Los Angeles’ gay scene goes back to before Christopher Isherwood wrote about it in the 1964 novel A Single Man. That story was set in the early 1960s, when there was a Stonewall-style riot in L.A., two years before Stonewall. The Advocate magazine was established here, as were America’s first gay church and synagogue. PFLAG’s first office was established here, too.
Founded over 30 years ago, Outfest is L.A.’s largest and longestrunning film festival, and the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world.