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For decades, East Broadway was more than a collection of gay bars. It was where queer Long Beach found community, organized, mourned, fought back and built a neighborhood of its own. As those spaces change, I think understanding what they gave us matters to whatever we decide to build next. Walk down East Broadway today and you might not immediately
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4747 ViewsLong before rainbow flags and modern LGBTQ+ language, Indigenous nations had their own understandings of gender, sexuality, spirituality and community. That history reaches from Native nations across Turtle Island to Tongva land here in Long Beach—and continues this October with the return of Indigenous Pride LA. Most of us were taught a version of LGBTQ+ history that begins with Stonewall.
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