Pride Starts Here! Don’t miss the City’s Harvey Milk Day celebration featuring the 3rd annual José Sarria Drag Pageant on Thursday, May 22, 2025, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at West Hollywood Park, located at 647 N. San Vicente Boulevard. Harvey Milk was the first openly LGBTQ person to win political office in California in 1977. José Sarria helped pave the way for Harvey Milk’s successful run for office by being the first openly gay man to run for office in the United States in 1961, and was a drag performer who founded the Imperial Court charitable LGBTQ organization. Details are available at www.wehopride.com/harveymilkday.

Each year, the City of West Hollywood celebrates the LGBTQ+ community through the arts with its WeHo Pride Arts Festival. This year, the WeHo Pride Arts Festival will feature theatre, cabaret, music, dance, film, literary arts, art-making workshops, and much more! Held as part of WeHo Pride, the Arts Festival will take place May 23-25, 2025, at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza, located at 1125 N. McCadden Place in Los Angeles. Since its inception in 2007, the City’s LGBTQ+ Arts Festival has showcased artists and storytellers who amplify LGBTQ+ pride through the arts, and this year there is special emphasis on the individual, the participant, as artist.

The WeHo Pride Arts Festival is organized in a choose-your-own-adventure model, with several concurrent programs. For the first three hours of each day, attendees can choose from theatre, cabaret, music, literary readings, dance, and film presentations, or can take part in art-making workshops. Closing out each day will be a single performance.

All events and workshops are free to attend, however some events are ticketed by advance RSVP, with ticketholders provided priority seating. RSVP is strongly encouraged. For full listings and ticketing information, please visit www.wehopride.com/artsfestival. Please sign up here for the WeHo Pride Arts Festival mailing list to receive updates on the festival.

The City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Pride Arts Festival is organized by the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division, which delivers a broad array of arts programs including: Art on the Outside (temporary public art), Urban Art Program (permanent public art), Summer Sounds, Winter Sounds, the WeHo Reads literary series, Free Theatre in the Parks, Arts Grants for Nonprofit Arts Organizations, Library Exhibits and Programming, the City Poet Laureate Program, Drag Story Hour, Human Rights Speakers Series, and the WeHo Pride Arts Festival. For additional information, please visit www.weho.org/arts.

WeHo Pride Weekend will take place from Friday, May 30 through Sunday, June 1 in and around West Hollywood Park and Santa Monica Boulevard, which will be closed to traffic. The weekend will include the free-ticketed WeHo Pride Presents Friday Night at OUTLOUD Music Festival, as well as the paid-ticketed OUTLOUD Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday. There will be lots of free weekend programming, as well: the Street Fair, the Women’s Freedom Festival, the Dyke March, and the WeHo Pride Parade, as well as community group programming throughout June. WeHo Pride details are posted at www.wehopride.com. Follow @wehopride for updates on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.

For more information about the City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Pride Arts Festival, please contact Mike Che, the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Coordinator, at (323) 848-6377 or at mche@weho.org. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing dial 711 or 1-800-735-2929 (TTY) or 1-800-735-2922 (voice) for California Relay Service (CRS) assistance.

For up-to-date information about City of West Hollywood news and events, follow @wehocity 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. West Hollywood City Hall is open for walk-in services at public counters or by appointment by visiting www.weho.org/appointments. City Hall services are accessible by phone at (323) 848-6400 and via website at www.weho.org. Receive text updates by texting “WeHo” to (323) 848-5000.

For reporters and members of the media seeking additional information about the City of West Hollywood, please contact the City of West Hollywood’s Public Information Officer, Sheri A. Lunn, at (323) 848-6391 or slunn@weho.org.