Ka’li Love and Bushy Meadows (aka Victoria) are doing something no straight couple has ever done before in America: selling their sexual services at a legal brothel. Last year, the engaged couple travelled from Portland to Nevada to work at Bella’s Hacienda Ranch in the tiny town of Wells (pop. 1,244). Clients can hire Ka’li or Bushy Meadows separately or as a package deal.

Despite the success of shows like “Heated Rivalry” and “Euphoria,” seeing queer people on screen is still rare. Only 9.3% of characters on American TV screens were identified as LGBTQ+ in the 2024-25 season.

The members of the United Brothel Workers are in the fight of their lives.

Nevada’s brothels have maintained a sturdy business model since their legalization in the 1970s. We dive into their policies and regulations.

Nevada has earned an F grade in protections for human trafficking survivors on a report card prepared by the Polaris Project advocacy organization. Senate Concurrent Resolution 3, passed during the special legislation session in November, mandates state lawmakers to conduct an interim study on human trafficking and offer policies that could be taken up in the 2027 Legislation Session.

Like it or not, we “vote” with our dollars. Here's how to make sense of a challenging economy and a deeply fraught political environment.

Nevada is the only state where people can legally purchase sex, and now sex workers at one of the state’s oldest brothels are fighting to become the nation’s first to be unionized.

A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right.

Fatima Suarez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She specializes in gender, family dynamics, and Latinas/os/es in the United States. Over the past ten years, her research has focused on examining inequality in family life, particularly from the perspective of fathers.

A series of recent social media posts from the Trump administration’s official government accounts have echoed terminology used by far-right extremists, experts said, adding that the posts offer no doubt that they are references to white supremacist rhetoric.

The moral policing of prostitution ignores the real evidence that should guide Nevada policy.

As anti-ICE demonstrations continue to grow nationwide, a UNLV sociology professor, Dr. Robert Futrell, weighs in on how protests, demonstrations, or rallies can bring change. He says that change and how long the change can be seen is all relative.