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Category: HISTORY


L.A.’s First Pride Parade, a Celebration Born From Strife

June 11, 2017

June 11, 2017 3,172

The Christopher Street West Parade, as it was initially named, had a rocky start.

Vice Versa: America’s First Lesbian Magazine, Made in Los Angeles

May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017 831

Before After Ellen, there was Vice Versa

Getting Down in Griffith Park: A History

May 1, 2017

May 1, 2017 3,676

The Griffith Park Gay-In was a long time coming

L.A.’s Long, Storied History of Chicks on Bikes

April 14, 2017

April 14, 2017 156

An East LA biker crew calls back to California’s rebellious roots

On Purim and Coming Out

March 13, 2017

March 13, 2017 768

On March 12, Jews will celebrate a holiday called Purim by reading the story told in the Scroll of Esther....

‘When We Rise’ chronicles gay history

February 23, 2017

February 23, 2017 163

Starting Feb. 27, ABC will begin airing “When We Rise,” a seven-part, eight-hour miniseries about the history of the gay...

WORLD AIDS DAY: Common stitch of the AIDS Quilt and Rainbow flag, Cleve Jones

November 30, 2016

November 30, 2016 4,479

BY BRIAN BROMBERGER   |  It’s not an exaggeration to say that longtime gay activist Cleve Jones has been involved...

HISTORY: Remembering 1973s “Up Stairs Lounge” in New Orleans, the massacre before Orlando

October 24, 2016

October 24, 2016 352

BY PAIGE COOPERSTEIN  |   Several dozen Metropolitan Community Church congregants clinked glasses and chatted on the night of June 24,...

Endorsement: Hillary Clinton makes her own best case for why you should vote for her

October 6, 2016

October 6, 2016 336

BY TROY MASTERS  |  The Pride Los Angeles is pleased to endorse Hillary Clinton for President of the United States...

Mark Thompson, Author, Photographer, Historian, Friend Dies at 63 (UPDATED)

August 13, 2016

August 13, 2016 835

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  UPDATED  |  Mark Thompson, photographer and author of several books on gay spirituality and the history...