…time the bar’s patrons fought back. This instance is popularly known as jumpstarting the movement towards gaining LGBT rights. Few people know about the recent landmarking of the Stonewall National…
Read More…– 52 fell into a derelict state, creating a dystopian yet incredibly private space for LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers to gather for surreptitious activities. For a young, bisexual, African-American photographer named…
Read More…to civil rights movements for African-Americans, LGBTQ+ people, women, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, Jews, immigrants, and workers. This living map expands to hold them all. Civil Rights and Social Justice – Broad…
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…
Read More…longtime home to the LGBTQ community and was home to St. Vincent’s Hospital, which was on the frontline of HIV/AIDS care as medicine began to tackle HIV/AIDS. In our neighborhoods,…
Read More…other than Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), New York’s LGBTQ synagogue. CBST, as it is abbreviated, began when some Villagers got together in 1973, and created CBST as a religious…
Read More…Eyes was a drama written by John Herbert in 1967 to process and analyze his own experience in Canada’s prison system. It was produced by Greenwich Villager and LGBTQIA+ rights…
Read More…work. It certainly touched my life, and that of my family. I have no doubt that because of Jeanne and PFLAG, I, like many other LGBT people of my generation,…
Read More…the Stonewall Uprising, the six-day series of disturbances that began as a protest by LGBTQ+ people against police harassment, but became the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Dave…
Read More…video. Image via NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. The Ramrod was one of New York’s most popular leather bars from 1973 (or 1976 depending on source) to when it closed…
Read More…the origins of its name are hotly debated, with the LGBT rights movement and abolitionism often cited as the source of its unusual nomenclature. And while the street certainly has strong…
Read More…GLAAD, now one of the largest LGBT organizations in the country. On this basis, at GVSHP’s request, the house was found eligible for the State and National Registers of Historic…
Read More…tower on the site along Bleecker Street. Stonewall Inn, 51-53 Christopher Street: The Stonewall Inn was the site of the Stonewall Riots, and is considered the most important LGBT historic…
Read More…be an early influence of rap; her voice is considered by many to be extraordinary. To anyone interested in the history of music, African Americans, women, and LGBTQ+ people, she is…
Read More…would solidify the importance of the park for its place in LGBT history, as well as recognize an LGBT component within the narrative of the history of the United States….
Read More…attending the school) P.S. 16 (Addition) (Now part of The LGBT Community Center) 208 West 13th Street Status – Still extant addition but now repurposed as a community center Main…
Read More…are on-your-feet worship and take-it-to-the-streets activism. We feed the hungry and work for a living wage; we fight for LGBTQ+ equality and march for racial/ethnic justice. We stand up for…
Read More…combating cultural stigmas against LGBTQIA+ individuals, the impoverished, and those affected by substance abuse. The couple helped to launch the careers of now well-known artists like David Wojnarowicz, Richard Hambleton…
Read More…Lenape. 80 Fifth Avenue Kalmia latifolia “Mountain Laurel”, Jacob Bigelow, (ca. 1817) Known as the headquarters for both the International Workers Order and the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Renaissance…
Read More…they wanted and were able. Today, The Monster consists of a multi-level gathering space for the LGBTQ+ community and their friends with a mix of vintage Lalique chandeliers and the…
Read More…and early 20th centuries, it had the largest concentration of establishments catering to LGBTQ+ people in New York, and was the center of LGBTQ+ life in the city. (l. to…
Read More…and focal point for the LGBTQ community. When the park was neglected, the volunteer organization Christopher Park Alliance (CPA) stepped into the breach. Since its inception in 2012, the CPA…
Read More…politician, social activist, and feminist, she co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus and distinguished herself in Congress as a champion of women’s rights, LGBT rights, an end to the Vietnam…
Read More…Abzug — Lawyer, politician, social activist, and feminist, she co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus and distinguished herself in Congress as a champion of women’s rights, LGBT rights, an end…
Read More…us to permanently commemorate one of the most significant pre-Stonewall LGBTQ+ civil rights actions, which took place right here in Greenwich Village, and to celebrate a long-time and beloved local…
Read More…Lankton Archives Museum (GLAM) to preserve her artistic legacy for generations to come. If you’d like to know more about Greer Lankton and the LGBTQIA+ scene in the East Village,…
Read More…Check out our Leftist and Labor Tour, Civil Rights and Social Justice Tour, Publishing Tour, LGBTQ History Tour, and Jewish History Tour to learn more about the extraordinary people and…
Read More…secret romantic partner, Richard Nathan. David also discusses his leadership roles for the LGBT Community Center and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the changes to the neighborhood he…
Read More…of the existing historic buildings. The boardwalk, too, is now lined with bikes and umbrellas for rent, as well as food and drink vendors. In the words of the LGBT…
Read More…incarceration. In his oral history, Rothenberg discusses his early AIDS activism, run for City Council, leadership roles for the LGBT Community Center and National Gay Task Force, and the changes…
Read More…Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, and Keith Haring, among others. According to NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, the “most important friendship” to Wong was with Miguel Piñero, writer and co-founder of…
Read More…Queens, Jeanne Manford held the first meeting of what came to be PFLAG at the church after marching in the Christopher Street Liberation Day March (now the LGBT Pride March)…
Read More…joined by speakers from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project to discuss his new book The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams and to provide historic context for…
Read More…of LGBT rights. Their “zaps” and face-to-face confrontations were highly influential to other activist and political groups. In one action in March 1970, the GAA organized protests against the police…
Read More…frequented by drag queens, New Wavers, East Villagers of all stripes, and LGBTQ+ people from across the City and the world, for whom it was a mecca of sorts. The…
Read More…its place in the history of LGBT rights, but the building’s history stretches much further back. Built in 1826, the building’s storefront originally housed a dry goods business. But by…
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…
Read More…fit that bill. And several other sites on and around MacDougal catered to early LGBT culture – check out the South Village Historic District designation report (the first report to…
Read More…share your views on how the lesbian scene in Greenwich Village has changed in recent years. To read more about Greenwich Village LGBT History, please see our LGBT resource section….
Read More…advocacy group organized to affect change in order to fight the AIDS Crisis. ACT UP was formed in New York City after a series of meetings at the LGBT Community…
Read More…organized into five categories—African-American history, LGBT history, women’s history, social justice and political activism, and Hispanic history. Some sites are even members of several categories, like the Lorraine Hansberry Residence,…
Read More…in the Village, East Village, and NoHo on our resources webpage here. You can also learn more about the LGBT history of these neighborhoods on our LGBT history page here….
Read More…LGBT culture to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Left: Stonewall in 1969 (photo courtesy of Larry Morris for the NY Times); Right: Stonewall today Located at…
Read More…Social Justice Map. Poster from the movie adaptation of Fortune and Men’s Eyes. Image courtesy of movieposter.com. David is a theater producer, early AIDS activist, LGBT-rights advocate, and trailblazing candidate…
Read More…LGBTQ, Latinx, Asian American, and other social justice history that has emerged from these blocks. Most recently, we have added sites where an artists’ collective, two theater troupes, and a…
Read More…the African-American and LGBTQ civil rights movements took place; where the “New York School” of artists shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York; and where…
Read More…venues, such as the Caffe Cino and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. According to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, “As with other Off-Off-Broadway pioneers who rejected the theater establishment,…
Read More…and dynamic history as a shipping hub, a market district, a font of industrial innovation, and an artist and LGBTQ enclave. Before European settlers colonized the area now called Gansevoort,…
Read More…immediate and long-term effects within and without the LGBTQ community. Levine tracks the legacy of Stonewall in his life, from visibility and acceptance in his workplace to the creation and…
Read More…95 cents), some pastries, windchimes hanging from the ceiling, and a few dedicated friends. Cino’s community came together to create theater and an open space for LGBT writers, performers, and…
Read More…American, Women’s, LGBTQ, Latinx, Asian American, and other social justice history has been made in our neighborhoods. Recently, we have added the homes of a groundbreaking Black theater company, a…
Read More…it does, we will be at the ready to oppse it with everything we’ve got. Stay tuned for more info as it becomes available. LGBT Historic Sites — Urge the LPC…
Read More…to be reckoned with in the real world. ACT UP was formed in New York City in 1987 after a series of meetings at the LGBT Community Center on West…
Read More…African-American and LGBTQ theater. The 13th Street Repertory Theatre, located here since 1972, helped launch the careers of Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, Chazz Palminteri, Richard Dreyfus, Christopher Meloni, and many…
Read More…Hopper’s Greenwich Village Mid-Century Modern Music Venues African-American History LGBTQ Sites Pineapples, Pinecones, and Acorns of the Village Musicians’ Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood Frame Houses Buildings Designed…
Read More…New York, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, the NYPL, and many more. See more at urbanarchive.org/villagepreservation And don’t forget to share your new favorite historic buildings with us by…
Read More…Hansberry, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and many more. And the Elizabeth Blackwell home, not to mention dozens of other sites connected to the Women’s movement and women’s suffrage, the LGBT rights movement,…
Read More…participant in the LGBT rights struggle, and a social justice advocate. Her political engagement drew the attention and surveillance of the FBI. Although she died young, her creative spirit and…
Read More…that have impacted not just African American rights, but LGBTQ, women’s rights, and more, and is a fantastic way to uncover the amazing impact our neighborhoods have had on American…
Read More…Theater, diagonally across the street from her bar. The few apartments above the theater’s ticket window were, in the 1970s through 1990s, occupied by a series of prominent LGBT artists:…
Read More…Village and Back: Gould Library & Begrisch Hall Ariel Kates: African American, Feminist, & LGBTQ Solidarity at the Women’s House of Detention Sam Moskowitz: Remembering the 344th Lost Firefighter, and…
Read More…School graduate, a political organizer, a furtive participant in the LGBT rights struggle, and a social justice advocate. Her political engagement drew the attention and surveillance of the FBI. Although…
Read More…Abingdon Square, from the New School to the New York Studio School. Historic houses of worship and historic houses, key sites of immigrant, LGBTQ, African-American history and so much more…
Read More…Village landmark. This was also one of our most moving events — this little-discussed historic building is a center of women’s, LGBTQ, and carceral history (video) (event description) Khalil Gibran:…
Read More…would become the Gay Officers Action League, an organization of LGBT police officers. 9. The Chinese Consulate and Mission, 26 West 9th Street Google Street View of 26 West 9th…
Read More…Martin Luther King. We are on-your-feet worship and take-it-to-the-streets activism. We feed the hungry and work for a living wage; we fight for LGBTQ equality and march for racial/ethnic justice….
Read More…Rights and Social Justice Map of our neighborhoods. Explore the whole map for many more stories of African American, women’s, LGBTQ+, immigrant, Latinx, Asian American, and other civil rights struggles…
Read More…south of Union Square more than confirms that; from its German-immigrant history to its LGBT history, the building was also home to speakeasies, the “Mayor of Greenwich Village,” a hangout…
Read More…potluck events, lectures at the LGBTQ Center, and supported people as he does in the shop today, with coaching, lecturing and providing access to a panoply of high quality and…
Read More…Great Writers Theaters Houses with Dormers Buildings Designed by George Frederick Pelham Street Name Origins Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village Mid-Century Modern Music Venues African-American History LGBTQ Sites Pineapples, Pinecones, and…
Read More…upon her death in 2002. Through providing social services for the homeless and the hungry, including people living with HIV/AIDS, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) youth, and…
Read More…School, an art gallery, and even space for Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, the world’s largest LGBT synagogue. Photo by Shelley Seecombe This was all done to the innovative designs of…
Read More…and Social Justice Map connected to Asian American history. To explore even more Civil Rights and Social Justice locations in our neighborhoods, including those connected to African American, women’s, LGBTQ,…
Read MoreGreenwich Village is known as the home and birthplace of many a cultural movement — The New York School of Painters and Writers, the modern LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement, many…
Read More…the 1950s). By no coincidence, mere feet away from 70 Fifth Avenue was the headquarters of the very first national LGBT rights organization in the country, the National Gay Task…
Read More…Venues African-American History LGBTQ Sites Pineapples, Pinecones, and Acorns of the Village Musicians’ Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood Frame Houses Buildings Designed by Emery Roth (& Sons) Little…
Read More…in public and parochial schools, standing with the LGBTQ community through the birth of gay rights movements in the Village and the AIDS crisis, supporting homeless people in the neighborhood,…
Read More…collection of histories. This neighborhood was a critical touchstone in the African American, LGBTQ, and women’s civil rights movements; it was home to the revolutionary “New York School” of artists;…
Read More…independence, while working with other marginalized groups like the LGBTQ+ community and the women’s movement for greater equality at home. The Nuyorican Poets Café’s current location at 236 East 3rd…
Read More…here where we see the historic Italian and LGBTQ communitites in the Village meeting, handing off spaces, and likely overlapping to some extent. According to Village Preservation’s “The South Village:…
Read More…feet from the Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement, the street’s name is merely a serendipitous coincidence. 5. Grove Court Grove Court via Wally Gobetz/Flickr Perhaps the most…
Read More…Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, along with more than a hundred other local sites, due to its significance to the LGBTQ and drag communities. https://gvshp.org/blog/2019/07/25/the-pyramid-club-new-york-citys-first-drag-landmark/ 2. East Village Building Blocks…
Read More…place for artists, writers, musicians; as key site in LGBTQ, African American, and Jewish history; and so much more. We also included a tour celebrating the many preservation leaders who…
Read More…for children & families, seniors, homeless & domestic abuse shelters, food banks, and LGBTQ+ centers in marginalized communities. Avant Garden Image via Avant Garden Avant Garden opened in 2015 as…
Read More…19th-century architecture, they also contain elements reflecting Greenwich Village’s centrality to the history of immigrants, artists, African Americans, and the LGBTQ+ community. L-R: 127-131 MacDougal Street. Image via 2013 LPC…
Read More…to the community that has given her inspiration and a sense of belonging. A goal Tara has while interning for Village Preservation is to advocate to preserve LGBTQ history in…
Read More…and has since been updated and expanded to more than 60 entries on women’s history alone among over 200 that also cover African American, LGBTQ+, Hispanic, and Asian American histories,…
Read MoreGeorge Segal’s statue “Gay Liberation” marks the importance Christopher Park holds in LGBTQ+ history. In the early 1800s, the area around modern-day Christopher Street was suffering from overcrowding, following the…
Read More…Fair, Gay and Lesbian Youth in New York Also from the Robert Fisch Collection, this photo of a street fair table of LGBT youth in Greenwich Village was taken on…
Read More…his services to the LGBTQ community The stark contrast between Manny’s business approach and that of his corporate counterparts, where operational decisions cascade down from regional managers to local managers…
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 More…Pyramid Club’s Miss Understood’s Ball in early 1994. Can you identify them? Jonas’s pictures capture a golden age of LGBTQ+ nightlife and performance, as well as an edgy slice of…
Read More…became a fashion destination, selling colorful, cutting-edge fashion to people of all ages and backgrounds. The store was a hangout for LGBTQ youth, whom she also commonly employed in the store….
Read More…the NYC Marble Cemetery, and various other downtown nightlife and performance venues of the early-to-mid-1990s. Her pictures capture a golden age of LGBTQ+ nightlife and performance, as well as an…
Read More…June 16, 1994 Boy bar was described as “a sweatbox of a club” and a “playground” frequented by drag queens, new wavers, East Villagers of all stripes, and LGBTQ+ people…
Read More…have fun. Especially if it’s just to have fun.” David Wojnarowicz, age 25, at Pier 46, 1979. Photo by Leonard Fink, courtesy NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Powers goes on…
Read More…became a fashion destination, selling colorful, cutting-edge fashion to people of all ages and backgrounds. The store was a hangout for LGBTQ youth, whom she also commonly employed in the store….
Read More…School graduate, a political organizer, a furtive participant in the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights, and a social justice advocate. She also inspired Nina Simone’s song “To Be Young, Gifted and…
Read More…Greenwich Village is the historic Stonewall Inn. In 1969, this nondescript bar became the epicenter of the LGBTQ+ rights movement following a series of protests sparked by police raids. Among…
Read More…increasing numbers of AIDS victims. His impassioned and well-attended speech on March 10 at the LGBT Community Center at 208 West 13th Street was the spark that resulted in the…
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