QVegas

05/27/2026

When Piranha Nightclub opened its doors in 2006, the corner of Paradise Road and Naples Drive was already legendary — but it was a legend mostly whispered among locals. The Fruit Loop, as the cluster of LGBTQ businesses had been informally called for decades, had been a refuge since the 1950s, when Club Black Magic first opened its doors and quietly became a gathering place for a community that had nowhere else to go. By the time Piranha cut the ribbon twenty years ago this month, generations of q***r Las Vegans had already laid the foundation with legends like Kenny Kerr. What Piranha brought to the block was scale, swagger, and a sound system that could be felt three rooms away — and a promise to honor what came before by going harder, louder, and prouder.

05/26/2026

Pour something cold, queue something up, and let us guide you through the gayest stretch of streaming we've had in months.

05/21/2026

05/18/2026

The duo behind QVegas is making it easier for every American to know exactly what's on their ballot — from U.S. Senate to school board.

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05/18/2026

Las Vegas Little Theatre is bringing fresh theatrical energy to the valley this month with the fully staged world premiere of *Love You Madly*, the winning play from LVLT's prestigious New Works Competition. Written by John McDonnell, the production runs May 15–24, 2026 in the intimate Fischer Black Box at LVLT's Schiff Drive home.

05/18/2026

There's a particular kind of restaurant that Las Vegas has long claimed to offer but rarely delivers — the kind where the food is genuinely the point, the staff actually lives here, and the pricing doesn't feel like a tax on your willingness to be somewhere glamorous. Braseria by EDO, which opened February 24, 2026, at The Collective on Paradise Road, is that restaurant. It is one of the most exciting openings this city has seen in years, and it isn't on the Strip.

05/13/2026

Every major Pride event. Every city. Updated continuously.

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05/13/2026

We Built the Health Tools You Couldn't Find Anywhere Else

The LGBTQ+ community has a complicated relationship with healthcare. Discrimination in clinical settings is documented and ongoing. Stigma around HIV, PrEP, gender-affirming care, and mental health keeps people from asking questions they need answered. Finding providers who are genuinely knowledgeable and affirming — not just tolerant — takes research that most people don't have time for and shouldn't have to do.

QVegas Wellness addresses this directly.

The app includes a private medication tracker. You log your medications — PrEP, HIV antiretrovirals, hormone therapy, mental health prescriptions, anything you take on a schedule — and the app tracks your doses, reminds you when to take them, and records your history. Missed doses matter in these regimens. The app keeps you on track.

Layered on top of that is an AI-powered drug interaction checker. When you add or update a medication, the system screens your full list for known interactions and flags anything that warrants attention. No personal identifying information is shared — only the medication names and dosages. The result is a private, immediate safety check of the kind that used to require a pharmacist, a willing doctor, or an uncomfortable internet search.

There's a health summary tool that lets you describe what you're experiencing and receive a plain-language analysis — again, AI-powered, again, private. It doesn't replace a doctor. It helps you walk into a doctor's office knowing what questions to ask, which is sometimes the hardest part.

The companion app for Apple Watch brings the most time-sensitive of these features to your wrist — medication reminders, dose logging, and mood check-ins without reaching for your phone. For anyone managing a daily PrEP or hormone therapy regimen, that frictionless reminder on your wrist is the difference between a habit and a missed dose.

The journal and mood tracker give you a private space to log how you're feeling over time — something therapists recommend and something the community has historically had to do in paper notebooks or apps built for a general audience that didn't understand why someone might be tracking their T levels alongside their mood score.

The wellness directory connects you to real providers and services in Las Vegas: clinics, testing sites, support groups, and organizations that have been vetted as LGBTQ+-competent and community-aligned.

Why It Matters Here

Las Vegas is a city that the LGBTQ+ community built, staffed, performed in, and loved for generations before it was fashionable to say so. QVegas has documented that history since 1978. The app is the next chapter: a tool that doesn't just tell you what's happening in the community, but helps you take care of yourself inside it.

Download QVegas on the App Store. It's free.

05/12/2026

Hey !

New updates to the QVegas App in the App Store.

We've improved the medication tracking. If you add medications that may have adverse reactions when taken together, at the wrong dosage, or even too many times in a day, the app will warn you. You'll also get notifications when it's time to take medication, and the new Live Activity interface lets you take or skip a dose right from the lock screen or dynamic island.

We added weight management tracking, as well! Whether your goal is to lose weight or bulk up, we'll help keep you on track.

You can also get your horoscopes delivered in daily notifications.

PLUS!!

The brand new Apple Watch companion app lets you manage medication tracking, do a quick mood check, find nearby affirming care, check your horoscope, or reach crisis hotlines.

Download or update today! Just search QVegas in the App Store!