When I tell people that Los Angeles is home to the world’s largest LGBTQ+ organization, I’m often met with surprise. Many assume that title belongs to one of our national partners. What is it that sets the Los Angeles LGBT Center apart? Our people and our city.
From the Cooper Do-nuts Riot of the 1960s, a courageous act of resistance predating Stonewall by a decade, to the opening of the Center’s intergenerational Anita May Rosenstein Campus in 2019, Los Angeles has been at the vanguard of our liberation since its genesis. Our movement’s progress is inextricably linked to the Center’s growing impact in our home city and beyond—all made possible by the people who drive our mission forward.
Our founders’ radical vision understood that equality, justice, and acceptance could only be achieved if everyone had access to their most basic needs. And for more than 50 years, our people have carried that vision forward: Donors who invest in our work, volunteers who give of their time to expand our impact, and, of course, staff and board members who work tirelessly to keep the programs and services of the Center open every single day of the year.
In my time as CEO, I’ve come to realize that the Center community is like none other. That’s why this special edition of our zine is titled “Our People, Our City.” Within these pages, you’ll find the story of the Center told through the people engaged in our work, from our Hollywood headquarters to beaming community sites in Boyle Heights, South LA, and more.
Flip through a digital version of the zine below, and to help expand our impact, peruse our Holiday Gift Catalog, a lovingly curated collection of our clients’ most in-demand needs to add to your list this season.
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