…of New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division The Gay Activists Alliance was established in December 1969, six months after Stonewall. A leading organization in the gay liberation movement,…
Read More…me a P!…an R! What does it spell?” And from the purple column echoed the resounding cry: “Gay Power!” Then in repeating choruses: “Gay, gay power to the gay, gay…
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 MoreGay Activist Alliance Firehouse. On December 21, 1969, the Gay Activist Alliance (GAA) was founded. Almost exactly six months after the Stonewall Riots, the group was founded by Marty Robinson, Jim…
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…the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, now one of the nation’s largest media watchdog groups Dr. Bruce Voeller co-founded and was the first director of the National Gay and…
Read More…Day, Off the Grid asks and answers the question: Is Gay Street really “gay“? To help answer this question, we need to examine the history of the word “gay,” as…
Read More…and the second largest in the world. Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse The former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street was proposed by Village Preservation proposed for landmark designation…
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…feminist organizations across the country. Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse (former location, 99 Wooster Street) Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse (former location), 99 Wooster Street The building at 99 Wooster Street was…
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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 MoreGay Activist Alliance Firehouse. On October 15, 1974, the Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse, located in SoHo at 99 Wooster Street, was bombed. One of the most highly influential LGBT groups…
Read More…parlance, “gay” means attracted to the same sex. But this was not always so, and the word’s evolution, interestingly, mirrors that of Gay Street and its environs. Gay originally meant…
Read More…historic event. Is Gay Street Really ‘Gay’?: Spoiler: It’s not, but the story offers some fascinating glimpses into the gay history of the Village and the history of the evolution…
Read More…Chapter inspired the creation of dozens more lesbian and feminist organizations across the country. Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse (former location), 99 Wooster Street Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse (former location), 99…
Read More…regular column, entitled The Gay Witch, for the Gay Activist Alliance’s newsletter GAY, launched in December of 1969. Notably, Martello also founded the group the Witches International Craft Associates as a networking organization…
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…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…we couldn’t help but pick Big Gay Ice Cream Shop as our latest Business of the Month. 61 Grove Street location. Things moved quickly for what was originally Big Gay…
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…known today as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, and commonly called The Center. The Center aimed to address the critical needs of lesbian and gay organizations trying…
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 More…do you like that? What a great way to end the interview! Access the full Margot Gayle oral history here. Margot Gayle’s oral history is one of about fifty in…
Read More…Gayle Margot Gayle campaigning to save the Jefferson Market Courthouse; From: H.J. Fields/The New York Public Library Born in 1908, Margot Gayle became involved in historic preservation while working at…
Read More…ground for the gays-in-the-military debate of 1993. It has worked with the administrations of presidents from Carter to Clinton. Additionally, some of the Task Force’s founders were former Gay Activists…
Read More…three anthologies, Other Countries: Black Gay Voices (1988), Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (1993), and Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 years of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing (2007). McGruder has a B.A. in…
Read MoreHundreds joined us for a rally on Gay Street in November 2022 to protest illegal work at 14 Gay Street that led to the building’s demolition. We demanded reform to…
Read More…what became known as the Stonewall Rebellion. In 1992, the sculpture “Gay Liberation” by George Segal was placed in Christopher Park to honor the gay rights movement. In 1999, the…
Read More…Paulson, AP News, December 14 New York’s oldest gay bar declared an official landmark, GCN, December 13 One of New York City’s Oldest Gay Bars Is Now a Historic Landmark,…
Read MoreGay Greenwich Village Walking Tour This walking tour will take you to the places where gay men and women have lived, loved, worked and partied since the late 19th century…
Read More…important anniversary, we have decided to revisit our 1996 Oral History Interview with NYC Landmarks Law activist and historic preservationist Margot Gayle. Born in 1908, Gayle became involved in preservation…
Read More…long-time ban on gay people holding federal employment, got homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses, won court rulings protecting the rights of gay teachers from…
Read More…to the long-time ban on gay people holding federal employment, got homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses, won court rulings protecting the rights of gay…
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 MoreDavid Mulkins (center right) of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors (BAN) speaks at a rally the group organized to save 35 Cooper Square. Jean Standish (far right) is also a…
Read MoreRemembering Injustice Against Gay Clergy, an event at the Church of the Village honoring former gay clergymen Rev. Dr. Clarence Edward Egan (left) and Rev. Paul Abels (right). Image courtesy…
Read More…by many jazz legends. Starting in the 1950s, Julius’ began attracting a predominantly gay clientele and is considered by most accounts the oldest continually operating gay bar in New York…
Read MoreHonoring Preservationist Margot Gayle Women’s History Month Panel Discussion Margot Gayle (1908-2008) was one of the most influential preservationists in New York City history. Among her many achievements were founding…
Read More…neighboring 16 Gay Street, and to protect public safety, 14 Gay Street must be dismantled. Village Preservation condemned the city’s lack of oversight and the owner and his contractors’ illegal,…
Read More…Street (at Waverly Place) next Thursday, April 21 at 6 pm. The plaque will honor and commemorate not only Julius’ Bar’s role as New York’s oldest gay bar and one…
Read More…house at 14 Gay Street, following what we have been told is dangerous, unpermitted work on the site that compromised its structural integrity. The house at 14 Gay Street was…
Read MoreGay Liberation in Photos A talk and slideshow with photographer Ellen Shumsky In June of 1969, a not uncommon police raid of the gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, was met…
Read More…Pacino and Cazale accurately portrayed him and Naturile). At the time of the nascent gay liberation movement, Wojtowicz’s actions were fiercely debated by fellow advocates at the Gay Activists Alliance…
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…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…action to punish the owner who undermined the landmarked 200-year-old house at 14 Gay Street, prevent harm from befalling his five other adjoining properties, ensure 14 Gay is completely preserved…
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14 Gay Street was landmarked as part of the Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969, and made famous by author Ruth McKenna, who lived in the basement apartment and described…
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14 Gay Street was landmarked as part of the Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969, and made famous by author Ruth McKenna, who lived in the basement apartment and described…
Posted April 12, 2023
Read MoreMargot Gayle (1908-2008) led the grassroots effort to save the landmark Jefferson Market Courthouse building in Greenwich Village and transform it into a library. Gayle begins this interview by discussing…
Read MoreHow Gay Girls Owned the Village from the 30s to the 90s and How They Want (Some of) It Back Since the 1930s, lesbian culture has flourished in Greenwich Village….
Read More…of their earliest KlezBiGay Pride shows, a tradition created in June 1999 on the Plaza at St Mark’s Church. Each June since has seen another unique celebration, and since 2008,…
Read MoreThe Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street In June of 1969, a not uncommon police raid of the gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, was met with a spontaneous resistance that launched…
Read More…of our lesser-known map locations, however, highlight the under-recognized stories of 19th century Chinese American immigrant-rights activists. Some of these influential individuals, families, and organizations worked to provide housing, legal,…
Read More…order to demolish a nearly 200-year-old landmarked house at 14 Gay Street, following dangerous, unpermitted work on the site that compromised its structural integrity. Learn more here. Please note: All…
Read MoreStonewall50: Celebrating Walt Whitman’s 200th and Village Gay Bars from Stonewall to Pfaff’s In an unfinished poem from the early 1860’s, Walt Whitman memorialized the Vault at Pfaff’s, home to…
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…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 More…Commons On December 2, 1964, gay rights activists Randy Wicker, Kay Tobin, and Craig Rodwell staged a picket in front of the Cooper Union Great Hall, protesting a talk conducted…
Read MoreCB2 hearing: 12/15/2021 – see below to register for the Zoom meeting. To submit written testimony of any length in advance of the hearing, click HERE. LPC hearing: 1/25/2022 – LAID OVER…
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