When I tell people that Los Angeles is home to the world’s largest LGBTQ+ organization, I’m often met with surprise. Many assume that title belongs to one of our national partners. What is it that sets the Los Angeles LGBT Center apart? Our people and our city. From the Cooper Do-nuts Riot of the 1960s, […]
Presented by Comcast-NBCUniversal-Telemundo and Waymo For the fifth year in a row, the Los Angeles LGBT Center bought together our youth and senior clients for an Intergenerational Thanksgiving celebration at the Anita May Rosenstein Campus. “This is my favorite event that we host each year because it gives us the opportunity to bring our whole […]
On a sweltering summer day during the height of the pandemic, I step outside of my apartment and melt into a protest in progress. As I march through the streets of Los Angeles in support of Black Lives, complex and illuminating memories flood my consciousness. Black Lives Matter and I’m white, queer and awakening to […]
On Saturday, Nov. 16, the Los Angeles LGBT Center once again teamed up with queer TV giant World of Wonder to host the annual Thanksgiving Lunch for LGBTQ+ youth. Guests were joined by the team behind MTV’s RuPaul’s Drag Race, as well as the iconic queens LaDon Amour Rochè and Symone for show stopping performances […]
Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility, community, and allyship with the world’s first LGBTQ+ Mariachi Band and America’s premier Trans-Identified chorus in this harmonious musical collaboration.
This ain’t your Amma’s Bollywood. Join Blue13’s raucous and beautiful dancers for a night of colorful, exhilarating Hindi film inspired and contemporary dance for TODAY. Rejecting archaic norms while elevating artistry and embodying radical joy, the ensemble titillates and disrupts, jumps and twirls, and ends the performance with a Bollywood dance party for all. Blue13 […]
Freeways is a musical evening with community spirit featuring Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Creative Partner Lara Downes, LACO musicians, and the LACO Fellowship. Find your Way to this inspiring event which aims to foster new connections and bring music into intimate and accessible spaces around Los Angeles. Freeways is the featured chamber music concert for […]
Quentos – a portmanteau of “Queer” and “Cuentos” (stories) – create culture, rituals, and traditions. Experience a curated series of new stories written by a cohort of community members and rooted in their personal histories. Join us as we celebrate the diverse prism of LGBT voices through these poetic and personal journeys onstage, led by […]
Three generations of candlemakers chase an impossible dream in the idyllic fictional city of Jien’Jenu: To create a candle that will last forever. This hilarious, heart-warming and emotional new musical explores passion, obsession, love, family, and the impossibly thin line between success and failure.
Experience a night dedicated to community through sharing works that explore the inner workings of living in bodies that differ from Heteropatriarchal standards. Artists will present: Queeriosity A Documentary? and Moe’s Vagina Talks. Prepare for an evening surrounded by community as we strive to see deeper into ourselves – and hopefully, in liberation – a […]
A powerful dance performance that centers the voices and experiences of Black Gay Men. Through a fusion of filmed interviews, live dance, and original music, we delve into themes of love, social injustice, religion, Black pride, and mental health. Join us in witnessing a profound exploration of diverse perspectives and shared experiences, presented through multiple […]
Queer. Southern. Creole… “Black Bastard” transports audiences to 1990s Houston in a humorous, heartfelt coming-of-age tale. Jon, an inquisitive Black boy, develops a love for literature until his family fractures, thrusting him into the role of “man of the house.” A comedic spiral ensues as Jon grapples with his identity(ies). When a bully confronts him […]
Join host Dennis Hensley and a panel of L.A.’s most love-starved comic minds for a rose-scented evening of pop culture skewering, R-rated game show hijinks and optional flirting. Whether you’re single, taken or finished with love forever, you’re going to want to swipe right on The MisMatch Game: All Thorned Up Edition…just watch out, or you […]
Joshua is fresh out of pastor’s college and delivering his first sermon to a conservative church in Southwest Virginia. This trial-run sermon will determine if he will join the church staff as an Associate Pastor, something he’s longed for his whole life. However, Joshua is queer, deeply closeted, and on the precipice of a mental […]
Step into a winter cabaret: Tony Abatemarco (The Lost & Found Trilogy) returns to sing songs & tell tales from a life well-lived in this musical journey arranged and accompanied by John Snow. Abatemarco – a veteran theatre artist and published playwright – continues his artist residency at the Los Angeles LGBT Center with this […]
Step into Lavender’s, a dazzling 1930s cabaret where the line between audience and performer blurs, and every moment pulses with life. The lights are low, the music is intoxicating, and secrets swirl in the air as Hollywood’s queer elite gathers for one extraordinary night. Under the magnetic allure of your enchanting emcee, Alla Nazimova, each […]
Join multidisciplinary performing artist Paul Outlaw and filmmakers Rebekah and Demetrëa Dewald inside their creative process in preparation for an experimental documentary film. TENTH (working title) will explore the ever-shifting cultural fabric of New York City’s 10th Street, a storied two-mile thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan. The film will interweave histories from the people that have […]
There are some stories they don’t want you to tell.People they’re hoping you’ll forget about.Ideas that, if expressed, could disrupt the power of [insert dominant culture here]. For as long as there have been books, there have been men in power trying to dictate which books are safe to share. From the Library at Alexandria […]
On Nov. 7, the Los Angeles LGBT Center hosted a post-election community space to process the results of the 2024 presidential election and the return of Donald Trump to the White House. “Yesterday, the majority of voters in this country re-elected the most dangerous president to ever occupy the White House,” said CEO Joe Hollendoner […]
