LABC Presents: LGBTQ+ Histories of Los Angeles
Wed, Jun 05
|The Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Jun 05, 2024, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: One Institute, founded in 1952, is the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the country, dedicated to telling LGBTQ+ history and emerging stories through education, arts, and social justice programs. And, as the independent community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, One Institute promotes the largest collection of LGBTQ+ materials in the world. One Institute is also an LABC Foundation grant recipient.
Social changes accelerated by World War II gave way to the rise of queer communities in urban centers, especially in port cities like Los Angeles. Young people embraced newfound personal freedoms, even as medical institutions and government policies targeted homosexuals as psychological and moral deviants. This shift provided the conditions for a shared sense of identity and a movement for civil rights as queer and trans people moved “out of the closet and into the streets” in the later twentieth century.
One Institute will…