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Club Papi LA - Thursdays
Pan Dulce at Micky's

Every Thursday, 9pm-2am, at Micky's, 8857 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood. The biggest gay Latino party in the USA Hosted by Lola, with 15+ hot & horny Papi go-go boyz.


www.clubpapi.com
Ten years-running
GAMeBoi

Every Friday at Rage, 8911 Santa Monica Blvd, WeHo. Weekly 18+ gay Asian dance party, go-go boys,Pop & Hip Hop music videos. Free Entry before 9:30pm. $8 before 10pm, $12 general admission.


www.gameboila.com
Tom of Finland Foundation
Life Drawing Workshops

May 12, 2013, 1-4pm. Nude Figure Drawing & Painting monthly workshops, 2nd or 3rd Sundays. $25 suggested donation. Scholarship funds available, No one turned away for lack of money. "Over a quarter century dedicated to protecting, preserving & promoting erotic art." DJ RocketManLA spins with over 90,000 songs! Workshop Coordinator: Miguel Angel Reyes.


tomoffinlandfoundation.org
Zombie Joes Underground Theatre Group at ZJU Theater
Fragments of Oscar Wilde

Ongoing through May 18, 2013. Vanessa Cate's interweaving of Oscar Wilde's pinnacle moments of love, loss, joy and passion - excavated/ re-assembled from: "La Sainte Courtesane," "A Florentine Tragedy," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Salome." Choreography: Natalie Hyde. Produced by Zombie Joe.


zombiejoes.homestead.com
Gummy Bears L.A.
A GoGo at the Faultline!

May 24, 2013, 9pm-1am, and every 4th Friday of the month, at the Faultline, LA. To get involved with Bears LA throughout the year for dinners, clubbing events, contests, Bear Quake, Camp Outs and more, join by email on their website, see below:


www.bearsla.org
Christopher Street West
Los Angeles Pride 2013

June 7-9, 2013. Annual events, thousands throng the heart of West Hollywood for world-class entertainment & big Santa Monica Blvd parade. See photos & videos of previous years on their website, plus details for 2013.

www.lapride.org
Event Partner: Levitt Pavilion Pasadena
Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet

June 29, 2013, 8pm at The Luckman Theatre. New and classic works from their repertoire of Innovative and contemporary dance. Hailed by the LA Times as “bracingly contemporary,” the inspiring ensemble of dancers breaks the traditional mold and reinvigorates the classic medium.


www.luckmanarts.org
25th Anniversary!
LGBT Beach Party 2013: Los Angeles Black Pride

July 6, 2013, Dockweiler State Beach & Youth Center, 12505 Vista Del Mar, Playa del Rey. WET!!!! After the Beach Party 2013 at Hilton Hotel (LAX). See details at the website.

www.myblackpridela.com/pride
Creating Change, One Story at a Time
Outfest

July 11-21, 2013. Showcasing the best LGBT stories from around the world, ten days of world-class films, discussions and parties. Schedule TBA in late May/early June.


www.outfest.org
A Better, Stronger, Sexier & Healthier YOU
Body Boyz United “RIPPED 2013″ Fitness Celebration!

August 2-5, 2013. FRI -Official BBU Fitness Magazine Launch Party -Special Guest & Cover Model: Glenn Miller); Body Boyz Swimwear Fashion Show and After dance party! SAT - Beach Body Game Fun Day; SUN - Wet Pool Party & Hot Body Contest & Nightclub Party.

www.facebook.com/bodyboyzunited
The Sundance Institute presents
NEXT WEEKEND 2013

August 8-11, 2013, at Sundance Cinemas and other venues throughout LA. Celebrating the renegade spirit of independent filmmaking, a 4-day film festival of screenings, panels, parties, and filmmaker workshops. The event is an extension of the NEXT <=> section at the Sundance Film Festival, showcasing stylistically adventurous films that take a bold approach to storytelling.


www.sundance.org/events/next-weekend
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents,
Sicily: Art & Invention between Greece & Rome

Ongoing through August 19, 2013, Museum, floor 2, Getty Villa. Masterpieces of ancient art from former Greek colonies at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, 5th-3rd centuries BC. Over 150 objects bear witness to athletic and military victories, religious rituals, opulent lifestyles, and intellectual attainments that shaped Classical culture at its peak.


www.getty.edu
Costumes, merriment, food and music
WeHo Halloween & Costume Carnival

October 31, 2013, 6-11pm. Halloween night each year. A highlight of the WeHo calendar, when revelers don their most outrageous outfits for the annual Halloween and Costume Carnival. Over 400,000 participants throng Santa Monica Boulevard for food, merriment, contests, music and stage acts.

www.westhollywoodhalloween.com
12th Annual Skiweek in Mammoth Lakes, CA
Elevation 2014

March, 2014. Mammoth's 12th annual gay ski week alternative to the usual party scene. Huge dance parties, nationally known DJs, one of most beautiful settings in the country, some of the best spring skiing at a world-class resort.

www.mammothgayski.com
The Los Angeles Leather Coalition
LA Fetish Pride Week

March, 2014. Over 40 leather, kink, gear BDSM events, contest to select the next Mr Los Angeles Leather, dance & cigar parties, Uniform Ball, Fetish-X Street Fair. Black limited edition tee shirts. See website for full details.

www.lalc.info
top experiences
Explore: Travel/Info Resources:

Visit West Hollywood has visitor information from the West Hollywood Convention & Visitors Bureau, including restaurants, shops and hotel suggestions, with LGBT pages too.

The Frontiers Magazine group, and Odyssey Magazine are local gay publications with the scoop on nightlife and lifestyle of greater LA. Cybersocket, the online gay & lesbian info-site is also based in Los Angeles - as is the Advocate, the grand-daddy of national circulation gay magazines in the USA.

GayLosAngeles website covers the whole city, but gives special attention to WeHo, with every-night listings for all the clubs. WeHo News also has West Hollywood covered.

Atlantis, the cruise and party group based in LA with trips around the world, has cruises from LA to Mexico, and Puerto Vallarta special events. See their site for details.

Grammys & Oscars:

The Grammy Awards and the Academy Awards (the "Oscars"), both taking place each February, are cause for celebrations everywhere at this motion picture center-of-the-universe. Even those without invitations to the most exclusive parties can join in the fun at local bars, and parties all over town.

Hike, Camp, Ski, Dive:

Arriba! Ski & Snowboard Club is an organization of gay & lesbian skiers and snowboarders who have organized ski trips to Mammoth, out of state resorts, and to international destinations for over 30 years.

Elevation: Mammoth Gay Ski Week combines skiing with partying during their big bash each March - from Tom Whitman Presents.

The Barnacle Busters Scuba Club is the world's largest gay/lesbian diving club, exploring local waters and more exotic tropical locales. Diving instruction for open water is offered for most any experience level.

Great Outdoors. Out of the bars and under the stars they say: alternative places for Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and Transgender people to meet and socialize. Camping and hiking weekends and events all over the area, all year long.


IRIS: Cirque du Soleil at Dolby Theatre:
Pin 9Dolby Theatre (6801 Hollywood Boulevard)

"A journey through the world of cinema." This large-scale production, created exclusively for its permanent home at the Dolby Theatre (former Kodak Theatre) in LA, offers a new take on the art of cinema as only Cirque du Soleil could imagine it.  An inventive spectacle, IRIS combines acrobatics, dance, projections and live music - a mesmerizing journey that blurs the boundaries between live performance and moving images from choreographer/director Philippe Decouflé and Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman. Includes 72 performers, 200 costumes, 174 loudspeakers, 603 lighting features, 20 video projectors and 160,000 watts of sound.

www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/iris
Let's go beach:
Pin 5Will Rogers State Beach (Pacific Coast Highway)

The popular Will Rogers gay beach is on Pacific Coast Highway just above Santa Monica State Beach. See where John Ritter fell off his bicycle cruising chicks, in Three's Company, at the world-famous Muscle Beach in Venice Beach; or check out the Santa Monica Beach Pier, where much of The Lost Boys was filmed.

See a show (or two):
Pin 2Grauman's Chinese Theatre (6925 Hollywood Blvd.)

Compare your hand- and footprints to those of stars from the 1920s to the present, on Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the world-famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre. You're likely to be handed a flyer for a free film screening or a television show taping.

www.chinesetheatres.com
Social & Fraternal Clubs:

Oedipus Motorcycle Club of Los Angeles motorcycle riding and related social activities, for the gay and lesbian community; sports bikes, cruisers, Harley’s, whatever. Monthly trips throughout Southern California, from Ojai to Long Beach.

The Pacific Coast Motorcycle Club is a gay men's social group of fraternal connections and far-flung friends who enjoy community camaraderie. Their main event: the 40 year-running, four-night, full-moon rendezvous at Black Mountain private campground  above Palm Springs, with old friends and new compatriots. July 21-25, 2010.

Los Angeles Nude Guys are gay and bisexual men who like to hang out with other men, naked, for friendship and good times. Activities include Jacuzzi and pool parties, cocktail parties, backyard barbeques, potluck dinners, day hikes, and weekend excursions to Palm Springs - among others.

California Men Enjoying Naturalism, LA, has a variety of all-nude social and recreational events, including pool parties, cocktail parties, and potlucks for gay naturist men in the Greater Los Angeles Area throughout the year.

Down south, Beach Cities Men Enjoying Naturalism, or BC-Men for short,  is guys from the areas of Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Long Beach, and Redondo Beach who have events in a social atmosphere, the biggest difference being that everyone is nude, at various members' private homes.

Bears LA has a full roster of events, including Bear It in the Desert, in Palm Springs, and Campout at Silverlake Lake. Each 1st Saturday of the month they meet at Pistons Bar in Long Beach.

LA Prime Timers is a social organization for mature men and younger men who admire them, providing relaxation, pleasure, growth and social interaction for it's members. Meetings take place once monthly, with buffet, hot tub, sauna, massage, pool table, piano, exercise equipment and showers, in a clothing-optional, friendly environment.


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