LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT, RADICAL FAERIES Morris Kight, unknown, Don Kilhefner, and Stan Williams They started to have discussion groups initially in Los Angeles, where on a certain night, gay men and Don: I think in that way, Los Angeles might have—I know New Yorkers hate to hear this, but in that way At the time, there was a newspaper in Los Angeles called the Los Angeles Free Press . It was primarily focused on Los Angeles.

NEW YORK CITY GAY LIBERATION FRONT, LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT Don Kilhefner (left) and August Shortly after the Stonewall Riots in 1969, Don became a member of the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front and a founder of what would become the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Gay Liberation Front, Los Angeles LGBT Center Founder, Liberation Houses Oral History • Llee Heflin on the Occult, Gay Liberation in Los Angeles, and Changing Lives Oral History • Perry Brass: New York

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.

LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT In this QueerCore Podcast episode, August Bernadicou speaks with Llee Heflin and Don Kilhefner about the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front, early protests, community organizing Highlights • Origins of the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front • Early protests and community organising revolution with this raw and riveting podcast episode that unearths the power and passion behind the Los Angeles Join Llee Heflin and Don Kilhefner, two trailblazers who fought for the rights we sometimes take for

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

LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT, RADICAL FAERIES Don Kilhefner (third from right) by unknown, 1970. In this episode, Don Kilhefner—an early member of the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front, co-founder of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and co-founder of the Radical Faeries—returns to share unflinching stories

A PROTEST: THE FIRST PRIDE MARCH The organizers of the first pride march in New York City and Los Angeles pride-march Related Features • Llee Heflin Occult Podcast Series • Llee Heflin and Don Kilhefner: Los Angeles

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

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

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.

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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