…Pride Month. Attending and supporting these virtual events helps maintain the spirit of Pride Month. Many organizations are using this year’s Pride Month to protest ongoing inequality and injustice in…
Read More…Stonewall National Monument. WorldPride, the largest international LGBTQ Pride celebration, is coming to New York this month to coincide with the Stonewall50 commemorations, marking the first time it has been…
Read More…West 13th Street. In addition, he took many photos of the annual NYC Gay Pride Parade. June, 1983 Pride March. Image by Robert Fisch, from the Village Preservation Historic Image…
Read MoreStonewall Inn. Photo courtesy of voicesofny.org. Happy Pride Week! Each June during the week leading up to the Gay Pride March, NYC celebrates Pride Week. Throughout the week, different groups…
Read More…love. During NYC pride Month 2019/WorldPride, and the 50th Anniversary Year of the Stonewall Uprising, we celebrate the spirit of LGBTQ people across all times and places with our Pride…
Read More…Pride Month” slide show for June’s LGBT Pride and History Month. For this, the LPC, and especially the staff who put it together, should be commended. The enlightening and useful…
Read MoreThis year’s Gay Pride Month certainly got off to an auspicious start with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission finally agreeing to consider the Stonewall Inn for individual landmark…
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…and was presented at one of Village Preservation’s Pride programs, gay historian George Chauncey spoke about using police records and newspaper articles because personal papers are seldom available. Why? We…
Read MoreJune is Pride Month, which makes it especially exciting time to be in the Village. LGBT history is closely tied with the Village and environs, and throughout the course of…
Read MoreLGBTQ+ Pride and History Month may be in June, but at Village Preservation, we’re working to document, celebrate, and protect the incredibly rich LGBTQ+ history of our neighborhoods, which played…
Read More…Gay Liberation Front organized neighborhood protests and established the framework for the modern LGBTQIA+ Pride March. Its GAY POWER March, held on July 27th, organized over 500 people to march…
Read Morefrom newyork.cbslocal.com On the last Sunday of June, since 1970, the New York City LGBT community has celebrated the last day of Pride Week with a march (NOT a parade)…
Read MoreAs June comes to a close, we wanted to celebrate Pride Month with a look at one of the great resources of our community, the LGBT Community Center. Located at…
Read More…of NYPD officers have come out, many of whom march in the annual LGBT Pride March. While many NYPD officers stationed at the annual pride march would routinely turn their…
Read More…Memorial Bookshop — sadly no longer with us), to countless restaurants, dry cleaners, markets, hardware stores, and everything you could imagine in between. To celebrate Pride this year, we’re guiding…
Read More…which happen annually in support of those marching for and celebrating Pride in NYC. Image and Caption from the New Yorker: Amid the corporate-sponsored Pride festivities in 2019, a group…
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 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 MoreJune is Pride Month, which makes it an especially exciting time to be in the Village. LGBT history is closely tied with the Village and its environs, and throughout the…
Read More…was 2,500. And that was the impact of Stonewall.” Sunday, during the 2011 Pride Parade, outside of Stonewall (image courtesy of (Vivienne Gucwa’s flickr) The bar closed its doors in…
Read More…with her son, Morty Manford, left, at the Christopher Street Liberation March in 1973, the precursor to today’s Annual Gay Pride March. Dr. Benjamin Spock, with glasses, is directly behind…
Read More…after the Pride March itself. Village Preservation is happily highlighting LGBTQ history in the Greenwich Village Historic District as the entire world comes together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the…
Read More…color to socialize. The group also provided social and literary resources to educate its members about topics like racism and parenting. Harriet Alston and Shirley Gaven at a Pride March,…
Read MoreEvery June, New Yorkers and people from around the world gather in our city to celebrate Pride Month and honor the memory of the Stonewall Riots, three nights in 1969…
Read More…community. Two-Spirit people in the New York City Pride March, 1991, from the University of Winnipeg Archives. In 1992, WeWah and BarCheeAmpe lead the Pride March and held a Two-Spirit…
Read More…has served Saturday dinners and weekend teas to 35,000 people. Additionally, St. Luke’s began hosting a Gay Pride evensong celebration, and participating in the annual NYC Pride Parade. The church’s…
Read More…Queer history within Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo), then explore our 2022 Village Pride Tour via Urban Archive as well as our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map….
Read More…within the 1970-80s Gay Liberation Movement, Rivera was controversial (to say the least) during her time. While delivering her infamous speech, “Y’all Better Quiet Down!” at the 1973 Gay Pride…
Read More…Pride Parade. Fisch grew up in Queens where the sight of the supersonic Concorde flying overhead sparked an interest in photography. He came to the Village as a teenager in…
Read More…the monument, and word quickly spread that it was the first time such a display of the LGBT pride flag had ever taken place on a national monument. The Trump…
Read More…orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, and violet descending from the top. The following two “rainbow flag-inspired” images are from the Robert Fisch Collection, dating froim from gay pride events. Gay…
Read More…particular geographic area. Stonewall Riots As we celebrate Pride in New York City, we are reminded of its beginnings at the Stonewall Inn. Some of the key the leaders of…
Read More…brutality. Additionally, in 1970, the first gay pride parade was organized within the bookshop, solidifying its status as a landmark in the Gay Liberation Movement. Interior of the Oscar Wilde…
Read More…with pride and care and enjoying an usual amount of light and air, and isolation from city traffic. There is a cobbled street and a gate at the west end. …
Read MoreAs we approach LGBTQ+ Pride Weekend, Village Preservation is proud to share with you a wonderful new collection in our historic image archive of donated images from Jillian Jonas chronicling the fiery…
Read More…and celebrates Pride’s roots in the Village with a Eucharist on the morning of the Pride March for the entire community. St John’s community of Episcopalians is known for its…
Read MoreJune is Pride Month, which makes it an especially exciting time to be in the Village. LGBT history is closely tied with our neighborhood and their culture, and throughout the…
Read More…and cared for by the pharmacist. Just as New York City is the nation’s most diverse city, Village Apothecary takes great pride in employing the most diverse staff representing all…
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 MorePhoto courtesy of Flaming Pablum. This is the latest post in our Pride Month series, read the first on the West Village here. June is Pride Month, which makes it…
Read More…critical step to protect the site because of its historical importance as the Stonewall Inn, “Where Gay Pride Began”. With all due respect to the building’s history as Mark Spencer’s…
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…Manford, center, with her son, Morty Manford, left, at the Christopher Street Liberation March in 1973, the precursor to today’s Annual Gay Pride March. Dr. Benjamin Spock, with glasses, is…
Read More…the Lesbian Avengers organized their first New York City Dyke March down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park on the eve of the NYC Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade. It…
Read More…the cornices of Harlem that he got them listed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “11 Most Endangered” list of 1994. “It’s great for owners to take pride in…
Read More…to a very loyal following of generations of customers. Fawzy and Ola pride themselves in both the continuity of the menu and recipes that B&H uses, and the community of…
Read More…form. 3. Edie Windsor, Gay Marriage Pioneer Edie Windsor at DC Pride in 2017, via Wiki Commons Edie Windsor (1929-2017) may have done more than any single individual to advance the…
Read More…education issues of The Crisis, it was the first magazine ever made for African American youth, featuring photographs, art, and literature. Its message was consistently to do well in school, take pride…
Read More…New York City, which traditionally kicks of LGBT Pride Weekend. 19. Frank O’Hara residence, 441 East 9th Street The openly-gay “New York School” poet lived here with his sometimes lover…
Read More…12th Street 302 East 12th Street First opened in 1908, John’s of 12th Street prides itself on combining traditional Italian “red sauce” cuisine with updated vegan options. Owned by the founding Pucciatti…
Read More…Katherine was a midwife who sang in the church choir. Leontyne was the focus of her parents’ intense pride and love. Given a toy piano at the age of three,…
Read More…mill and her mother Katherine was a midwife who sang in the church choir. Leontyne was the focus of her parents’ intense pride and love. Given a toy piano at…
Read More…Catherwood Library at the Industrial Labor Relations School (ILR). The Library which is part of the Kheel Center takes great pride in showcasing their holdings on this important organization, since they…
Read More…(S.T.A.R.) House: 213 East 2nd Street (LGBT History). Activist and co-founder Sylvia Rivera marching with her STAR banner at the Christopher Street Pride March Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, trans women…
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…nurturing experience for emerging playwrights, to present diverse and challenging plays that otherwise might not be produced, and to foster the future voices of American theater. Rattlestick prides itself on…
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…their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to the Village. Congregation Shearith Israel, now located at 2 West 70th Street, takes pride in being the very first Jewish…
Read More…our webpage. John’s of 12th Street, 302 East 12th Street First opened in 1908, this venerable restaurant prides itself on combining traditional Italian “red sauce” cuisine with updated vegan options….
Read More…a nationwide group of green-friendly businesses, as well as founding members of Greenprint, a coalition of environmentally friendly printers in the northeast. They pride themselves upon striving to be one…
Read More…and staying relevant is mandatory, Caffe Reggio prides itself on staying the same. Knowing that something from the past remains is what many customers crave. The smoking…. not so much!…
Read More…world. He visited last year for the 2018 NYC Pride and immediately fell in love with the Village. “Experiencing the birthplaces of many of America’s social and civil rights movements…
Read More…first community-based HIV clinic. One partnership included contributing 1,200 panels to the AIDS memorial quilt with the organization Heritage of Pride. The Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights used the…
Read More…section is also popular, with repeat visitors wanting to delve deeper into the neighborhood and the metropolis in general. With Stonewall50 and LGBTQ Pride celebrations recently, naturally the Gay Literature…
Read More…monument [that] fully justifies the pride of its generation and ours.” And even though it sits in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, the library owes its existence to a number…
Read More…next day was mingled with a sense of pride. A dome shelter stood on the lower east side. Business and government had long talked about the feasibility of dome structures…
Read More…From the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Mason prided herself on making every piece of jewelry differently, only agreeing to replicate a piece if she could…
Read More…Bar, May 26, 1994 This collection includes images not only from Boy Bar, but the Pyramid Club, Wigstock, the Gay Pride Festival, and dozens of other downtown nightlife and performance…
Read More…celebrate the people and organizations that make our neighborhoods special. By nominating someone, you can help to strengthen the sense of community and pride in our neighborhoods. Promoting awareness. By…
Read More…Today the Jefferson Market Library is a beacon of pride and joy for the Greenwich Village community and a landmark of the importance and value of historic preservation. Neil’s vision…
Read More…necessarily shield Black children from the realities of racism present in American life; instead, he hoped to instill pride and offer the knowledge needed to navigate and overcome that prejudice….
Read More…our neighborhood! Now they have both an East and West Village location, and some others too. Since June is LGBT Pride Month, and summer is the time for ice cream,…
Read More…and Pride Month combined to highlight racism and discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community, specifically against Black trangender people. Masked “Gay Liberation” Statues, Christopher Park. December 2020 These are just a…
Read More…bar, Pyramid Club, Wigstock, the Gay Pride Festival, Jackie 60, and various other downtown nightlife and performance venues of the early-to-mid 1990s. This photo was taken at boy bar in…
Read More…It was taken at the Gay Pride Parade in front of 55 Fifth Avenue on June 26, 2005. Wigstock is a perennial late summer favorite. This image from the Jillian…
Read More…out and about, fountains flowing in parks, rainbow flags in windows of small businesses to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and cafes with tables full of happy diners spilling out onto…
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…Loisaida introduced Nuyorican as a term for mainland Puerto Ricans, specifically those in New York City. By the 1970s, the Nuyorican identity had become a point of pride for many…
Read More…many friends that were drawn to her indomitable, whimsical spirit through the years. “They’ve taken me on as a project,” she joked, displaying the same sense of humor and pride…
Read More…that era. In keeping with her desire to teach black children pride in their heritage and to encourage their creativity, she cofounded and edited a monthly children’s magazine, the Brownies’…
Read More…of Mexican workers, men and women, and national pride in the murals. American lefitist and labor publications such as The Nation, New Masses, and Creative Art, many of which did…
Read More…the door. A frequent partner with Village Preservation, they pride themselves on discovering and curating literature that will take readers on a journey. Make sure to stop by and check…
Read More…York City. The book provides a detailed look into its subject’s views on Black pride, nationalism, and protest while also analyzing the true insidiousness of America’s systemic oppression of minorities….
Read More…New York Times reported: “Our adopted citizens do not forget the illustrious [sic] of their native lands, and feel a pride in associating their renown with this city of their…
Read More…City. By the 1970s, the Nuyorican identity had become a point of pride for many Puerto Rican migrants, in part thanks to the establishment of the Nuyorican Poets Café. Jacob…
Read More…was used as a protest song by many in the 1960s. Ever since, the flag and anthem have become contested symbols of pride and protest during struggles over civil rights,…
Read More…the same drag performers at the Pyramid Club, Wigstock, and the Gay Pride Festival. Her collections donated to us include some amazing images from the Pyramid Club at two July…
Read More…Morty in the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, a precursor to the modern-day Pride March. She held aloft a sign that read “Parents of Gays Unite in Support for Our…
Read More…the neighborhood and city in the decades since then, the former World Trade Center, and the annual Gay Pride Parade. His collection also includes several images of 9/11 as viewed…
Read More…in Greenwich Village, various buildings in the city, the Gay Pride Parade, and images from the attack and days following 9/11. Fisch grew an extensive collection, and one of the…
Read More…Diana with pride. Asked about Sirleaf’s reaction to Berber Street Food, Diana reports: She was shocked to see that I am Black, I am African, I am the chef, and…
Read More…current management bought the bar in 2006 and have operated it as a club, once again called Stonewall Inn, ever since. And naturally, everyone is now welcome there. Happy Pride!!!!…
Read More…Rican pride. The walls are currently adorned with colorful paintings that feature the coqui (frog), Atabex (Taíno Mother Goddess of Earth, fertility,waters), a cemi (a sculptural object housing an ancestral…
Read More…from scratch. It has planted tens of thousands of tulips and other flowers and restored the park into a place of beauty and serenity, a place of neighborhood pride, and…
Read More…plaque was mounted in June during Gay Pride Month. In February, after months of investigation, GVSHP revealed that community “givebacks” touted by the City Council in its approval of the…
Read More…community and served as the location for the organizing meetings of the first Pride Parade in the 1970s. Oscar Wilde Bookshop closed on March 29, 2009, a victim of declining…
Read More…Fran Winant, both of who joined the movement in the “Stonewall Summer.” photo by Ellen Shumsky Next Tuesday, June 23, GVSHP will honor Pride Month with a free public program…
Read More…represented New York City’s own version of the iconic Harvey Milk. Last year, David was honored at the City Council’s annual LGBT Pride event. According to gay City Councilman Daniel…
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