This virtual performance of Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, by Josh Irving Gershick, will feature George Takei and actors Michelle C. Bonilla, Nicky Endres, JP Karliak, and Doug Spearman, followed by a discussion with the playwright.

Dear ONE illuminates the lives of ordinary Queer Americans as recounted through letters written between 1953 and 1965, to L.A.’s ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the United States. Looking for love, friendship or understanding, they wrote of loneliness and longing, of joy and fulfillment, and of their daily lives, hidden from history. Adapted from material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world.

Presented with the support of an arts grant from the City of West Hollywood as part of its One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival (May 22- June 30). More info at www.weho.org/pride.