Celebrate Pride Month Online!
June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) Pride Month, celebrating and commemorating the Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan which took place in June of 1969. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. On June 28, 1970 (the very next year) the very first Pride Parade in Los Angeles was held on Hollywood Boulevard. New York held its own parade on the same day, as did a few other cities.
Pride Month includes celebrations such as pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQIA+ Pride Month events which attract millions of participants around the world. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.
Several local pride events will be celebrated online this year:
Each year the City of West Hollywood celebrates pride with its One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival, which runs from Harvey Milk Day (May 22) through the end of June Pride month (June 30). Check their list of events HERE.
The Arts Festival includes a self-guided architectural trail of John Elgin Wood’s architecture curated by filmmaker and journalist Matt Tyrnauer, the documentary-style play “Dear Harvey: Stories of Harvey Milk” and a virtual panel of comic creators reading their work among many other fantastic events and online exhibits.
L.A. Pride along with Christopher Street West Association, Inc. Christopher Street West has partnered with the non-profit group Big Sunday to provide a 30-day calendar event for Pride month called Pride Makes a Difference. The events focus on volunteering, community service, and opportunities to donate time, goods and money to worthy causes that benefit the LGBTQIA+ community.
Events include Thrive with Pride celebration on ABC-7/KABC, a one-hour primetime special highlighting some events and figures in the LGBTQIA+ community, and a concert featuring Charli XCX streamed exclusively on TiKTok.
2020 would have been the first ever Glendale Pride Festival, but due to COVID-19 restrictions, the events were cancelled. This year glendaleOUT’s goal for Jewel City Pride 2021: #QueeringGlendale is to create a visual Sea of Queer. The group is asking people through the month of June to post, attach, hang and display tokens of Pride colors in Glendale, and when posted online to use hashtags #queeringGlendale or #jewelcitypride to create a true community event. glendaleOUT is Glendale’s grass-roots LGBTQIA+ organization with the goal for creating a broader narrative for the queer community in Glendale. Throughout Pride Month, the group will be hosting weekly pop-ups to connect with the community and hand out various pride items for taking/displaying. Check in on their Facebook and Instagram for times and locations.