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…East 3rd Street’s designation as a landmark. Write City Officials Recognize and Protect LGBTQ+ Landmarks South of Union Square There is a rich array of sites connected to LGBTQ+ history…

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The Empress of Blues, South of Union Square

…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…

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Book Talk: Sarah Schulman’s “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993”

Purchase the Book! Founded in March 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center (now the LGBT Center) on West 13th Street, ACT UP, New York, a broad and…

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What’s in a name? Gay Street

…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…

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Julius’ Landmarking Support Grows as 50th Anniversary Approaches

…first planned civil disobedience for LGBT rights. On April 21, 1966, three gay activists challenged state regulations which made it possible to close down bars simply for serving gay people,…

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2015 Village Award Winner David Rothenberg

…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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Why “Double Designate” Stonewall?

…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….

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2021 Village Preservation Public Programs Round-Up

…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…

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The Civilian Warfare Gallery: Artists in Combat

…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…

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Taking a Closer Look at “Fortune and Men’s Eyes”

…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…

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Plaque Unveiling Next Thursday 6 pm Marking Julius’ Bar and 1966 ‘Sip In’ for Gay Rights

…the Stonewall Rebellion that fought back against the criminalization of gay people and LGBTQ+ gathering spaces. Longtime LGBTQ+ activist Randy Wicker, who participated in and helped plan the 1966 action,…

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2022 Village Awardee: Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Middle Collegiate Church, 112-114 Second Avenue

…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…

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Alvin Baltrop: Photographs of a Dystopian Past

…– 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…

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Censorship, Socialism, and Synagogues – The Rich Legacy of Jewish History South of Union Square

…seek landmark designation for this historic, endangered area, which has played such a crucial role in not only Jewish but African American, LGBTQ+, women’s, labor, literary and artistic history Andrew…

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Julius’ Bar Landmark Hearing Tuesday, Nov. 15 — Support This and Other Needed Landmark Designations

…Bar, for individual landmark designation. Village Preservation first proposed the building for landmark designation along with the Stonewall Inn, the LGBT Community Center, and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Firehouse…

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Manahatta: The Ecological Blueprint of Activism

…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…

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On and Off 14th Street, Fighting to Recognize and Preserve Our City’s Diverse Histories

…New York City. These sites — key to the stories of African Americans, Hispanics, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and disabled New Yorkers — share two things in common. Several are imminently…

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What’s So Special About the South Village?

…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…

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Book Talk and Panel: “The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams” in the South Village

…first biography of Adams. Katz will be joined by speakers from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project to provide historic context for Adams’ story in our neighborhoods. Presented in partnership…

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Jonathan Ned Katz

…field of LGBT studies and public history. In this interview, Katz also describes the unique approach to parenting that he experienced; his tenure as a designer at the Jack Prince…

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April 2024 Programs: Vanished Mansions, the Birth of Seventh Avenue South, and More

…of Greenwich Village: An Evening with Artist Lily Annabelle Caleakav, Village Preservation, and the LGBT Historic Sites Project Tuesday, April 16, 2024 6 pm In-person Pre-registration required Free Location: Jefferson…

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New April and May 2024 Programs: Walking Tours, Histories of Fifth Avenue and The Village Voice, and More

…event Spots Still Available Impressions of Great Establishments of Greenwich Village: An Evening with Artist Lily Annabelle Caleakav, Village Preservation, and the LGBT Historic Sites Project Tuesday, April 16, 2024…

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Historian, Artist, Activist: Jonathan Ned Katz in Conversation

…helped to found the fields of U.S. LGBTQ and heterosexual history, Katz grew up in Greenwich Village in a house on Jane Street and attended the Little Red School House….

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May 2024 Programs: Plaque for Saul Leiter, Greenwich Village in the 1830s and 1960s, and More

…fields of U.S. LGBTQ and heterosexual history, Katz grew up in Greenwich Village in a house on Jane Street and attended the Little Red School House. Katz in 1971 joined…

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Photography Talk: Suzanne Poli’s Village Favorites

…the National Arts Club, Sotheby’s, the LGBT Community Center, and more. Poli has documented decades of the NYC Pride March and other actions and movements for social justice, as well…

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Drag and Trans Art and Life in the Village, 1950s to the future!

…courage of those that have set the stage for the current success of the LGBTQ+ community. Craig is directing his future focus toward preserving gay history through philanthropy and educational…

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Asian-American History in Greenwich Village and the East Village

…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…

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Igal Roodenko: Printer and Civil Rights Trailblazer #SouthOfUnionSquare

…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…

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Christopher Park Alliance, 2019 Village Awardee

…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…

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Oral Histories of the “Virtual Village” — South of Union Square

…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…

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Beyond the Village and Back – Jacob Riis Park’s Art Deco Bathhouse

…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…

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Oral Histories on the Founding of An Artists’ Colony, A Prison Reform Organization, and So Much 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…

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Downtown Drag + Performance in the 1990s — the Jillian Jonas Collection

…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…

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2023 Village Awardee: Monster Bar, 80 Grove Street

…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…

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(Even More) Civil Rights and Social Justice Champions in Our Neighborhoods

…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…

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PFLAG Historic Plaque Unveiling

PFLAG Historic Plaque Unveiling Celebrate LGBT Pride and History Month by joining GVSHP, PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), and the Church of the Village for the…

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The Gay Activist Alliance is Founded

…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…

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Dissent and “Strange Fruit” in the Village

…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,…

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Our 2018 Resolutions

…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…

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Village People: Polly Holladay

…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…

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(Even More) Artists, Theaters, and Advocates for Civil Rights and Social Justice in Our Neighborhoods

…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…

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2016 Village Award Winner: Julius’ Bar

…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…

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Eating Fire: A Brief History of the Lesbian Avengers in NYC

…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….

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“An Intimate and Unconventional Space:” Caffe Cino

…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…

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Great Writers and the Greenwich Village Historic District

…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,…

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The Imagery of ACT UP

…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…

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“Our Village is Star in an Uptown Exhibit” — September 26, 1990

…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,…

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This Day in Greenwich Village: The Stonewall Riot

…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…

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Caffé Cino – Off-Off Broadway and On the National Register

…and veteran Magie Dominic, as well as Amanda Davis, Project Manager at the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and author of the National Register nomination, to celebrate and learn about…

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PFLAG Historic Plaque Unveiling On A Beautiful Day

…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)…

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Eminent Outlaws: Scenes of the Crime A Lecture by Chris Bram

Eminent Outlaws: Scenes of the Crime A Lecture by Chris Bram Celebrate LGBT History Month With Village Preservation & the LGBT Center! In the years following World War II, a…

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Julius’ Sip-In 50th Anniversary Approaches

Next month will be the 50th anniversary of the “Sip-In” at Julius’ Bar in Greenwich Village, a landmark of civil rights history which helped change the law and attitudes around LGBT…

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Challenging the Landmarks Preservation Commission to Abide By Its ‘Equity Framework’

…communities and histories. For many years our work has focused on documenting, celebrating, and protecting underrepresented communities and histories, and especially sites connected to civil rights for African Americans, LGBTQ…

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Irish American Heritage Permeates #SouthOfUnionSquare

…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…

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Michael E. Levine Oral History: How the Greenwich Village Historic District, SoHo, and Stonewall Happened

…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…

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Launching “Virtual Village” — Explore and Save #SouthOfUnionSquare

…American, Jewish, Women’s, and LGBTQ history, to the Civil War, great artists, musicians, writers, booksellers and publishers, leftist/labor, pop culture, the Roosevelts and Stuyvesants, and much more. At every turn you’ll learn why this unprotected and endangered area of Greenwich Village and the East Village is…

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New Support Rolls in For South of Union Square Landmarking Efforts –ACLU, HDC, and More!

…civil rights groups, writers, and leaders who had already endorsed the proposal, including the nation’s oldest African American and LGBTQ civil rights groups, the NAACP and the National LGBTQ Task…

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Julius’ Sip-In: An Evening with Dick Leitsch

…as gay, and asked to be served. They were denied service and thus sparked an era of LGBT activism that would culminate with the Stonewall Riots. Join Dick Leitsch, former…

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David Rothenberg, Civil Rights and Social Justice Pioneer

…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…

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Landmark Designation Reports

…State and National Register Report LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street The LGBT Community Center NYC LPC Designation Report Macy & Co. Store, 14th St. Annex (former)…

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Rich Wandel

Rich Wandel (b. May 20, 1946) is a former president of the Gay Activist Alliance, and served as the Archivist Historian at the LGBT Community Center from its founding in…

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Literary Pub Crawl: Pride Edition

In honor of the champions of LGBTQ rights, the memory of the Stonewall Riots, and celebration of Pride, the folks at the GV Literary Pub Crawl will focus this virtual…

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The Stonewall National Historic Landmark: 1969, 1999, and Beyond

…it the first site ever associated with LGBT history to be so recognized by the federal government. On the 10th Anniversary of the listing, this panel discussion will look back…

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South of Union Square

…Recognize and Protect LGBTQ+ Landmarks South of Union Square There is a rich array of sites connected to LGBTQ+ history in the area of Greenwich Village and the East Village…

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64 Bank Street

…the first time at the Community Board 2 Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing on Monday, January 30, 2012, at 6:30 pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 West…

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8 Christopher Street

…the LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, 3rd Floor, Room 301 (as this information is subject to change, please visit the Community Board’s website for the most up-to-date information)….

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145 West 10th Street

…time at the Community Board 2 Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing on Tuesday, January 3rd, at 6:30pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. 3rd Floor,…

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135 Seventh Avenue South

…Tuesday, January 3rd, at 6:30pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. 3rd Floor, Room 301 (as this information is subject to change, please visit the Community Board’s…

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2011 Annual Meeting

…services, and championed LGBT rights—whatever the community has needed over the years. Programs today include the Bail-Out Theater, which provides dinner and free entertainment the first and third Wednesday of…

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35 West 11th Street

…6:30pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. 3rd Floor, Room 301 (as this information is subject to change, please visit the Community Board’s website for the most…

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2018 Annual Meeting

…Square Committee and the Ali Forney Center and returned to a productive and very necessary use – safe, quality transitional housing for homeless LGBT teenagers and young adults. This is…

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128 West 13th Street

…Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing on Tuesday, January 3rd, at 6:30pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. 3rd Floor, Room 301 (as this information is subject to…

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6th Avenue and West 9th Street

…2 Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing on Monday, January 30, 2012, at 6:30 pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, 3rd Floor, Room 301 (as…

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628 Broadway

…at the Community Board 2 Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing on Tuesday, January 3rd, at 6:30pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. 3rd Floor, Room…

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2012 Annual Meeting

…rights, affordable housing, and LGBT equality. Read Blog Post Regina Kellerman Award: Bleecker Street Sitting Area Renovation Completed in the spring of this year, the renovation of the small park…

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Greenwich Village Historic District

…Intro 775 Jane Street Triangle Jefferson Market Library LGBTQ Sites St. Vincent’s Small Business Greenwich Village Historic District Resources Journey through Our Interactive Greenwich Village Historic District Map Explore Our…

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Ariel Kates

Director of Programming Ariel brings a background in community programming, communications, and non-profit administration from Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue, which has long roots in the…

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715 Broadway

…for the first time at the Community Board 2 Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing on Tuesday, January 3rd, at 6:30pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th…

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Lorraine Hansberry Plaque Installation

…Chicago, she was a New 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…

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726 Broadway

…Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing on Tuesday, January 3rd, at 6:30pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. 3rd Floor, Room 301 (as this information is…

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Bar Historians in Conversation: McSorley’s and Julius’

…women and LGBTQ folks, and much more. With humor and curiosity, Tom and Bill will share and compare some of the juicy (and boozy) details of these establishments and their…

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Mutual Aid-Then and Now

…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…

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Most Popular Posts of 2019

…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…

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Why Isn’t this Landmarked?: 86 University Place, “Mittelstaedt House”

…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…

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Business of the Month: Live Live & Organic, 261 East 10th Street

…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…

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A Greenwich Village Historic District Town Hall on its Past and Future

Present and Future at the LGBT Center This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Join Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman for a town…

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Members Only $100+ Event: Fred W. McDarrah Exhibition Tour

…civil rights, anti–Vietnam War demonstrations, the initial Stonewall uprising, and the public faces of the LGBTQ rights movements of the Village. This event is fully accessible. To Register, email rsvp@gvshp.org….

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Stonewall50 Walking Tour: Where Have All the Dyke Bars Gone?

…the Dyke Bar Takeover Facebook page. Special discount code for Village Preservation Members: use VillagePreservation. While supplies last! Proceeds benefit LGBTQ organizations. See our full list of Stonewall50 events here….

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From Beebo Brinker to the Daughters of Bilitis: Lesbian Life in Greenwich Village Before StonewallA Lecture with Marcia Gallo

…Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the LGBT Center, the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and Outhistory.org….

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52 West 8th Street

…you when there are updates to the status of this application. —- HEARING TIMES & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT —- 1) Community Board 2 public hearing: Monday, September 24, 2012 LGBT Center,…

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South Village

…rich history in connection to immigrants, countercultural movements, and its early LGBT and African-American communities. This resulted in three historic district designations (the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II, the…

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186 Spring Street

186 Spring Street Read Blog Posts about 186 Spring Street LGBTQ Sites South Village This nearly 200-year-old house became a ‘gay commune’ in the early 1970s, in which some of…

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416 West 13th Street

…Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing on Monday, January 30, 2012, at 6:30 pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, 3rd Floor, Room 301 (as this…

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74 Washington Place

…when there are updates to the status of this application. —- HEARING TIMES & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT —- 1) Community Board 2 public hearing: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 6:30pm LGBT…

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425 West 13th Street

…there are updates to the status of this application. —- HEARING TIMES & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT —- 1) Community Board 2 public hearing: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 6:30pm LGBT Community…

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230 Mercer Street, aka 663-665 Broadway

…Monday, September 24, 2012 LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street, Room 310 As this information is subject to change, please visit the community board’s website for the latest available agenda….

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328 West 4th Street, aka 38 8th Avenue

…the status of this application. —- HEARING TIMES & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT —- 1) Community Board 2 public hearing: Monday, September 24, 2012 LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street, Room 310…

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David Rothenberg

…are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated will thrive as positive, contributing members of society. Rothenberg discusses his early AIDS activism, run for City Council, leadership roles for the LGBT Community Center…

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Village Preservation Historic Plaques Honor Trailblazing Women in our Neighborhoods

…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…

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Westbeth Turns 50!

…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…

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