The YouStar Foundation offers a Warm Line service, providing a safe space for Korean Americans to share emotions, seek advice, and receive support. This non-crisis emotional support hotline addresses unique challenges such as cultural stigma around mental health, generational gaps, and stress from living in a multicultural environment. Staffed by trained volunteers and professionals fluent in both English and Korean, the Warm Line aims to bridge cultural understanding and offer empathetic listening for those dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns. Callers can reach the Warm Line at 213-221-2813.
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Little Pieces of Heaven
Little Pieces of Heaven is a community art showcase celebrating creative expression. It showcases artwork that our community partners have created with the help of The Art of Elysium volunteer artists. The works reflect the areas of fashion design, film and theatre, music and movement, and visual arts. Little Piece of Heaven opens Tuesday, June 17, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Midnight Mission. This event is free and open to the public. Let The Art of Elysium know…
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Best. Dad. NEVER.
After years fearing he’d never be a father, gay Armenian-American Haig “Hike” Chahinian became the happiest dad of a bouncing Black biracial baby girl. Seeking to be the best Janelle Monáe-listening, Black Girl Magic-supporting, antiracist papa ever, he instead stumbles through the humbling and oft-hilarious fumbles of fatherhood in multiracial America. Inspired by his viral essays in New York Times Modern Love, Cosmopolitan, and O The Oprah Magazine, Best. Dad. NEVER. is searing, intimate, richly relatable comedic storytelling about what…
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Legendary Bingo
This is Los Angeles’s most popular and longest-running weekly charity event. In April 1998, Legendary Bingo served up its first set of balls at Stonewall Gourmet Coffee in West Hollywood as a fundraising event for AIDS Project Los Angeles. A few months later, the evening began to benefit a different charity each week, and the event became a “standing room only” sensation. Legendary Bingo has raised over 8 million dollars for local and national charities and the arts. One ball…
$10
deadbeat
deadbeat. is a chaotic, vignette-style comedy show that combines live sketches, digital performances, and drag to embrace the absurdity of our lived experiences as queer, mixed-race women in America — because what better way to shame colonizers than with a good laugh?
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Chase Lounge: From Straight to Gay
In Chase Lounge: From Straight to Gay, transsexual drag king extraordinaire Chase Lounge chronicles his personal, sexual, and romantic life through song and comedy. Chase explores themes such as belonging, trauma, loss, and self-acceptance. This is a powerful piece about the value of loving yourself no matter what.