Vexing History: A Queer LA Love Story

A talk by Liz Brown, author of Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 7:00pm

Vexing History: A Queer LA Love Story

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

7:00 pm, Doors open 6:30 pm

Tickets Available through Circa Website

 

Photographs of Harrison Post from the archival collection of Liz Brown

 

Author Liz Brown returns to the Velaslavasay Panorama to present a slide lecture as part of ONE Archives' Circa Festival.

Liz Brown stumbled into the real-life noir of her great-grand uncle W.A. Clark Jr and his secret gay romance with socialite Harrison Post in 1920s Los Angeles. Brown’s book, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire, is a researched account of the relationship between Post and Clark Jr, who was a scion of a copper mining dynasty, founder of the LA Philharmonic and the Clark Library in West Adams, and instrumental in the creation of the Hollywood Bowl.

Although Clark was one of LA’s founding figures, his story is not widely known. He had secrets, and the biggest was Harrison Post. In this slide lecture, Liz Brown explores this hidden history, its connection to LA’s origins, and her own reckoning with the past.

 

 

 

This performance is supported in part by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan