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The Mattachine Society, and the Post-Stonewall Shift
…crucial turning point in our neighborhoods on July 16, 1969, which altered their path forever. A copy of the Mattachine Review, 1959 The Mattachine Society was formed in secret in…
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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
As Village Preservation prepares to unveil a plaque commemorating the “Sip-In” at Julius’ Bar on April 21, 1966, one might wonder about the Mattachine Society of New York, which organized…
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GVHD50 Partner Roundup: Restaurant Edition
…1966 members of the New York Chapter of the Mattachine Society staged a “Sip-In” at the bar which was to change the legal landscape. Dick Leitsch and Craig Rodwell, the…
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Julius’ Bar, an LGBT Landmark
…despite the growing gay clientele at the bar. On April 21, 1966, three gay men from the New York City Mattachine Society organized a “Sip-In” (a variation on the ubiquitous…
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June is Gay Pride; But July is Gay Liberation
…American South. It was lead by chaptered, secretive organizations, such as the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis, as part of a carefully calibrated effort to reframe homosexuality as…
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LGBTQ History: Around Christopher Street
…about the 1966 ‘sip-in’ by the Mattachine Society (an early gay and lesbian civil rights organization.) This protest led to the 1967 ruling that required ‘substantial evidence’ of indecent behavior,…
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LGBT Historic Sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…of the New York chapter of the Mattachine Society staged a “Sip-In” that helped establish the right of homosexuals to be served in licensed premises in New York (the existing…
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Julius’ Sip-In: An Evening with Dick Leitsch
Julius’ Sip-In: An Evening with Dick Leitsch On April 21, 1966, members of New York’s Mattachine Society, a group of homosexual activists, entered Julius’ on West 10th Street, identified themselves…
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2016 Village Award Winner: Julius’ Bar
…higher than 15 cents these days. [credit: Ephemeral New York]On April 21, 1966, three activists from the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights organization, walked up to the bar and…
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17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village
…gay bar. But its claim as one of the most important LGBT landmarks extends far beyond that. In 1966, the Mattachine Society, an early LGBT rights organization, set about to…
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African American, Feminist, & LGBTQ Solidarity at the Women’s House of Detention
…group within the Mattachine Society – one of the earliest American gay rights organizations – wanted to protest against the Women’s House of Detention in support of Shakur and Joan…
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The Church of the Village: Remembering Injustice Against Gay Clergy Event
…active participant and organizer of the Mattachine Society in the 1950’s, as well as a spiritual counselor for the Daughters of Bilitis. In 1977, due to his homosexuality, he was…
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Pride Week 2013 wrap-up
…few years before the Stonewall Riots, the Mattachine Society challenged the New York State law that prohibited alcohol sales to homosexuals. You can read more about that here and here….
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Diana Davies Collection of Historic LGBT Images
…29, 1969, almost exactly two months to the day before the Stonewall rebellion took place. Photo by Diana Davies, 1969. Source: NYPL. Members of the Mattachine Society – the group…
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LGBT History: Not Just West Village Bars
…the gay male organization Mattachine and bounced around the city for the next 13 years. The chapter’s final location was in a loft at 141 Prince Street, in a building…
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LGBT History in All Corners of the Village: The West Village
…service at a 1966 Sip In at Julius’. On April 21, 1966, members of the New York chapter of the Mattachine Society staged a “Sip-In” and that helped establish the…
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LGBT History in All Corners: the South Village
…of Billitis publication. The initially tiny chapter shared an office with the gay male organization Mattachine and bounced around the city for the next 13 years. The chapter’s final location…
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The Fight to Recognize LGBT Civil Rights History in Our Neighborhoods
…Julius’ Bar, the oldest gay bar in New York and the place where the Mattachine Society held its 1966 “Sip-In,” was determined to be eligible for the State and National…
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Village Pride & LGBT Establishments
…York chapter of the Mattachine Society staged a “Sip-In” and that helped establish the right of homosexuals to be served in licensed premises in New York. In 2012 Village Preservation…
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Coming Out, and Going Out, in the Village
…On April 21, 1966, members of the New York chapter of the Mattachine Society staged a “Sip-In” and that helped establish the right of homosexuals to be served in licensed…
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GVHD50 and Stonewall50 – LGBTQ Sites of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…of the oldest continuously operating bars in New York City. By the 1950s, the bar had begun to attract gay customers, and in 1966, the Mattachine Society, one of the…
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New York State WorldPride Welcome Center Opens in Greenwich Village
…role in the struggle for equality through a timeline gallery from the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis in the 1950s, to the Stonewall Uprising in the 1960s, to…
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The Former Gay Activists Alliance Headquarters at 99 Wooster Street Has At Last Become a Landmark
…public and politically radical activist methods. These groups have sometimes been called the “Gay Liberation Movement” to distinguish it from the earlier, less activist “Homophile Movement” of the Mattachine Society…
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Before Stonewall: The “Sip In” at Julius’
…sources. A conspicuous headline from a New York Times article on the Sip In. The story goes that members of the New York City Mattachine Society, a national gay rights…
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Three Homosexuals in Search of a Drink
…could result in the bar’s closure by the State Liquor Authority. On April 21, 1966, Dick Leitsch and other members of the Mattachine Society, an early LGBT rights organization, staged…
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A Peek Back at the Village’s LGBT History
…on April 21, 1966, where members of New York’s Mattachine Society, a group of homosexual activists, pushed the limits at this still active gay bar. And in 2009, GVSHP featured…
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Landmarks Preservation Commission Celebrates Gay Pride, Doesn’t Designate Gay Landmarks
…the window, which reads: “We homosexuals plead with our people to please help maintain peaceful and quiet conduct on the streets of the Village—Mattachine”. This is obviously extraordinary historic significance….
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Celebrating 50 Years of PFlag: Birthplace of a Movement of Empathy and Advocacy
…the struggle for the rights and well-being of gay men and lesbians since the mid-1950s, having served as a board member of the New York Mattachine Society and a spiritual…
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Documenting the Fight
…papers and photographs Diana Davies photographs, 1965-1978 The Emilio Sanchez Private Sketches Gran Fury International Gay Information Center Collection. Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York Records, 1951-1976 Particular Voices: Portraits…
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Neighborhood History
…gay. The “sip-in,” in which several members of a gay civil rights organization known as the Mattachine Society went to the bar identifying themselves as ‘homosexuals’ and asked to be…
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Out of the Broom Closet: Gay Activist & Village Wiccan Leo Martello
…riots of 1969, Martello, who identified as gay, attended an organizing meeting of the Mattachine Society. While the group had gained increasing popularity among mostly gay men after Stonewall, Martello soon realized his differences with…
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LGBTQ+ Pride Programs Roundup
…Project with special guest Dick Leitsch. On April 21, 1966, Dick Leitsch and other members of the Mattachine Society, an early LGBT rights organization, staged the now famous Sip-In at…
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Revolutionaries on East Second Street: The STAR House
…Front (GLF), the Mattachine Society, and GAA (the Gay Activist Alliance), a “militant, non-violent organization dedicated exclusively to the attainment of civil and social rights for gays.” Many organizers involved…
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Village Preservation’s 19th Plaque Unveiled Marking Julius’ Bar and the 1966 Sip-In
…counter sit-ins in the South, activists from the Mattachine Society demanded that they be served as customers even if they openly identified as “homosexuals.” The action helped lead to the…
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From Washington Square to Stonewall: A Walk Through the LGBT History of Greenwich Village
…will include places connected to groups including the Salsa Soul Sisters, Mattachine Society, the Gay Liberation Front, and STAR (the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), and the individual LGBT activists, artists,…
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Julius’ Bar Plaque Unveiling
Village Preservation, in collaboration with NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, will unveil a historic plaque to commemorate the Julius’ Bar “Sip-In”. On April 21, 1966, members of the Mattachine Society,…
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Village Preservation Plaques Highlight LGBTQ+ History Throughout Our Neighborhoods
…South, four members of the early gay-rights group the Mattachine Society on April 21, 1966, traveled to various city bars to document the discrimination they faced. Their last stop was…
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Pride Month in All Corners of the Village
…New York chapter. The Ladder, the Daughters of Billitis publication. The initially tiny chapter shared an office with the gay male organization Mattachine and bounced around the city for the…
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Walk Through LGBTQ+ History with Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map
…and Marion Glass founded the group’s New York chapter, which shared an office with the gay male organization the Mattachine Society. The initially tiny chapter bounced around the city for…
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Manahatta: The Ecological Blueprint of Activism
…rose. Lenape Settlement Manhattan, Courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections. 159 West 10th Street Julius’ Bar was the site of the New York City Mattachine Society “Sip-in” on April 21, 1966….
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Celebrating PFLAG: 50 Years of Creating a Caring, Just, and Affirming World
…Gays and Lesbians since the mid-1950s, having served as a board member of the New York Mattachine Society and a spiritual counselor for the Daughters of Bilitis. The power of…
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The Literary Legacy of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop
…activism. As a volunteer for the New York chapter of the Mattachine Society, a political group advocating for gay rights, Rodwell believed that the group spent too much time indoors…
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Lucy Komisar
…to work as a journalist, through which she has covered various political issues throughout her career, from the now-famous Mattachine Society Sip-In at Julius’ Bar, to movements to overturn repressive…
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History Remembered with Preservation and Plaques
…and the bars and other spaces where they openly gathered. On April 21, 1966, members of the Mattachine Society — Dick Leitsch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons and Randy Wicker —…
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ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JULIUS’ “SIP-IN,” TRAILBLAZING LGBT CIVIL RIGHTS ACTION, GVSHP CALLS FOR LANDMARK DESIGNATION Iconic Image of Historic Event for Sale In Support of GVSHP’s Preservation Efforts
…moment in civil rights history will be available for sale, with proceeds supporting VP. Background: In 1966, the Mattachine Society, an early LGBT rights organization, set about to challenge New York…
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