Presented as part of One City One Pride Theatre Week.“Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America,” written and directed by ZJ Gershick (Bluebonnet Productions), illuminates the lives of ordinary Queer Americans as recounted through letters written between 1953 and 1967, to L.A.'s ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the United States. Each month, ONE Magazine reached several thousand readers, a great many of them isolated and in search of community. In larger cities, the magazine was available on newsstands; in smaller towns, it arrived in mailboxes in a simple unmarked envelope. Readers from all over the globe wrote back to ONE. 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 USC.

The performance will be followed by a talkback.  Admission is free.  Validated parking available in the 5-story parking structure.  To RSVP, visit www.weho.org/pride