Event Highlights: Panel Discussions: Featuring insightful conversations from a diverse panel of experts, artists, and advocates—including Alyssa Bolter, R.J. Aguiar, Ross Victory, and Jasmine Flores. Moderated by Brandon Burciaga, these discussions will focus on mental and sexual health, intersectionality, and the unique experiences of the Bi+ community. Resource Fair: Connect with local organizations, discover valuable resources, and engage with advocates in the fields of mental […]
The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s McDonald/Wright building will be undergoing renovations to create new patient areas, set to reopen in early 2025. The improvements to the historic building—which now houses the majority of the Center’s health care services—are funded by two capital improvement grants. The project will add four new exam rooms and two lab […]
Elated friends and family gathered at the Los Angeles LGBT Center to cheer on dozens of LGBTQ+ youth and senior clients as they marked their completion of education and vocational training programs to ready them to enter the workforce with valuable skills. “This graduation is a celebration,” said Kevin McCloskey, Director of Community-Based Programs. “We’re […]
This Voter Information Guide highlights the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s positions on important ballot measures.
On October 5th, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Second Annual Queerceañera returns for a celebration larger than ever! Spotlighting LA’s queer Latinx community, Queerce will once again offer a gender and expression-inclusive reimagining of the quinceañera tradition. Drag superstar Kandy Muse will be honored at the event, joining RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Salina EsTitties, who will preside as […]
There’s no increased risk to the U.S. population, but a deadlier strain of the virus is currently impacting countries in Africa.
BiP:DiP (Bodies in Play: Dance is Pleasure) is a performance party celebrating the intrinsic queerness and joy of dance and the playfulness of the moving body. The evening will present several LA-based dance artists showcasing their complex, messy, and beautiful love of physical expression. “Dance is an especially valuable site for ruminations on queerness and […]
Songs! Stories! Foul language! All inspired by late great jazz icon Sophie Tucker! Combining the pizzazz of Tucker’s risqué song catalog with raucous audience interaction, this cabaret-inspired show serves up the extraordinary life of one of the first adults-only female performers. Come enjoy the rollicking energy that made Tucker the most sought-after nightclub entertainer of […]
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 […]
For ten years, poet Brian Sonia-Wallace has been interviewing strangers to write them poems on a typewriter about their lives. In this one-hour, one-man show, he asks, “when did you start to live authentically?” and combines clowning with sacred reading practices to find out. It’s a dialogue with the audience through poetry about dreams and desires: the […]
Give yourself the gift of laughter this season with an evening of pre-Christmas yuk yuks, pop culture pop-offs and R-rated game show insanity. Don your gay apparel and join host Dennis Hensley and a panel of L.A.’s most twisted comic minds as they fill the Renberg with mirth and merriment…and maybe a musical number.
What’s this? WHAT’S THIS? There’s magic in the air!What’s this? There’s drag queens everywhere! On this very special holiday-season-Friday the 13th, we are going to MOUSE THE HOUSE DOWN! Join Los Angeles LGBT Center and Coin & Ghost — LA’s theatrical home for remixed mythologies — for this two-part performance event of epic proportions. ACT […]
It’s Trans Chorus LA’s second holiday show! Join TCLA for VOICES: A WINTER CABARET, a show of old holiday classics and new winter standards that are sure to bring audiences joys of mirth and merriment.
The sounds of Mariachi Arco•Iris de Los Angeles, the world’s first LGBTQ+ mariachi, come in full festive glory during a program of beautiful Navidad music. Join us for a joyous mariachi performance of traditional, modern, and classic Christmas and sacred music. Enjoy an offering of celebrated Navidad tunes by the incomparable Los Angeles Rainbow Mariachi.
From the creator of Latina Christmas Special, out comic Diana Yanez brings you her hilarious and personal first-generation American Christmas stories filled with quirky, spicy, and slightly scary holiday chaos. These entertaining tales of family quirks and festive mayhem will catapult you into the yuletide spirit!
The Los Angeles premiere of AN UNEXPECTED COMMUNITY, a documentary about the creation and success of Andrea Meyerson’s Women On The Net by Kathryn L Beranich. Q&A and hosted reception following screening. Film Synopsis In the early days of the pandemic, Andrea Meyerson, founder of Women On A Roll, launched Women On The Net, an […]
Celebrating New Works (CNW) is Celebration’s long-running new play reading series designed to shine a light on new and emerging voices within the LGBTQ+ community and the stories about/for them. Up next? Fauci and Kramer, a West Coast Premiere, one-night-only Staged Reading and Conversation with the playwright, Drew Fornarola. ABOUT FAUCI AND KRAMER “America’s Doctor” […]
It’s been a minute. Ages, even. SORORITY explores age, aging, age gaps, the passage of time, what things were like when we were young, and what things are like as we get older. Founded, curated, and hosted by playwright and director Gina Young, SORORITY started in 2016, as a late night k-hole for new short […]
