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
10388520
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
10388642
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
10388764
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
10388882
Event Main Image

#Last Dance

Event Type
Theater
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
A show within a show where things get real once the makeup comes off. When queens are brought together for a memorial, the truth comes out about how they ended up in Los Angeles, how they feel about drag, each other, and themselves. It’s BOYS IN THE BAND meets TORCH SONG TRILOGY with a little PARIS IS BURNING thrown in! #LastDance makes audiences rethink what is behind the wigs, makeup, and heels, and discover they are people like them. June 4 – 7:00 pm June 11 – 10:30 pm June 18 – 1:00 pm June 23 – 7:30 pm June 24 – 8:30 pm
Website Link
hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4184
Event Date
-
Event Location

Asylum@McCadden
1187 N. McCadden Pl.
Los Angeles, 90038
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0925528, -118.3378126

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Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Check the website for ticket prices
Event ID
10389021
Event Main Image

Bird Circuit

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Bird Circuit explores themes of personal expression and identity through the rich symbolism of birds utilizing a queer-coded lens. The exhibition takes inspiration from the historical network of mid-20th-century bars in cities like New York and Los Angeles, where venues with bird-inspired names covertly signaled safety and solidarity as queer communal spaces at a time when self-expression was a dangerous pursuit.  
Website Link
vojislavradovanovic.com/single-post/bird-circuit-solo-exhibition
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery
California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0663797, -118.1684782

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10386206
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
10386339
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
10386475
Event Main Image

$3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
 $3 Bill celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ+ artists in the last century. From pioneers who explored sexual and gender identity in the first half of the 20th century, through the liberation movements and the horrors of the HIV/AIDS epidemics, to today’s more inclusive and expansive understanding of gender, $3 Bill presents a journey of resilience, pride, and beauty. Tuesdays – Thursdays & Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Fridays & Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Website Link
getty.edu/exhibitions
Event Date
-
Event Location

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0790007, -118.4751191

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310-440-7300
Event ID
10389130
Event Main Image

Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture” is an upcoming exhibition at Forest Lawn Museum that features the work of more than 20 contemporary artists and historical self-portraits. The exhibition probes the limits of self-portraiture and examines the concept of visually representing the self. “Persona” features paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, fused glass, textile art, illustrations, and more!
Website Link
forestlawn.com/exhibits/persona-exploring-self
Event Date
-
Event Location

Forest Lawn Museum
1712 S. Glendale Ave
Glendale, 91205
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1246616, -118.2515589

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10386230
Event Main Image
Gay