LA-DCA-2016-LGBT-Calendar-and-Cultural-Guide
LA-DCA-2016-LGBT-Calendar-and-Cultural-Guide
LA-DCA-2016-LGBT-Calendar-and-Cultural-Guide
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<strong>2016</strong> Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, <strong>and</strong> Transgender Heritage Month<br />
Community Events<br />
Human Rights Speakers Series – <strong>LGBT</strong> Rights Abroad:<br />
An International Look at Equality<br />
Join the City of West Hollywood for a Human Rights Speakers Series on <strong>LGBT</strong> Rights around the<br />
world.<br />
WHEN: June 7, 7:00 p.m.<br />
SITE: West Hollywood City Council Chambers<br />
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.<br />
West Hollywood<br />
COST: Free. RSVP required at wehohrspeakerseries@gmail.com<br />
SPONSOR: One City One Pride<br />
INFO: 323.848.6823<br />
weho.org/pride<br />
What Did Robert Mapplethorpe Teach Us? – A Zócalo/Getty Open Art event<br />
hosted by WEHO Arts<br />
How did Mapplethorpe change photography—<strong>and</strong> the perception of photography as an art? Coinciding<br />
with a major retrospective of his work (www.mapplethorpe.la), join J. Paul Getty Museum curator Paul<br />
Martineau, fine arts photographer Catherine Opie, <strong>LA</strong>CMA curator Britt Salvesen, <strong>and</strong> painter <strong>and</strong> Yale<br />
art historian Jonathan Weinberg in a discussion on how Mapplethorpe continues to teach us, even now,<br />
a quarter century after his untimely death at age 42.<br />
WHEN: June 8, 7:30 p.m.<br />
SITE: West Hollywood City Council Chambers<br />
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.<br />
West Hollywood<br />
COST: Free<br />
SPONSOR: One City One Pride<br />
INFO: weho.org/pride<br />
Hollywood Fringe / One City One Pride<br />
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an open <strong>and</strong> uncensored community-derived event. The Fringe’s eastern<br />
border is usually Gardner Street, but through a special collaboration with the City, <strong>LGBT</strong>Q shows can take<br />
place throughout West Hollywood as part of One City One Pride. Visit hollywoodfringe.org/weho to find<br />
shows taking place in West Hollywood. Shows sponsored through this partnership are: God’s Waiting<br />
Room, Life’s a B**** <strong>and</strong> So Am I, The Gay <strong>Guide</strong> to Tinseltown, The #1 Ballsy Woman, Snatched…Stories from<br />
Down There, Reclaimed Freedom: Fact or Fiction, Skin of Honey/Piel de Miel, <strong>and</strong> The Collection of Harold<br />
Pinter/Anniversary by Rachel Bonds.<br />
WHEN: June 9 through 26, Times vary<br />
SITE: Check website for venues<br />
COST: Varies<br />
SPONSOR: Hollywood Fringe Festival, One City One Pride<br />
INFO: hollywoodfringe.org/weho<br />
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