In the News
2025
Spectrum News 1 SoCal: “‘It’s Where I Belong’: West Hollywood exhibit celebrates the history of drag”
June 28, 2025 | By Rae Williams
“It’s Where I Belong” is on view during a particularly charged moment for drag in America. With increased political scrutiny on drag story hours and performances, the exhibit arrives as both tribute and statement.
LGBTQ Nation: “Queer educators unveil 10 new LGBTQ+ lessons for California public schools”
June 26, 2025 | By Daniel Villareal
Trevor Ladner, Director of Education Programs at One Institute said, “The FAIR Education Act affirms students’ right to study the pride, resistance, and joy of LGBTQ+ history and culture. These lesson plans equip K-12 teachers with standards-aligned resources and effective practices to teach intersectional LGBTQ+ histories.”
SBS News: “Amid violent clashes with police over ICE raids, one community is flocking to LA”
June 21, 2025 | By Julia Abbondanza
Anti-LGBTIQ+ laws in the US are pushing queer and trans people from conservative states. West Hollywood — with its vibrant drag scene, gender-affirming care and inclusive community spaces — provides a much-needed refuge.
WEHO TIMES: “Lil Miss Hot Mess to Host One Institute Curator Tour of West Hollywood Drag History”
June 18, 2025 | By Mike Pingel
Lil Miss Hot Mess—who has recently been targeted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for her activism—emphasized drag’s power as a tool for resistance and community-building. “Drag is a beloved art form, but this is hardly the first time it has faced opposition,” she said. “We’ve got to keep on twirling.”
Secret Los Angeles: “WeHo Celebrates 40 Years Of Drag With A Fierce And Fabulous New Exhibit For Pride Month — Here’s When”
May 29, 2025 | By Sofia Delpueche
The iconic West Hollywood neighborhood is turning 40, and she’s throwing a party with her most glamorous residents front and center. As part of the city’s milestone anniversary, It’s Where I Belong: 40 Years (and More) of Drag in West Hollywood is sashaying into ONE Gallery, serving eleganza, cultural resistance, and a whole lot of sparkle.
48hills: “Lil Miss Hot Mess: the queen who wouldn’t stop reading”
May 20, 2025 | By Caitlin Donohue
“Actually, right now I’m sitting in a gallery. I’m curating a show on the history of drag in West Hollywood (‘It’s Where I Belong: 40 Years (and More) of Drag in West Hollywood’ opens Thu/22 at One Gallery, Los Angeles), which is kind of a passion project that allows me to sit with all these beautiful materials that showcase, as Justin Vivian Bond says, that glamour is resistance.”
L.A. Blade: “‘It’s Where I Belong’ spotlights West Hollywood’s drag legacy with new exhibition”
May 14, 2025 | By Rose Montoya
A new exhibition celebrating the artistry and resilience of drag culture is set to open next Thursday, May 22 at the One Gallery in West Hollywood.“It’s Where I Belong,” will be part of the city’s 40th anniversary celebration, running through June 29, aligning with Pride season festivities.
Bay Area Reporter: “NEA snatches grants from local arts organizations”
May 6, 2025 | By Jim Provenzano
In part of a nationwide move to attack arts organizations, on May 2, President Donald Trump’s administration sent emails to multiple Bay Area arts nonprofits, and hundreds nationwide, essentially rescinding previously awarded grants. Recipients of the shocking emails include LGBTQ-focused performing arts nonprofits.
Los Angeles Public Press: “LA’s LGBTQ+ arts nonprofits, artists face ‘chilling effect’ under anti-DEI executive orders”
April 15, 2025 | By Jireh Deng
Valenzuela also anticipates that public grants will become increasingly more competitive and organizations that don’t have a network to deep-pocketed private funders will be hit the hardest. To address these concerns, Valenzuela is spearheading a new LA-based organization called the LGBTQ+ Humanities and Arts Coalition that brings together queer non-profits and other cultural institutions.
WEHO TIMES: “Exhibition Celebrating Drag History in West Hollywood to Open in May”
April 15, 2025 | By Mike Pingel
One Institute will debut a new exhibition next month celebrating four decades of drag in West Hollywood, as part of the city’s 40th anniversary celebration. Titled It’s Where I Belong: 40 Years (and More) of Drag in West Hollywood, the exhibition will run from May 22 to June 29, 2025, at One Gallery in West Hollywood.
WEHO TIMES: “One Institute’s ‘The Home We Build’ Exhibit Showcases LGBTQ+ Youth Ambassadors”
February 8, 2025 | By Paulo Murillo
One Institute is set to host “The Home We Build”, an exhibit featuring the work of the 2024–2025 Youth Ambassadors for Queer History, on Saturday, February 15, 2025, from 3 to 5 p.m. at One Gallery in West Hollywood, located at 626 N Robertson Blvd.
2024
LA Times: “Americans see positive LGBTQ+ influences all around, a source of hope at a tough time”
December 29, 2024 | By Kevin Rector
In 2024, the Times ran a project called “Our Queerest Century,” which celebrated LGBTQ+ history and contributions since 1924. Readers said they find hope in that history and in each other as they brace for the next Trump administration.
LAist: “The legacy of the trans trailblazer who fought the LAPD to keep drag performers on stage”
November 23, 2024 | By Josie Huang
Java’s long life, which saw her suffer two strokes, is itself a testament to her resiliency in a world where trans people, especially those of color, face heightened threats of violence and discrimination, says Rory Hayes, One Institute’s public programs manager.
LA Times: “Sir Lady Java, pioneering transgender performer and activist in L.A. nightclub scene, dies”
November 20, 2024 | By Kevin Rector
Trevor Ladner, director of education programs at the One Institute, an LGBTQ+ history and education organization in L.A., said he teaches Java’s story as part of the institute’s youth program, and learned of her death while researching her story with students over the weekend.
ABC7 Los Angeles: “Circa Queer Histories Festival honors October’s LGBTQ+ History Month”
October 4, 2024
In celebration of seven decades of service to the LGBTQ+ community, the One Institute presents Circa, the only LGBTQ+ histories festival in the United States. Circa will take place during LGBTQ+ History Month from October 1-31 at venues across Los Angeles.
NBC News: “Los Angeles’ LGBTQ history comes alive at Circa: Queer Histories Festival”
October 1, 2024 | By Dan Allen
This Saturday in Los Angeles, a particularly eager queer history aficionado could join a walking tour of downtown’s LGBTQ heritage, listen in on a conversation with Radical Faeries co-founder Don Kilhefner, catch a preview screening of a docuseries about feminist trailblazers, attend a talk about Long Beach’s LGBTQ past, and cap off the day at the never dull Tom of Finland House with readings on the cultural significance of kink and voguing.
Q Voice News: “‘Circa Queer Histories Festival’ to spotlight LGBTQ+ stories”
September 25, 2024 | By Phillip Zonkel
“Circa: Queer Histories Festival” will celebrate the theme of love and (r) evolution with narratives focused on community care and political organizing in the LGBTQ+ community. Circa, the first and only festival of its kind in the U.S. and produced by the ONE Institute, will take place during LGBTQ+ History Month, from Oct. 1 to 31 at venues in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
WEHO TIMES: “WeHo City to Co-Sponsor One Institute’s Circa: LGBTQ+ Histories Festival”
September 20, 2024
The City of West Hollywood is co-sponsoring One Institute’s Circa: LGBTQ+ Histories Festival. The month-long festival will feature more than 65 programs throughout October beginning with the festival launch party on Sunday, September 29, 2024 and ending on Thursday, October 31, 2024.
The Advocate: “Out100 Honoree Tony Valenzuela thanks queer and trans communities for support in his HIV journey”
September 18, 2024 | By Keighton
Valenzuela has advocated for HIV and the LGBTQ+ community for more than 30 years. Prior to joining One Institute in 2022, Valenzuela led many other queer organizations, including the Foundation for The AIDS Monument and Lambda Library — a premier queer literary non profit. He also founded the LGBTQ Writers in Schools, the first queer educational initiative in the K-12 New York City public school system.
WEHO TIMES: “One Institute to Host Discussion on Rise and Fall of Gay Republicans in Los Angeles”
July 5, 2024 | By Paulo Murillo
One Institute will host a discussion on “Los Angeles and the Rise & Fall of Gay Republicans,” an exclusive conversation and book signing for the newly published Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right, by writer and political commentator Neil J. Young.
LA Blade: “One Institute hosts exhibition featuring works by LGBTQ+ students”
January 30, 2024 | By Paulo Murillo
One Institute hosted “History Within Us,” a one-day exhibition showcasing creative research projects by six LGBTQ+ high school student leaders from the Institute’s 2023-24 Youth Ambassadors for Queer History program on Saturday, January 29, 2024, at One Gallery in West Hollywood. Each student made a presentation describing their projects before a packed room.
2023
Tuscon Sentinel: “Tucson author Lydia Otero’s latest book, ‘L.A. Interchanges,’ records history of ‘Brown & Queer’ activism”
December 20, 2023 | By Xavier Omar Otero
“It also makes me proud to witness a younger generation of queers’ investment in recovering a history that I had a role in making. The recent 2022 exhibition in Los Angeles by ONE Institute that highlighted ‘Radio GLLU’ — the first bilingual LGBTQ+ radio program in the nation that aired between the mid-1980s through the 1990s — stands as an example.”
ABC7 Los Angeles: “Out100 honorees include SoCal leader tasked with preserving LGBTQ+ history”
November 22, 2023 | By Christiane Cordero
“One of our board members at One Institute often says a people without a history is a people without a future,” said Valenzuela, the One Institute’s Executive Director. In November, Out Magazine and Out.com recognized Valenzuela as one of its Out100 honorees. It was his second time earning the distinction, the first being in 1997.
OUT: “The 2023 OUT100: Tony Valenzuela”
October 31, 2023 | By Becca Damante
In summer 2022, Valenzuela embarked on a new chapter when he became the executive director of the One Institute (formerly the ONE Archives Foundation), the oldest continually operating queer organization in the country, which works to tell the stories of the LGBTQ+ community.
LA Blade: “Queer narratives in neon presented by The Museum of Neon Art”
October 27, 2023
October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and the folks at The Museum of Neon Art (MONA) in Glendale is proud to partner with Circa: the first LGBTQ+ histories festival in the United States, presented by One Institute.
Q Voice News: “One magazine exhibit spotlights gay life in 1950s & 1960s”
October 13, 2023 | By Phillip Zonkel
The exhibit “ONE magazine at Seventy” celebrates the 70th anniversary of the groundbreaking One magazine, the first nationally distributed LGBTQ+ magazine in the United States. It debuted in January 1953 and was published by One, Inc., the predecessor to the newly rebranded nonprofit One Institute, formerly One Archives Foundation.
ABC7 Los Angeles: “Circa: the first and only LGBTQ+ histories festival in the US”
October 3, 2023
In celebration of seven decades of service to the LGBTQ+ community, the ONE Institute presents Circa, the first and only LGBTQ+ histories festival in the United States. Circa programs will take place at over 30 venues across Los Angeles from October 1-31.
LA Times: “One magazine secretly built community in the ’50s. Now it’s celebrated in L.A.’s queer history festival”
September 28, 2023 | By Manuel Betancourt
When One magazine published its first issue in January 1953, it became the first widely distributed gay publication in the United States. Created by One Inc., the gay rights organization founded the year before, the pioneering magazine is celebrating its trailblazing pages and its influential 14-year run with a new exhibit in Los Angeles.
LA Blade: “West Hollywood in brief- City government in action this week”
September 20, 2023
The City of West Hollywood is a proud co-sponsor of the One Institute’s Circa: LGBTQ+ Histories Festival. The month-long festival will feature 70 programs throughout October. As part of the festival, 12 programs will be located in West Hollywood.
LA Blade: “ONE Archives Foundation changes name to One Institute”
September 14, 2023 | By Paulo Murillo
ONE Archives Foundation, the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the United States, announced today that the nonprofit has rebranded itself and has changed its name to One Institute. The rebrand coincides with the milestone 70th anniversary of the publication of the organization’s groundbreaking ONE Magazine.
NBC News: “Civil rights leader’s legacy remembered on March on Washington’s 60th anniversary”
August 28, 2023 | By Brooke Sopelsa and Jay Valle
Umi Hsu, director of content strategy at the ONE Archives Foundation, which helps preserve LGBTQ history, said Rustin’s activism is a reminder that queer people of color experience “double the amount of oppressions but also there’s double the power when these politics are addressed.”
Them: “How Queer People Reinvented the Beach”
August 21, 2023 | By Michael Waters
There are still, of course, plenty of the more traditional queer beaches remaining: Zipolite in Oaxaca, Mexico, Oval Beach in Saugatuck, Wreck Beach in Vancouver, Ginger Rogers Beach in Los Angeles, Clifton 3rd Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, and dozens more. Like their antecedents, they remain under constant threat.
WEHO TIMES: “One Archives to Launch Circa Queer Histories Festival with ‘ONE Magazine at Seventy’ exhibition”
July 30, 2023
One Archives Foundation is celebrating 70 years since the publication of the groundbreaking ONE Magazine. ONE Archives announced that the ONE Magazine at Seventy exhibition will launch Circa, a first-of-its-kind queer histories festival to be held across Los Angeles County this October 2023.
The Advocate: “Vandals Defaced LGBTQ+ Tributes at Iconic California Beach”
July 11, 2023 | By Christopher Wiggins
In honor of the beach, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors passed a motion to place signage about the area’s importance and permanently paint the towers in Progress Pride colors. Project collaborators included the ONE Archives Foundation, one of the largest collections of LGBTQ+ history.
LA Times: “Inside the growing movement to digitize LGBTQ+ stories: ‘We’re reverse-engineering new memories’ of the past”
July 7, 2023 | By Allison Armijo
ONE Archives Foundation seeks to engage people with LGBTQ+ history through personal stories to foster empathy and human connection across generations. “Periodically Queer” strives to bring the intimacy and bond associated with physical archives to a digital landscape.
Bay Area Reporter: “LGBTQ+ trailblazers on new radio episodes”
July 6, 2023 | By Cynthia Laird
ONE Archives Foundation in Los Angeles has unveiled its new season of Youspeak Radio, an educational initiative that pairs high school students with California-based LGBTQ+ activists for in-depth conversations that offer insight into the community’s past.
The Advocate: “21 Historic Photos of Queer Nightlife and Activism”
June 28, 2023
This exhibition from 2019 sought to spotlight and affirm the significant and under-recognized contributions of queer and gender-variant artists and activists to contemporary society. The exhibition’s title, “Liberate the Bar!”, references protester shouts from the Stonewall Riots, while also gesturing towards the potential of nightlife to promote feelings of freedom, safety, and celebration.
LAist: “At LA’s Unofficial Gay Beach, Vandals Defaced Lifeguard Towers Painted In Progress Pride Colors”
June 21, 2023 | By Cato Hernández
The beach was formally honored by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors after Supervisor Lindsey Horvath introduced a motion to place signage about the area’s importance and to permanently paint the towers in the Progress Pride flag colors. The ONE Archives Foundation, which is part of the largest repository of LGBTQ+ history, collaborated on the project.
ABC7 Los Angeles: “‘Ginger Rogers’ beach honored with LGBTQ-themed lifeguard towers to celebrate Pride Month”
June 19, 2023
The Los Angeles County Third District and ONE Archives Foundation honored LGBTQ+ advocates and leaders by painting Lifeguard Towers 17 and 18 with the colors of the Progress Pride Flag. There’s also new signage educating the public about “Ginger Rogers” Beach.
LA Blade: “Horvath, Zbur, unveil Progress Pride lifeguard towers”
June 18, 2023
Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath was joined by Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, Tony Valenzuela, Executive Director of the ONE Archives Foundation and Los Angeles County officials on Friday to celebrate and unveil Ginger Rogers Beach’s newly painted Progress Flag lifeguard towers.
Q Voice News: “Ginger Rogers Beach gets 2 Pride-painted lifeguard towers”
June 18, 2023 | By Phillip Zonkel
The ONE Archives Foundation, the nation’s largest and oldest LGBTQ+ history organization, extensively researched the vibrant history of Ginger Rogers Beach for this project.
Daily Bruin: “Photographers exhibit portraits of LGBTQ+ people and spaces in ‘Queering the Lens’”
June 8, 2023 | By Avery Poznanski
In partnership with LA Pride, the Getty Center presented an exhibition and conversation with three LA-based photographers on Wednesday. Rick Castro, Amina Cruz and Texas Isaiah presented and discussed their work documenting queer individuals and spaces with moderator Tony Valenzuela.
The Advocate: “14 Inspiring Queer Protest Posters in Days of Rage from ONE Archives”
June 6, 2023
A selection of historical protest posters from ONE Archives at the USC Libraries tells the stories of LGBTQ+ activism over the decades, and shows how graphic artists can help inspire and organize their communities. It was curated by Andy Campbell and co-curated by Tracy Fenix and Austen Villacis, organized by ONE Archives Foundation, and made possible by a grant from Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.
The Advocate: “13 Vintage Photos of Los Angeles Pride from ONE Archives”
June 2, 2023
This series of historic photos from ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, provided by ONE Archives Foundation, explores the roots of L.A.’s queer community — including the police raid at Black Cat Tavern in 1967 that inspired the first editions of The Advocate, and the founding of L.A. Pride.
WEHO TIMES: “ONE Archives Announces Launch of Circa Queer Histories Festival”
April 10, 2023
ONE Archives Foundation (ONE) announced the launch of Circa, the first queer histories festival in the United States, featuring programs and events held across Los Angeles County during LGBTQ+ History Month this October 2023.
The Fight: “LA LGBT Center to Host Drag March PROTEST of Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation This Sunday In WeHo”
April 6, 2023
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, the Los Angeles LGBT Center will team up with over 40 LGBTQ+ organizations, faith groups, queer and trans activists, and drag artists to mobilize against the tidal wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation across the U.S. with the all-ages Drag March LA.
LA Blade: “Easter drag gathering & protest march in WeHo this weekend”
April 5, 2023
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, more than 1,000 Angelenos will gather in their Sunday Best for a strut down Santa Monica Blvd. The event will begin with a rally and kickoff performance at 11 a.m. at West Hollywood Park.
2022
WEHO TIMES: “Together On the Air Exhibit on Radio GLLU is Now Available Via ONE Archives”
December 29, 2022 | By Paulo Murillo
ONE Gallery is currently featuring Together On the Air–a hybrid exhibition chronicling Radio GLLU, the first ever bilingual LGBTQ+ radio program in the U.S. featuring Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU), one of the first LGBTQ+ Latinx organizations in the country.
Q Voice News: ONE Inc v. Olsen in 1958 is 1st gay rights Supreme Court case
December 26, 2022 | By Phillip Zonkel
The ONE Archives Foundation is celebrating its 70th anniversary. It’s the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the country, and it started in Hollywood as ONE Inc. ONE Inc. also has the historic distinction of winning 1958’s groundbreaking ONE Inc. v. Olesen, the first U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed gay and lesbian rights.
TheBody: “‘At Home With’: Tony Valenzuela Reflects on the Importance of World AIDS Day”
December 21, 2022 | By Charles Sanchez
I invited Tony Valenzuela, executive director of the ONE Archives Foundation, the longest-running LGBTQ organization in the country, to chat about World AIDS Day on an episode of At Home With on Instagram. The organization is celebrating 70 years of service to LGBTQ communities this year. Tony has been active in the HIV and LGBTQ communities for decades.
WEHO TIMES: “ONE Archives Announces ‘Together on Air’ Radio GLLU Exhibit in West Hollywood”
December 1, 2022
ONE Archives Foundation announced the launch of Together On the Air, a hybrid exhibit that is the first ever to chronicle the history of Radio GLLU, the first bilingual LGBTQ+ radio program in the United States.
Bay Area Reporter: “LGBTQ History Month: New leader settles in at LA LGBTQ archival group”
October 26, 2022 | By Matthew S. Bajko
As the ONE Archives Foundation marks its 70th anniversary in November, making it the oldest continuously operating LGBTQ organization in the U.S., Tony Valenzuela is helping the Los Angeles-based LGBTQ archival group rebuild after being impacted by the COVID pandemic and expand the histories it tells to be more diverse.
ABC7 Los Angeles: “Activist Phill Wilson reflects on his work fighting AIDS to save lives”
October 21, 2022 | By Christiane Cordero
Phill Wilson’s story – the one where he started the Black Aids Institute, bridged people to policy and turned his grief into action – that story – is also one of survival.
POZ: “HIV Activist Tony Valenzuela Helms LGBTQ ONE Archives”
October 3, 2022 | By Trent Straube
Longtime HIV and LGBTQ advocate Tony Valenzuela is the new executive director of the Los Angeles–based ONE Archives Foundation. The nation’s longest-running LGBTQ organization, ONE preserves and shares LGBTQ history and culture, including elements about HIV and AIDS.
Q Voice News: “Tony Valenzuela new executive director at ONE Archives Foundation”
October 3, 2022 | By Phillip Zonkel
Tony Valenzuela, former executive director of the Foundation for the AIDS Monument, is the new executive director of the ONE Archives Foundation. Valenzuela is the first Latinx person to lead ONE Archives Foundation, the longest continuously operating LGBTQ+ organization in the United States.
WEHO TIMES: “ONE Archives Foundation Names Tony Valenzuela as New Executive Director”
September 15, 2022
ONE Archives Foundation announced his week that longtime LGBTQ+ activist and nonprofit leader Tony Valenzuela (he/him) has been named as its new Executive Director. Valenzuela is the first Latinx person to lead ONE Archives Foundation, the longest continuously operating LGBTQ+ organization in the United States.
Windy City Times: “ONE Archives names Tony Valenzuela as executive director”
September 14, 2022
The Los Angeles-based ONE Archives Foundation announced that longtime LGBTQ+ activist and nonprofit leader Tony Valenzuela (he/him) has been named as its new executive director.
LA Blade: “ONE Archives Foundation names Tony Valenzuela as its new head”
September 13, 2022
Tony Valenzuela has been named as its new Executive Director. Valenzuela, a longtime LGBTQ+ activist and nonprofit leader is the first Latinx person to lead ONE Archives Foundation as it readies to mark its 70th anniversary in November 2022.
The Advocate: “ONE Archives Foundation’s New Board Chair Brings an Inclusive Vision”
August 18, 2022 | By Trudy Ring
As the new board chair for the ONE Archives Foundation, Chiedu Egbuniwe is dedicated to making sure the LGBTQ+ history repository — the largest in the world — represents the full diversity of the community. Egbuniwe, a Black gay man, is the first person of color to chair the board for the foundation; the archive is housed at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
The Advocate: “14 Images of Iranian LGBTQ+ Magazine ‘Homan’ from ONE Archives”
July 13, 2022
In a recent episode of Periodically Queer, a new podcast on LGBTQ+ print media and community-building by ONE Archives Foundation, host Erik Adamian took listeners on a journey to learn about Homan, an organization and magazine formed to advocate for the rights of Iranian LGBTQ+ people living abroad.
POZ: “Viewing the History of HIV Through AIDS Posters”
June 22, 2022 | By Theodore Kerr
Andy Campbell worked with the ONE Archives and ONE Archives Foundation to curate Days of Rage, a multimedia online exhibition featuring activists and designers discussing their work.
It’s Nice That: “Explore queer design history through Days of Rage, a new online exhibition documenting LGBTQIA+ activist posters”
June 15, 2022 | By Olivia Hingley
Days of Rage is a pertinent and expertly crafted online exhibition, born out of a conversation between Umi Hsu, director of content strategy of One Archives Foundation, and curator Andy Campbell. Umi approached Andy, the author of Queer x Design, wanting to create a project “about queer design that exemplifies the spirit of queer design”.
Gay Community News: “New Days of Rage virtual exhibition shines light on historical LGBTQ+ posters”
April 21, 2022 | By Nat Mak
Six graphic designers have collaborated with the ONE Archives Foundation, the oldest active LGBTQ+ organisation in the US, to curate an online exhibition of posters from LGBTQ+ activist movements in the late 20th century.
Them: “This Digital Exhibition of Posters from ACT UP and Beyond Will Ignite You”
April 15, 2022 | By Emily Colucci
The Sylvester print is just one of the many posters featured in ONE Archives Foundation’s new web-based exhibition Days of Rage, a curated archive of posters and smaller Xeroxed flyers spanning the early gay liberation movements of the 1970s to the safer sex public education campaigns of the mid-1990s.
2021
ABC7 Los Angeles: “Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month: Activists and protests that predate the Stonewall Riots”
October 22, 2021
The Stonewall Riots in 1969 are considered by many to be the start of the gay rights movement, but there are other protests and events in support of the LGBTQ+ community that pre-date Stonewall. For many years, advocates and activists had been working to advance LGBTQ+ rights.
LA Times: “Pride Month events with Lil Nas X and Dolly lead our list of weekend culture”
June 3, 2021 | By Matt Cooper
This multisite outdoor exhibit presented by the ONE Archives Foundation features 28 large-scale black-and-white portraits — by artists including Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and the Tom of Finland Foundation’s Durk Dehner — saluting other LGBTQ trailblazers.
WEHO TIMES: “One Archives Presents Pride Publics: Words and Actions Exhibition”
May 27, 2021 | By Paulo Murillo
ONE Archives Foundation presents “Pride Publics: Words and Actions,” a multi-site outdoor exhibition that examines the intersection between pride and publicness in partnership with the City of West Hollywood as part of One City One Pride.
LA Blade: “WeHo kicks off annual One City One Pride- and honors Lady Gaga”
May 23, 2021 | By Brody Levesque
ONE Archives Foundation presents “Pride Publics: Words and Actions,” a multi-site outdoor exhibition that examines the intersection between pride and publicness and examines themes central to queer public life while highlighting trailblazers and their visions.
LA Times: “Sterling K. Brown proves that casting a straight actor in a gay role isn’t always a misstep”
May 13, 2021 | By Charles McNulty
Play readings on Zoom are a pandemic placeholder few theater-lovers will be sad to give up. But they have on occasion provided an opportunity to experiment with casting, shedding fresh light on a role, a performer and even a playwright. A reading of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” a benefit for the ONE Archives Foundation, did just that on Saturday night.
Broadway World: “VIDEO: See Jeremy Pope, Sterling K. Brown and Laverne Cox in Clips From THE NORMAL HEART Benefit Reading”
May 5, 2021 | By Chloe Rabinowitz
ONE Archives Foundation will be presenting virtual reading of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” on May 8, 2021 5pm PT, followed by a live Q+A with cast members. Directed by Emmy Award-winning director Paris Barclay, this presentation will be the first after Kramer’s death, and the first time that this play will feature a predominately BIPOC and LGBTQ cast.
The Hollywood Reporter: “‘The Normal Heart’ Virtual Reading Set With Sterling K. Brown, Laverne Cox: ‘It Doesn’t Have to Be About All White Gay Men'”
May 4, 2021 | By Kirsten Chuba
Directed by Station 19 executive producer Paris Barclay, the reading is put on by ONE Archives Foundation, the oldest active LGBTQ organization in the U.S., and the Invisible Histories Project, which is dedicated to making LGBTQ Southern history accessible to the community.
USA Today: “Laverne Cox, Sterling K. Brown to star in ‘The Normal Heart’ virtual benefit reading”
April 8, 2021 | By Phillip Zonkel
The May 8 reading will be a fundraiser for the ONE Archives Foundation and Invisible Histories Project and include a special introduction by Martin Sheen.
Them: “Laverne Cox and Jeremy Pope Set to Appear In Virtual Reading of The Normal Heart”
April 2, 2021 | By Michael Cuby
Set to take place on May 8 with a special introduction by Martin Sheen, the reading will raise money for the ONE Archives Foundation and the Invisible Histories Project — particularly, for their LGBTQ+ education initiatives, which include K-12 lesson plans on HIV/AIDS, teacher training, youth engagement, and more.
Deadline: “Sterling K. Brown & Laverne Cox Among All-Star Cast Of ‘The Normal Heart’ Virtual Benefit Reading”
April 1, 2021 | By Greg Evans
“When I was approached by ONE Archives Foundation to direct a virtual reading of The Normal Heart, I knew it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up,” said [Paris] Barclay (Station 19, Scandal). “I lived in New York through the 1980s, saw the original production with Brad Davis, and have never forgotten the experience.”
Broadway.com: “Odds & Ends: Sterling K. Brown, Laverne Cox & More to Star in The Normal Heart Benefit Reading”
April 1, 2021
Emmy winners Sterling K. Brown and Laverne Cox, Tony nominee Jeremy Pope and more will appear in an upcoming virtual benefit reading of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. Directed by Paris Barclay, the reading will raise funds for ONE Archives Foundation and Invisible Histories Project.
USA Today: “Kids aren’t learning LGBTQ history. The Equality Act might change that.”
March 8, 2021 | By Elinor Aspegren
The ONE Archives Foundation is the host of the largest repository of LGBTQ+ resources in the world, housed at the University of Southern California. The oldest LGBTQ+ rights organization in the nation, it works with teachers across the country to introduce LGBTQ+-inclusive content into the classroom.
2020
LA Blade: “‘It’s Not Over’ WeHo Pop-Up exhibit to honor early AIDS fight”
December 1, 2020 | By Noah Christiansen
According to the ONE Archives Foundation, “It’s Not Over” amplifies voices of AIDS activists and community organizers by featuring a curated set of activist posters and images from mid 1980s to late 1990s selected from the ONE Archives.
The Advocate: “Vintage AIDS Activism Posters on Display for World AIDS Day Exhibit”
November 18, 2020
Activist posters, picket signs, and ephemera from the height of the AIDS epidemic will be on exhibition in conjunction with World AIDS Day outdoors in West Hollywood via the ONE Archives’ pop-up exhibition. “It’s Not Over: Posters and Graphics from Early AIDS Activism” will be on display for a month in Los Angeles county’s queer mecca from Dec. 1 – Dec. 31.
MARCH: “Let’s Not Be Afraid of Each Other”
July 2020 | By Umi Hsu and Theodore (ted) Kerr
On January 17, 2020, METANOIA: Transformation through AIDS Archives and Activism opened at ONE GALLERY in West Hollywood in Los Angeles County. The exhibition is an archival examination of community-based responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis in the United States.
NBC News: “Celebrate Pride Month by honoring these Black LGBTQ trailblazers”
June 27, 2020 | By Nico Lang
Umi Hsu, director of content strategy at the ONE Archives Foundation, which helps preserve LGBTQ history, said [Bayard] Rustin influenced King’s “nonviolent methods of protest” by telling him about the work of Mahatma Gandhi, who led the campaign for India’s independence from Britain through peaceful demonstration.
LA Weekly: “ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives: Learning From Lived and Living History”
June 11, 2020 | By Shana Nys Dambrot
Founded in 1952 by Jim Kepner, the publisher of the historically progressive ONE Magazine, with archival collections gifted to the USC Libraries in 2010, the ONE Archives Foundation is dedicated not only to the preservation, curation, study and dissemination of their considerable holdings, but increasingly to amping up their public-facing engagements and dialog with the activism of today.
TheBody: “What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective Turns Attention to Radical Care in Time of COVID”
May 19, 2020 | By Jamara Wakefield
The “What Does a COVID-19 Doula Do?” zine, made in collabaration with the ONE Archive Foundation, emerged as a snapshot of time from the WWHIVDD community, responding in words, actions, and images to the unfolding, unprecedented, global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Autostraddle: “‘Reach Out to One Person a Day’: Feminist AIDS Activists Reflect on COVID-19”
May 18, 2020 | By Lauren Herold
In the spirit of collective artwork, [Dr. Alexandra] Juhasz recently helped put together a zine called What Does a Covid-19 Doula Do? The zine is connected to an exhibit she co-curated for the ONE Archives Foundation about AIDS archives and activism and was created in collaboration with the What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective.
Hyperallergic: “Enter the ‘Quaranzine’: Zines That Boost Resistance, Mutual Aid, and Self-Care”
April 30, 2020 | By Ysabelle Cheung
What Does A COVID-19 Doula Do? describes the work of doulas —those practicing emotional outreach and care — in response to the global pandemic. Funded by ONE Archives Foundation and created in collaboration with the What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective, the zine looks into the effects of COVID-19 alongside archival material from an exhibition on the AIDS crisis, finding overlaps in themes of art-making, activism, and care.
LA Blade: “‘Metanoia’ archival exhibit connects past AIDS activism to present actions”
February 2, 2020 | By Scott Stiffler
As noted by the curators, “Metanoia” seeks to “draw out the larger context in which Black women with HIV in prison were changed into agents of transformation for themselves, their communities, and all people living with or affected by HIV.”
2019
The74: “The State of LGBTQ Curriculum: Tide Is Turning as Some States Opt for Inclusion, Others Lift Outright Restrictions”
June 11, 2019 | By Noble Ingram
ONE Archives is based in Los Angeles, and it focuses mostly on California, which passed the FAIR Education Act, ensuring LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, in 2011. But the organization has begun to work with teachers across the country and recognizes how complicated introducing LGBTQ content can be in a state without protections for it, says Erik Adamian, associate director of education for the ONE Archives Foundation.
AL.com: “Including LGBTQ history in schools can prevent bullying, advocates said”
March 29, 2019 | By Jonece Starr Dunigan
Erik Adamian of the ONE Archives Foundation in California led the presentation, discussing how to bring LGBTQ history into the classroom. The foundation assists teachers in creating LGBTQ-inclusive lesson plans by giving them access to the world’s largest collection of historical LGBTQ material located at the University of Southern California.
TheBody: “Exhibit in New York Unearths 1990s Activism by HIV-Positive Women in Prison”
March 8, 2019 | By Tim Murphy
The exhibit is culled largely from The Center’s 13 boxes of archives from Judy Greenspan, an activist who was a link between the women in prison and outside groups such as ACT UP San Francisco, and is inspired in part by [an exhibit last year in Los Angeles of 1980s to 90s AIDS prevention materials from the ONE Archives.
Instinct: “Los Angeles LGBT Center Publishes LGBT History Lesson Plans for California Teachers Under FAIR Education Act”
January 26, 2019 | By Adam Dupuis
“The inclusion of LGBTQ history and culture within K-12 classrooms brings critical validation and affirmation to the experiences and identities of LGBTQ youth,” said Erik Adamian, education and outreach manager at the ONE Archives Foundation.
Image credit (banner): “ONE Institute to Celebrate 50th Anniversary,” Update, May 2, 2002. Periodicals, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.