The Los Angeles LGBT Center is pleased to share three outstanding leaders who have been elected to join our Board of Directors: Scott Parra-Matthews, Jocelyn Loren, and Eric Shore. Our Board serves as the Center’s governing body: setting strategic direction, providing oversight and accountability, ensuring our long‑term fiscal health, and acting as trusted ambassadors for […]
Golden Hour is the Center’s annual community celebration honoring the intersection of queer identity and AANHPI heritage. This year, the event returns to The Village at Ed Gould Plaza with a vibrant night market experience by Mayumi Market. Inspired by the Chinese zodiac and the Year of the Fire Horse, this year’s event will center […]
For Dr. Amy Tressan, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s new director of gynecologic and reproductive health services, reproductive care is inseparable from primary care—because you can’t treat one part of a person without understanding them as a whole person. “Historically, gynecologic providers have often functioned as a separate entity,” Dr. Tressan says. But at the […]
“I used to be so frustrated by the idea of visibility,” says Cal Calamia (they/he), the transgender activist and marathon runner. “But over time, I’ve realized that visibility is actually one of the most transformational tools we have.” Being visible as a transgender athlete has allowed Calamia to help drive landmark advances for inclusivity in […]
Queer Fantasia! is an exploration of the world we want to live in and the fantasies we want to bring into being. Join us for wild cabaret performances, a community ritual, and the Los Angeles premiere of the short film SPIT ME OUT (a gay movie musical comedy western love story). This pride month, celebrate […]
What is embedded in you from your ancestors? What wounds have made you the luminous thing you are? Can you feel your joy as thrumming evidence of your survival? Utilizing audio recordings of oral family history & the wilderness of Tan’s homeland, the artist invites you on a tactile exploration of personhood across countries, timelines, […]
IN SESSION: Los Angeles is a free community gathering designed to connect the trans and gender-nonconforming community with trusted care, local resources, and one another. Hosted by the Gender Confirmation Center and Prosilio Care in partnership with Los Angeles LGBT Center, the day brings together affirming healthcare providers, nonprofits, and local organizations committed to real […]
As part of Women’s History Month, the Los Angeles LGBT Center invites you to Juice Box, our annual celebration honoring the creativity, leadership, and lived experiences of lesbian, bisexual, queer, and trans (LBQT) people—and all those who have experienced girlhood and womanhood in its many forms. This year, Juice Box returns as a special edition […]
A showcase of twelve short plays from the Brown & Out LGBT LatinXperience Playwrights Workshop. Now in its 8th season, BnO features new plays written by Latin@ writers from the LGBT community, conceived and workshopped in the 10-week playwriters course. To date, close to 100 new plays have been produced through this workshop & festival, […]
With humor and poise, Laura Stearns presents an inspiring story about taking on the systems of power. Co-created with Chuma Gault, These Things Happen is based on the landmark court case where Stearns exposed a notorious abuser, challenged the institution that protected him, and confronted the community that turned a blind eye. This one-person play […]
Winner of Best Solo Theatre and the Sydney Fringe Exchange at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe, QFWFQ is a labyrinthine reimagining of Italian post-modern author Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler and other works. It engages improvised music to explore Zionism, genocide in Gaza, trans identity and more. QFWFQ is a show that neither begins […]
BiP:DiP (Bodies in Play: Dance is Pleasure) is a dance and movement-based variety show, celebrating the body as a site for pleasure, connection, and queer resistance. The project was inspired by queer theorist and performance studies scholar José Esteban Muñoz who writes: “Dance is an especially valuable site for ruminations on queerness and gesture […] […]
A literal literary movement! Blue13’s dancing Book Club series dresses up pretty for the Los Angeles LGBT Center with interactive audience moments, text, fashion statements, and even a Bollywood disco party. The piece explores formative memories, lost love, and code switching–the pressure to tailor our speech, our dress, and our very selves to fit in. […]
Join a celebration and historic collaboration to commemorate Transgender Day of Visibility. Mariachi Arco•Iris de Los Angeles (The LA Rainbow Mariachi) joins forces with 2 other queer music ensembles in a powerhouse and emotional performance. This amazing collaboration includes 8TPS, a professional choral collective of trans and gender-expansive musicians in Southern California, as well as […]
On Monday, March 2, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, in partnership with Equality California, hosted a nonpartisan gubernatorial candidates forum focused on LGBTQ+ rights. The event marked one of the first major gubernatorial conversations centered on LGBTQ+ voters and the issues shaping California’s future. “At a time when LGBTQ+ people—especially transgender young people—are facing coordinated […]
Falling on Friday the 13th and the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, THE MISMATCH GAME: Bad Luck of the Irish Edition is doomed…to be hilarious! Tempt fate with host Dennis Hensley and his panel of beer-addled faux-lebrities for an evening of mad misfortune, blasphemous blarney, and at least one lewd leprechaun.
Don’t miss the next installment in the Acts of Coeurage cabaret series. Come celebrate spring (and maybe get lucky?) with your favorite bunch of joyful queer performers. Songs, games, goofs, and new ideas all blooming together into one show! What will you do to get lucky tonight??
