NYC was full of life, fun, and rainbows this past weekend as everywhere you looked the streets were lit with rainbow fashions in support for World Pride as Pride Month was coming to a close. LGBTQIA+ members from all around were celebrating their pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots through festivities with […]
Legendary Author John Rechy Recalls L.A.’s Oft-Forgotten Gay Uprising
At 88 years old, John Rechy is the grand seigneur, or perhaps the grand outlaw, of Los Angeles fine letters—the author of 18 titles, whose name appears on many lists of banned books. In his late 20s, Rechy wrote the groundbreaking 1963 novel City of Night, a thinly veiled roman-a-clef about a gay male hustler […]
The Damron Address Book, a Green Book for Gays, Kept a Generation of Men in the Know
The story of Bob Damron’s The Address Book begins, like so many others, with one guy and a full tank of gas cutting down the California coast. Picture him pulling out of the Castro in San Francisco, a notebook seated next to him, sun glinting off the rims of a wood-paneled station wagon. Maybe he […]
Before Stonewall, the Queer Revolution Started Right Here in Los Angeles
This June marks the 50th anniversary of New York’s Stonewall uprising, the rebellion against police harassment widely celebrated as the turning point in activists’ struggle for gay rights in the United States. People around the world pay homage to Stonewall every June when they mark international Pride Month, which arose as a commemoration of the […]
The Pioneering Cast of The Boys in the Band Is Going from Broadway to Netflix
In 1968, a year before the Stonewall uprising led to the world’s first PRIDE parade and changed queer lives forever, playwright Mart Crowley unleashed The Boys in the Band, an off-Broadway production that rocked gay and straight audiences alike. Focused on nine gay men who gather for one character’s birthday, the play laid bare truths […]
100-Plus LGBTQ Icons and Iconoclasts Who Are Shaping Culture in L.A. and Beyond
From art to activism to academia, LGBTQ Angelenos are transforming the city. Meet the people leading the way. Robert Greenblatt Television executive Ever since he began his career at Fox Broadcasting, Robert Greenblatt has climbed steadily up the Hollywood ladder. At Fox, where he ran primetime programming, Greenblatt oversaw such hits as The X-Files and […]