City Of West Hollywood: City Of West Hollywood And West Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce (WHCC) Announce ‘Pride Lives Here' During June

Press release from the City of West Hollywood:

June 15, 2021 1:29 PM

Each year, the City of West Hollywood recognizes LGBTQ Pride in June. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped Pride celebrations in 2020 and in 2021. Due to the coronavirus crisis, there will be no festival or parade, but there will be lots of community-based Pride programming in local businesses and organizations, as well as virtual programming.

The City has transitioned its One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival programming to a virtual environment to ensure health and safety. The theme for this year’s One City One Pride is For the Record — LGBTQ stories of the past that have often been hidden or undocumented. A complete list of this year’s One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival events is available at www.weho.org/pride.

As the State of California and Los Angeles County aim to ease restrictions related to COVID-19, the City of West Hollywood and the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce have partnered to announce ‘Pride Lives Here’ during June Pride month. Pride celebrations and activities in West Hollywood will take shape throughout the month of June in an acknowledgement that Pride is rooted in West Hollywood 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It’s always Pride in West Hollywood and Pride isn’t limited to one venue or one spot.

To connect Pride-goers to an array of Pride happenings throughout the City, the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has launched a Pride Lives Here website section at www.wehochamber.com/wehopride.html with quick links to scheduled virtual and in-person programming, offers, and more.

For the weekend of June 25 to 27, the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce will highlight LGBTQ Pride-focused activities at businesses and organizations throughout West Hollywood, such as the West Hollywood Pride Play Reading Festival on Saturday, June 26, 2021 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and the 14th Annual Pride Party on the Kimpton La Peer Hotel rooftop on Sunday, June 27, 2021 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Businesses and organizations throughout the City of West Hollywood are encouraged to take part and decorate their storefronts as if they were floats gliding through a Pride parade. There are also ‘Pride Lives Here’ window clings available for display, welcoming everyone to West Hollywood and to Pride.

Stay tuned for updates posted on the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce website at www.wehochamber.com/wehopride.html. The website features a digital marketing kit to access Pride 2021 graphics; a digital ‘We are Family’ Pride album for community members to share photos of staff, customers, friends, family, and selfies, information about OUT on Robertson; and celebratory programs and promotions in various businesses throughout the City. The website also links to hotel offers in partnership with the West Hollywood Travel + Tourism Board, giving June Pride visitors an easy way to connect to a stay.

Pride Lives Here merchandise is being sold on the website with net proceeds from sales benefitting two nonprofit organizations: ProjectQ, which aims to help LGBTQIA+ youth navigate a world that perpetually tries to diminish them; and Unique Woman’s Coalition, which is committed to fostering the next generation of Black Trans leadership and is dedicated to being a collective voice centering the narratives and needs of Black Trans culture.

For more information about Pride Lives Here programming in West Hollywood during June Pride month in 2021, please contact the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce at (323) 650-2688 or at pride@wehochamber.com.

For additional information about the City of West Hollywood’s One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival, please contact the City’s Arts Coordinator, Mike Che, at (323) 848-6377 or at mche@weho.org or visit www.weho.org/pride. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.

The City of West Hollywood has declared a local emergency in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. West Hollywood City Hall is currently closed to the public, but remains accessible for business and services with transactions to be conducted by phone (323) 848-6400 and via the City’s website at www.weho.org. City of West Hollywood coronavirus updates are available at www.weho.org/coronavirus and the City encourages community members to follow @wehocity on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and turn on notifications. For up-to-date news and events, follow the City of West Hollywood on social media, sign up for news updates at www.weho.org/email, and visit the City’s calendar of meetings and events at www.weho.org/calendar.

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This press release was produced by the City of West Hollywood. The views expressed here are the author’s own.