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    All Ages

    Exhibition

    Our Patch: LGBTQ+ Life from Cradle to Grave

    September 29 - October 30, 2024
    Exhibition

    Life is Worth Living

    October 3-October 10, 2024
    Panel Conversation

    Our Queerest Century: A Conversation with the Los Angeles Times

    Oct. 04, 2024, 8:00-9:30 PM
    Workshop

    Exploring LA’s Love Revolution

    Oct. 05, 2024, 11:00-12:30 PM
    Panel Conversation

    Surviving the Seasons: A Day of Ceremony and Solidarity

    Oct. 05, 2024, 12:00-6:00 PM
    Screening

    Bridges Across Homelands

    Oct. 05, 2024, 2:00-4:00 PM
    Panel Conversation

    (R)evolution and (D)evolution: A Dialogue Between Gay and Queer Generations

    Oct. 05, 2024, 3:00-4:30 PM
    Screening

    LESBO

    Oct. 06, 2024, 5:00-6:30 PM
    Panel Conversation

    Gil Cuadros: Revolutionary Queer Love and AIDS in Chicanx/Latinx L.A.

    Oct. 06, 2024, 5:00-6:30 PM
    Lecture

    Out on the Walk: Celebrating LGBT Honorees on the Palm Springs Walk of the Stars

    Oct. 08, 2024, 5:30-7:00 PM
    Screening

    Pedaling with Purpose

    Oct. 09, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM
    Workshop

    140+ (how to DJ)

    Oct. 11, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM
    Screening

    UNIDAD: GAY & LESBIAN LATINOS UNIDOS

    Oct. 11, 2024, 8:00-9:30 PM
    Reading

    My Life is Poetry: Autobiographical Poetry Reading by LGBTQ Seniors

    Oct. 12, 2024, 1:00-2:30 PM
    Workshop

    Dreaming Trans Futures: Creative Writing, Community, and Liberation

    Oct. 13, 2024, 1:00-3:30 PM
    Screening

    Reel Resilience: The Circa 2024 Short Film Festival

    Oct. 13, 2024, 3:00-7:00 PM
    Exhibition

    From Past to Present: Honoring the Stories of Senior Lesbian Partnerships 

    October 13 – October 20
    Reading

    LIVES OF COMMON LESBIANS

    Oct. 15, 2024, 5:00-6:30 PM
    Lecture, Screening

    “From Past to Present”: Lecture and Short Film Screening

    Oct. 15, 2024, 6:00-7:30 PM

    Lecture

    Bottom-Surgery: An Incomplete History

    Oct. 16, 2024, 6:00-7:30 PM
    Performance

    Dear Lover / Dear Habibti

    Oct. 17, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM
    Screening

    Transvisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story Then and Now

    Oct. 18, 2024, 8:00-9:30 PM
    Exhibition

    Welcome Home to The SGV LGBTQ Center

    October 19-November 30, 2024
    Workshop

    Rhythms of Revolution: Dabke, Drag, and Drums

    Oct. 19, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM
    Lecture

    Drag King History

    Oct. 20, 2024, 1:00-2:30 PM
    Panel Conversation

    Stories from the Los Angeles Black LGBT Community

    Oct. 20, 2024, 3:00-5:00 PM
    Panel Conversation

    The Evolution of Sapphic Spaces: From the 1920s to the 2020s

    Oct. 23, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM
    Workshop

    WHACK!: Sound of a Dance (R)Evolution

    Oct. 23, 2024, 7:00-9:30 PM
    Performance, Reading

    The Cancer Crossroads: A Black Queer Intergenerational Reading Between Audre Lorde and Walela Nehanda (Event Cancelled)

    Oct. 24, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM
    Screening

    Radical Harmonies

    Oct. 24, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM
    Party / Social Gathering

    Gender Justice LA Presents: TGI Plaza Extravaganza!

    Oct. 26, 2024, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
    Screening

    Queer Asian Elders on Screen

    Oct. 26, 2024, 6:00-7:30 PM
    Workshop

    A Lovely Day: Family Yoga with Jasmin Benward (Event Cancelled)

    Oct. 27, 2024, 1:00-2:30 PM
    Lecture, Performance

    Singing for Our Lives: Music, Spirituality, and Activism During the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

    Oct. 27, 2024, 3:00-4:30 PM
    Panel Conversation

    The Future of Queer History: LGBTQ+ Writers on the Election

    Oct. 27, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM
    Panel Conversation

    Faith Our Way: A Conversation with LGBTQ+ People of Faith

    Oct. 29, 2024, 6:30-8:00 PM
    Panel Conversation

    Remnants of Resistance

    Oct. 30, 2024, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
    Performance

    Drag History with Jean Decay

    Oct. 30, 2024, 6:00-6:45 PM
    Performance

    Under My Skin

    Oct. 30, 2024, 7:00-8:30 PM
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