Easter Sunday Brings Thousands to Drag March in West Hollywood
Instead of looking for colorful Easter eggs, thousands of LGBTQ+ allies displayed their Pride colors and marched in opposition to anti-LGBTQ+ laws.
April 10, 2023
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Instead of looking for colorful Easter eggs, thousands of LGBTQ+ allies displayed their Pride colors and marched in opposition to anti-LGBTQ+ laws.
The crowd at West Hollywood Park on Friday celebrated the Supreme Court's historic decision. Here's what they say brought them there.
Protesters will fill the street in West Hollywood this year.
Alexei Romanoff helped organize the 1967 protests of a police raid on the Los Angeles gay bar.
It's hard to imagine two more all-American boys than Brian Laswell, 34, and Andrew Farris, 36. Together a dozen years, they first met in Indiana when a mutual friend introduced them. They were each other's first relationship.
Thousands marched on Santa Monica Boulevard.
The concept was simple and straightforward: Much like the Day Without an Immigrant march and strike of 2006, Wednesday, December 10, was supposed to be a Day Without a Gay -- a strike in response to the passing of California's Prop. 8. Despite dedicated volunteer work and a well-intentioned mission statement, by most accounts, it failed.
The West Coast celebration remembered Los Angeles's own place in the history and future of the LGBTQ movement.
The 25th anniversary events bring together Tony-nominated cabaret star Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, 12 Lambda award finalists (T Cooper, Richard Kramer, Ryka Aoki, and more), and Los Angeles literary pioneers Malcolm Boyd, Lillian Faderman, Katherine V. Forrest, John Rechy, and Patricia Nell Warren.
The first meeting of performance artist Joan Spitler and filmmaker Leigh Grode was right out of a romantic comedy. It was 1993, during the Los Angeles gay and lesbian film festival Out on the Screen. Spitler, a lissome redhead, was sitting alone in the festival's cafe when a tall, butch, and handsome stranger walked in.