Lorri Jean, CEO of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, has been an activist since junior high, when she led a petition drive to allow girls at her school to wear pants. Later, at Georgetown University Law Center, she sued the school’s administration for not allowing LGBT groups on campus. In the midst of the suit, […]
Meet the First Drag Queen to Be Elected to Public Office in California
Maebe A. Girl, an L.A.-based drag queen known for her satirical impressions of Melania Trump, Betsy DeVos, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, recently became the first drag performer elected to public office in California. Maebe has been elected to the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, where she hopes to fight for the rights of the unhoused, protect […]
The L.A. LGBT Center’s New Campus Is Like a Miniature Queer City
A coterie of celebrities, public officials, and high-powered donors attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony and block party for the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s new digs in Hollywood on Sunday. The $141 million Anita May Rosenstein Campus is practically a miniature queer city, with 100 beds for homeless youth, a new senior center, and an academy. It […]
For Trans Angelenos, a Job Fair for Gender-Diverse People Can Be More Than a Place to Find Work
Peyton Ashby has never met another transgender person. On a Wednesday morning, she sets out across a room of more than 500 trans folks, all of them here in search of a job. She can’t help but make friends along the way. “I’m so overwhelmed right now that I don’t know what do,” she says, […]
The Mother of a Man Found Dead Inside Ed Buck’s WeHo Apartment Is Suing
The mother of a man who died inside the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the longtime Democratic donor, accusing him of “forcibly injecting” her son with crystal methamphetamine. The suit also accuses L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey and Deputy District Attorney Craig Hum of violating the […]
WeHo Protesters Rail Against Mayor John Duran, Ed Buck, and Racism in the Political Establishment
On Tuesday night, more than a dozen protesters from Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo movement, and the team behind the L.A. Pride festival stood outside the West Hollywood library and called for the resignation of embattled mayor John Duran. Duran has been a target of ire for weeks now—and not just for allegedly groping fellow […]