…people, and led to substantial changes in the law three years before the Stonewall riots. Julius’ building dates to 1826 and has been a bar since 1864, making it one of…
Read More…and gay history, the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village (co-nominated by GVSHP in 1999), the site of the Stonewall Riots, considered the birthplace of the modern gay-rights movement. While recognized…
Read More…82. She has been called the official photographer of the women’s movement and was one of the few photographers who captured the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village. She has…
Read MoreEvery June, New Yorkers and people from around the world gather in our city to celebrate Pride Month and honor the memory of the Stonewall Riots, three nights in 1969…
Read More…which like the designation reports for all of the thousands of landmarked buildings in our neighborhoods are available on our website. The legacy of Stonewall Riots was the inspiration for…
Read More…laws and regulations that criminalized gay bars and other spaces which catered to or served LGBTQ+ patrons. Three years before the Stonewall Riots (which occurred around the corner) and based…
Read More…Inn (51-53 Christopher Street) (Left) Stonewall in 1969. (Right) The Stonewall of today. In the early morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, dozens of gay men, lesbians, and transgendered people,…
Read More…Places in 1986 and was designated as a New York City landmark in 2009. An illustration of the New York Draft Riots in 1863 via Wikimedia 10. Draft Riots Refuge, 92 Grove Street…
Read More…community and others that may be gone but their memory still remains strong with the community: The Stonewall Inn (51-53 Christopher Street) Left: Stonewall in 1969 (photo courtesy of Larry…
Read More…still active and can be found on the GVSHP Civil Rights and Social Justice Map. The Stonewall Inn (51-53 Christopher Street) Left: Stonewall in 1969 (photo courtesy of Larry Morris…
Read More…in the Village going back to before the Stonewall Riots when LGBTQ folks came to the Village for the community, arts, and more. Two years before the Obergefell case, United…
Read More…the LGBTQ community over time. We’ll also explore sites like the Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park. Our guide Michael Venturiello‘s interest in reading queer literature and research about the Stonewall Riots…
Read More…that ends its route where the gay-rights movement began, Greenwich Village. By now everyone knows the story of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that happened on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village,…
Read More…the LGBT Community Center. Our guide Michael Venturiello’s interest in reading queer literature and research about the Stonewall Riots blossomed into his founding Christopher Street Tours, to make LGBTQ history…
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…Mind” Johnson, and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City. The New Yorker calls it “A lush and speculative portrait of…
Read More…them after learning they were homosexual. The event marked a critical moment in LGBT history, pre-dating the Stonewall riots at the nearby Stonewall Inn in 1969. Dick Leitsch, then chairman…
Read More…act of civil disobedience three years before the Stonewall Riots that confronted discriminatory rules that criminalized spaces allowing LGBTQ+ people to gather openly. We are thrilled that the LPC is…
Read More…and Sullivan Streets from 1824 to 2012. Following the 1969 Stonewall Riots, the house became a “gay commune” of sorts in which some of the most important activist figures of…
Read More…1969, Christopher Street erupted in riots when police raided the popular gay establishment the Stonewall Inn across the street. Over the next few days, angry protesters filled the streets in…
Read More…violent uprisings commonly referred to as the Draft Riots. Understanding the social and economic causes of these riots, as well as the effects of the riots on subsequent New York…
Read More…consistently found new ways to fight the system of slavery and support the city’s black communities. During the Draft Riots of 1863, the church’s fourth minister, the avid abolitionist, educator,…
Read MoreEver since the Stonewall designation back in June, the push for designating LGBT sites around New York City and Greenwich Village has been met with more energy and enthusiasm. One…
Read More…Stonewall National Monument. WorldPride, the largest international LGBTQ Pride celebration, is coming to New York this month to coincide with the Stonewall50 commemorations, marking the first time it has been…
Read More…Civil War Draft Riots. Two days before the start of the riots, on July 11, 1863, the Conscription Act went into effect; it required all male citizens between the ages…
Read More…in American history, spreading throughout Manhattan. Hundreds of people were killed in these Draft Riots and many more were seriously injured; African Americans were the frequent target of the rioters’…
Read More…They soon fell in love and moved in together, finding the ill-fated apartment in Kew Gardens in 1963. All this was six years before the Stonewall Riots which for many…
Read More…“Sip-In,” a pioneering act of civil disobedience that took place three years before the Stonewall Riots, that confronted discriminatory rules criminalizing spaces allowing LGBTQ+ people to gather openly. Until now,…
Read More…Christopher Street to commemorate the Stonewall riots. Gay Liberation Monument at Christopher Park Dr. Voeller and the Mariposa Foundation also conducted the first study in the early 1980s establishing the…
Read More…Stonewall riots, that Greenwich Village’s LGBTQ history happened entirely on Christopher Street. Of course, there’s a lot more to LGBTQ history in the Village than Stonewall, just as there’s a…
Read More…months after the Stonewall Riots (and, coincidentally, soon after Hormel moved in to the house around the corner) the Gay Activists Alliance was an offshoot of the Gay Liberation Front….
Read More…They officially disbanded in 1981. 186 Spring Street Residence !86 Spring Street. In the era immediately following the Stonewall riots, 186 Spring Street was home to a number of important…
Read More…Spring Street Residence In the era immediately following the Stonewall riots, 186 Spring Street (which was recently demolished) was home to a number of important figures of the Gay Rights…
Read More…the dismantling of discriminatory rules regarding LGBTQ+ people and gathering spaces three years before the nearby Stonewall Riots. After a 10-year-long effort by Village Preservation, Julius’ Bar was landmarked in…
Read More…men, lesbians, and transgendered people, many of them people of color, resisted a routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn. The riots that followed over the course of three days…
Read More…South Village Historic District State and National Register Map Stonewall State and National Register District Stonewall State and National Register District Report Stonewall State and National Register District Photos Stonewall…
Read MoreThis year’s Gay Pride Month certainly got off to an auspicious start with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission finally agreeing to consider the Stonewall Inn for individual landmark…
Read More…rich history in this area. Unveiled in 1992, these statues reside at Christopher Park, across the street from the Stonewall Inn. Christopher Park today is a vibrant and well-maintained park. …
Read More…armed with a concealed weapon permit and looking for what she called “ugliness.” After the Stonewall Uprising, she helped start the Stonewall Veterans Association as its Chief of Security, later…
Read More…Before Stonewall: The “Sip In” at Julius’ This Day in Greenwich Village: The Stonewall Riot 2016 Village Award Winner: Julius’ Bar Why “Double Designate” Stonewall? June is Gay Pride Month…
Read MoreThe 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….
Read More…Inn Landmark Designation – Stonewall Inn After a year and a half campaign spearheaded by GVSHP, the Stonewall Inn was designated as an individual New York City landmark on June…
Read More…the Fire Zouaves. The park entered national history in 1969 as a key site for the Stonewall Rebellion. Prior to the uprising, this space across the street from the Stonewall…
Read More…100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, any time is a good time to highlight their history and their profound connections to our neighborhood. Aftermath of the 1908 race riots in…
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…his camera and be off for the latest photo op. An unidentifed group of young poeple celebrate outside the boarded-up Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher Street) after riots over the weekend…
Read More…since 1967, Levine participated in the 1969 Stonewall Riots, and has been involved in many aspects of community affairs and planning in Lower Manhattan for over fifty years. Full Transcript…
Read More…to Sid Vicious and Paul Newman. We also explored events that shaped the history of our neighborhoods like the General Slocum Disaster and the Stonewall Riots. Since advocacy is the…
Read More…Source: National Gallery of Art You can learn more about the Beats and the Village, the residence of jazz legend Charlie Parker and the Stonewall Riots on our resource page….
Read More…the impact of the repressive politics of the 1950s, which was reflected in some of the visual art he created at that time. After the Stonewall riots, Katz became involved…
Read More…effects of artistic, political, cultural movements such as abolitionism, women’s suffrage, labor activism, and the LGBTQ movements that paved the way for the Stonewall Riots of 1969 – the same…
Read More…reflected in some of the visual art that he created at that time. After the Stonewall riots, Katz became involved with activism within the gay community through the Gay Activists…
Read More…Park, which has served as a gathering place in Greenwich Village for 180 years. The park was a focal point of the Stonewall Riots 50 years ago this June. Read…
Read MoreLet’s face it — 1969 was a big year. Our Executive Director Andrew Berman was born in January. The Greenwich Village Historic District was designated in April. The Stonewall Riots…
Read More…that catered to LGBT people in the West Village in the heyday of gay life in Greenwich Village between the Stonewall Riots and the onset of the AIDS crisis in…
Read More…dismantling of discriminatory rules regarding LGBTQ+ people and gathering spaces three years before the nearby Stonewall Riots. Village Preservation’s plaque program has honored historic neighborhood figures from James Baldwin to…
Read More…From Jack Kerouac reading poetry, to Bob Dylan hanging out in Sheridan Square, to Andy Warhol filming in the Factory, to the Stonewall Riots, we will see the legendary birth…
Read More…in Greenwich Village. The Stonewall Riots that erupted in late June of 1969 announced to the world that the Village was the epicenter of gay life and gay liberation. But…
Read More…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…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read More…time, most notably the growing LGBT movement that had taken hold after the Stonewall Riots. The Gay Activists Alliance’s firehouse in 1971, via NYPL (left and right) A few months before…
Read More…Stonewall Riots of 1969, Ty’s has been gay owned and operated since opening in 1972. Ty’s is well known for its no-attitude policy, friendly helpful staff, and great drinks at…
Read More…the Stonewall Riots. —206 East 7th Street, the former home of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, where they both lived early in their careers and hosted (and famously photographed…
Read More…regulations which made it possible to close down bars simply for serving gay people, three years before the Stonewall Riots. In 2012 GVSHP got Julius’ Bar determined eligible for the State and…
Read More…three years before the Stonewall Riots. In 2012 GVSHP got Julius’ Bar determined eligible for the State and National Registers of Historic Places based upon this groundbreaking civil rights history, and now we…
Read More…people three years before the Stonewall Riots. In response to this milestone, Village Preservation is renewing its push for landmark designation for the 1826 building which houses Julius’, which has had a bar…
Read More…anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Today, the Dyke March is still held on the eve of the Gay Pride parades across the world. The First International Dyke March on Fifth…
Read More…1970’s and early 1980’s which made it so extraordinary. Shortly after the June 1969 Stonewall Riots, the house became a commune of sorts for gay activists, mostly those connected to…
Read More…more than three years before the Stonewall Riots. 206 East 7th Street, the former home of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, where they both lived early in their careers and…
Read More…of Lesbian and Gay Architects and Designers, Stonewall (the area includes the Stonewall Inn and adjacent public space) is added to the National Register of Historic Places. This is the…
Read More…community of interesting people, fascinating places, and dynamic ideas.” One of Fred W. McDarrah’s Iconic Stonewall photographs. Image copyright Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. Fred and his wife Gloria spent…
Read More…read more about it, see: “Before Stonewall: The ‘Sip-In’ at Julius’” or “A Peek Back at the Village’s LGBT History.”) Learn more about GVSHP’s efforts here. The Stonewall Uprising began…
Read More…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…
Read More…New York City’s 1863 race riots here in Greenwich Village. These riots have often been explained as a consequence of the Civil War draft, an alibi that obscures the racial…
Read More…it turned into a frequent site of high-profile dissent and conflagrations. These included the bread riots of 1857, the labor riots of 1874 (the largest demonstration the city had ever…
Read More…Liberia, and the West Indies. He also endorsed Black Nationalism in the United States. Draft Riots on First Avenue. Photo Courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections. From 1859 to 1863, and…
Read More…facto state-sanctioned domestic terrorism. Photo of the 1917 Silent March, from NYPL via Wikimedia Commons In 1917, following the brutal East St. Louis race riots in which between 40 and 250 African Americans…
Read More…Greenwich Villager who led the church’s response to the deadly Draft Riots of 1863, and who preached from the pulpit right here on Sixth Avenue in our neighborhood. St. James…
Read More…enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize…
Read More…the riots received substantial local and national media coverage, bringing attention to the challenges confronted by the LGBTQ+ community. Following the riots, the Oscar Wilde Bookshop became a central hub…
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…role in the LGBT civil rights movement fifty years ago this year (three years before the riots at Stonewall), the city has still not moved ahead with GVSHP’s request to landmark it. Julius’ is…
Read More…historic sites where revolutions began, riots were sparked, and history was made. Register here, and meet at McCarthy Square at 7th Ave South and Charles Street 10am – 4pm Walks and…
Read MoreStonewall Inn. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. On June 23, 2015, The Stonewall Inn, the place where the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights movement was born, was officially…
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…Stonewall Inn In the past year GVSHP has spearheaded numerous efforts continuing our mission to protect and preserve Greenwich Village and the East Village. The Stonewall Inn was designated as …
Read MoreMembers Only $100+ Event: Fred W. McDarrah Exhibition Tour The Voice of the Village: Fred W. McDarrah Photographs and PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah examine…
Read MoreStonewall50: A Drag March Storyslam: Tales of Glamour and Resistance! This year is the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riot, and the 25th Anniversary of Drag March, which was founded…
Read More…of the post-Stonewall era, the Gay Activist Alliance (GAA) was founded in 1969 by Marty Robinson, Jim Owles, and Arthur Evans. The group was an offshoot of the Gay Liberation…
Read More…bars and its oldest gay bar for landmark designation nearly a decade ago, along with three other sites of extreme importance to LGBTQ+ civil rights history: the Stonewall Inn, the…
Read More…drag performer Linda Simpson will share her Drag Explosion project capturing NYC’s 1990s drag scene. Miss Simone has been offering free performances and building community at the Stonewall National Monument throughout the pandemic and will speak…
Read More…at 208 West 13th Street and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street. In 2014, Village Preservation proposed these sites along with the Stonewall Inn for landmark designation as the…
Read More…prisons twice per year. Not long after that came the Attica prison riots. On September 10, 1971, David was one of the few outside observers who was invited into the…
Read MoreAstor Place Riots, from www.boweryboyshistory.com Recently we have been running a series in Off the Grid on the Village as the birthplace of modern drama. NoHo has its own history…
Read More…Draft Riots of 1863 which erupted among Irish immigrants and African Americans over the first federal draft. Draft Riots of 1863 The 69th regiment, a.k.a. the “Irish Brigade” gained fame…
Read More…folk musicians were embroiled in the Beatnik Riots. Washington Square was a key site in giving beatniks and other offbeat Villagers a place to call home – and have their voices heard. Today,…
Read More…poetry readings, partygoers at local clubs, homeless individuals living on the street, and even drag queens at Wigstock. He also documented the Tompkins Square Riots in 1988, capturing the intensity…
Read More…Civil War Draft Riots On July 11, 1863, the federal Conscription Act had taken effect, requiring all male citizens between the ages of 20 and 35 and all unmarried men…
Read More…businesses of all kinds. Read Blog Post David Rothenberg David Rothenberg has lived in the Village since the 1960s, first at Sheridan Square across from the Stonewall Inn where he…
Read More…for prison abolition in the process. From the lesbian communities forged through the House of D to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one…
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