Los Angeles LGBT Center
With $35 in the bank, the "Gay Community Services Center" files its incorporation papers, opens its first "Liberation House" for homeless LGBT people, and rents its first headquarters at Wilshire. It provides services including counseling, family services, and a V.D. clinic. It includes business and administration of the Center, LGBTQ advocacy and activism efforts, theatrical and art events, fundraising, and social and health services. Materials include records, correspondence, public relations and marketing materials, flyers, posters, programs, ephemera, photographs, negatives, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and other media.
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center Is Founded
The Center was founded in , by Don Kilhefner and Morris Kight and other lesbian and gay activists, some of whom were also part of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). Originally called the Gay Community Services Center, the original center opened in October of in an old Victorian house on Wilshire Boulevard and was the first non-profit in America to have the word. But during the s, this sterile little house was a warm home for an unusual family — a place of refuge for dozens of young, displaced members of the LBGTQ community. According to pioneering gay activist and community organizer Dr.
Gay Community Services Center
It was called “Liberation House.” According to pioneering gay activist and community organizer Dr. Donald Kilhefner, co-founder of what became the Gay Community Services Center (now the Los Angeles LBGT Center), for centuries, gay people had lived in the shadows, generally afraid to forcefully organize and live life openly. This collection contains correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, proposals, contracts, accounting and finance records, flyers, brochures, calendars, notes, press releases, photographs, resumes, and other materials relating to the founding and activities of the Gay Community Services Center now the L. The core of the collection consists of records for the period Los Angeles LGBT Center records
This unnumbered issue of the Los Angeles-based, Gay Community Services Center publication "Gay Dance (Girls With Girls, Boys With Boys)" from January 7, (see enlarged photos 2 & 3 below) features information about this event and other services at Los Angeles' Gay Community Services Center -- and offers an intriguing glimpse into the post-Stonewall period of LGBT cultural history. This. The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, originally named the Gay Community Services Center, was founded in in response to the growing advocacy for gay and lesbian rights following the Stonewall Rebellion in Co-founded by activists Morris Kight and Don Kilhefner, the Center emerged from a movement inspired by similar community organizations established by minority populations in the s. The Gay Liberation Revolution
Opening of the L.A. Gay Community Services Center: In September , Platania found a possible site for the Center in an old Queen Anne style home at Wilshire Blvd. at Union Ave., just east. . Series VI
-- Spring , the Gay Community Services Center moved from Wilshire Boulevard to larger quarters at North Highland Avenue in Hollywood. As the center grew and started to get more grant funding for its programs, there was discontent within radical sectors of the gay community, including current and former center workers. . 
VINTAGE GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER FLYER JAN 1972 LESBIAN
residents of the los angeles gay community service center's "lesbian house" photographed by bee ottinger for her thesis, c. .
Calm and Comfort
The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, originally named the Gay Community Services Center, was founded in in response to the growing advocacy for gay and lesbian rights following the Stonewall Rebellion in Co-founded by activists Morris Kight and Don Kilhefner, the Center emerged from a movement inspired by similar community organizations established by minority populations in the. .