Circa – Queer Histories Festival

Circa: Queer Histories Festival 2024

October 01—31

One Institute is proud to present Circa, the first and only queer histories festival in the United States.

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Photo by Alma Lucia
Police raid of Lee Glaze's bar, The Patch, 1968. Lee Glaze photographs, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
Photo by Levi Popescu
Photo courtesy of Hester Tittman, Rabbit Rabbit Studio
Photo by Daniel Sliwa

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September 29 — October 06

Exhibition Opening

Our Patch: LGBTQ+ Life from Cradle to Grave

Advocate & Gochis Galleries

Panel Conversation

Legacy of Love: LGBTQ+ Elders Talk Sex and Relationships

Oct. 02, 7:00-8:30 PM

Renberg Theatre

Exhibition Opening

Arcoíris

Circus of Books

Exhibition Opening

SACRED PLEASURE

Circus of Books

Exhibition Opening

Life is Worth Living

Panel Conversation

Our Queerest Century: A Conversation with the Los Angeles Times

Oct. 04, 8:00-9:30 PM

Renberg Theatre

Exploring LA’s Love Revolution

Oct. 05, 11:00-12:30 PM

Union Station Information Kiosk

Surviving the Seasons: A Day of Ceremony and Solidarity

Oct. 05, 12:00-6:00 PM

Earthlodge Center for Transformation

Bridges Across Homelands

Oct. 05, 2:00-4:00 PM

Greenway Court Theatre

Panel Conversation

(R)evolution and (D)evolution: A Dialogue Between Gay and Queer Generations

Oct. 05, 3:00-4:30 PM

Panel Conversation

Discovering Long Beach’s Unknown Queer History

Oct. 05, 4:00-6:00 PM

Hamburger Mary’s Long Beach

Writing Countercultures from the Inside Out: Leather and Ballroom Nonfiction Books

Oct. 05, 6:00-8:30 PM

Tom of Finland Foundation

APLA Writers: Rising from the Ashes Anthology Reading

Oct. 06, 1:00-2:30 PM

APLA Gleicher/Chen Health Center, Baldwin Hills

LESBO

Oct. 06, 5:00-6:30 PM

Advocate & Gochis Galleries

Panel Conversation

Gil Cuadros: Revolutionary Queer Love and AIDS in Chicanx/Latinx L.A.

Oct. 06, 5:00-6:30 PM