GAY LIBERATION FRONT; BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA GAY LIBERATION Tahara (top left), August Bernadicou (top right ), Warren Blumenfeld (bottom left), and Perry Brass (bottom right), 2025. protests in Times Square to underground groups meeting to discuss actions, their stories highlight the anger HERE READ THE TRANSCRIPT BY CLICKING HERE More From The LGBTQ History Project • Don Kilhefner: Los Angeles

They were calling him Hot Whips Margaret, and they were saying, “When the lights go out tonight, we're We were there all day, and eventually, the lights did go out. About 20 minutes after the lights went out, we heard someone yell, “Missabu and Robinson!” In New York, I performed with Hibiscus of the Angels of Light in a fabulous show called The Enchanted She lived in San Francisco on Russian Hill, but her boyfriend lived in Los Angeles.

NEW YORK CITY GAY LIBERATION FRONT; LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT; NEW YORK CITY GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE Hernan Figuero and Rich Wandel (right) by unknown, circa 1970. FAVORITE STREAMING PLATFORM BY CLICKING HERE Related Stories • Feature on Don Kilhefner in the Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT, LEVEL PRESS Llee Heflin (left) by unknown, 1970. He’s back! Llee Heflin was an early member of the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front and was the author of the Occult From organizing on the frontlines of Los Angeles' gay liberation movement to crafting visionary works

contribute significantly to the LGBTQ+ journey because most people do not live in cities like New York, Los Angeles In mid-1970, during a trip to Los Angeles to visit his grandfather, Hiram attended a Los Angeles Gay They persevered, and similar to his experience visiting the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front meeting, Shortly after that, I visited my grandfather in Los Angeles during spring break. I don't remember how, but I heard about a meeting of the Gay Liberation Front in Los Angeles and went

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So were the Angels of Light and the Cockettes that happened to hang around the Diggers as well because the Cockettes were not making any money to speak of, and neither were the Angels of Light. I can do the lighting and find things, but I don't have the beauty of these butterflies, and I don't stage settings employing scrims, platforms, slide projections, movie projections, and strategic lighting As the lights come up and you see the difference, you say, that's not what I felt, and what I felt is

NEW YORK GAY LIBERATION FRONT; LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT; NEW YORK GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE The It was around that gay community center that a community coalesced in Los Angeles. It looked like Los Angeles. Gay becomes too denigrated, it's too fluffy, it's too light, it's too light in the loafers. Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center meeting (from left to right) Executive Director Don Kilhefner

LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT Llee Heeflin and Don Kilhefner discuss their involvement in the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front and their visions of the future.

Lee was born on June 2, 1948, and raised in East Los Angeles at a time when its inhabitants had to act confidently and fight for their safety. Inspired by the work of activists in Los Angeles like Donald Kilhefner, Lee, and a community of activists , Lee became the AIDS History Curator for ONE Archive at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles In 2001, he became Director of Cultural Tourism Marketing and Development for the City of Los Angeles

While working at a small market on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, Jewel would look across the street Catch One quickly cracked the surface when queers of all stripes learned that a bar in Central Los Angeles and heard no at every corner overcame her systematic disadvantage and became a central, Central Los Angeles

The term 'Pagan' was never the right term for us. We just couldn’t find the right place. I arranged a trip for the Swami to come to Los Angeles to speak with me. All of the meals were prepared by a group of Faeries from Los Angeles who were largely graduates of my Related Stories • The Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front: Llee Hefflin • Llee Heflin and Don Kilhefner

While working at a small market on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, Jewel would look across the street cracked the surface when queers of all stripes learned that a black lesbian-owned a bar in Central Los Angeles evenings after I'd run out checking on places—open up the business opportunities section of The Los Angeles August and Chris: For years, the heart of the gay scene in Los Angeles had been white, West Hollywood August and Chris: Today, Jewel is still a significant figure in Los Angeles and beyond.

Stonewall Riots hit him hard, and he immediately joined the pioneering gay activist group, The Los Angeles ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMERS HERE READ OUR FEATURE ON DON KILHEFNER HERE Related Stories • The Los Angeles

The last was in 2003 when he married his longtime partner, Phillip, in Canada and returned to Los Angeles In his early 20s, a job opportunity brought him and his family to Los Angeles. He joined a small church as a pastor, and after just a short time in the City of Angels, his worlds began August and Chris: Like many other restaurants and bars around Los Angeles at the time, this restaurant Within a year and a half, we were running over 1,000 congregants here in Los Angeles.

activism wasn’t limited to the East Coast; she was also active with the Gay Liberation Front in Los Angeles With gay men and straight couples, especially when it’s right in front of them, people sense the relationship Related Stories • The Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front: Llee Hefflin • Founding the Gay Liberation Front

IN THESE TIMES, NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE, LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER Torie Osborn (left) with Director of the National Organization for Women; and became the first woman executive director of the Los Angeles My parents and I argued every night at the dinner table. Then my parents said, ‘You were right,’ and they turned against the war. I think it was the night that I said out loud, ‘I'm a lesbian. That's a good word for me.’