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Inside the Los Angeles LGBT Center Gala with Cynthia Erivo, MUNA, and More (Photos)

Photographer Hunter Abrams shot the star-studded 2024 Center Gala, featuring Cynthia Erivo, Jada Pinkett Smith, and more.

Cynthia Erivo, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mickalene Thomas Center Gala 2024
Queer Joy Radiates at the Center Gala 2024: ‘Why Fall for Hate When You Could Fall in Love?’

Honorees Cynthia Erivo, Mickalene Thomas, and MUNA help raise more than $1.6 million at the annual Center Gala.

Joe Hollendoner Center Gala 2024
Cynthia Erivo, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lena Waithe, Zaya Wade, Jewel, MUNA, and More Help Los Angeles LGBT Center Raise $1.6M for Life-Saving Services

Cynthia Erivo, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lena Waithe, Zaya Wade, Jewel, MUNA, and More Help Los Angeles LGBT Center Raise $1.6M for Life-Saving Services –Mickalene Thomas and MUNA were also honored during the organization’s annual fundraising Gala.– Event Images | Getty for Los Angeles LGBT Center Arrivals | Photo Credit: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Inside | Photo Credit: Araya Doheny/GettyVideo […]

MUNA Performs with Jewel, Accepts Leslie Jordan Award at Center Gala

Center Gala 2024: The power pop trio MUNA was presented their award for achievement in the arts by singer-songwriter Jewel.

MUNA, Jewel Center Gala 2025
Cynthia Erivo Embraces Her Queerness at Center Gala: LGBTQ+ Youth ‘Need to See Me Speak Out’

Center Gala 2024: Wicked star Cynthia Erivo accepts the Schrader Award.

The Los Angeles LGBT Center
Mickalene Thomas Accepts Vanguard Award at Center Gala: ‘We All Have a Responsibility to Create Change’

Center Gala 2024: Thomas was honored alongside Wicked star Cynthia Erivo and pop trio MUNA.

Mickalene Thomas Center Gala
CEO Joe Hollendoner Shares LGBTQ+ Family Values at Center Gala

Center Gala 2024: “The love within our beautiful queer and trans family will ALWAYS blaze the trail forward.”

The Los Angeles LGBT Center
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Golden Hour: Inside the Center’s First Queer AANHPI Night Market (Photos)

In partnership with Mayumi Market, Golden Hour celebrates AANHPI Heritage Month at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

Los Angeles LGBT Center Golden Hour
The MisMatch Game: 20th Anniversary Celebration

Though it doesn’t look a day over 18, Dennis Hensley’s The MisMatch Game turns twenty this year…which is five years older than Snatch Game but who’s counting? Be there as we celebrate two decades of shameless celebrity-skewering and insatiable fundraising with a jam-packed, extra-special, one-night-only laugh-stravaganza! Featuring a super-sized celebrity panel, surprise guests, musical numbers […]

The MisMatch Game: 20th Anniversary Celebration
VOICES: A Summer Cabaret

The Trans Chorus of Los Angeles presents VOICES: A Summer Cabaret! Join us for a mesmerizing night of cabaret performances, featuring original and classic selections, poetry, and dance — all delivered in the distinct style that TCLA is known for within the TGI+ community.

Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular

Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular is an original theatrical experience about a queer closeted stuntman’s journey to discover himself in a world of faux masculinity, unmasking the importance and danger of being true to oneself. HAPPY FALL is based on true-life stories and direct testimonies, and illuminates issues of racial and cultural identity in […]

Tierra Indígena – Indigenous Land

Celebrating 10 years of bringing Mexican folklore to the L.A. LGBTQIA+ scene, Mariachi Arco•Iris de Los Angeles presents a new album and repertoire dedicated to the indigenous people of Mexico.

Mariachi Arco•Iris
Cercle Hermaphroditos

In 1895 New York, trans man Ambrose Carlton enters the Cercle Hermaphroditos, an underground social club for trans femmes. He has one goal in mind: to find a wife and true love, so they can play the roles expected of them in public while pursuing the life they want in private. But finding the proper […]

Cercle Hermaphroditos
Mi Centro Joins May Day March in Support of Worker Rights

“Standing up for the communities Mi Centro serves is important,” says program manager Caín Andrade.

May Day
Lesbian Visibility Week: The Women Who Fought (and Climbed) to Make the Center More Inclusive

Revisiting a piece of Los Angeles LGBT Center history for Lesbian Visibility week.

Gay Feminist 11 strike
“Care Should Never Feel Wrong”: How the Center Is Transforming Medical Care

I often refer to myself as a “professional lesbian.” I say it because it’s funny and everyone thinks that lesbians are buzzkills. But I also say it because it’s true. I bring that part of my identity into my work because there’s no way around it—my sexuality is inherent to who I am as a […]

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