Policy & Advocacy TurnOut & Vote: 2024 Center Voting Guide This Voter Information Guide highlights the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s positions on important ballot measures.
Center Stories This Fall: McDonald/Wright Renovations to Add More Exam Rooms, Improve Patient Experience 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 […]
Center Stories LGBTQ+ Youth and Seniors Celebrate Completion of Education and Vocational Programs 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 […]
Policy & Advocacy TurnOut & Vote: 2024 Center Voting Guide This Voter Information Guide highlights the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s positions on important ballot measures.
Health & Wellness Mpox Was Just Declared a Global Emergency There’s no increased risk to the U.S. population, but a deadlier strain of the virus is currently impacting countries in Africa.
Center Stories Portraits of Pride: Center South Our location in South LA offers primary care, mental health, sexual health, trans health, and general services—plus support groups to bond in community.
Events Senior Prom Parties Under the Night Stars at L.A. Zoo The celebration was made possible by Angel City Football Club and Charlotte’s Web
Health & Wellness New Harm Reduction Vending Machine Provides Free Narcan and Fentanyl Test Strips Free access to Narcan and fentanyl testing strips are now available at the Center’s McDonald/Wright location in Hollywood.
Events ‘Juneteenth Is a Promise’: Patrisse Cullors on the Twin Goals of Queer Liberation and Abolition On June 19, 1865, the last enslaved people in the United States were declared free. But according to Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and author of An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World, that lofty goal—freedom for all people—still has not been met more than 150 years later. “Black […]
Events, Transgender Stories Gottmik at ‘24 Trans Pride LA: ‘Trans People Are the Most Magical People in the World’ “I feel like I have been in this very room watching panels very similar to this for as long as I can remember,” Gottmik said.
Events, Transgender Stories Trans Town Hall Takeover: Gottmik, Love Bailey, & Texas Isaiah Pack the Renberg Theatre “I think trans people are the most magical people in the world,” Gottmik said during the evening’s keynote conversation.
Events, Transgender Stories ‘Trans Pride Forever’: Celebrating 25 Years of Trans Pride LA Trans Pride LA celebrated its 25th anniversary this year with a two-day celebration, including the second annual Trans Town Hall.
Center Stories, Events Sweet Honey Buckin’: LGBTQ+ Youth Celebrate Their ‘Rodeo Renaissance’ at Youth Pride Prom Last month, the Center held its third annual Youth Pride Prom, giving its LGBTQ+ youth an opportunity to celebrate with friends and peers in a safe space. This year’s event bore the theme Rodeo Renaissance, a nod to Beyoncé’s hit albums, Renaissance and Cowboy Carter. Youth and clients took to the dancefloor in their most […]
Policy & Advocacy The Center Teams with Southwestern Law School to Launch Legal Clinic Assisting LGBTQ+ Asylum-Seekers The Los Angeles LGBT Center has teamed with Southwestern Law School to launch the Asylum Law Clinic, a new initiative to train the next generation of lawyers to dismantle barriers to asylum. The program will enlist four Southwestern Law School students to assist with asylum applications and other legal matters, including employment authorization documents, travel […]
Center Stories The Center Launches ‘We Are Family’ Pride PSA Featuring Jennifer Garner “Why fall for the hate when you could fall in love?” asks the Center’s “We Are Family” 2024 Pride campaign.
Center Stories, Events Symone, Mo Heart Dazzle at Center Gala After Party (Photos) Photographer Carlos Guevara captures the Center Gala After Party, featuring performances by Symone and Mo Heart.
Center Stories, Events 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.
Center Stories, Events 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.
Center Stories, Events 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.
Center Stories, Events 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.
Center Stories, Events 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.
