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    All Ages

    Exhibition

    Light in the Dark: Queer Narratives in Neon

    Ongoing

    Thursday-Saturday, 12-7 PM
    Sunday, 12-5 PM


    Exhibition

    ONE Magazine at Seventy

    October 1–November 5, 2023

    Friday-Sunday 12-5 PM

    Panel Conversation, Virtual Event

    PANDEMICS + BOOKS: Publishing HIV/AIDS in the Early Covid Era

    October 3, 2023, 5-6:30 PM PST
    Reading

    The Place in Which I’ll Fit Will Not Exist Until I Make It

    October 3, 2023, 7-9 PM

    Performance

    Gay Freedom Band of Los Angeles 45th Anniversary Preview Concert 

    October 3, 2023, 8-9:30 PM
    Lecture

    The Queer Lives of Early Moviegoing Girls

    October 4, 2023, 7-8:30 PM

    Panel Conversation

    Making the Invisible Visible: Navigating Queer Identity in Public Space

    October 5, 2023, 7-8:30 PM
    Lecture, Virtual Event, Workshop

    L-bAR, Digitizing the Past Made Present by Queer University

    October 6, 2023, 6-7:30 PM
    Panel Conversation

    In Conversation: Contextualizing LGBTQIA+ Topics & Issues in Education

    October 6, 2023, 7-8 PM
    Exhibition

    Queer Futurism: Transcendence in Time

    October 1–31, 2023

    Saturdays, 11-2 PM
    Sundays, 3-6 PM

    Exhibition

    Making Time

    October 7 – November 4, 2023

    Tuesday-Saturday, 12 PM-5 PM

    Pop Up Exhibit

    Do It Together: Rock Paper Scissors Collective presents the Ara Jo Memorial Fund & Selections from the Zine Library

    October 7, 2023, 3-7 PM
    Workshop

    APLA Health HIVE Zine-Making Workshop

    October 8, 2023, 12-1:30 PM

    Workshop

    A People’s Museum of LGBTQ+ History

    October 8, 2023, 3-4:30 PM 

    Reading

    Queering Gender, Queering Genre: Historical Imagining as Radical Reclamation

    October 8, 2023, 5-6:30 PM

    Lecture

    Vexing History: A Queer LA Love Story

    October 10, 2023, 7-8:30 PM

    Panel Conversation

    Unapologetically Whole: Queer Elders of Color Speak Out

    October 11, 2023, 7-8 PM
    Performance

    IT MUST BE HIM: A Genderful Musical Memoir

    October 11, 2023, 8-9 PM
    Party / Social Gathering, Virtual Event

    Black Trans Trivia

    October 13, 2023, 4-6 PM PST / 7-9 PM EST
    Lecture

    Kate Millett’s Feminist Music Festival

    October 13, 2023, 7-8 PM

    Podcast

    Rainbow Archives: Tracing LGBTQIA+ Services at the LA Public Library

    October 14, 2023, 11 AM-12 PM

    Reading

    The Story of ONE: TV Pilot Live Read and Eric Julber Award Ceremony

    October 14, 2023, 6-7:30 PM

    Screening

    BABY, YOU ARE MY RELIGION

    October 14, 2023, 8-10 PM

    Workshop

    Documenting Ourselves: Zines as Proof of Existence

    October 15, 2023, 2-3:30 PM
    Panel Conversation

    Using the Outdoors to OUT LGBTQ+ History

    October 15, 2023, 3-4:30 PM

    Workshop

    THE LAVENDER EFFECT® Oral Histories Project

    October 15, 2023, 5 PM-7:30 PM
    Podcast

    Remnants of Resistance: Queer Studies Scholars Mine the Archives

    October 17, 2023, 11-12 PM

    Panel Conversation, Virtual Event

    The Institute of Cultural Inquiry’s AIDS Chronicles (1994-2019): A Conversation with Antoinette LaFarge and Deborah Cullen-Morales

    October 17, 2023, 12-1 PM
    Performance, Screening

    WORKING: Performance + Screening

    October 17, 2023, 8-9 PM

    Panel Conversation, Party / Social Gathering, Screening

    LGBTQ+ Women’s Spaces Past & Present: Film Screening, Conversation, and After-Party

    October 18, 2023, 8-10 PM

    Screening

    AIDS DIVA: THE LEGEND OF CONNIE NORMAN

    October 19, 2023, 7-9 PM

    Party / Social Gathering

    Trans Joy Is Resistance Presents: In Lieu of Trans Remembrance Month

    October 20, 2023, 6-9 PM

    Lecture

    Documenting Senior Lesbian Partnerships Across the U.S.

    October 20, 2023, 7-8:15 PM

    Party / Social Gathering

    Aunt Reggie’s Records Presents: Sapphic Sounds Listening Party

    October 20, 2023, 8-10PM 

    Reading

    Queer Filipinx Multidisciplinary Artists Discuss Philippine Mythology

    October 21, 2023, 2-4 PM

    Panel Conversation

    Through Our Lens: Laura Aguilar’s Latina Lesbian Series

    October 21, 2023, 4-5:30 PM
    Performance

    Tranza: Queer Performance Art Nights in LA

    October 21, 2023, 7-9:30 PM
    Screening

    The Los Angeles Premiere of JIMMY IN SAIGON

    October 22, 2023, 3-5:30 PM

    Lecture, Virtual Event

    Drag King History

    October 23, 2023, 5-6:30 PM

    Lecture, Virtual Event

    We’re Not Talking About Sex: How We Can Empower Kids & Teens with Our Queer History

    October 25, 2023, 5-6 PM
    Panel Conversation

    The arqive/L-bar: Battling the Erasure of Queer Histories through Immersive Participatory Storytelling

    October 26, 2023, 3-4:30 PM 

    Performance

    Dear Lover/Dear Habibi

    October 26, 2023, 7-9 PM
    Lecture, Virtual Event, Workshop

    A Political History of the Dyke March in the US by Queer University

    October 27, 2023, 5-6:30 PM
    Podcast

    Mighty Real: A Queer/Tech Podcast

    October 27, 2023, 7-8:30 PM

    Panel Conversation

    GJLA: A Legacy of Trans Liberation

    October 28, 2023, 1-4 PM
    Panel Conversation

    Olivia Records at Fifty: Celebrating and Archiving Lesbian Music

    October 28, 2023, 2-3:30 PM

    Panel Conversation

    Making Time: Community Discussion on Speculative Archiving

    October 28, 2023, 3-4:30 PM

    Exhibition

    Phranc: The Butch Closet

    October 21–December 2, 2023

    Tuesday-Friday, 10 AM-5 PM
    Saturday, 11 AM-5:30 PM

    Workshop

    Queer University Launch

    October 28, 2023, 4-5:30 PM 

    Panel Conversation

    Light in the Dark: Queer Narratives in Neon (Panel Discussion)

    October 29, 2023, 2:30-4 PM
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