📣 Events: Week of MAY 26, 2025
volume iii • issue 22 ~ here's your rundown of queer, sapphic-friendly events happening in Los Angeles this week.
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May 26
↻ Herstories: LGBTQ+ Women's Group
HERstories is a gathering place for all LGBTQ+ feminine-identified folx who seek strong community connection and great conversation. It's a weekly, facilitated social group with open discussion. This group meets every Monday from 8pm-10:00pm on Zoom.
↻ luv x basketball
queer pick up 🏀💞
↻ Queer Run Club
Bringing the joy of running to different LA neighborhoods 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👟 all skill levels 💖
Queer Grief Circle
Grief circles offer an opportunity for people to witness and be witnessed in their personal grief. This circle is part of a movement toward building community, shifting culture & holding space to discuss and be present with grief.
May 27
↻ Women's Coming Out Workshop
A support space for feminine-identified folx to help you navigate your journey towards finding a healthier relationship with yourself.
↻ Pasadena Women's Rugby Practice
Whether you're a seasoned rugby player or a beginner who has never played rugby before, we welcome all women and nonbinary people (18+) to join us at our weekly rugby practices. We provide a queer inclusive and close knit community that support each other as we work to develop our rugby skills, general fitness, and self-confidence.
↻ Art Workshop
Join our creative art workshops for teens! Build skills, make friends, and boost confidence in a fun, inclusive environment!
↻ ACT III QUEER OPEN MIC
Get ready for a night of queer poetry & music at ACT III QUEER OPEN MIC
↻ Skin Tag | Comedy Open Mic
Skin Tag is a queer-run open mic established in 2021 and hosted by Cigi Farmer, Chelsea Morgan, Jessy Morner-Ritt and Taylor Ortega.
↻ Sapphic Skate LA
Come skate and learn how to skate with other sapphics. (Skateboarding and rollerskating)
↻ LGBTQIA+ Support Group
Connect, share, and find community.
OutPro Los Angeles LGBTQ Networking w/ Pride Kickoff After Party
Make and build professional connections that can advance your career. You never know whom you will meet at our welcoming networking mixer.
Sapphic Book and Social Club
Sapphic Book and Social Club that meets once a month in LA (Last Tuesday of every month) and in OC (The last Thursday of every month)
Queer Trivia
this is your pride month pregame! don’t miss this month’s trivia ;)
May 28
↻ Queer Catch LA
Join us for a no pressure, no commitment game of catch! We don’t play full-on games, we just play catch and sometimes bat and always talk queer life.
↻ Free Queer Candlelit Yoga
Join us for a serene and grounding hour of Queer Candlelit Vinyasa Yoga, held in a cozy, sober, affirming space.
↻ Rainbow Skate
LA's premier LGBTQ+ skate night!
↻ Cinema Therapy
Join us for Cinema Therapy every Wednesday at the Greater Whittier LGBTQ+ Center! Enjoy snacks and a community-chosen movie each week.
↻ Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
Join us Wednesdays 5–6pm. All are welcome!
Reading Rainbow
Discover Reading Rainbow: an inclusive space to explore LGBTQIA+ literature, share favorites, and engage in meaningful community discussions
Paint and Sip at The Mineshaft
Come join us for a fun night of painting and sipping at The Mineshaft - let your creativity flow with a drink in hand!
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May 29
PERVerse4Verse
Verse4Verse, winner of Sapphic LA’s 2024 Best Open Mic award, is a bi-monthly poetry night serving Sapphic, Trans, and Queer realness—no crumbs, just camp, craft, and charisma.
↻ Parent + Baby Meet Up
Stay out of isolation & bring baby to this laid back hangout where parents and carers of all kinds are welcomed & celebrated.
↻ Dyke Soccer
👾 DM for our discord for schedule & locations! healing ur inner child one pickup game at a time. for gender-expansive dykes of all stripes
↻ luv x basketball
queer pick up 🏀💞
↻ Pasadena Women's Rugby Practice
Whether you're a seasoned rugby player or a beginner who has never played rugby before, we welcome all women and nonbinary people (18+) to join us at our weekly rugby practices. We provide a queer inclusive and close knit community that support each other as we work to develop our rugby skills, general fitness, and self-confidence.
↻ Sapphic Skate LA
Come skate and learn how to skate with other sapphics. (Skateboarding and rollerskating)
↻ Queer Art Hang: Water Marbling
Every Thursday we have a Queer Art Hang night! This Thursday we’ll be doing water marbling—floating paint on the surface of a denser liquid to create beautiful patterns!
Queer Yoga at LA LGBT Center
With Love Projects joined us in creating space for queer and trans folks to move, breathe, and unwind.
PCC Pride Center's Lavender Graduation 2025
Join us at PCC Pride Center's Lavender Graduation 2025 to celebrate our LGBTQ+ graduates in style!
The Feels Queer Edition 2
An conscious dating event for those in search of deeper connection.
Queer Joy Happy Hour
Let's raise a glass to all the badass queer women in sports at our Queer Joy Happy Hour - come celebrate with us!
Natural Form: A figure drawing experience
Join us for Natural Form, a figure drawing session exploring sensuality and the human form through light, shadow, and motion. Step into the “darkroom” with our muse, Kodi, for an evocative experience of transformation and expression.
May 30
↻ Fangirl Central Co-Work
Come co-work every Friday at a queer, Latina, and woman-owned café in WeHo! Everyone welcome!
↻ TOXICA
Latin Party for Queer Womxn + Friends in Los Angeles. Every Friday Night Dinner & Dance Party
↻ Lotería Libre
Join us for Lotería Nights at the Greater Whittier LGBTQ+ Community Center! This fun and interactive support group meets every Friday!
↻ Pop My Cherry Fridays
Queer ladies night
↻ Stud Country
🏳️🌈 Queer Church of Line Dance 🏳️🌈
peachy at honey’s
KICKOFF TO PRIDE IS LOOKING PEACHY 🍑 ⋆˙⟡ burlesque beauties all night long
HOMEGROWN
HOMEGROWN Open Mic returns May 30 to the Whittier LGBTQ Center w/ REACH LA! Free w/ RSVP. 6PM doors, 7–9PM show. Free HIV testing + perks!
Friday Night at OUTLOUD
WeHo Pride Presents Friday Night at OUTLOUD is free to the public and requires an RSVP to secure complimentary tickets, as event capacity is limited.
Yeah Yeah Yas Queer Indie Dance Party
Serving indie, electroclash, and bloghouse all night long with some very special guests. See you there.
Erotic Extraterrestrial Play Party
Whether you’re more of a fun alien person or you have an extraterrestrial kink this play party is for you! We’re hosting this anti fascist and QTBIPOC centered play party! Join us as we also host a raffle for Palestine!
Energy Release Ceremony
Let's set intentions together, ground with an herbal tea, intuitive journaling & reiki infused energy release breathwork & soundbath.
Trans Rights & Trans Fights: A TGI Self-Defense Workshop
Gather with community and learn how to defend yourself from potentially dangerous interactions. Event for TGI Youth Ages 18 - 24 Only.
May 31
↻ LA Queer Yoga
A weekly queer yoga experience, with hangouts after! Opportunities for free spots available in each class.
↻ Sugar Saturdays
Saturday Night! 🏳️🌈 Best Lesbian Night in the LBC!
↻ QUEER VALLEY BRUNCH
THE QUEER VALLEY BRUNCH (818) Brought to you by Dj Les Ortiz. Located at SVF’s newest LESBIAN owned Mexican Restaurant.
↻ Free Queer Yin Yoga
Join us for Free Queer Yin Yoga, a space for deep rest. This gentle, meditative practice invites you to slow down, release tension.
Dyke March
An annual rally featuring a motorcycle-lead march, will meet at the Community Stage and will begin immediately following the Women’s Freedom Festival for the march along Santa Monica Boulevard.
WeHo Pride Women’s Freedom Festival
A co-sponsored event produced by the L-Project, featured emerging LGBTQ and BIPOC women, non-binary musicians, comedians, poets, and activists.
Sapphletic Club
Monthly free sapphic strength training meet up!
PUNKS not dead, it's QUEER
Get ready to rock out at "PUNKS not dead, it's QUEER" - a kickass LGBTQAI+ event celebrating the intersection of punk and queer culture!
Queer Book Club
Join us at Bel Canto Books for our Queer Book Club hosted monthly by LogansLovelyLibrary!
Pride & Pleasure with Ladies of Leisure
Join us for a night of fun, dancing, and pride!
Here Clubhouse Grand Opening
🎉Come celebrate the grand opening of 'h e r e', Koreatown's cutest and newest creative & social clubhouse with magical ✨ghibli vibes✨ with in-house craft supplies and a sweet little gift shop! Our co-working third space facilitates friendship, creativity and community through play, art, and whimsy! Events! Workshops! Movie nights! Markets! Open Mics! Music Jams! Doors open at 2PM for our market of food and art vendors! 3-7PM live performances by drag artists & musicians! 8PM onwards... DANCING!!
Glendora Pride In The Foothills
4th annual Pride celebration. Vendors, food, DJ, family friendly, Queer Olympics.
Trankle Breakers
A basketball meetup for the transfemmes of LA. Non-dolls are welcome to cheer and hang
The LAX Micro Fest: Lindsey Red-tail and Yozmit the DogStar
Lindsey Red-tail is an acclaimed non-binary dance artist, poet and messenger of the Trees, whose work weaves together the intersection of movement, nature and Ancestral practices. Yozmit the DogStar is a Transgender singer-songwriter, performance artist, and costume designer. Join us for a beautiful evening of performance.
Safeword Los Angeles
The Wild West With Women In Charge. A themed fetish & art event. By Women For Everyone
Another Castle Cuntillion: A Royal Pride Ball
A 2 room, 12-hour Pride marathon featuring techno, ambient, live performances, and a custom play dungeon.
SPEED FRIENDING
Co-hosted by GWLA X LA LGBT Center! Make new friends for FREE
June 1
🌈 Sapphic LA x Kiefy Studio’s PRIDE KICK OFF
Start Day 1 of Pride laidback in one of the queerest spaces in Los Angeles. This day party will have you boppin’ to good music, mingling with fellow cuties, and swimming in a sea of sapphics. QTBIPOC to da front ~ all are welcome ✨ Entry is donation-based!
↻ Dyke Soccer
👾 DM for our discord for schedule & locations! healing ur inner child one pickup game at a time. for gender-expansive dykes of all stripes
↻ Pasadena Women's Pick Up Soccer
This group serves women and non-binary people who want to learn to play excruciatingly slow, non-competitive, friendly soccer. We have players of all ages, (although you must be 18+ plus to join).
WeHo Pride Parade
The WeHo Pride Parade is a colorful and entertaining event for the whole family and features contingents such as floats, bands, drill teams, dance teams, entertainment entries, marchers and special guests.
pelo suelto
gender expansive punky funky haircuts
DANA'S PRIDE PARTY
BETTEr see you at DANA'S PRIDE PARTY!
Free Queer Soundbath and Movement
Come chill with us at our Free Queer Soundbath and Movement event, where we'll vibe out, relax, and move our bodies together!