LA LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Coalition

About the LA LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Coalition Mission The LA LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Coalition is a network of artists, organizers, and cultural institutions committed to uplifting LGBTQ+ voices and countering political, cultural, and institutional attacks on our communities. We advance coordinated advocacy, resource sharing, and collective power building across the cultural sector. Vision We envision a world where Queer and Trans people live and create without fear—where full self-expression is met not with erasure, discrimination, and violence, but with recognition, celebration, and material support from the broader cultural landscape. History In 2025, following a wave of local and national rollbacks targeting LGBTQ+ rights—including arts institutions preemptively withdrawing support under political pressure—One Institute convened a group of LGBTQ+ artists, arts workers, organizations, and culture makers to respond. This cross-disciplinary gathering laid the groundwork for a lasting regional alliance dedicated to collective defense, public visibility, creative resistance, and building power as a sector. Goals + Objectives Build regional solidarity among LGBTQ+ artists, organizations, and allies. Protect queer and trans nonprofit organizations, artists, and creative workers by advocating for increased visibility, protections, and public investment in LGBTQ+ people and projects. Quantify and articulate the collective economic, social, and cultural impact of LGBTQ+ artists and institutions. Build public will and cultivate donor engagement for queer-led cultural work. #queerarts #lgbtqartists #losangelesartists #queeractivism #artsadvocacy #coalition

Honored to be part of the Steering Committee for the LA County LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Coalition 🌈✨ The folks in this photo represent just a portion of the many people powering this work 🎨🎉 We’re gathering community input through the 2026 Queer Arts LA Survey in partnership with Arts for LA. @arts4la and LA County @countyofla 🗳️📊 Your responses help strengthen funding, visibility, and protections for LGBTQ+ creative communities across the county 🌟 Scan the QR code or head to @queerartsla to access the survey 🔗 Deadline: May 4, 2026 ⏰ #QueerArtsLA #ArtsAdvocacy #LGBTQCommunity

You are invited to participate in the 2026 LA County LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture Coalition @queerartsla Community Survey conducted in partnership with Arts for LA @arts4la and supported by Los Angeles County. Please click link in bio and complete this survey whether you are an individual artist, represent an arts organization, or both. This initiative seeks to assess the needs of LGBTQ+ arts and culture communities and provide informed recommendations for strategic requests for direct support. It builds on our community’s history of using data to inform policy decisions and address legal rights and disparities. Your input is essential for shaping effective advocacy and obtaining support from civic leaders, funders, and the public. The final report will be published in late summer 2026. The Queer Arts LA Coalition formed in 2025 in response to federal attacks and widespread budget cuts impacting queer arts and culture communities. The coalition brings together a growing network of artists, organizers, and institutions to support LGBTQ+ creative communities by fostering advocacy for arts funding and visibility, while countering threats to queer spaces and programming. The survey will take individuals less than 5 minutes to complete. If you are completing the survey on behalf of an organization, please be prepared to share information about your budget size and other financial metrics. Please be assured that the survey results are fully anonymized to protect your privacy. Your voluntary and confidential help in gathering this information is greatly appreciated. Please share this survey with others in the LGBTQ+ Art & Culture communities in Los Angeles County as appropriate. Please complete the survey by our NEW deadline midnight Monday, May 11, 2026. Thank you for your participation.

🗳️ Please help us shape the future of LGBTQIA+ Arts & Culture in Los Angeles The LA County LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture Coalition (Queer Arts LA Coalition) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Formed in 2025 in response to federal attacks and widespread budget cuts impacting queer arts and culture communities. The coalition brings together artists, organizers, and institutions to support LGBTQ+ creative communities by fostering advocacy for arts funding and visibility, while countering threats to queer spaces and programming. The 2026 survey, in partnership with Arts for LA and support from Los Angeles County, aims to identify the needs of LGBTQ+ arts and culture communities and provide recommendations for a path forward. Your feedback is vital for building this advocacy and securing support from civic leaders, funders, and the public. Our report is scheduled to be released late summer 2026.

CA Arts & Culture Summit is proud to present “Moving From Reacting to Reimagining: A Replicable Model for Building, “ a breakout session with LA LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Coalition @queerartsla , a new cross-sector network of 30+ organizations and 70+ individual artists formed in 2025 to defend creative freedom and LGBTQ+ visibility.⁠ ⁠ In this session, the coalition will unpack organizing methods drawn from queer history and translate them into arts-based frameworks for coalition building, fundraising, and policy influence. ⁠ ⁠ Join the conversation with presenters Anuradha Vikram, Associate Curator, Performance Art Museum @curativeprojects ; Badly Licked Bear, Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Art & Culture Coalition @badlylickedbear ; Brian Sonia-Wallace, RENT Poet, Get Lit - Words Ignite, LA LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture Coalition, UCLA Extension Writers Program @rentpoet ; Christopher Maikish, Executive Director, Celebration Theatre @celebrationthtr ; Dante Alencastre, Executive Director, Queer Arts Coalition @dalencastre ; and Tony Valenzuela, Executive Director, One Institute @oneinstitutela .⁠ ⁠ The CA Arts & Culture Summit is taking place April 19–20. Ticket prices will increase on April 6th, so register today: https://bit.ly/cfta-summit26⁠ ⁠ #JoyActionPower #ACCM2026 #CAArts #BoundlessCreativity #BoundlessCulture ⁠

🫶 Our FOURSOME Queer Affinity Night hosted by LA LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Coalition was everything honey!! Thank you to Tonatiuh, Matthew Scott Montgomery, Tom DeTrinis, Donato Fatuesi and Gina Young and all who showed up & showed out to support 💕 You still have more chances to catch FOURSOME before March 28! Get tickets now @ #LinkInBio 🎟️ Performances are selling out! 📸: IAMA Ensemble Member @laska_jackson

Last night the LA Queer Arts Coalition had a special pre-show reception before Foursome — the world premiere co-produced with IAMA Theatre Company and Celebration Theatre. It’s a sharply observed comedy about gay millennial life: deeply funny, a little uncomfortable in the best way, and refreshingly honest about friendship, ambition, image, and intimacy. Huge shoutout to the brilliant cast who brought it all to life: @matthew_scott_montgomery (who also wrote it!) @el_adriangonzalez @jiminmmoon @calvin.seabrooks Everyone left talking about connection, friendship, and the messy, funny way we try to be adults. Thanks @chrismaikish @celebrationthtr for the invitation! #LAQueerArts #CelebrationTheater #QueerTheatre #FoursomePlay #iamatheatre

This Saturday 20 members of the LA LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture Coalition got to visit Frieze LA! Frieze is of the world’s leading contemporary art fairs, where galleries, curators, and artists gather to shape the future of art at the Santa Monica Airport and galleries across the city. The Coalition is a growing network of LGBTQ+ artists, organizers, and cultural leaders working to strengthen queer arts visibility, advocacy, and opportunity across Los Angeles. We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re gonna engage with some contemporary art! Thanks @edward_cella for making this opportunity available to us! #FriezeLA #FriezeLosAngeles #LGBTQArts #QueerArtists #LAArts

🫶 Monday, March 2nd is FOURSOME Queer Affinity Night hosted by LA LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Coalition! Join us for a post show talkback moderated by Tonatiuh and featuring Matthew Scott Montgomery, Tom DeTrinis, Donato Fatuesi and Gina Young. 🎟️ Pay What You Can tickets are sold out! 👀 But keep an eye out for any released tickets online, or join the in person waitlist 30 minutes before showtime.

Happy Bad Bunny Day from the LA LGBTQ+ Arts Coalition Steering Committee! We met for an afternoon retreat to set priorities for this year and welcome our new members. We have a few group outings coming up and a lot of work to do, looking forward to working with these fierce advocates in 2026 to make LA possible and promising for queer artists. #losangelesart #queerart #queerla #queerlosangeles

This year, LA LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture Coalition came together as 77 individuals 34 organizations with one shared instinct: don’t just survive the moment—build power for the long haul. ✨ What we want: • Safeguard funding • Strengthen access & visibility • Move beyond crisis response • Envision the cultural infrastructure our community actually deserves As the year closes, we’re reflecting— and sharpening tools for what’s next. Curious who we are? Wondering where you fit? 👋 DM us. Tell us about yourself. We’d love to connect. Next year isn’t about scrambling. It’s about building. Together. #queerarts #lgbtcommunity #lgbtactivism #artsactivism #lgbtqartists