The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) is a proud supporter of LA’s 2025 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Heritage Month Celebration. This celebration will promote and encourage an awareness of the significant contributions made by our City’s diverse LGBT community members in culture, education, politics, business, technology, and the arts.

As part of this celebration, our Department is creating a comprehensive calendar and cultural guide to showcase quality LGBT artists from across LA and to list in person and online programming (exhibitions, concerts, special events, etc.) related to this annual celebration of LGBT culture.

Our goals are to expose Angelenos to the great works of our local visual and literary artists, and to make them aware of the exciting cultural activities happening as part of the celebration. We also want to encourage their appreciation of LA’s LGBT past artistic traditions and today’s modern, contemporary styles.

To assist us, we invite you to please submit images of your visual or literary works of art via email to mwharris@whitleycompany.com. Please only send high-resolution images (300 DPI or larger) and short works of poetry appropriate for publication. Please include all credit information with all works submitted. Your work may also appear on DCA’s website at culturela.org.

The deadline for artwork submissions is April 14, 2025.

We appreciate your help and look forward to commemorating LGBT heritage and traditions in Los Angeles through this special annual publication. Should you have any questions regarding this calendar and cultural guide, please contact Marcia Harris at 213.536.1378 or via email at: mwharris@whitleycompany.com.