Los Angeles Pride
Address
Santa Monica Blvd & N Crescent Heights Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Active Dates
1979 - 2022
West Hollywood Pride - Latina's are Lesbians Too photograph, circa 1981-1983, Mary Lucey and Nancy MacNeil Collection, box 6, folder 1, June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
About this location
Los Angeles held its first gay pride parade on Hollywood Boulevard in 1970 to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The event came to be organized annually by Christopher Street West (CSW), and in 1979 the parade moved to Santa Monica Boulevard in the unincorporated area that became the City of West Hollywood in 1984. LA Pride returned to Hollywood in 2022, and the City of West Hollywood launched WeHo Pride that same year. Lesbians in the Mazer community remember gathering in front of The Palms during the parade. Jeannette Bronson volunteered at Pride for about a decade beginning in 1984. Photographer Angela Brinskele began photographing Pride after first attending in 1986, since marchers were willing to be photographed when many lesbians were not.
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Sources
- Ballen, Lynn. Interview by Angela Brinskele. July 9, 2026. June L Mazer Lesbian Archives. https://jmtanenbaum.github.io/route66/lynn-ballen-oral-history.html.
- Brinskele, Angela. Interview by Camelia Brieanne Heins. August 5, 2026. June L Mazer Lesbian Archives. https://jmtanenbaum.github.io/route66/angela-brinskele-oral-history.html.
- Bronson, Jeannette. Interview by Angela Brinskele. August 12, 2026. June L Mazer Lesbian Archives. https://jmtanenbaum.github.io/route66/jeannette-bronson-oral-history.html.
- City of West Hollywood. “About.” WeHo Pride. Accessed October 7, 2026. https://www.wehopride.com/about.
- City of West Hollywood. “City of West Hollywood HCS and Survey Report.” September 2016. 77-78. https://www.wehopreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Tile-4-Hist-Context.pdf.
- Survey LA. “Los Angeles Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Context Statement.” February 2023. https://planning.lacity.gov/odocument/23b499c0-1f2e-49cc-842e-8744c439acf6/LosAngeles_LGBT_HistoricContext.pdf. 19-20, 26-27.