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10 Reasons Halloween is the Best Queer Holiday

November 1, 2018

November 1, 2018

The memories of yesterday’s Halloween chaos recede to the back of your mind, much like the migraine creeping up the...

GAY L.A. – How Lesbian Filmmaker Dorothy Arzner Transformed Filmmaking

October 29, 2018

October 29, 2018

During a time when filmmaking was all about grit, the all-but-out Arzner rose to the top. Early Hollywood was full...

Long, Dark History of West Hollywood’s Barney Beanery Against the LGBTQ+ Community

October 25, 2018

October 25, 2018

“Fagots Stay Out,” a misspelled sign over the bar at Barney’s Beanery in West Hollywood read since the 1940s. The...

Social Groups and Sororities United the L.A. Trans Community of the 1960s

October 24, 2018

October 24, 2018

Imagine body dysphoria prior to the 1950s and ‘60s – No support, no rights. Heck, the term “transgender” didn’t even...

When Flowers BLOOM; WeHo Selects Queer Publication Founder as Poet Laureate

October 17, 2018

October 17, 2018

Founder and editor of LGBT literary magazine BLOOM, Charles Flowers is the new City of West Hollywood Poet Laureate. The...

Assless Chaps and other Leather Paraphernalia; How a WWII Era Biker Club Revolutionized the Gay Community

October 16, 2018

October 16, 2018

A group of mostly gay veterans who remained in Los Angeles after WWII created the Satyrs Motorcycle Club in 1954....

A War on Cross-Dressing: Los Angeles’ Anti-Masquerading Ordinance of 1889 Targeted the Growing Queer Population of Los Angeles

October 15, 2018

October 15, 2018

A little over a hundred years after the City of Los Angeles was founded, the Anti-Masquerading Ordinance of 1889 was...

The Founding Folk of L.A. Were LGBTQ-Friendly, Celebrated “Two-Spirited” Tribe Members

October 10, 2018

October 10, 2018

LGBTQ+ history in Los Angeles begins well before Los Angeles even existed. Before colonial settlers took over in 1781, L.A....

Postcard from Long Beach Pride

June 11, 2018

June 11, 2018

The Long Beach Pride festival kicked off Pride month.

When They Go Low, We Go High (Fashion)

August 15, 2017

August 15, 2017 132

Amnesty International, in collaboration with Scoop Models and Won Hundred, are standing up to Chechnya’s oppression of gay men.