Pride isn’t just rainbow wristbands and corporate hashtags. It’s resistance. It’s memory. It’s joy in the face of every system that said we weren’t enough. And Getty Pride 2025 is making damn sure you don’t forget that.
From now through September 28, the Getty Center is delivering a full-force celebration of queer identity through Getty Pride 2025, with exhibitions, screenings, drag, panels, and more that center LGBTQIA+ artists and the powerful stories we’ve always told.
At the heart of it all are two major exhibitions: $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives and Queer Lens: A History of Photography. Together, they reframe what belongs in the museum and who gets to be remembered.
Here’s your roadmap to Getty Pride 2025. This is a season-long moment of art, protest, and unapologetic beauty.
Queer Lens: A History of Photography
June 17–September 28
Getty Center
This exhibition is a cornerstone of Getty Pride 2025. Queer Lens looks at how photography has been used to explore gender, sexuality, and identity across generations. It’s a celebration of queer expression and the cameras that captured it.
Want the inside story?
Join curator Paul Martineau for a tour on Friday June 27 at 2pm.
$3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives
Now through September 28
Getty Center
Part of the Getty Pride 2025 lineup, $3 Bill is a bold reclamation of queer existence. It showcases works by LGBTQIA+ artists who shaped culture across decades, from the early 20th century to the present.
Catch the 30-minute curator tours every Wednesday at 1:30pm (except July 2 and 9).
Highlights of Getty Pride 2025
The Dyke Show by JEB
June 17 at 7pm
Kicking off Getty Pride 2025 with bite and brilliance, this legendary performance piece from JEB (Joan E. Biren) blends lesbian photography and history in a way only she can.
Ancient Greek Homoeroticism and Modern Queer Beauty
June 26 at 11am
This virtual event connects ancient art to modern queer aesthetics. A perfect Pride Month offering in the Getty Pride 2025 calendar.
Pride Month Films That Hit Hard
These films, screening as part of Getty Pride 2025, showcase queer voices that challenged, inspired, and changed the world.
Tongues Untied – July 27 at 4pm
The Watermelon Woman – August 31 at 4pm
Made in Hollywood – September 21 at 4pm
Queer Lens on Los Angeles: Artists’ POV
August 17 at 1pm
Getty Center + Online
This panel ties into the Getty Pride 2025 exhibit Queer Lens and features Anthony Friedkin, Reynaldo Rivera, and Catherine Opie in conversation with curator Ryan Linkof. It’s LA queer history told by the people who lived it.
Drag Story Time with Pickle + Bob Baker Marionettes
September 14 at 11am and 2pm
Getty Center
Family-friendly fabulousness from West Hollywood Drag Laureate Pickle and the Bob Baker puppets. A joyful part of the Getty Pride 2025 calendar.
Why Getty Pride 2025 Matters
This isn’t just Pride for show. Getty Pride 2025 is a season-long reclamation of queer art history. It’s institutional recognition of everything we’ve contributed and everything we’ve survived. From nightlife to Neoclassicism, these events connect the dots across centuries of queer visibility and defiance.
If you’ve ever wondered where you fit in the history of art, this is where.
Ready to celebrate pride?
Get tickets, plan your visit and explore the full Getty Pride 2025 lineup at getty.edu/news
For further reading on the history of being gay in the Golden Age of Hollywood, check out our feature piece called Queer Hollywood: Love, Lies and Breaking Barriers
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