The City of West Hollywood celebrates pride with its WeHo Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (formerly called the One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival), which runs from Harvey Milk Day (May 22) through the end of June Pride month (June 30).
This year’s schedule of programs takes place both online and in-person throughout West Hollywood, and the vast majority are free to attend!
The theme for 2022 is ‘With Liberty, Diversity, Inclusion and Progress for All’.
The LGBTQ Arts Festival has taken place since 2008 and was formerly known as One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival. In 2022, it was formally decided to rebrand One City One Pride as the WeHo Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival in conjunction with the creation of the first ever WeHo Pride Weekend, Street Fair and Parade (June 3-5).
Some highlights of the 2022 WeHo Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival include:
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A Staged Reading of Dear Harvey: Stories of Harvey Milk featuring an all transgender and non-binary cast (May 22 – May 29)
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Queer Diasporas: Lavender City of Dreams, an online exhibition as part of the Queer Biennial (May 27 – Aug 19)
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Pride Poets, an interactive typewriter poetry project where you can get a custom poem written by an LGBTQ+ poet (June 4-5 and June 11-12)
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Church of Trans Love, a fictitious transdo performative take on ecclesiastic rituals (June 5)
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Pledge Allegiance to Your Flag! A Festival of LGBTQ+ Flags, a social art intervention (June 5)
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Q Con, an LGBTQ comics convention, and GMCLA free concert (June 18)
For information on the WeHo Pride Weekend, Street Fair, and Parade taking place June 3 – 5, visit: https://www.weho.org/pride
Also, if you want to learn more about West Hollywood’s very rich LGBTQ+ history, you should watch a series of short films called “The Stuart Timmons West Hollywood LGBTQ History Tour” that were created for the festival last year. You are guaranteed to learn some surprising facts about the City! https://bit.ly/WeHoLGBTQTour
You can see the full schedule and details of the WeHo Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival at https://pride.weho.org and follow @wehoarts and @wehocity on social media for updates.The 2022 theme is “With Liberty, Diversity, Inclusion and Progress for All.”
