The launch of 2024 LGBTQ + REAL TO REEL exhibit at The Hollywood Museum.

 The launch of 2024 LGBTQ + REAL TO REEL exhibit at The Hollywood Museum.

 Hollywood’s first LGBTQ  tribute exhibit and Leslie Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award.
 
 REAL TO REEL -  Sizzle Reel of past events - https://youtu.be/M7etEs8_vNU

(WestHollywoodToday.blogspot, Hollywood, CA,  June 27 2024)
Photos by Karen Ostlund
                                                                               

(photo L) Ann Walker, Del Shores, Donelle Dadigan and Emerson Collins
Donelle Dadigan (Founder/President of the Hollywood Museum) presented its 11th annual "Real to Reel: Portrayals and Perceptions of LGBTQ+s in Hollywood” exhibit, which opened to the public June 26 2024.

This year, the Hollywood Museum Inaugurated a new award, THE LESLIE JORDAN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, which award was given to Leslie Jordan. Accepting the award on Jordan’s behalf was film-producer Del Shores of The Del Shores Foundation.

                                                                                

Opening night festivities featured a special comedy performance by 2x and 7x nominated Emmy Award winning writer, performer, comedian Bruce Vilanch.

The Hollywood Museum's “REAL to REEL” exhibit is a celebration of LGBTQ + Heritage Month, which offers a retrospective spanning 100+ years from silent films to today's films, TV shows, and digital platforms. “The museum welcomes the opportunity to create and showcase this important exhibition, sharing with the public the artistic expression and extraordinary significance of the LGBTQ+ culture and its effect and impact on the world through the medium of entertainment,” said Donelle Dadigan.

                                           
 The exhibit revisits monumental LGBTQ + moments in history with exhibit items that include a Who's Who in LGBTQ + entertainment costumes, props and memorabilia. 

The 2024 exhibit features personal artifacts from popular LGBTQ + artists and gay icons from television, film and music including costumes from Lifetime Networks Holiday movie “Fathers of the Bride,” Paris Hilton’s costume, Billy Porter’s costume from “80 for Brady,” Taron Egerton costume as Elton John in “Rocketman,” Luke Evans costume from Alien: Angel of Darkness, costumes from Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck from the film “In and Out,” Nathan Lane, Hank Azaria’s costumes from “Bird Cage,” costumes from the tv series “Pose,” Sasha Barron Cohen's costume from “Bruno,” John Tucker’s costume from “Born This Way,” Orange is the New Black" costume from TV star Laverne Cox, among many others.
                                                                            

Dressed-up guests at the REAL to REEL exhibit.

This entertaining and informative exhibit is a retrospective of LGBTQ + images in film and television, featuring costumes, props, photos - that will tell the story of  LBGTQ + characters.
The Hollywood Museum is located in the Historic Max Factor Building at 1660 North Highland Ave, Hollywood CA.
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Guests attending the opening were: Donelle Dadigan (Founder/President of the Hollywood Museum), Bruce Vilanch (2x Emmy winner/performer), Del Shores (Sordid Lives/ Speaker), Ann Walker (Sordid Lives/ Speaker), Emerson Collins (Sordid Lives/A Very Sordid Wedding/Speaker), Gary Lane (Producer/Still 9 to 5), Larry Lane (Producer/Still 9 to 5), Jason Stuart (Comedian, Contributor), John Tucker (Emmy winner, Born This Way), Michael Airington (The Paul Lynde Show), Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie), Jamie Brewer (American Horror Story), Lee Purcell (2x Emmy Nominee), Jeremy Miller (Growing Pains), Vincent De Paul (The Bay), Alice Amter (Big Bang Theory), Kate Linder (Young & The Restless), Kathy Kolla (Arrested Development/ Veghead), Rico E. Anderson (Star Trek), Tyrone Dubose (Unsung), Eve Richards (Kill Shot / The Discovery Pod with Eve), Melissa Niece Smith (Bosch/ The Dream), Rochelle Royale (Music Artist), Geoffrey Mark (Best Selling Author/Lucille Ball/Ethel Merman/ Ella Fitzgerald), Paul L. Hart (Fathers of the Bride/Lifetime), Peter Szeliga (Fathers of the Bride/Lifetime), Brooke St. John ( Fathers of the Bride/Lifetime), Darren Deng (Fathers of the Bride/Lifetime), Guillermo Diaz (Scandal), Bobby Trendy (The Anna Nicole Show), Shawn Pelofsky (Comedian), Megan Davis (Hot Take), Jakette Knightly (Drag Performer), Alan Rich (Academy Award Nominated Song Writer), Sherry Vine (Drag Performer), Ingenue (Drag Performer) and Glen Alen (3x Emmy winning Make-Up Artist).