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LGBTQIA+ History in LA

New York and SF often get the credit, but LA was leading the LGBTQ+ rights movement dceades before Stonewall. Learn more with these books and films.

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  • A long time activist, Judy Abdo’s career in public service paralleled many of the major events in Santa Monica’s progressive political movement, including rent control, anti-AIDS discrimination ordinance, environmental issues and early childhood…
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  • WAVES Santa Monica Lesbian and Gay Alliance was founded in 1987 by and for the LGBTQA+ community in Santa Monica and surrounding areas. The organization had steering, social and outreach committees to implement projects centered around political,…
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  • The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can…
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  • Chris & Don

    a Love Story

    DVD, 2009New York : Zeitgeist Films, c2009. — 306.766 ISHERWOOD
  • Book, 2011Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., c2011. — 306.766 LAVENDER
  • VIVA Records, 1970-2000

    Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles

    Book, 2013Los Angeles : UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2013. — 709.73 VIVA
  • Long Road to Freedom

    the Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement

    Book, 1994New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994. — 305.90664 LONG
  • Gay L.A.

    a History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians

    Faderman, Lillian
    Book, 2006New York : Basic Books, c2006. — REF CA 306.766 FADERMAN
  • The Gay Revolution

    the Story of the Struggle

    Faderman, Lillian
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 306.766 FADERMAN
  • The Gay Revolution

    the Story of the Struggle

    Faderman, Lillian
    Streaming Audiobook, 2015[United States] : Tantor Audio : Made available through hoopla, 2015. — eAudiobook hoopla
  • The Animals

    Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

    Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
    Book, 2014New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. — 921 ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER
  • Wisecracker

    the Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star

    Mann, William J.
    Book, 1998New York : Viking, 1998. — 791.4092 HAINES
  • Book, 1988San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1988. — 921 MONETTE, PAUL
  • Book, 2013New York, NY : Grove Press, [2013] — FIC RECHY, JOHN
  • eBook, 2013[Place of publication not identified] : Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2013. — eBook Libby