Incorporated in 2018, A Place To Be (APTB) is an international network that provides opportunities for individuals to plug into community. The underpinning tenants of the organization are to nurture, inspire, empower, and transform individuals by hosting various educational, social, and recreational activities

A queer nightlife venue located in the Arts District of LA.

Avenue 50 Studio is an arts presentation organization grounded in Latina/o culture, visual arts, and the Northeast Los Angeles area that seeks to bridge cultures through artistic expressions, using content-driven art to educate and to stimulate intercultural understanding.

Brick Road Community Corporation exists to build the brave spaces we once needed and still need today. We center LGBTQ+ people and everyone seeking a place they can show up fully, because when queer community thrives, everyone thrives.

We create boldly inclusive spaces online, in our cafés, and everywhere our beans travel, so queer joy is visible, belonging is non-negotiable, and community remains the heart of everything we do.

We are proving that coffee can turn daily rituals into collective acts of courage. A movement you can hold in your hands.

Since 1982, Celebration Theatre entertains, inspires, and empowers with innovative productions that celebrate the LGBTQIA+ experience.

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.

The Cooper Do-nuts Foundation preserves and activates the legacy of Cooper Do-nuts—an early safe haven for marginalized communities in Los Angeles—by combining cultural preservation with direct community impact. Through oral histories, public programming, and community support initiatives, the Foundation amplifies underrepresented voices, creates inclusive spaces for connection, and continues a legacy rooted in dignity, access, and belonging.

⁣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.

Cruise LA facilitates intersectional leather/kink spaces by centering historically disenfranchised communities in arts-based programming and cultural events. Using fun and joy, Cruise LA connects its patrons with resources for harm reduction, safer play, education, and community building. Through the lens of radical self-acceptance and interdependence, Cruise LA creates a space that is not only courageous but celebratory of diversity.

Since 2016, Cruise LA has been producing the only monthly party at Eagle LA that exclusively centers women and TGI people. In 2019, Cruise LA premiered the first Mx. leather title in Los Angeles and continues to carve out space for marginalized communities in Leather. By recognizing those who came before us and fought to create the foundations of our community, we honor their legacy by continuing to create art, events, and spaces that champion systemically excluded bodies.

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.

The Elysian is an independent comedy theater and 501 (c) 3 non-profit in the Elysian Valley of Los Angeles. Our mission is to support innovative artists devising original and unconventional live comedy. We offer year-round workshops and classes from resident artists, community members, and visiting international masters.

Feminist Center for Creative Work nurtures an ever-evolving, intersectional, intergenerational, and joyful collaborative feminist praxis—modeling ways of working and living through art, programming, media, publishing, and the redistribution of resources, from Los Angeles, within the world. The process is the product.

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.

Human Resources was founded in 2010 by a team of creative individuals who seek to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression. Human Resources is not-for-profit and seeks to foster widespread public appreciation of the performative arts by encouraging maximum community access. Human Resources also serves as a point of convergence for diverse and disparate art communities to engage in conversation and idea-sharing promoting the sustainability of non-traditional art forms. We are a volunteer organization.

Japanese American National Museum

The mission of the Japanese American National Museum is to promote understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience.

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.

LACE champions artists, curators, and cultural workers who explore and defy boundaries through socially-engaged projects. We provide platforms within and beyond our space for diverse communities to connect deeply with challenging contemporary art.

Located on the Pacific Rim, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of 155,000 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.

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) is committed to making our programs and events accessible to everyone who wants to attend and participate. As our facility is limited to staircase access, we extend our best efforts to provide accommodations or assistance. Bathrooms are gender neutral. All events are free and all-ages unless otherwise specified. Please feel free to contact LACA prior to any events or for site visits.

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.

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.

OXY ARTS is a vital public space bringing together the Occidental College community, the Northeast Los Angeles community, and local and regional artists in socially conscious dialogue and engagement. We seek to share, connect and hold space for ideas and curiosity.

The Performance Art Museum advances the visibility, legacy, and scholarship of artists working in performance.

PFLAG Los Angeles is a volunteer-powered nonprofit that has served the Los Angeles community continuously since our first meeting on March 8, 1976. Founded in response to the urgent need for family support and LGBTQ+ advocacy, PFLAG Los Angeles grew from a small gathering into a trusted resource for thousands. Our mission is to support LGBTQ+ individuals and their families, educate the broader community, and advocate for equal rights.

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.

Scribble is a nonprofit counseling center and community events venue located in Highland Park, Los Angeles.

Our counseling center is located at 5531 York Blvd and provides sliding scale mental health services for individuals, couples, families and groups.

Our venue is located at 5541 York Blvd and hosts all-ages shows, talks, classes, and workshops with an emphasis on community building.

The Skunk Room: 1600 sq ft multi-use industrial space for classes and workshops, rehearsals, immersive performances, ensemble work, events, screenings, and anything else you can dream up.

Street Food Cinema, LA's moveable cinema feast, presents over 50 events throughout the year. SFC is SoCal's largest outdoor movie series that combines four carefully curated elements into one amazing experience with popular outdoor movies, street food, audience games, live music and more. Founded in 2012, SFC has grown into a citywide community of entertainment and food enthusiasts reaching every corner of LA. As a recognized and beloved event series, SFC has become a preferred partner for movie studios and entertainment platforms to celebrate premieres, new releases and anniversaries with fans.

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.

For sheer beauty and intimacy, it's hard to beat The Ford for summer entertainment under the stars. Nestled in the Hollywood Hills, the open-air amphitheater is just under 1,200 seats; no patron is more than 96 feet away from the stage.

The Outwords Archive (OUTWORDS) was founded in 2016 to record, preserve, and share the stories of LGBTQ+ elders. OUTWORDS believes in the deep capacity of these oral histories to strengthen the LGBTQ+ community as a whole, and to empower LGBTQ+ young people with the knowledge that they are not alone on their personal journeys and challenges, as well as context for the movement they belong to and the elders on whose shoulders they stand.

OUTWORDS has recorded over 400 interviews in all 50 states. We share our full catalog of interviews with the public, completely free of charge, on our website. Learn more at theoutwordsarchive.org or queerelders.org.

A one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema, Vidiots is dedicated to inspiring human interaction around film through preserving, growing, and providing access to a 70,000-title diverse DVD, BluRay, and rare VHS collection, and showcasing and celebrating the work of emerging, master, and underrepresented artists with year-round unique and affordable film events and vital education programs.

Whammy! is an Echo Park retail storefront dedicated to analog media, primarily VHS tapes with thousands available to peruse and buy, and a dedicated 55 seat screening room in which we host a number of underseen gems that might have difficulty finding homes on larger screens in Los Angeles. Tickets & info at whammyanalog.com