Gay

PRIDE AT THE FOWLER – ARCHIVING GAY HISTORY

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The Fowler, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and ONE Archives at USC are proud to co-present a program in honor of Pride, focusing on the work of contemporary artist Sadie Barnette and filmmaker Whitney Skauge at the intersection of art, archives, and anti-erasure efforts. Recent celebrated projects by Barnette and Skauge feature archival content about the lives of two gay Black activists—the 1992 presidential candidate Terence Alan Smith, aka Joan Jett Blakk, and Black Panther Party member Rodney Barnette, who established the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco—who fought against political oppression and advocated for the safety of their community at the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 90s. 
Website Link
fowler.ucla.edu/events/pride-at-the-fowler-archiving-gay-history
Event Date
Event Location

Fowler Museum – Online
CA 90095
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.070264, -118.4440562

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
3108253237
Event ID
10388523
Event Main Image

DAYS OF RAGE, MULTIMEDIA EXHIBIT ON ACTIVIST POSTERS

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Days of Rage is a web exhibition that enlivens historical activist posters through analysis and storytelling. Grounded in the experiences of activists and graphic designers, the exhibition positions LGBTQ+ graphic design as embodied in community realities and histories, producing subjective reflections on the interdependence of design and activism.  
Website Link
daysofrage.onearchives.org
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming – One Archives at the USC libraries
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

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Fee Required
Yes
Contact Phone
213.821.2771
Event ID
10388645
Event Main Image

OUTMUSEUM

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The OutMuseum is the first LGBTQ+ arts and media virtual museum available free to the public. Home to a combination of rotating and permanent exhibits centering themes, identities, and experiences which celebrate and commemorate the queer and trans communities. Through short film collections, panels and roundtables, oral histories, and other multimedia within our exhibits, this space can foster discussions, increase access to art and information, and, most importantly, speak to histories regularly omitted from the record. Because what is history if not storytelling?
Website Link
watch.eventive.org/outmuseum
Event Date
Event Location

OutMuseum
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10388767
Event Main Image

Robert Mapplethorpe Papers and Photographs Archive

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The archive is now available to researchers. It spans the artist’s career from his student days at Pratt Institute in the 1960s through his more well-known photographs from the 1980s. The archive includes sculpture and assemblages, collages, cut-outs, early drawings and paintings, Polaroids, and examples of large-format photographic prints of flowers, portraits, nudes, and sadomasochistic subjects.
Website Link
getty.edu/research/collections/collection/113Y6W
Event Date
Event Location

Online at the Getty Center
United States

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.440.7300
Event ID
10388885
Event Main Image

Best. Dad. NEVER.

Event Type
Theater
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
After years fearing he’d never be a father, gay Armenian-American Haig “Hike” Chahinian became the happiest dad of a bouncing Black biracial baby girl. Seeking to be the best Janelle Monáe-listening, Black Girl Magic-supporting, antiracist papa ever, he instead stumbles through the humbling and oft-hilarious fumbles of fatherhood in multiracial America.   Inspired by his viral essays in New York Times Modern Love, Cosmopolitan, and O The Oprah Magazine, Best. Dad. NEVER. is searing, intimate, richly relatable comedic storytelling about what we inherit, what we pass down, and the inherent conflict in striving to be good.  
Website Link
hollywoodfringe.org/projects/11548
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Hudson Theatres
6539 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
United States

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Event ID
10389175
Event Main Image

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Film Festival – LGBTQ+ Cinema

Event Type
Film
Theater
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Each monthly festival presents screenings of shorts, documentaries and feature films that have been submitted from all over the world. All of the programs are followed by a Q&A with each filmmaker. The program also offers a special reception so the audience can meet the filmmakers and incredible talent involved, while also networking with industry professionals.
Website Link
newfilmmakersla.com/events
Event Date
-
Event Location

South Park Center
1139 S. Hill St.
Los Angeles, 90015
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0390574, -118.2611996

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
$10 – $30
Contact Phone
323-521-7385
Event ID
142431
Event Main Image

NFMLA June Monthly Film Festival | InFocus: LGBTQ+ Cinema

Event Type
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) hosts its June Monthly Film Festival dedicated to its celebration of its annual InFocus: LGBTQ+ Cinema program. The day consists of three InFocus: LGBTQ+ shorts programs showcasing a diverse range of exciting work from emerging LGBTQ+ creators.

NFMLA showcases films by filmmakers of all backgrounds throughout the year, across both our general and InFocus programming. All filmmakers are welcome and encouraged to submit their projects for consideration for upcoming NFMLA Festivals, regardless of the schedule for InFocus programming, which celebrates representation by spotlighting various communities of filmmakers as part of the NFMLA Monthly Film Festival. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The South Park Center is an ADA compliant venue and is wheelchair accessible. We request captioned films from all filmmakers participating at our Festival. For any accessibility needs, please send a request to info@nfmla.org at least 72 hours prior to the event.

Website Link
https://nfmlajune2025.eventive.org/welcome
Event Date
-
Event Location

South Park Center
1139 S. Hill St.
Los Angeles, 90015
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0390574, -118.2611996

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Please click the link for ticket prices
Contact Phone
323-521-7385
Event ID
142562
Event Main Image

DRAG STORY HOUR

Event Type
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Drag Story Hour is exactly what it sounds like: drag queens reading progressive children’s literature to kids of all ages. Drag queens bring humor, play, glamour, and fantasy—all qualities that delight children and entertain adults as well. Simple, glittery crafts are provided, and post-storytime photos with the Queen are encouraged.
Website Link
go.weho.org/dragstoryhour
Event Date
-
Event Location

West Hollywood Library
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0816776, -118.384269

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.652.5340
Event ID
142781
Event Main Image

Sacred+Seen: Queer Lives at the Intersections

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This powerful exhibition illuminates the vibrant yet complex stories of Black and Brown queer individuals in South LA as they navigate race, culture, and religion. Through stunning works by local artists Anthony Lee Pittman, Chi (Mars) Azinge, Marie-José Njoku-Obi, and Willie Thomas, Sacred+Seen captures the tension between self-expression and the expectations of faith, culture, and tradition.
Website Link
comptonmuseum.org
Event Date
-
Event Location

Compton Art & History Museum
306 W Compton Blvd #104
Compton, 90220
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.8953806, -118.2267568

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.554.4429
Event ID
10386342
Event Main Image

Expansive Presentation of Roy Lichtenstein

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
An in-depth installation of Roy Lichtenstein features 22 artworks, with nearly half on view for the first time, including Purist Still Life(1975), Female Figure (1979), Two Paintings: Radiator and Folded Sheets (1984), and Nude with Pyramid (1994). An outcome of sustained and ongoing engagement with artists and artwork, the Broad collection is distinctive in its exceptional dedication to the full arc of artists’ careers.
Website Link
thebroad.org/art/featured-installations/
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Broad
221 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0544714, -118.2505584

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
(213) 232-6200
Event ID
10386478
Event Main Image
Gay