GCDN Annual Convening – Los Angeles 2025

Public Spaces are both physical and metaphysical landscapes; layered with memory, ritual, and meanings that span generations. Richly infused with queer histories, the landscape of downtown Los Angeles is a cultural district in more than one sense. Amongst the monuments of civic architecture are stories of survival, resilience, subversion and triumph. When this landscape is viewed through an anthropological lense, the study of queer people and their ancestors through time and space can reveal a deeper understanding of the origin, nature, and destiny of this remarkable group of human beings.

How are queer histories embodied, imaged, narrated, and honored? What modes of storytelling connect us most immediately to cultural legacies, both recent and ancient? This session will feature exceptional multidisciplinary LGBTQIA+ performance artists in a guided progression through Gloria Molina Grand Park as part of the official programming for the GCDN annual convening in Los Angeles, California.