WNBA League MVP A’ja Wilson

WNBA League MVP A’ja Wilson

Las Vegas Aces Star, A'ja Wilson, talks social justice, the Wubble and adventures in quarantine cooking.

Justice Denied – The Death of Giovanni Melton
Justice Denied – The Death of Giovanni Melton

Justice Denied – The Death of Giovanni Melton

More than three years have passed since Wendell Melton shot and killed his 14-year-old son, Giovanni. And still, there has been no closure for his family as Melton faces charges including murder, felony possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and first-degree felony child abuse.

Telling Our Stories
Telling Our Stories

Telling Our Stories

What happens when you cross a black, lesbian, mother, warrior, and poet with racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia? The incomparable civil rights activist known as Audre Lorde. She described herself as those things and lived her life in the pursuit of having conversations about and confronting those social injustices.