From protts and paras to the hom of early gay rights activists, the Southland has played a key role.
Contents:
- GAY PRI
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- RERRIDO LA MANIFTACIóN L ORGULLO GAY L PRI BARCELONA 2023
GAY PRI
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The LA Pri Para starts at 11am on Sunday, June 11 Hollywood, at the se of the first permted gay para the world (back 1970). “There’s no greater reward than dog for the ltle Black gay boy who has someone to look up to now bee we didn’t have those people to look up to, ” says Phipps, reuntg a movg past experience where a preteen boy lled the duo his hero after seeg them perform. (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) Through the Freaky Boiz’s high-energy live performanc and slick raps over stmentals sure to make you dance, they’re rvg their own lane hip-hop and treatg dienc to mic that highlights Black gay joy, datg adventur and wo and empowerg antiexploatn bops tailor-ma for the digal age like “Cash App.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
”“They’re tryg to teach kids that beg gay is wrong and that’s phg 50 years backwards om the work of people who started the Pri para like Marsha P. Gay for Good is a muny-buildg anizatn that promot a better world through service projects such as park rtoratns, providg meals for the homels and volunteer work.
Gayfood. The Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel is a performg arts anizatn that mic as a form of munitn and bondg among the LGBTQ muny and Los Angel rints and guts. The Gay Men’s Chos will prent a ee “Pri Shg Through” virtual ncert 8 to 9 p.
Found 1997, the group ma s but as gut performers wh the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel.
RERRIDO LA MANIFTACIóN L ORGULLO GAY L PRI BARCELONA 2023
“Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir” by Brian BroomeThis but memoir follows Broome’s journey growg up as a gay Black man Oh durg the late 1970s and early 1980s. He addrs childhood trma and his experience wh racism and homophobia but manag to clu humor throughout his self-exploratn. “Lot: Stori” by Bryan WashgtonThe Hoton-born thor wrote a short-story llectn set his hometown that explor a fictnal narrator’s experience as the gay son of a Black mother and Lato father as well as the neighborhood and characters surroundg him.
The unrtold story of that May 1959 uprisg was one of several gaps that prompted Lillian Farman and Stuart Timmons to wre their 2009 book, “Gay L. ” The Mattache Steps on Cove Avenue Silver Lake near the former home of early gay activist Harry Hay. (Rirdo DeAratanha / Los Angel Tim) “We disvered that, historilly, more lbian and gay stutns started Los Angel than anywhere else on the pla, and that L.
’s multifaceted, multiracial, and multicultural lbian and gay activism ntu to have tremendo impact worldwi, ” they, Los Angel’ LGBTQ history is beg prerved by anizatns such as the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari and the June L.