Metropolitan Master Chorale presents 'All You Need Is Love', a concert celebrating the love of music, the right to love, and the love of singing together.
Visit www.metrosings.org/performances for more information.
Summer Sounds Father's Day Concert, FREE
Sunday, June 15, 1 pm 
West Hollywood Park
647 N. San Vicente Blvd
KID FRIENDLY EVENT! On Father's Day, as a celebration of parenthood, join the City for a special Summer Sounds concert with information and activities for parents and prospective parents and their kids. The band will be La Sirena y Mar de Ashe. Presented by: City of West Hollywood / RaiseAChild.US / Pop Luck Club. Visit www.weho.org/arts for more information.
June Mazer Lesbian Archives presents 'Baby, You Are My Religion' a reading, FREE 
Sunday, June 15, 4 pm
West Hollywood Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Join the June Mazer Lesbian Archives for a reading by Dr. Marie Cartier from her book, which argues that American butch-femme bar culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred space for its community. Before Stonewall these bars were the only place where many could have any community at all. For more information,click here.
"STATUS": A Documentary Screening, FREE 
Wednesday, June 18, 7:30 pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Boulevard
A screening of the 45-minute documentary featuring frank conversations about the journeys and choices that come with the knowledge of one's HIV status. From the producers of My Status Is Not A Secret, a new campaign and interview series that seeks to humanize the HIV experience. Admission is free. RSVP at [email protected]
The Ovahness Archives, FREE 
Friday, June 20, 6 pm
West Hollywood Park Auditorium
647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
An interactive exhibit tour of the "Ovahness Archives" will take guests on a behind the scenes virtual tour of the House/ Ballroom scene. Reach-LA educates, motivates and mobilizes urban youth to care for themselves and their community. Presented by R-LA Studios & California LGBT Arts Alliance. For more information, click here.
ALAP Lesbian & Gay Play Reading Festival, FREE 
Saturday, June 21, 12 pm
West Hollywood Library Community Room
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Rehearsed reading of one new full-length LGBT play on the theme "I Do" chosen by a panel of judges, presented by The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. This years play will be "Til They Do Us Part" by Thomas J. Misuraca. For more information, click here.
A Midsummer Afternoon's Queer Wedding Reception, FREE
Saturday, June 21, 2:30 - 6:30 pm
Plummer Park
7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
APT 3F and PLANET QUEER present a fun, interactive, queer take on wedding receptions for One City One Pride's Make Music Los Angeles Day. Our queer groomsmen welcome you to their public, fairy-themed reception inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and featuring some of Southern California's most talented underground LGBTQ singer-songwriters and bands, including Devin Tait & The Traitors and themegoman. In between the musical performances, our glittery and colorful wedding characters celebrate the nuptials with queered wedding rituals including dances, cake-cutting, toasts and special performances. For more information, click here.
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Behold the Bridegrooms Revisited, FREE
Saturday, June 21, 7 pm 
Fiesta Hall
7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
Performance artist Jason Jenn brings to life some of award-winning filmmaker and poet James Broughton's most love-infused and inspired poetry alongside a group of several local performing artists who will create a colorful staged reading and reinterpretation of Broughton's luminous 1978 marriage to partner Joel Singer. It will be an inspiring and uplifting evening testifying the astounding power of love and a look back at an underappreciated LGBTQ figure. For more information, click here.
This Joint Is Jumpin' by Vox Femina, FREE
Sunday, June 22, 3 pm
Congregation Kol Ami 
1200 N. La Brea Ave.
A free concert by Vox Femina Los Angeles, featuring virtuosic talents of the jazz bassist and vocalist, Jennifer Leitham and the exciting Jennifer Leitham Trio! The concert features jazz music made popular by women. Audience members will have the opportunity to be part of a very personal "Q &A" with Jennifer to talk about "I Stand Corrected", the documentary about her life and career. "It is about much more than becoming a musician and working alongside famous players and musicians, it is a record of how John Leitham became Jennifer Leitham, while not losing her essence". For more information, click here.
'Ivy,' a Portrait of a Crusader, FREE
Sunday, June 22, 7 pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers 
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
A brand new theatrical work with an ensemble cast of six portraying more than fifty characters. Based on interviews with West Hollywood resident Ivy Bottini, the play tells the story of a woman whose determination makes a lasting impact on feminism and gay rights, and whose choices shed light on the gifts we share and the sacrifices we make. An audience talkback will happen after the reading. For more information, click here.
Annual Rainbow Key Awards,
FREE
Tuesday, June 24, 7:30 pm
West Hollywood Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
The City's annual Rainbow Key Awards recognize those who have made significant contributions to the lesbian and gay community. This year's awardees are:
* The National Council of Jewish Women;
* Noelle Carter and Valerie A. Moore;
* Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles;
* Jeff Zarrillo, Paul Katami, Kris Perry, and Sandy Stier (who are the plantiffs in the Prop 8 Supreme Court case); and
* Kim Rocco Shields.
Pacific Serenades: Sense & Sensuality
Wednesday, June 26, 7:30 pm 
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
Pacific Serenades presents music for bassoon and string quartet, featuring the world premiere of a new work by gay Los Angeles composer, Jeffrey Parola, and Maurice Ravel's String Quartet. Performers include bassoonist Judith Farmer, violinists Ji Young An and Ambroise Aubrun, violist Roland Kato, and cellist Timothy Loo. Presented by Pacific Serenades.
Admission - Tickets: $32, $5 students with ID. For more information, visit www.pacser.org.
Under My Skin / Bajo La Piel 
Wednesday, June 26, 8 pm
Marilyn Monroe Blvd.
7936 Santa Monica Blvd.
From the joy of our culture, the diversity of our traditions, our unbreakable faith, and the mess the follows, Akabal Theater presents "Under My Skin" A comedy of complicated social engagements. A series of monologues, enhanced with dance, movement and poetry to explore the other side of the common believe, and what lives under the skin of transphobia, homophobia and intolerance. Presented by: Teatro Akabal. Admission - Tickets: $20. For information and tickets, click here.
* Please note the play will be performed in Spanish and some English with English supertitles and will be followed by a Q & A. (La pieza se presentar� en espa�ol con super t�tulos al Ingl�s. Seguida de un breve foro de preguntas y respues.)
**Street parking only. Please read all signs before parking.
SASSAS sound
Saturday, June 28, 5 pm 
King Road Park Pavilion
1000 N. Kings Road
SASSAS and the City of West Hollywood present internationally renowned cellist Charles Curtis, hailed by ArtForum as "one of the great cellists...spellbinding and minimal," performing compositions by French electronic music pioneer Eliane Radigue and legendary sound artist Alvin Lucier. Tickets $12 advance; $15 at the door; $10 students/seniors/SASSAS members. Parking available at the Kings Road Municipal Parking Structure (8383 Santa Monica Boulevard) or free street parking available. For tickets, visit www.sassas.org
INTERFACE: The Marriage Project, FREE
Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28, 8 pm 
Fiesta Hall
7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
INTERFACE: The Marriage Project is a two-week artists-in-residence program with MULTIPLEX DANCE culminating in a new work titled "I Do" that will feature members of the LGBTQ community performing with MXD dancers in two shows that correlate with Marriage Equality Day, the day the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal in California again. For information, click here.
Opening Reception for "The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History", FREE 
Saturday, June 28, 6-9 pm
One Archives Gallery & Museum
626 N. Robertson Blvd.
Organized by the Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art and curated by scholar Jonathan David Katz, "The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History" investigates the continued centrality of the classical nude over centuries of art making. The exhibition explores how images of the classical past have acted as recurring touchstones in the historical development of same-sex representation, and as such, constitute a sensitive barometer of the shifting constructions of what we today call gay and lesbian or queer culture. For more information, click here.
Admission - Free
www.one.usc.edu
4th Annual Celebrating All Life & Creation Pow Wow, FREE
Saturday, June 28, 10 am - 6 pm
Plummer Park 
7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
Join us at the Red Circle Project's 4th Annual Celebrating All Life & Creation Pow Wow in commemoration of National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day! Come and enjoy Native American dancing, singing, drumming, food, as well as Native American vendors selling crafts, jewelry, beadwork, and much more. Everyone is welcome! Presented by: Red Circle Project - APLA Health & Wellness. For more information, click here.
Summer Sounds Concert: Thom Dower, FREE
Sunday, June 29, 4 pm
Kings Road Park
1000 N. Kings Road
Join us for the second of our Summer Sounds concert series, featuring Thom Dower on guitar. Thom will be playing instrumental arrangements of melodies he has been playing in the parks for years. He feels that the presence of the patrons of the park creates a response on the guitar player's part that, in turn, reflects a mood and sense of space. Presented by the City of West Hollywood through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission. Admission is free and limited seating will be provided. For more information, visit www.weho.org/arts.
The Last Bastion: A Conversation on Feminist and Queer Museum Politics, FREE
Monday, June 30, 6:30 pm
West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd. Join us for an engaging talk featuring Dr. Amelia Jones and Dr. Jonathan D. Katz, two leading Queer Theorists and art historians to examine how art can serve as activism. Funded as part of the City Arts Grant program. Presented by: CA LGBT Arts Alliance / June Mazer Lesbian Archives / The City of West Hollywood. For more information, click
here.
Queer Classics The Importance of Being Earnest
Through Sunday, June 22
The Actors Company
916 N. Formosa Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
One of the most popular comedic plays ever written: this time it's gay! Two couples fight for the right to be engaged in this masterful satire written by Oscar Wilde, arrested for for "gross indecency with men" in 1895. This timeless story galavants through a world obsessed with appearances, money and social-status. The parallels with today's Hollywood Culture make for searing fun and by presenting the four lovers as dashing gay men, Queer Classics reimagines the play more hysterically fabulous than Oscar could have imagined possible in his lifetime. For more information including show dates, visit click here!
