The City of Angels: Los Angeles celebrates Pride

June 2019 rightly marks the Pride month in the United States by celebration of the spirit and achievement of the LGBT community, including their fight for equality. Los Angeles which is home to the second-largest LGBTQ population in America has always nurtured diversity, inclusion, vibrancy, and freedom for all. The destination celebrates the creative spirit of the queer community with the below events curated to acknowledge this heritage and to champion equality.

Los Angeles Sparks Celebrate Pride Month (June 2019)
The Los Angeles Sparks in association with the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) are celebrating the LGBT Pride Month with players, teams, partners and fans to amplify shared values of equality, inclusion and respect. This festival will include in-arena experiences and Pride-themed games and local Pride marches.
"Herland" at the Greenway Court Theatre (through June 23, 2019)

Herland is a queer coming-of-age comedy which not only inspires but also speaks about empowerment through its well-crafted optimistic story narrative. The story is about a recent high school graduate who is given the task to create a DIY retirement home as a part of a summer internship. The script races through the funny and inspiring tale of the women growing up, growing old, and finding themselves.

"LA: A Queer History" Screening at West Hollywood City Council (June 26, 2019)

LA: A Queer History is an inspirational epic saga, in the form of a documentary, that sheds light on the LGBTQ community who are a part of American history and historical figures and have been largely unacknowledged, highlighting their first-hand accounts of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, and the LGBTQ civil rights movement which followed it. An educational, exciting and emotional film ultimately grants a better understanding of the truly unique, American culture of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender community.
Pride Flag Progress - Rebooting and Redefining (through July 2, 2019)

One of the initial Pride flags were flown with shades from the rainbow representing the entire queer community. Since then, the LGBTQ representative flags have added other colors and designs in order to become more inclusively representative and inspire more people in the process of undertaking the journey towards still finding themselves. The Pride Flag Process is an educational exhibition which honors the original flags, followed by the variations created since then, to reflect on the modern notions of sexual orientation and gender identity.

In the Inside at the Craft Contemporary (through Sept. 8, 2019)
For art aficionados, “In the Inside” features a group of 110 portrait drawings by LGBTQ+ artists who are currently imprisoned. On account of their sexual orientation, these people are more likely to suffer abuse and assaults, with most of the time, little or no support from their families outside. To honor and extend support to these individuals, the art museum exhibits painting made by the prisoners. The most interesting part of these amazing works of art is that they are made using simple materials that are available to the prisoner artists behind cells like letter-sized paper, ordinary pencils and ballpoint pen ink tubes.