Boxcar Assembly is a non-fiction film production company in Portland, OR. They produce independent and client work across several areas of specialty and sub-specialty.
Since 1982, Celebration Theatre entertains, inspires, and empowers with innovative productions that celebrate the LGBTQIA+ experience.
Founded as a museum in 1973, Craft Contemporary reveals the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower. With a focus on contemporary art made from craft media and processes, Craft Contemporary presents dynamic exhibitions by established and emerging artists and designers who are often underrepresented in larger art institutions. Craft Contemporary complements these exhibitions with a creative line-up of educational programs, including hands-on workshops led by professional artists. Craft Contemporary cultivates an environment for people in Los Angeles to deepen their relationship to art, creativity, and one another.
The Earthlodge Center for Transformation empowers BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities through nature-based healing practices rooted in Black Southern traditions. As an intergenerational community, we both facilitate and offer training opportunities to thousands of community members through over 70 programs a year on site at the Earthlodge, virtually, and in the community. Our programming includes our health promotion leadership program, all-ages peer-to-peer wellness circles, QTBIPOC Sangha, seasonal ceremonies, drum medicine and sound baths, cultural workshops, worker rights trainings, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community wellness trainings, Youth Rights of Passage, individual and family healing ceremony opportunities, and much more in service to community wellness and our community’s needs.
Giovanni’s Room (est. 2022) is a Hollywood based gallery that fosters and promotes under-recognized and emerging local and international artists, as well as new perspectives on established artists.
Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. GLAAD works to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation and creates national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance. Serving as a storyteller, media force, resource, and advocate, GLAAD tackles tough issues and provokes dialogue so that authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized. GLAAD strives to protect all that has been accomplished and helps create a world where everyone can live the life they love.
As a dynamic media force, GLAAD ensures fair, accurate, and inclusive representation that rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and envisions a world with 100% LGBTQ acceptance.
This is a transformative multi-purpose space redefining the traditional "Junior High" experience of our adolescence. Our mission is to facilitate arts expression and arts education for all people of all ages and all socioeconomic status. Our programming is curated with a core ethos to encourage radical empathy intended to attract a compassionate community of artists. Basically, everything you wished your growing up experience was, and more.
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles provides critical support to the Los Angeles Public Library resulting in free programs, resources, and services available to the millions of adults, children, and youth in Los Angeles. Through fundraising, advocacy, and innovative programs, the Library Foundation strengthens the Los Angeles Public Library and promotes greater awareness of its valuable resources.
Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. LACMA’s spirit of experimentation is reflected in its work with artists, technologists, and thought leaders as well as in its regional, national, and global partnerships to share collections and programs, create pioneering initiatives, and engage new audiences.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center is a safe and welcoming place where the LGBTQ+ community finds help, hope, and support when it is needed the most.
March April is a worker-owned cooperative and community art studio for people to learn and grow together. We specialize in events and workshops at the intersection of art, writing, and community organizing.
One Gallery is an art gallery and cultural programming space operated by One Institute, the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the country. Located in the heart of West Hollywood, One Gallery is dedicated to hosting archival and contemporary art installations that showcase LGBTQ+ history. Through partnerships with established and emerging community partners, the gallery also serves as a low-cost, multi-purpose space for community meetings, creative workshops, classes, and other mission-aligned programming.
Founded in 1952, One Institute is the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the country and the proud presenters of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. It's mission is to elevate queer and trans history and embrace emerging stories through collaborative education, arts, and cultural programs.
Each year, One Institute produces one-of-a-kind exhibitions and public programs connecting LGBTQ+ history and contemporary culture to effect social change. Through unique K-12 teacher trainings, lesson plans, and youth mentorship programs, One empowers the next generation of teachers and students bringing queer history into classrooms and communities. As the independent community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, One Institute helps promote the largest collection of LGBTQ+ materials in the world.
Pieter is a home for all people to dance, create, and heal together with the belief that embodiment liberates. We say “all people” because dance spaces historically exclude those who are non-white, non-able, non-“fit,” non-“healthy,” non-young, non-cisgendered and non-independently-wealthy. Dance includes a broad spectrum of body-based practices and the cultivation of culture. Rooted in Los Angeles, Pieter fosters a just and expansive community of movement artists, healers and activists.
Queer Spa Network is a group of autonomous Queer artists and healers invested in rest, healing, and pleasure for our communities. We are brought together to exchange knowledge, collaborate on projects that serve our values, and build empathetic communal relationships with our bodies, the land and waters, and one another.
Rose in the Dark ‘s mission is all about uplifting Black queer and trans sex workers and artists. We aim to curate welcoming spaces that celebrate freedom, sensuality, and community while providing resources and opportunities to those who gather at the intersections of these identities.
Satrang serves the South Asian LGBTQ community of Southern California by promoting awareness, acceptance, and empowerment through social, educational, and advocacy-related events. We envision an inclusive and visible community in which South Asian LGBTQ-identified people feel whole and heard.
Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language to reflect our diverse experiences and to enhance our ability to develop critical judgment as lesbians evaluating our community and our world.
The Stripper Co-op’s vision is to disrupt the status quo of the historically exploitative adult entertainment industry by giving stripper-workers collective power over working conditions, and control over profits. We do this by building community and solidarity with our unique pop-up strip shows in which we practice the ethos of camaraderie over competition and “sharing the bag,” ensuring equity and support for our members.
The West Hollywood City Council Chambers is a government facility in West Hollywood, CA, dedicated to hosting city council meetings and other civic events.
It serves as a hub for local government decision-making and community engagement, providing a space for public discourse and policy development.
Whammy! Analog Media is a VHS store by day, microcinema by night located on the border of Echo Park and Silverlake.
Founded in 1977, William Grant Still Arts Center is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs offering summer camp, creative workshops, music and art classes for adults and youth, an exhibition space, concerts, and places for community meetings and the neighborhood to come together.