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Ron Tackitt EDITOR [email protected] ARTS EDITOR Chris Narloch SALES Fred Palmer CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chris Allan Matthew Burlingame Emily Desanto Diana Kienle Chris Narloch PHOTOGRAPHY Charles Peer Ron Tackitt ON THE COVER Jeep’s new Gladiator Pickup Truck - On sale now! - DISTRIBUTION Kaye Crawford Michael Crawford ADVERTISING SALES Northern California (916) 329-9280 Fred Palmer National Advertising Representative Rivendell Media (212) 242-6863 Ted Ross, Inventor/Builder of Love Lab and Blake Flaugher. MPH/ UC Davis Health Specialist. The number of Sexually Transmitted When school’s in, the Love Lab serves Infections (STIs) continues to climb, about 85 students a day. “We have safe sex according to the California Department of products for everyone,” said Flaugher. “That’s Public Health. There’s an uptick is syphilis what we try to promote. Equality. We’re very affecting people age 20 to 29. Teenagers tend grateful to Capital City AIDS Fund.” to be contracting Chlamydia at a higher rate. Citing evidence-based research, Flaugher Health officials say the less informed, the says it’s vital to take condoms and sexual Outword Magazine Inc. less likely young people will get tested. They health information directly to the students. say youth often are skittish about buying Throughout the year, employees and student Office protection. That makes the Love Lab on the staff working with the Love Lab give away 372 Florin Road, #133 UC Davis campus an invaluable tool. nearly 100-thousand condoms annually. Sacramento, CA 95831 During the past decade, the Love Lab has Checking over the Love Lab, Ross said that given away nearly a million free condoms to the years have been kind to his sturdy PHONE: (916) 329-9280 students coupled with sexual health creation.” I can see those wheels have got FAX: (916) 498-8445 information. “We know STIs are on the rise some miles on them,” said Ross. “But they www.outwordmagazine.com in general,” said UCD Health Promotion have some time left on them.” [email protected] Specialist Blake Flaugher, MPH. “What I Ross was visiting the Love Lab because really like about the Love Lab is that it’s a Sacramento State University may now be ISSN # 1084-7618 United States Library of Congress rolling billboard promoting sexual health.” interested in something similar. And yes, it The Love Lab was designed and donated will be built and donated by CCAF. If all Nat. Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce by Capital City AIDS Fund (CCAF). Board goes well, Sac State will have a cart by the Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Member Ted Ross, who invented and built end of fall. Nat. Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association the cart, recently visited the Love Lab on the “As a rule, people absolutely love it,” said UCD campus. He and Flaugher examined Flaugher. “Like any sexual health initiative, the cart for wear and tear and by all at first, it may be met with mixed reaction. appearances, the cart has held up Then as people become more comfortable remarkably well. with it, they absolutely love it.” 4 Outword Magazine July 11, 2019 - July 25, 2019 • No. 628 outwordmagazine.com guest commentary Corporate Pride by Kevin Knauss ow do you know it is Pride month? When you see corporate ads in your Facebook newsfeed that include a Hrainbow in the background. The LGBTQ+ community is a demographic group that is now embraced and targeted by corporate America. Is this a bad thing? Some people think so, but it cuts both ways. Since I have played around with Facebook, plain bottled water, to corporate greed. I’m and other online advertising, I can attest that unsure if this arrangement was to help the these social media platforms are very good at vendor of alcoholic beverages or just a bad allowing advertisers to target discreet organizational choice that restricted easy access demographic groups.