Hidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ Collections

Santa Monica History Museum

Since 1975, the Santa Monica History Museum has been collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of the Santa Monica Bay Area for generations to come.

Topics and themes represented in the collections held by the Santa Monica History Museum include gay men, lesbians, and LGBTQ+ activism; arts and entertainment, and politics.

A Note on the Material

The Santa Monica History Museum has an extensive photograph archive of over 600,000 images documenting Santa Monica's people, places, and history, as well as the complete archive of the Santa Monica Outlook newspaper.

Contact the Santa Monica History Museum

For more information about the Santa Monica History Museum's LGTBQ+ collections and holdings, including citation and copyright information, please contact Anne Wallentine and the research team.

✉ Email: research@santamonicahistory.org
☎ Call: 310-395-2290
The Santa Monica History Museum is an L.A. as Subject member. For more information about L.A. as Subject, visit their website here.

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