…buildings within our proposed historic district – 70 and 80 Fifth Avenue. Read the letter here. 80 Fifth Avenue served as the headquarters of the National Gay Task Force (now the…
Read More…federal law to recognize sexual orientation, and got the stigmatizing and inaccurate name “Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome” changed to “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” or AIDS, while also securing the first…
Read More…Ron Gold, Dr. Howard Brown, Dr. Bruce Voeller, and Nathalie Rockhill. (l. to r. back row) Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny. 80 Fifth Avenue Initially located at 80 Fifth…
Read More…(one hundred eleven years ago today, on Feb. 12, 1909) through a critical decade of its existence. The building also housed the offices of W.E.B. DuBois’ The Crisis magazine, the first magazine created…
Read More…the Gay Officer’s Action League/St. Joseph’s Church, 371 Sixth Avenue St. Joseph’s is the oldest extant intact Catholic Church in New York City, built in 1833. But In 1982, the first…
Read More…the AIDS activist group ACT UP, and GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Read more about the building’s history here. National Gay Task Force Headquarters, 80 Fifth Avenue 80…
Read More…69 West 14th Street, just north of 14th Street (demolished). The core group of activists included Michael Brown, Martha Shelley, Lois Hart, Bob Martin, Marty Robinson, Karla Jay, Bob Kohler,…
Read More…an ‘It’s Time! National Gay Task Force’ banner, marches up Sixth Avenue during the annual Gay Pride parade in New York City, June 29, 1975. (Photo by Peter Keegan. Courtesy…
Read More…hub for radical and creative figures, Many were LGBTQ+, including Salvador Dali, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Andy Warhol, and Samuel Delany, who lived at the hotel in the 1970s. Also…
Read More…stop the spread of HIV, and introduced the term “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome,” or AIDS, to replace the inaccurate and stigmatizing term “Gay Related Immune Deficiency Disorder,” or GRIDD, which…
Read More…Village south of Union Square, which was a nexus for civil rights and social justice activism (in addition to the Task Force, the NAACP and the New York Woman’s Suffrage League were all headquartered…
Read More…world has yet produced” by Rex Reed. 29 East 9th Street, McNally’s Home, courtesy of the NYTimes. 1953 (left) 2007 (right) As accomplished as he was, McNally’s legacy is but…
Read More…rights, Women’s Rights, anti-Vietnam War, and Experimental Theater movements, as well as other organizing centered around the Village. 80 University Place, 2020. Listen to Edwin Fancher’s Oral History here. Listen…
Read More…Notable authors published in The Brownies’ Book included Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Winifred Davidson, Effie Lee Newsome, and Georgia Douglas Johnson. The magazine published Hughes’ high school graduation picture along with those of other high school…
Read More…New York City. These sites — key to the stories of African Americans, Hispanics, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and disabled New Yorkers — share two things in common. Several are imminently…
Read More…first 13 years of its existence, when the National Gay Task Force was responsible for groundbreaking advances in LGBTQ+ rights. Other trailblazing labor, civil rights, and social justice organizations were…
Read More…It was the home of Fairchild Publishing, producer of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD). 10 East 13th Street, 1940s Tax Photo. Courtesy of Municipal Archive. Unfortunately, when looking at the map…
Read More…Saturday, on December 23, 1823, the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (also known by its first line, “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”) was first published. The poem has been…
Read More…connected to LGBTQ+ history and figures, including Julius’ Bar, Anaïs Nin, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin (here and here), Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, Frank O’Hara (here and here), and…
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