…and transgender (LGBT) history we had identified. At this time, no buildings in the city were explicitly recognized or protected by the LPC primarily for their connection to major LGBT…
Read More…7. LGBT Community Services Center, 208 West 13th Street LGBT Community Center via Flickr cc Housed in a former public school built in 1869 and 1899, the LGBT Community Center has…
Read More…identifying, documenting, and nominating LGBTQ-associated sites as national historic landmarks; increasing the number of listings of LGBTQ-associated properties in the National Register of Historic Places. NPS LGBTQ map of Greenwich…
Read More…view it at www.gvshp.org/civilrightsmap. East Village Building Blocks: LGBTQ Sites Tour Want to explore more East Village LGBTQ history? Village Preservation offers an online guided tour of LGBTQ Sites on our East Village…
Read More…the LGBT Community Center) The LGBT Community Center has been a home and resource hub for the LGBT community in New York City since its founding in 1983. The center…
Read More…York hosted World Pride, the largest international LGBT Pride celebration, which brought in millions of visitors to our city to celebrate. LGBT businesses and organizations rely heavily on the influx of revenue…
Read More…flood of recognition of the importance of LGBTQ sites and the history connected to them. This panel celebrated and explored LGBTQ preservation efforts with Village Preservation, the NYC LGBT Historic…
Read More…full of LGBT culture as well, from the site of one the very first LGBT demonstrations to the homes of some of the greatest openly-LGBT artists and writers of the…
Read More…The Imagery of ACT UP Pride on West 13th Street LGBTQ History: Around Christopher Street LGBTQ History: Cooper Square and Bowery LGBTQ History: Bleecker Street LGBTQ History: MacDougal Street Kitty…
Read More…you on an exploration of today’s LGBTQ+-owned businesses led by the Queer Money Project — to celebrate both the contributions of the LGBTQ+ community in our neighborhoods, and to support…
Read More…celebrations. Rounding up each person, place, and moment in the Greenwich Village Historic District’s LGBTQ history would take longer than it does to line up for, march in, and party…
Read More…that helped launch the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights. And while the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street is indeed a landmark of that movement — one officially designated by…
Read More…the recognition of this site’s place in LGBT history, it still lacks New York City landmarks protections as an LGBT site. Julius’ Bar, courtesy of Google Maps As background, Julius’…
Read MoreJune is Pride Month, an especially exciting time to be in the Village. LGBT history is closely tied with our neighborhoods, and this month we’re highlighting the LGBT history of…
Read MoreLGBTQ+ Pride and History Month is upon us. As we take the time to honor the struggles and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community in New York City and beyond, there…
Read More…LGBTQ Tour, with 15 sites Read or listen to our LGBTQ-themed oral histories Browse scores of LGBTQ-themed blog posts Read about Village Preservation’s groundbreaking success in securing landmark designation for…
Read More…is the first congregate transitional housing facility for homeless LGBTQ youth financed by New York’s HPD. This space provides quality, safe housing for 18 homeless LGBT youth so that they…
Read More…District. According to the new historic district designation report, LGBT history was made here more than a half century ago. The South Village’s history is so special in so many…
Read More…where queerness was made visible, and a significant site of solidarity and protest across the Black Power, Feminist, and LGBTQ-rights movements. Women’s House of Detention at the intersection of Greenwich…
Read More…Stonewall riots, that Greenwich Village’s LGBTQ history happened entirely on Christopher Street. Of course, there’s a lot more to LGBTQ history in the Village than Stonewall, just as there’s a…
Read MoreIt’s Pride Month!! Today we look at Richard Wandel, someone who has been instrumental in archiving LGBT history and who shared his story with us through our Oral History Project…
Read More…evolved into a global movement for raising awareness of the fight for LGBT rights. Pride Week here in New York City, as well as the LGBT Pride March held yesterday,…
Read MoreThe Public Theater, formerly the Astor Library June is Pride Month, an especially exciting time in our neighborhoods. LGBT history is closely tied with the Village and environs, and this month…
Read MoreOn April 21, Village Preservation joined with the the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project to honor the city’s oldest gay bar and a pioneering event from the early days of…
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 MoreStonewall Inn. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. On June 23, 2015, The Stonewall Inn, the place where the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights movement was born, was officially…
Read More…the opportunity to highlight locations on the map that are not only important to African-American history, but LGBT History as well. While our map includes areas and individuals related specifically…
Read More…especially exciting time to be in the Village. LGBT history is closely tied with our neighborhoods, and throughout the course of this month we’ll be highlighting the LGBT history of…
Read MoreLesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village. The…
Read More…late 18th to the early 21st century. In honor of Pride, today we explore some of our LGBTQ+ digital photo archives. Onlookers on a Fire Escape, with Rainbow Decorations, June…
Read More…LGBT Rights Movements. As you can see in today’s New York Times (read here), the Landmarks Preservation Commission is now taking another look at saving the house based upon this…
Read More…of Pride’ for her work coordinating the march. As Tom Limoncelli said, ‘the next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why [LGBT] Pride Month is June…
Read MoreLGBT nightlife in New York has changed drastically throughout the years, with an exodus of sorts to Brooklyn. There have been a multitude of reasons suggested for the decline, including…
Read More…movement, and GVSHP is proud of its role in documenting and highlighting the Village’s rich and sometimes hidden history of LGBTQ culture and protest. Late in the 1990s, GVSHP collaborated…
Read More…Ned Katz. Katz is a scholar of LGBTQ+ history and American history, as well as a painter and artist. He is the author of Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay…
Read MoreImage courtesy of 6sqft. Here at GVSHP we are excited about our recently launched Village Civil Rights & Social Justice Map. With our upcoming LGBT history bar crawl at the…
Read MoreOctober is LGBT History Month, and we’ve got a great new episode of our Off the Grid podcast on our Soundcloud page to help celebrate. Explore some of the many…
Read More…New York.’ This was not the end of Bleecker Street’s LGBTQ institutions, however. Numerous beer gardens that catered to the working class and its ‘gay’ community survived the 1890s, serving,…
Read MoreHonor Our LGBT Elders Day is celebrated each year on May 16th. While every day is a good day to pay tribute to those who have paved the way for…
Read MoreSylvia Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002, She/Her) was a trailblazing advocate for the rights of transgender individuals and LGBTQ+ communities. A vocal opponent of racism and transphobia…
Read More…the early 1980s to participate in the Gay and Lesbian Youth of NY program at the LGBT Community Center, and to find a welcoming community. He has lived in the…
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 More32 Cooper Square, once Paresis Hall, is to the left of the building where the Village Voice was once housed. In the 1890s, the Bowery, like Bleecker Street, was a…
Read More…its significance to LGBT history. And in most cases, the LPC’s own designation reports, which officially define the building’s significance, make no acknowledgement whatsoever of any connection to LGBT history….
Read More…connected to LGBT people is Webster Hall, the site of early 20th century drag balls and other events for the LGBT community, first proposed for landmark designation by GVSHP in…
Read More…Needs Although only 7% of the general youth population identifies as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer/questioning), approximately 40% of youth who are currently homeless identify as LGBTQ. This represents…
Read More…explode in the aftermath of Stonewall. Read our series on local LGBT History- South Village, NoHo, West Village, and East Village. Read about the LGBT history of Bleecker Street, MacDougal…
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…for the LGBT community and the country at large, there are still many sites of LGBT importance that remain unacknowledged. Village Preservation celebrated the recent landmarking of six LGBT sites…
Read More…name ‘Stonewall’ also used by countless organizations and entities around the world to signify the quest for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equality. But in 1969, those three nights of…
Read More…recognition or protection from the LPC on the basis of their LGBT history.” The plaque on the facade of the Stonewall Inn. Finally, a designation based on LGBT history is…
Read More…to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) history. All were part of Village Preservation’s ongoing efforts to secure landmark designation for the area south of Union Square and for LGBT…
Read More…has played in LGBT history and the LGBT rights movement. West Village The Stonewall Inn (51-53 Christopher Street) In the early morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, dozens of gay…
Read More…in a Gay Environment) and the Metropolitan Community Church (an LGBT congregation). In 1983, Caring Community defaulted on its lease, and the LGBT-focused sublets, along with local gay and AIDS activists, saw…
Read More…LGBTQ rights movement, which burst into prominence in our neighborhood on June 28, 1969 with the Stonewall Riots, leading to a new, much more aggressive phase in what was then…
Read MoreOctober 11th is National Coming Out Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness and visibility of the LGBT community through the process of “coming out,” or identifying one’s LGBT identity…
Read More…social justice efforts, seeking to repair relationships with people it believed the United Methodist Church had long excluded. Washington Square United Methodist Church. Photograph sourced from the NYC LGBT Historic…
Read More…of Pride and The LGBT Community Center, and is just blocks away from the site of the original Stonewall Inn. (And just this week The LGBT Community Center was itself…
Read More…of LGBT Community Center National History Archive and the LGBT Historic Sites Project) The National Gay Task Force, now renamed as The National LGBTQ Task Force, works to advance full…
Read More…this fight but also the development of a strong LGBT community as well. The NPS hopes that this designation of Christopher Park will pave the way for many more LGBT…
Read More…official records on Stonewall say nothing about its connection to LGBT history). You can learn more about 186 Spring Street’s history here, and more about the Village’s LGBT history here….
Read More…restrictions. Ramrod (394-395 West Street) Ramrod, ca. 1978. Image via NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project The Ramrod, from the Village People’s “YMCA” video. Image via NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project….
Read More…$1.5 million. Today the Center has grown to become the largest LGBT multi-service organization on the East Coast and second largest LGBT community center in the world. According to their…
Read More…in October 1998 in one of the most high-profile LGBT hate-crimes. Following their son’s murder, Judy and Dennis founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation. The Foundation runs LGBT education, outreach, and…
Read More…hosted exhibits, talks, and even made resources available that highlight LGBT history within their collections. For us in the Village, a strong portion of LGBT history is also Village history,…
Read MoreThe historic 2017 federal court decision that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people are protected from employment discrimination under the civil rights act has deep roots in a house…
Read More…History of the Jewel Box Review” by Queer Music Heritage “The Unveiling of the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at Historic Stone Wall Inn” by the National LGBTQ Task Force….
Read MoreGay Liberation Poster, designed by Su Negrin and Suzanne Bevier and photographed by Peter Hujar in 1970. Sourced from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Although June 1969 is in…
Read More…to found the National Gay Task Force (which became the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 1985 and is now the National LGBTQ Task Force) on October 15, 1973,…
Read MoreFifty years ago, a groundbreaking movement was born—a movement that would forever change the landscape of LGBTQ+ rights, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We marked the fortieth anniversary of…
Read More…the courage, fortitude, determination and formation of the LGBT movement. As one of four LGBT members of the New York City Council and a longstanding advocate within the community with…
Read More…Black history and social movements. LGBTQ Movements Well before the Stonewall Riots kicked off the modern LGBT rights movement, the Village was the place to be for the LGBTQ community….
Read MoreThe landmark documentary Paris Is Burning was released in New York on March 13, 1991. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, the film is an intimate peek into New York’s LGBTQ…
Read More…the City landmarked Stonewall, making it the city’s first landmark designation based upon LGBT history. At the time Village Preservation also proposed the LGBT Community Center and the former GAA…
Read More…McNally in his 20s The LGBTQ Tour highlights many crucial moments of LGBTQ history that happened in the area south of Union Square. McNally appears here both for his incredibly…
Read More…to landmark, in spite of its age and outstanding contributions to the LGBT rights movement. 7. Saving Stonewall and Recognizing LGBT Landmarks. The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street is recognized…
Read More…3 | New-York Historical Society.” Nyhistory.org, 2019. “Two-Spirit Community.” Lgbtqhealth.ca, 2018. “WeWah & BarCheeAmpe at the American Indian Community House – NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.” Nyclgbtsites.org, 2022. …
Read More…Edmund Vincent Gillon. Courtesy of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Choosing a name that would capture the store’s purpose, Rodwell honored Oscar Wilde, a renowned gay figure whose gross…
Read MoreThe East Village is home to a dynamic group of historic LGBT+ sites — overshadowed as they may be by the many such landmarks of the West Village, including Stonewall….
Read More…The LGBT Center The famous LGBT center also has its roots as an institution of education. Built in stages in 1869 and 1899, this magnificent Italianate structure used to be…
Read More…formalized spaces for the LGBT community, such as the LGBT Center on 13th Street. In June of 2019, after a five-year campaign by Village Preservation, both the GAA Firehouse and…
Read More…to promote social acceptability within the United States’ legislative, punitive, medical, and judicial systems. Comparing their efforts to the current LGBTQIA+ Rights Movement, it is eerie how similar the language…
Read More…via NYPL. In our continuing efforts to save 186 Spring Street in the South Village, we’ve highlighted the significant role the building played in the early LGBT rights movement. In…
Read More…Greenwich Avenue June 16th to the 29th Co-sponsored by the Arcus Foundation June is LGBT Pride and History Month, and GVSHP is proud to co-sponsor this educational exhibit in more…
Read More…Village, and NoHo: Bea Arthur Residence: 2018 Regina Kellerman Award Winner The Bea Arthur Residence for homeless LGBTQ youth, named for “Golden Girl” Bea Arthur, was born of a partnership…
Read More…birth of the modern LGBT rights movement to the first museum dedicated to contemporary American art and the publication of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” 1. The birth of the…
Read More…Artists (and LGBT icons) like Andy Warhol and Keith Haring became internationally famous with their work done in the Village. You can see much more about LGBT history in Greenwich…
Read More…cement Greenwich Village as the birthplace of the modern Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) right’s movement. Marsha P. Johnson, a black transwoman, is iconic not just for her role…
Read More…Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings in the city, and has been a stronghold for the city’s LGBTQ community, developing a number of programs that have provided critical support and opportunities for gathering….
Read More…neighborhoods, check out our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, our LGBTQ Sites Tour on our Greenwich Village Historic District Map, and our LGBTQ Tour on our East Village Building…
Read More…of the same name.” If you would like to know more about LGBT activists and writers check out our interactive tour of LGBTQ sites in the Greenwich Village Historic District….
Read More…Street in the Meatpacking District. Provided courtesy of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and the Leather Club Roma 835 Washington Street has had many past lives. In the 1930s,…
Read More…were held in Washington Square Park and Union Square. These protests were organized by intersectional advocacy groups across labor, housing, immigration, and LGBTQIA+ movements, among many others. Instagram posts from…
Read More…few examples of LGBTQ+-related activism captured by Zien in this collection. Click here to see the full collection. For more images connected to LGBTQ+ life and activism in our neighborhoods,…
Read More…history, especially LGBT civil rights efforts, in our neighborhoods. This included getting the Stonewall Inn named the first LGBT site listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places…
Read More…the AIDS crisis and hate crimes. Wigstock used its growing platform to expose the mainstream to these and other important LGBTQ issues. Wigstock organizers stopped hosting the event in 2001,…
Read More…George Segal’s “Gay Liberation” statues, as the park is a stone’s throw from Stonewall, the site of the 1969 riot and beginning of the modern LGBT Rights movement. The park…
Read More…have the Stonewall Inn was designated a NYC landmark. In addition to gaining the protections mentioned above, the Stonewall also became recognized as the first ever NYC Landmark designated based upon LGBT…
Read More…tours – a Latinx History Tour of the Village narrated by John Leguizamo, a Social Justice Tour narrated by James Bennett II, an LGBTQ+ Tour narrated by James Marcolin, and…
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