L. A. Interchanges
People, Places & History
This is not an index. It is a sampling of the people, organizations, places, events, and subjects that appear in L.A. Interchanges, offering another way to explore how I queered Los Angeles and its history.
West Hollywood CARES and the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center, ca. 1990. I am seated second from right.
Topics
Hands Across America • Great Gay Migration • Take Back the Night • Chicano Movement • Gender roles • Lesbian separatism • Día de La Mujer • Chicano/a homophobia • Horizontal hostility • First National Lesbians of Color Conference • GLLU Retreats • Lesbianas Unidas Retreats • Latina Lesbian Series • International Lesbian and Gay People of Color Conference • Primer Encuentro de Lesbianas Feministas de Latinoamérica y el Caribe Conference • First National Latina Lesbian Conference • HIV/AIDS • Coming Home for Friends • L.A. Insurrection • Northridge earthquake • USS Norton Sound
Groups, Organizations & Publications
Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos • Lesbianas Unidas • Lesbians of Color • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers • Connexxus Women’s Center • Lesbian Tide • Our Right to Love • Alcoholism Center for Women • Lesbianas Latina Americanas • National Lesbian Feminist Organization • Lesbian News • Citizens Police Review Board • Combahee River Collective • Building Women • United Farm Workers • M.E.Ch.A • Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center • Unidad • Christopher Street West • KPFK’s IMRU • Radio GLLU • El Centro del Pueblo • off our backs • Mujer a Mujer • Cuarto Creciente in Mexico City • Open Meadows Institute • Minority AIDS Project • AIDS Project Los Angeles • ACT UP/LA • Bienestar: A Gay Latino AIDS Project • U.S. Conference of Mayors • National Commission on AIDS • Unidad: Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos • ONE Archives • High Country News
People & Culture
Laura Aguilar • Sinigual • El Vez • Thelma Houston • Nancy Valverde • Soul Train • Teddy Pendergrass • Eula Mae Love • Jewel Thais-Williams • Gloria E. Anzaldúa • This Bridge Called My Back • Prince • Dolores Huerta • Fernando Valenzuela • Geneva Fernandez • Lalo Guerrero • Linda Ronstadt • Gloria Molina • Carl Bean • “I Was Born This Way” • Louis Jacinto
Places
Tabasco’s • Long Beach Pride • Sunset Junction Street Fair • U.S. Bank Tower • Boyle Heights • Santa Monica • Universal Studios’ CityWalk • 105 Freeway • Temple City • L.A. Central Library • Friendship Auditorium • Griffith Park • Alhambra • Security Pacific Bank • MacArthur Park • Red Line Metro Rail • Vermie’s • Greek Theatre • Palms • Catch-One • Peanuts • Club Flamingo • Sassafras, women’s land • Monterey Park • Church at Ocean Park • Venice Boardwalk • Dodger Stadium • Cottontail Ranch in Malibu • Crest coffee shop • Barragan’s in Echo Park • Circus Disco • Robbie’s in Pomona • Encino • Camp Radford • Black Cat Tavern • Different Light Bookstore • Cuernavaca, Mexico • L.A./USC County Hospital • Club Faces • L.A. Memorial Coliseum • Santa Monica College