page_title: LGBT culture in Los Angeles
section_title: Institutions
hierarchical_section_title: LGBT culture in Los Angeles / Institutions
caption_attribution_description: English: ONE Archives Gallery &amp; Museum, 626 North Robertson Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069
context_page_description: Although often characterized as apolitical, “Los Angeles has provided the setting for many important chapters in the struggle for gay and lesbian community, visibility, and civil rights." Moreover, Los Angeles' LGBT community has historically played a significant role in the development of the entertainment industry.
context_section_description: The Los Angeles LGBT Center is in the community.
  The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California holds LGBT-related archival materials. It maintains an archives and museum in West Hollywood.
  The Gay Women's Service Center, the first U.S. social center for lesbians, was founded in 1971.
  Harry Hay established the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles in 1950; the organization moved its headquarters from to San Francisco in the 1950s.
  From 1992 to 2004, the EAGLES Academy was located in Hollywood. It was the first public high school designed for LGBT youth from grade 7 onwards in the United States.
  Jaja Muhammad of the BBC described the bookshop Circus of Books, with locations in West Hollywood and Silverlake as the most famous Los Angeles book retailer focusing on LGBT-centric pornography in the pre-internet era. It was called Book Circus until its new owners renamed it in 1982. In 2016 and 2019 the latter and former closed, respectively. Muhammad stated "it was a refuge and a meeting place for LA's gay community".
caption: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives museum in West Hollywood
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