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 with this joyous choral and mariachi concert featuring Trans Chorus of Los Angeles (TCLA) and Mariachi Arco•Iris de Los Angeles. Through the transformative power of music, this unforgettable collaboration will honor the contributions of the Trans community and advocate for a world where all gender identities are respected. Our music […]
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 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 the Los […]
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 […]
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 […]
Intersex Awareness Day, observed annually on October 26, marks a crucial moment for visibility and advocacy in the intersex community. The tradition began in 1996, commemorating the first public demonstration by intersex activists in Boston, which aimed to challenge harmful medical practices and the erasure of intersex people. Today, the day serves as a platform […]
On October 20, the Los Angeles LGBT Center hosted its 32nd annual Models of Pride festival, transforming the Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood into a vibrant space for LGBTQ+ youth, families, and allies. Presented by BMO, this year’s event welcomed over 600 attendees for a day packed with workshops, performances, and awards that celebrated […]
Every year we gather to honor and remember the lives of transgender & gender-expansive folx whose lives have been senselessly lost to anti-trans violence. This in-person event will include TGI community speakers, performances by Street Poets Inc. & Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. The evening will conclude with us paying tribute to those who are […]
