Outside The EARL on a recent Sunday afternoon, people gathered at the mainstay in East Atlanta Village to drink beer and catch up with friends a sign of normalcy after a disruptive year brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
But inside, past all the rock music and still more glasses clinking at the bar, were two women seated in front of a banner that read “Don’t Run Call 911!”
They were greeting people and and ushering them into a silent back room for life-saving overdose prevention training.
With people returning in droves to nightlife scenes, bars have reported a wave of overdoses. Interventions such as this training are key to saving lives, say experts such as Dr. Sarah Febres-Cordero, who volunteers with Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition.
Concord needle exchange will start in July
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AC needle exchange may avoid shutdown by city
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NYC Pride announces grand marshals to lead march
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NYC Pride announced its grand marshals slated to lead the NYC Pride March on Sunday, June 27.
Wilson Cruz, Ceyenne Doroshow, Menaka Guruswamy, Arundhati Katju, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis and Aaron Philip will head this year s celebration.
The NYC Pride March broadcast special will return for its fifth consecutive year. Details how on to watch below.
Wilson Cruz stars as Dr. Hugh Culber on the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Discovery, which won a GLAAD award last year.
He appeared on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why and in Hulu s GLAAD Award-Winning series The Bravest Knight. He is also the Executive Producer of Visible: Out on Television airing on Apple TV+. Wilson became the first openly gay actor playing an openly gay role on series television for his role as Rickie Vasquez on the ABC series My So Called Life, a role for which he received the Emery S. Hetrick Award from the Hetrick-Martin Institute for Outstandin