LGBTQ+ Pride

Through collective stories, the LGBTQ+ community reveals a great diversity of perspectives and experiences that make it rich and inspiring. After decades of fighting for freedom to love, live and be, there are still challenges to individual expression and identity. And even though we still can’t gather, the LGBTQ+ experience also reveals a wide range of examples of progress, acceptance and reasons to celebrate Pride at home and around the world.

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American Experience

Stonewall Uprising

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Artbound

Julio Salgado's Art Uplifts UndocuQueer Existence and Joy

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Cubiaton 2 Year Anniversary_1.jpeg

Article

Southland Sessions

Cumbiatón, a Safe Space for L.A.'s Queer and Latinx Communities, Grows Virtually

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To Be Gay in L.A.

"PROBE Summer of 1980" float at Los Angeles Christopher Street West pride parade, 1980. | ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

"PROBE Summer of 1980" float at Los Angeles Christopher Street West pride parade, 1980. | ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

Lost LA

50 Years of L.A. Pride, The World’s First Permitted Gay Pride Parade, in Posters

Left to right: John Platonia, Jim Kepner (moustache), Howard Fox (standing), June Herrle, Jim-Ed Thompson, Ralph Schaeffer, Morris Kight, Don Kilhefner (far right) and another person at the Gay Community Services Center, 1971. | Pat Rocco/USC Libraries

Left to right: John Platonia, Jim Kepner (moustache), Howard Fox (standing), June Herrle, Jim-Ed Thompson, Ralph Schaeffer, Morris Kight, Don Kilhefner (far right) and another person at the Gay Community Services Center, 1971. | Pat Rocco/USC Libraries

Lost LA

Calm and Comfort: ‘Liberation Houses’ of the 1970s Gave Homeless LGBTQ in L.A. Refuge

Lost LA

The Liberation of Griffith Park

Black Cat protests, 1967

Black Cat protests, 1967

Lost LA

LGBTQ Activism Started Here: L.A. and the Black Cat Protests of 1967

Two dozen supporters stand in front of the Gay Community Services Center, circa 1974

Two dozen supporters stand in front of the Gay Community Services Center, circa 1974

Lost LA

Financing Gay Liberation: How Local Government Supported LGBT Rights in 1970s Los Angeles

Advertisement in the 1980 Los Angeles edition of the Damron Guide

Advertisement in the 1980 Los Angeles edition of the Damron Guide

Lost LA

A Guide to Gay Los Angeles, 1965

Griffith Observatory in construction | Courtesy of Dick Whittington Photography Collection,1924-1987, University of Southern California Libraries

Griffith Observatory in construction | Courtesy of Dick Whittington Photography Collection,1924-1987, University of Southern California Libraries

Lost LA

Riots, Love Fests, Buried Secrets: Griffith Park's Hidden Histories

Dancing at Studio One in West Hollywood

Dancing at Studio One in West Hollywood

Lost LA

The Birth of Gay Urbanism in 1970s West Hollywood

Frontiers magazine

Frontiers magazine

Lost LA

From ONE to Frontiers, A Brief History of L.A.-Based LGBTQ Publications

Two streetcars pass at Sunset Junction, circa 1952. Courtesy of the Metro Transportation Library.

Two streetcars pass at Sunset Junction, circa 1952. Courtesy of the Metro Transportation Library.

Lost LA

A Brief History of Sunset Junction: Street Cars, Gay Rights and its Namesake Festival

Hudson House residents, 1982. This photograph captures both the diversity and the emotional impact of the pro- gram. In addition to receiving economic aid, many Hudson House residents remarked on the familial atmosphere of the program. ONE National Lesbia

Hudson House residents, 1982. This photograph captures both the diversity and the emotional impact of the pro- gram. In addition to receiving economic aid, many Hudson House residents remarked on the familial atmosphere of the program. ONE National Lesbia

Lost LA

Rethinking the "Era of Limits": Equitable Housing and Gay Liberation, and the Opening of the American Family

ONE magazine, volume 6, number 8 (1958 August). | Dawn Frederic, cover, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

ONE magazine, volume 6, number 8 (1958 August). | Dawn Frederic, cover, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

Sexual Equality: Los Angeles, the Military Industrial Complex, and the Gay Liberation Movement

From the Archives

American Experience

The First Gay Pride March

Washington Week

From the Vault: Gay Rights at the Supreme Court in 1996

American Experience

The Legacy of the Stonewall Riots

American Experience

The Dangers of Drag

Cover of ONE magazine, volume 5, number 5 (1957 May). | Elloree, Eve, cover, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

Cover of ONE magazine, volume 5, number 5 (1957 May). | Elloree, Eve, cover, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

Artbound

Exploring the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

PBS NewsHour

When the government could destroy your life for being gay

PBS NewsHour

Documenting gay rights activists at dawn of the movement

American Experience

What Was the Mattachine Society?

American Experience

Stonewall Uprising

Creative Expressions

Heidi Ewing Merges Narrative Film and Documentary in 'I Carry You With Me'

American Masters

Ballerina Boys

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tom-of-finland-physique-pictorial-logger

Artbound

Tom of Finland in Los Angeles

Link Voices

These Artists Reflect the Voices, Challenges, and Resiliency of Trans and Detained Immigrants

Cathedral City in the era of the Sven-Ska art colony with Mt. San Jacinto in background. | Courtesy of the Cathedral City Historical Society

Cathedral City in the era of the Sven-Ska art colony with Mt. San Jacinto in background. | Courtesy of the Cathedral City Historical Society

Artbound

The Lost Colony of Sven-Ska: Christina Lillian and the Cathedral City Artists

Aubrey Longley-Cook's "RuPaul Cross-Stitch Animation Frame 27" | Courtesy of the artist Queer Threads

Aubrey Longley-Cook's "RuPaul Cross-Stitch Animation Frame 27" | Courtesy of the artist Queer Threads

Artbound

This Isn't Your Grandma's Doiley: Queer Artists Work in Fiber

Cover of One magazine featuring "The homosexual villain" by Norman Mailer, 1955. | ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

Cover of One magazine featuring "The homosexual villain" by Norman Mailer, 1955. | ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

Lost LA

How 1950s LGBTQ Found Hope and Community in a Pioneering L.A. Magazine

Acid Betty | Courtesy of Voss Events

Acid Betty | Courtesy of Voss Events

Southland Sessions

How Drag Became a Modern Pop Art Movement

Artbound

Felipe Baeza Honors the Queer and Immigrant

PBS NewsHour

Gay Beiruti musician: Islamophobia harms the LGBT community

PBS NewsHour

How gay male dancers are preserving a Cambodian tradition

Sharon Hayes performs “In the Near Future” in 2009. | Courtesy of UCLA

Sharon Hayes performs “In the Near Future” in 2009. | Courtesy of UCLA

Southland Sessions

Words of Love and Protest with Artist Sharon Hayes

Jim Kepner | Courtesy of the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries.

Jim Kepner | Courtesy of the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries.

Artbound

Monomania L.A.: Jim Kepner and the Sanctuary of Sci-Fi

Artbound

Double Portraits: Kate Moldauer's Paintings of Lesbian Couples

The final toss during “D-Man in the Waters” performance. | Courtesy of Rosalynde LeBlanc

The final toss during “D-Man in the Waters” performance. | Courtesy of Rosalynde LeBlanc

Southland Sessions

What A 30-Year-Old Dance Can Teach Us About Coping with a Pandemic

Artbound

Julio Salgado's Art Uplifts UndocuQueer Existence and Joy

Community Love

The Shahadah(Declaration of Islam): There is no God but God. And Muhammad is God's Messenger I Photo: Jonathan Olivares

The Shahadah(Declaration of Islam): There is no God but God. And Muhammad is God's Messenger I Photo: Jonathan Olivares

Departures

Embracing Ramadan in the LGBTQ Muslim Community

Independent Lens

Two Spirits: The Changing Ones

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Departures

From Me to You: Dyke Day Builds Community in L.A.'s Eastside

A Vigilant Love rally gathers in the shape of a peace sign in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

A Vigilant Love rally gathers in the shape of a peace sign in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

Artbound

Vigilant Love Bonds Muslim and Japanese American Activists Together Through Art

Photo by Dino Dinco, from the series "Chico." (featured)

Photo by Dino Dinco, from the series "Chico." (featured)

Artbound

Loving and Partying at Chico: 'The Best Latino Gay Bar' in Montebello

PBS NewsHour

Spotlighting the black lesbian experience in South Africa

A Chicago Women's Health Center gala. The signs are words associated with CWHC's approach to health care | Courtesy of CWHC

A Chicago Women's Health Center gala. The signs are words associated with CWHC's approach to health care | Courtesy of CWHC

Artbound

This Radical Model of Health Care Empowers Women and Trans People

Frontline

Growing Up Trans

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Cubiaton 2 Year Anniversary_1.jpeg

Southland Sessions

Cumbiatón, a Safe Space for L.A.'s Queer and Latinx Communities, Grows Virtually