On Sunday, the Los Angeles LGBT Center celebrated LA Pride alongside more than 150 staff members, volunteers, supporters, and our Pride partners at OUAI, proudly carrying our message through the streets of Hollywood: Love Lives Here.
The contingent was accompanied by a chrome-wrapped double-decker bus carrying Center clients, many of whom reside in Center housing for LGBTQ+ youth and seniors. Marchers carried posters bearing phrases like “Hate Has No Home Here,” “Say No to Fascism,” and “My Body, My Choice,” highlighting the breadth of the Center’s advocacy work on behalf of LGBTQ+ communities of all backgrounds.
The Center’s roots trace back to the very beginning of the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement and are inextricably intertwined with the Pride celebrations we know today—including the LA Pride Parade. The very first parade in Los Angeles, organized in 1970, began on McCadden Place, just a few blocks from the Center’s present-day headquarters at the Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood. Morris Kight, one of the Center’s founders, was among the organizers.
The Center’s founders were visionary leaders who understood the importance of both providing care through institutions like the original Liberation House and making our lives visible through public celebration and protest. Those twin pillars of our movement remain central to the Center’s mission today as they were decades ago.
In addition to providing direct services like housing, healthcare, mental health care, legal services, and more, the Center continues to champion LGBTQ+ visibility each year at LA Pride and Pride events across Los Angeles.
Check out images by photographer Josh La Cour from the 56th Annual LA Pride Parade below, and learn more about our 2026 Pride campaign here.
