The City of West Hollywood is celebrating 41 years of Cityhood during a free West Hollywood Day & State of the Community Celebration on Monday, November 24, 2025, highlighting West Hollywood’s history, community spirit, and civic pride. Photos will be posted soon after the event at the @WeHoCity Flickr page.

To RSVP visit: WeHoDay2025.eventbrite.com

Forty-one years ago, West Hollywood’s Cityhood was proposed by an unlikely coalition of LGBT activists, seniors, and renters — these groups came together to form a City like no other with progressive policies and strong tenants’ rights protections. Through tireless determination, the City of West Hollywood was officially incorporated as an independent municipality on November 29, 1984. Previously, West Hollywood had been an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County.

West Hollywood continually sets new standards for other municipalities, not only as a leader in many critical social movements — including HIV and AIDS advocacy; affordable and inclusionary housing; LGBT rights, civil rights, and human rights; women’s rights; protection of our environment; and animal rights — but also in fiscal responsibility; city planning; infrastructure; social services programs; wellness and recreation programs; senior services and aging-in-place programs; public and community arts; community engagement; and innovation.