…other organizations, like the Gay Activists Alliance, Queens Liberation Front, Lavender Menace, Street Transvestite Action Revoulionairies (STAR), and Radical Lesbians. Gay Liberation Front Button (circa 1969-1970). Photograph Sourced from the…
Read More…historic sites: the LGBT Community Center at 208 W. 13th Street and the former Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street. Until now, there has only been ONE…
Read More…York City and State. These three men were also among the founders of the Gay Activists Alliance, Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats (the first gay Democratic club in the country),…
Read More…Preservation placed a plaque on Hansberry’s Waverly Place home commemorating her residence there. 6. (former) Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 99 Wooster Street 99 Wooster Street today, courtesy of Village Preservation The…
Read More…lesbian New Yorkers, but on the broader culture and on activism in our city and country in general. Gay Activists Alliance street fair, 1971. Image via NYPL GAA members were…
Read More…post-Stonewll period. And nearly all of his groundbreaking work was done from our neighborhoods. Dr. Bruce R. Voeller Dr. Voeller was an early president of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA…
Read More…PFLAG), and the National Gay Task Force (later the National LGBTQ+ Task Force), the first national gay liberation organization. Gay Activists Alliance flyer for the Snake Pit raid protest, March…
Read More…this same group that also rented a former Firehouse Building, just one block away at 99 Wooster Street, which became the headquarters for the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). While all…
Read More…the time resided. Read about it in our letter to the Landmarks Preservation Commission HERE. Residents included Jim Owles, who co-founded the Gay Activists Alliance and the Gay and Lesbian…
Read More…(former location), 99 Wooster Street 99 Wooster Street, 1973 (left) and 2019 (from the Landmarks Preservation Commission report) The Gay Activists Alliance was founded in December 1969, six months after…
Read More…formerly home to the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the most highly influential LGBT groups of the post-Stonewall era. Founded in 1969 by Marty Robinson, Jim Owles, and Arthur Evans,…
Read More…significance in LGBTQ+ history: The LGBT Community Center at 208 West 13th Street and the former Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street. 99 Wooster Street – Gay…
Read More…of a new exhibit on the Gay Rights Bill. He will focus on the roles of advocates like the Gay Activists Alliance and opponents including the Catholic Church, the Police…
Read MoreClockwise from top left: Christopher Street Liberation March, 1972; Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry; artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 1971; the African Grove Theatre circa…
Read More…Wooster Street The building at 99 Wooster Street was formerly home to the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the most highly influential LGBT groups of the post-Stonewall era. Founded in…
Read More…99 Wooster Street) 99 Wooster Street, formerly the Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse. The building at 99 Wooster Street was formerly home to the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the most…
Read More…one person attempted to escape and was impaled on a fence, the Gay Activists Alliance and Gay Liberation Front quickly assembled a protest march, the results of which demonstrated the…
Read More…the Gay Activists Alliance, whose headquarters was a few block away at a former firehouse at 99 Wooster Street. Three particularly prominent activist lived here: Jim Owles, Arnie Kantrowitz, and…
Read More…1950s and a sense of isolation that followed him throughout his twenties. After the Stonewall riots, Katz became involved with activism within the gay community through the Gay Activists Alliance…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read More…the LGBT Community Center and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse. This comes four years after the first and until recently only NYC individual landmark based on LGBT association, the…
Read More…the most important and influential activist figures of the time resided. This included Jim Owles, who co-founded the Gay Activists Alliance and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD),…
Read More…The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation The Gay Activists Alliance All of these organizations have had a profound effect on our city…
Read More…time, most notably the growing LGBT movement that had taken hold after the Stonewall Riots. The Gay Activists Alliance’s firehouse in 1971, via NYPL (left and right) A few months before…
Read More…marginalizing its BIPOC and trans members. In the following years, Rivera actively called out the Gay Activists Alliance for downplaying the role of transgender individuals, many of whom were people…
Read MoreStonewall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1999, following a nomination process that included Village Preservation (then known as the Greenwich Village Society for…
Read More…involvement at the Stonewall Riots marked a pivotal moment in both her activism and legacy. Rivera was an active member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), the Gay Activists Alliance…
Read More…of the movement. Wojtowicz himself had been an active member of the Gay Activists Alliance, and participated in their regular meetings at their former firehouse headquarters in SoHo. Wojtowicz got…
Read More…of Gay and Lesbian Writers Gay Activists Alliance street fair with Washington Square Village in the distance, 1971. Image via NYPL A march up Sixth Avenue from the NYPL collection….
Read MoreJonathan Ned Katz grew up in Greenwich Village in a house on Jane Street and attended the Little Red School House as a kid. There, he was encouraged to make…
Read More…area. After a five year campaign, the City landmarked three LGBT historic sites we had fought to landmark — the LGBT Community Center, the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, and Caffe Cino. In…
Read More…landmark designation for the Stonewall Inn, The LGBT Community Center, and the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, as well as the ongoing effort to secure landmark designation for Julius’ Bar, the…
Read More…with activism in the gay community and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). In 1972, the GAA produced his documentary play, Coming Out!, at the GAA firehouse on Wooster Street. Katz…
Read More…of advocates like the Gay Activists Alliance and opponents including the Catholic Church, the Police Department, and the Fire Department, as well as look at the special role that downtown…
Read More(l.) The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street, built 1869, 1899; (r.) the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 99 Wooster Street, built 1881. Capping a five year campaign by Village…
Read More…manslaughter and common law infringements. To fight against this grim scenario, the Redstockings organized “raps” (similar to the “zaps” carried out by groups like the Gay Activists Alliance) in which…
Read More…fiercely debated by gay advocates as to whether or not they supported the goals of the movement. Wojtowicz himself had been an active member of the Gay Activists Alliance, and…
Read More…LGBT landmarking ask to include the LGBT Community Center at 208 West 13th Street, the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street, as well as the Stonewall Inn and…
Read MoreOn June 27th, 2016, President Obama designated the Stonewall National Monument, the 412th National Park site, and the first U.S. National Monument chosen specifically for its LGBT history. This milestone…
Read More…1869, expanded in 1899, former home of P.S. 16 and the Food & Maritime Trades Vocational High School.The (former) Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 99 Wooster Street, home of one of…
Read More…site of the first planned civil disobedience for gay rights) and the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse in SoHo. The LPC has already allowed other extremely important LGBT history sites, such…
Read More(l.) The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street, built 1869, 1899; (r.) the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 99 Wooster Street, built 1881. Capping a four year drive by Village…
Read More…16 and the Food & Maritime Trades Vocational High School. The (former) Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 99 Wooster Street, home of one of the most impactful LGBT groups of the…
Read More…proposed Julius’ along with the Stonewall Inn, the LGBT Community Center, and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse as the city’s very first designated LGBTQ+ landmarks. The Stonewall Inn was…
Read More…Katz in 1971 joined the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), and in June 1972 used his name on a documentary play, Coming Out! produced by GAA at its rented firehouse on…
Read More…the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), and in June 1972 used his name on a documentary play, Coming Out! produced by GAA at its rented firehouse on Wooster Street. The mainstream…
Read More…2022, building on previous successful campaigns to preserve other sites essential to the history of LGBTQ+ rights, including the Stonewall Inn and the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse. Earlier in 2022,…
Read More…a house on Jane Street and attended the Little Red School House. Katz in 1971 joined the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), and in June 1972 used his name on a…
Read MoreDid you know that Village Preservation members receive advance notice of many of our public programs? Our tours and other programs sometimes offer limited seating or spaces. By becoming a…
Read More(l.) The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street, built 1869, 1899; (r.) the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 99 Wooster Street, built 1881. Tomorrow the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)…
Read More…and former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse for landmark designation based upon their significance to LGBT history and civil rights struggles. For the past five years, we have been waging a…
Read More…to consider other critical LGBT history sites for landmark designation, such as Julius Bar, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, and…
Read More…LGBT Community Center, and the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse. While those were landmarked in 2015 and 2019 the LPC resisted landmarking Julius’ until now. Today’s calendaring must be followed by…
Read More…to the LGBT civil rights movement, like Stonewall, Julius’ Bar, or the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, or sites in the South and East Village connected to African-American, immigrant, and social…
Read More…colorful mayors. Read and see more about the building on our East Village Building Blocks website here. Oceanus Engine Co. No. 11/FDNY Engine Co. 13/Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 99 Wooster…
Read More… Julius • Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse • Cubbyhole • The Stonewall Inn • Oscar…
Read More…of significance to the LGBT civil rights movement, like the Stonewall Inn, Julius’ Bar, or the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, or sites in the South and East Village connected to African-American,…
Read More…landmark in 2015. We proposed and secured landmark designation for the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse and the LGBT Community Services Center, and have fought for recognition of other historic sites…
Read More…Community Services Center at 208 West 13th Street, and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street. In 2014, Village Preservation proposed these sites along with the Stonewall Inn for landmark…
Read More…Bar, for individual landmark designation. Village Preservation first proposed the building for landmark designation along with the Stonewall Inn, the LGBT Community Center, and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Firehouse;…
Read More…Bar, for individual landmark designation. Village Preservation first proposed the building for landmark designation along with the Stonewall Inn, the LGBT Community Center, and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Firehouse…
Read More…securing landmark designation for LGBTQ+ sites, including the Stonewall Inn (here and here), Julius’ Bar, and the LGBT Community Center, the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, Cafe Cino, and the Pyramid…
Read More… Three Lives & Co. • Cherry Lane Theatre • IFC • Julius • Gay Activists Alliance…
Read More…Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse • Cubbyhole • The Stonewall Inn • Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop About the Artist: Lily Annabelle…
Read More…Services Center at 208 West 13th Street, and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street. Five years later and on the eve of the 50th anniversary of…
Read More…LGBT landmarks expanded in 2019 with the designation of the LGBT Community Center and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse. Here’s a few ways you can mark LGBTQ pride and…
Read More…here), Frank O’Hara (here and here), and the San Remo Cafe. The LGBT Community Center (left) and the former Gay Activists Alliance firehouse, two historic sites Village Preservation worked to…
Read More…designation for LGBTQ+ sites, including the Stonewall Inn (here and here), Julius’ Bar, and the LGBT Community Center, the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, Cafe Cino, and the Pyramid Club (here)….
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