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Landmarks Preservation Commission Celebrates Gay Pride, Doesn’t Designate Gay Landmarks
…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….
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June is Gay Pride Month
…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…
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Bea Arthur Residence: 2018 Regina Kellerman Award Winner
…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…
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Neighborhood History
…LGBTQ History Village Preservation continues to advocate for protection of a variety of sites tied to the Village’s LGBTQ history. Julius’s The oldest gay bar in New York, Julius’ was…
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The Legacy of the Stonewall Riots
…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…
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Stonewall Inn: State and National Register Pioneer
…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…
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Letter to the LPC about Designating The Stonewall Inn
…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…
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The long road to landmark: How NYC’s Stonewall Inn became a symbol of civil rights
…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…
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The Stonewall National Monument
…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…
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center — Finally a Landmark
…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…
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After 10-Year Campaign, Julius’ Bar Is Landmarked! Fight for More Needed Landmark Designations
…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…
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The Mattachine Society, and the Post-Stonewall Shift
…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…
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Washington Square United Methodist Church: Where Identity and Inclusion Collided
…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…
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New York State WorldPride Welcome Center Opens in Greenwich Village
…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…
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Pride Month in All Corners of the Village
…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…
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Remembering the HIV/AIDS Crisis
…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…
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Coming Out, and Going Out, in the Village
October 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…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 80 Fifth Avenue
…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…
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Historic Senate Vote Had Roots in Village House
…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….
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Making Christopher Park a National Park
…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…
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Pride on West 13th Street
…$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…
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Celebrating PFLAG: 50 Years of Creating a Caring, Just, and Affirming World
…nation’s largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.” The first meeting of what would become the group took place in 1973…
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Stonewall Landmarks Hearing Next Tuesday at 10AM
…dedicated to the effort to protect these sites of significance to LGBT history here. Learn more about the Village’s LGBT history here. City Seeks to Reduce Zoning Protections, VP Seeks to Expand…
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Beyond the Village and Back: “Becoming Visible” and The Legacy of Stonewall at the NYPL
…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,…
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Go West! – The Leather & Denim Scene in the Weehawken Street Historic District
…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….
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After Nine-Year Campaign by Village Preservation, Julius’ Bar Building at 159 West 10th Street Under Formal Consideration for Landmark Designation
…LGBTQ+ history (the site was later listed through the efforts of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project). We’ve waged multiple campaigns to get the LPC to finally move to honor…
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St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery’s Pride Ribbon Project
…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…
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Historic Court Decision Had Roots in Village House
The 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…
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Dr. Bruce Voeller: Gay Rights and Public Health Pioneer
…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,…
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After Nine-Year Campaign, Julius’ Bar Landmarking Proposal to Finally Get Hearing November 15
…at the time, there were no landmarks designated by New York City primarily for their significance to LGBTQ+ history or the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. The upcoming hearing follows the…
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Village Preservation’s 19th Plaque Unveiled Marking Julius’ Bar and the 1966 Sip-In
…this plaque unveiling, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, Julius’ owner Helen Buford, original 1966 Sip-In participant and longtime LGBTQ+ activist Randy Wicker, and actor, writer, producer John Cameron Mitchell…
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An Intersectional Black History Month Roundup
…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….
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Stormé DeLarverie: Village Guardian
…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….
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Looking Back to When Paris Was Burning
The 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…
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The Former Gay Activists Alliance Headquarters at 99 Wooster Street Has At Last Become a Landmark
…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…
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Three Homosexuals in Search of a Drink
…they were refused service. The event generated publicity and was one of the earliest acts of organized LGBT civil disobedience in New York City. Scholars of LGBT history consider the…
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Press Conference to Save 186 Spring Street: Press Release and pictures
…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…
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Celebrating 50 Years of PFlag: Birthplace of a Movement of Empathy and Advocacy
Fifty 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…
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A Preservation Agenda For Landmarking’s 50th Birthday
…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…
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June is Gay Pride; But July is Gay Liberation
Gay 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…
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Village Preservation in the Press
…oldest gay bar, declared a landmark, AM New York, December 6 Julius’ becomes landmark for role in LGBTQ rights in NYC, WPIX 11, December 6 LGBTQ+ bar that was site…
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Revolutionaries on East Second Street: The STAR House
The 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….
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Terrance McNally Offers Wonderful Window Into The Rich History #SouthOfUnionSquare
…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…
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The Literary Legacy of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop
…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…
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Gay Activist Alliance Headquarters Bombed
…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…
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Accomplishments
…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…
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Former Schools of Greenwich Village and the East Village
…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…
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Documenting the Fight
…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…
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Pride Week 2013 wrap-up
…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…
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Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Anniversary Celebration and Open House Weekend!
…Washington Square Arch. 10am Walking Tour: Christopher Street Tours: LGBTQ History in Greenwich Village A fun and informative LGBTQ History Walking Tour! On this tour around Greenwich Village, we will visit…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…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…
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The Documents of History: Mattachine Society of New York’s Archival Papers of 1951-1976 at the New York Public Library
…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…
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WeWah & BarCheeAmpe: Pioneers of Two-Spirit Advocacy, Rooted in Greenwich Village
…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. …
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Greenwich Village’s Oldest Church — Originally “in the field”
…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….
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13 places in Greenwich Village where the course of history was changed
…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…
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Marsha P. Johnson: Trans-activist, Stonewall Revolutionary, Village Resident
…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…
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Village Award Winners: Past, Present, and Future
…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…
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Rita Mae Brown and Her “Rubyfruit Jungle”
…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….
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Local Lesbian Bookstores: Founders of a Feminist Future
…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…
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The House of D
…LGBTQ activist, and motivational speaker. In 2002, Jay co-founded Queers for Economic Justice, the first and only LGBTQ organization to facilitate support groups for queer individuals inside the shelter system….
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Out of the Broom Closet: Gay Activist & Village Wiccan Leo Martello
…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…
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Intersectionality and the Past, Present, and Future of Activism in Our Neighborhoods
…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…
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A History of Protest and the Marjorie Zien Collection
…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,…
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Julius’ Bar Plaque Unveiling
…raise awareness of widespread anti-LGBT discrimination and harassment. The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project is a scholarly initiative and educational resource that officially began in August 2015 and is based…
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Civil Rights History and Diversity
…– African American History, Greenwich Village and Beyond Greenwich Village Historic District: Then & Now Photos and Tours LGBTQ History LGBTQ History Tour – South of Union Square LGBTQ Sites…
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Speaker Johnson, Scholars, and Press Support South of Union Square Civil Rights Landmarking Effort, But City and Rivera Still Resist
…extraordinary significance to the African American and LGBTQ civil rights movement, as well as the Women’s Suffrage and women’s rights movements. This includes the historic former headquarters of the nation’s oldest…
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The Pyramid Club: New York City’s First Drag Landmark
…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,…
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From Condemned Land to National Monument: Christopher Park
…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…
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Landmarks vs. National Monuments: How Safe is the Stonewall Inn?
…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…
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Battle for Landmark Protections for South of Union Square Includes Historic NAACP and National Gay Task Force Headquarters
…(now the National LGBTQ Task Force), the very first national gay rights organization in the country, from its founding in 1973 until 1986. During these critical early years of the organization…
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Battle for Landmark Protections for South of Union Square Includes Historic NAACP and National Gay Task Force Headquarters
…National LGBTQ Task Force), the very first national gay rights organization in the country, from its founding in 1973 until 1986. During these critical early years of the organization and the…
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Looking Back On Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map
…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…
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Immersive Village History in your Pocket: Google Arts & Culture
…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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Public Art to #LightTheFight for World AIDS Day
…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,…
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History Remembered with Preservation and Plaques
…Village Preservation) and the 2022 plaque unveiling at the historic bar In the 1960s, “drinking while gay” was considered illegal in New York State, with rules essentially criminalizing LGBTQ+ people…
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Dave Van Ronk: Ally at the Stonewall Uprising
…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…
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A Complete Guide to the Charles B.J. Snyder Schools in Our Neighborhoods
…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…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Assyrian Revival on West 30th Street
…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…
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Social Media Tour: Supporting Queer-Owned Business with the Queer Money Project
…Village and NoHo. The tour will guide you through opportunities to support local queer-owned businesses, visit historic LGBTQIA2S+ sites, and experience the deep impact of the queer community in our…
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Hearing On Stonewall National Monument Plan May 9
…LGBT rights movement, and the adjacent park and surrounding area a national park and/or monument. A public hearing will be held next week on the plan for the Department of…
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A Dominating Narrative: The Mineshaft and BDSM Culture in the Meatpacking District
…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,…
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Remembering Jeanne Manford and the Founding of PFLAG
…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,…
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Where Once There Was History, A Hole in the Ground
…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…
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On This Day in 1837 — Christopher Park Is Born!
…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….
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Fingers Crossed for Another: Individual Landmark Designations We’ve Won
…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…
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Remembering the Ramrod Massacre
…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…
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Village Firehouses Past and Present
…Preservation proposed this and three other sites connected to LGBT history for landmark designation, including the Stonewall Inn and the LGBT Community Center, all three of which have now been…
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The Most Picturesque Sites in The Village
…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…
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