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LA Pride Village is back and better than ever
Featuring two stages, two bars, and admission is FREE
LA Pride Village on Hollywood Boulevard, will kick off at 11AM, and go into the in advance evening. Now in its fourth year, our free street festival features programming on two stages, over vendors, exhibitors, sponsors and food choices, with exclusive giveaways and sampling.
ALASKA headlines Music Stage, with a viral duo, 76TH STREET, making their LA Identity debut, along with epic party people, Bears in Space, OtterPop, Laura Bryna, Ang, Julian King and FUTCH.
For the third straight year honoring the ballroom community for inventing voguing, we’re presenting an epic Battle, with three of LA&#;s premiere Houses.
Houses Miyake Mugler, Gorgeous Gucci, and Ninja will compete for fabulous prizes and trophies in four categories: Runway, Performance, Sex Siren, and Face.
Our recurring program Trans Galleria will have brand new exhibition called “Bring the T.” The show will film works in multiple media by trans artists that represent their expression of the
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For decades, West Hollywood has been dwelling to one of the largest annual Pride celebrations in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands of people. This year, WeHo Identity festival Weekend will accept place May 31 &#; June 2, with a host of activities, including the WeHo LGBTQ Arts Festival, OUTLOUD Raising Voices Tune Festival, WeHo Event Parade and many more.
West Hollywood is the epicenter of LGBTQ culture in Southern California, and is proud that more than 40% of the city’s population identifies as LGBTQ. Visitors will find 20 hotels, located in a safe, welcoming urban environment that was built on the needs and interests of the community.
For LGBTQ travelers, here’s a lot to love about West Hollywood, including one of the world’s most vibrant LGBTQ nightlife scenes, sleek designer hotels and easy access to the countless cultural and sightseeing landmarks in nearby Los Angeles.
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West Hollywood is bursting with LGBTQ-friendly restaurants, local coffee shops, indulgent day spas, sensational shopping and outstanding art galleries.
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One of the world’s leading lgbtq+ and lesbian destinations, Los Angeles is much more than a single metropolis — rather, it’s an entire collection of both sprawling and in many cases scenic neighborhoods and adjacent cities. It could take a full week just to visit even those areas with the greatest numbers of gay-popular businesses and residential blocks, including West Hollywood, Silver Lake, Hollywood, the San Fernando Valley, Santa Monica, Venice Beach, Beverly Hills, Westwood, and even the increasingly trendy downtown. The center of America’s show industry has a ton of great restaurants, hotels, and bars, and of course Universal Studios.
From West Hollywood to the San Fernando Valley, Silver Lake to the beaches, there’s plenty to text house about. Gay visitors will find hundreds of LGBT-specific sights, sounds, tastes and activities — and even more opportunities to construct new friends.
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The little but bustling city of West Hollywood is completely encircled by Los Angeles. A large propo
Searching for Silver Lake: the radical neighborhood that changed gay America
We are driving up an almost vertical hill in a hip Los Angeles neighborhood, looking for one of the birthplaces of the lgbtq+ civil rights movement. At the wheel is Roland Palencia, a gay activist who has lived and organized here for decades.
The Silver Lake Reservoir shines behind us, the hills around it crowded with bungalows. Silver Lake was once a Bohemian retreat, a neighborhood for artists and activists, and even, in the 40s and 50s, Communist party members. Now it’s impossible to buy the tiniest shack here for less than a million dollars.
The route dead ends at the bottom of a steep flight of concrete stairs. Immediately, it’s clear there is a problem.
“Where is the plaque?” Palencia asks. “The plaque was right here.”
The plaque in doubt commemorates the Mattachine Community, one of the first US “homophile” groups to openly advocate for acceptance. Palencia rolls down the car window and asks a man in Spanish if he knows where the sign has gone. Another man emerges and confirms that we’re in the r