BY PAULO MURILLO
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
UPCOMING JUNE/JULY PRIDE EVENTS
THROUGH JUNE 30
WEHO PRIDE LGBTQ ARTS FESTIVAL
Various locations throughout West Hollywood
www.weho.org/community/weho-pride
JUNE 3-5
OUTLOUD RAISING VOICES MUSIC FESTIVAL
West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood
JUNE 4
VENICE PRIDE FESTIVAL 2022
Venice Beach Recreation Center, 1800 Ocean Front Walk, Venice
www.venicepride.org
JUNE 5, 12PM
INAUGURAL WEHO PRIDE PARADE
Santa Monica Blvd. from Crescent Heights Blvd. to N. La Peer Drive, West Hollywood
www.weho.org/community/weho-pride
OFF SUNSET FESTIVAL
Santa Monica Blvd (from Hoover to Sunset)
Leather/Fetish
JUNE 11
LA PRIDE IN THE PARK
LA State Historic Park, 1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles
JUNE 12
LA PRIDE PARADE
Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood
JUNE 16-18
TRANS PRIDE 2022
www.transpride.lalgbtcenter.org
JUNE 18
CATALINA ISLAND PRIDE
SAN PEDRO PRIDE
1pm to 10pm. Downtown San Pedro
JUNE 25
OC PRIDE
Historic Downtown Santa Ana
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY PRIDE
JULY 8
LONG BEACH PRIDE
JULY 16
San Diego Pride
WEST HOLLYWOOD
TRUCK TERRORIZES COMMUNITY WITH RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC SLURS
A large U-Haul truck covered with antisemitic messages drove from the city of Beverly Hills to West Hollywood and yelled racist and homophobic slurs at people on the street. Videos posted on Twitter show two individuals getting into heated confrontations with community members on Santa Monica Boulevard last month. Authorities said the incident was being investigated as a hate incident. WeHo Times reports that U-Haul has banned the customer who rented the truck for “Multiple actions taken by this customer were in violation of our equipment rental contract agreement,” said a representative “Beyond the appalling behavior of the customer and his acquaintances, this was a clear misuse of our equipment.”
SAN DIEGO
LGBT CENTER REOPENS ITS DOORS
San Diego’s LGBTQ Center has reopened its doors to the community in Hillcrest after shutting down in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past two years, staff members did their best to provide services online when possible. The Center held its official welcome-back celebration with hundreds of people showing up to walk through the front doors again and see thousands of dollars in renovations and improvements on Saturday, May 16, 2022. Despite its closure, food distribution never stopped. The Center went from serving 600 people a month in 2020 to more than 2,000 currently.
ORANGE COUNTY
ACTOR ANDY DICK ARRESTED ON SEXUAL ASSAULT
Out gay actor, Andy Dick, was arrested on sexual battery in Orange County. OC Sheriff’s deputies were called to O’Neill Regional Park, located at 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road in Trabuco Canyon last month after a man called 911 and said that actor and comedian sexually assaulted him. Dick, 56, was arrested on suspicion of felony sexual battery and booked into an Orange County jail. The alleged victim was taken to a hospital for an assault examination.
LONG BEACH
CITY HOSTS INTERNATIONAL LGBTQ CONFERENCE
The city of Long Beach hosted the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association—better known as the ILGA World—conference last month. More than 600 human rights activists gathered to celebrate the achievements made by LGBTQ communities and assess the struggles still left to overcome on a policy, cultural and systemic level. The conference was hosted by the It Gets Better Project, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit with a mission to uplift LGBTQ communities globally. It is held once every two years. This year’s programming was on challenges that LGBTQ youth face today.
