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For decades, West Hollywood has been abode to one of the largest annual Pride celebrations in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands of people. This year, WeHo Identity festival Weekend will receive place May 31 – June 2, with a host of activities, including the WeHo LGBTQ Arts Festival, OUTLOUD Raising Voices Harmony Festival, WeHo Identity Parade and many more.
West Hollywood is the epicenter of LGBTQ culture in Southern California, and is proud that more than 40% of the city’s population identifies as LGBTQ. Visitors will find 20 hotels, located in a safe, welcoming urban environment that was built on the needs and interests of the community.
For LGBTQ travelers, here’s a lot to love about West Hollywood, including one of the world’s most vibrant LGBTQ nightlife scenes, sleek designer hotels and easy access to the countless cultural and sightseeing landmarks in nearby Los Angeles.
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West Hollywood is bursting with LGBTQ-friendly restaurants, local coffee shops, indulgent day spas, sensational shopping and outstanding art galleries.
Don’t miss the West Hollywood Design District, home to more than 300 art galleries, fashion boutiques,
The 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood
After 45 seasons, it's hard to believe there are any firsts left for Saturday Bedtime Live — but Yang arrived at 30 Rock in 2019 as the cast's first Chinese American castmember and only its third openly gay male. He's already made his highlight on the show playing Kim Jong Un, Andrew Yang and Chinese economic official Chen "Trade Daddy" Biao. But it was a risque scene featuring Harry Styles as a horny Sara Lee social media manager — co-written by SNL alum Julio Torres — that made the biggest splash.
MY MENTOR IS "James Anderson, who held down the fort at SNL by writing so many queer sketches over the years that shaped my sensibility. He’s gone out of his way to be a good confidant, and the same goes for B.D. Wong after I worked with him. It’s all crazy want fulfillment."
I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "Cherry Jones hosts a prank show."
In creating the 2020 list of entertainment's most powerful LGBTQ players, THR focused on the talent (behind and in front of the camera) and d The public and private Rock Hudson A Hollywood producer once called him "Prince Charming" – a fitting nickname for a guy whose life seemed, for most of it, love a storybook. Rock Hudson started steaming up the screen in the 1950s, and continued for nearly four decades, in more than 60 films. But today he's perhaps overlooked, said documentary director Stephen Kijak. Smith asked, "Why perform you think his label is not up there with the James Deans and the Marilyn Monroes?" Kijak replied, "I don't comprehend. I think it's partly because the legacy ends up just being, 'Oh, Rock Hudson was that actor who died of AIDS.'" But now, in his new HBO documentary, "Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed," Kijak explores Hudson's whole life, as a global star, and closeted gay man. In the documentary, Hudson's friend Ken Jillson said, "Our social life with him was very private. We didn't go out to restaurants. We would go to Rock's house. It was called the Castle." Yes, Prince Charming really did call his home "the Castle" – a Beverly Hills mansion that must have seemed a million miles away from Winnetka, Illinois, where Hudson grew up as Roy Fitzgerald. It was a very mod . .