Gay and trans history wasn’t always visible. The NYC LGBT Historic S Project has set out to change that
Contents:
- A WALKG TOUR OF 11 LANDMARKS GAY NEW YORK
- 10 UNR-THE-RADAR GAY HISTORY S NYC
- NYC LANDMARKS SIX S ASSOCIATED WH GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
- THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
- NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
A WALKG TOUR OF 11 LANDMARKS GAY NEW YORK
This Pri month, we’ll take you to important lotns L.G.B.T.Q. history and tell you the stori about the gay New Yorkers, ins and activists who lived and worked there. Along the way we’ll let you know about some upg events and a few sir tips. * gay landmarks nyc *
”Below, check out 11 of the plac listed the NYC LGBT Historic S Project, and head here to view the growg database of queer history New York scriptns have been republished wh permissn om the NYC LGBT Historic S Communy CenterChristy Havranek/HuffPostSce 1983, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy Center has served as a val support system for hundreds of thoands of center has wnsed the foundg of ACT UP, GLAAD, Las Buenas Amigas, Queer Natn and the Lbian Avengers and for many years was the meetg lotn for the Metropolan Communy Church of New York and Genr Inty Project, which was tablished here 1989, is the longt-nng service provir for the transgenr and genr-nonnformg muny the state.
Christopher Street PiersDamon Dahlen/HuffPostFor over a century, the Greenwich Village Hudson River wateront, cludg the Christopher Street Pier at Wt 10th Street, has been a statn for the LGBT muny that has evolved om a place for cisg and sex for gay men to an important safe haven for a margalized queer muny — mostly queer homels youths of 1971 to 1983, the terrs of the piers’ -like termals featured a diverse range of artistic work, cludg se-based stallatns, photography, murals and performanc. Lorrae Hansberry RinceChristy Havranek/HuffPostDamon Dahlen/HuffPostFrom 1953 to 1960, playwright and activist Lorrae Hansberry rid the third-floor apartment of this here, Hansberry lived parallel liv: one as the celebrated playwright of “A Rais the Sun, ” the first play by a black woman to appear on Broadway, and the other as a woman who privately explored her homosexualy through her wrg, relatnships and social circle.
Stonewall InnDamon Dahlen/HuffPostFrom June 28 to July 3, 1969, LGBT patrons of the Stonewall Inn and members of the lol muny took the unual actn of fightg back durg a route police raid at the events durg that six-day perd are seen as the begng of the morn LGBT rights movement, wh large numbers of groups formg around the untry the followg Stonewall Inn was the first LGBT se the untry to be listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac (1999) and named a Natnal Historic Landmark (2000), wh addnal cy, state and feral regnn 2015 and ’Damon Dahlen/HuffPostOn April 21, 1966, a sip- was anized by members of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s earlit gay rights anizatns, to challenge the State Liquor Authory’s discrimatory policy of revokg the licens of bars that served known or spected gay men and lbians. Rivgton Hoe was ntroversially sold by the cy to a private veloper Lor RinceChristy Havranek/HuffPostAcclaimed black lbian femist, wrer and activist Audre Lor lived here wh her partner and two children om 1972 to that time, Lor was a prolific and fluential wrer, -found Kchen Table: Women of Color Prs and spoke at the 1979 Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rt RinceDamon Dahlen/HuffPostBayard Rt, one of the most important yet least-known figur of the civil rights movement, lived an apartment this Chelsea buildg plex om 1963 to his ath here, he served as the lead anizer of the 1963 March on Washgton for Jobs and Freedom and took part numero social jtice mpaigns around the HoeChristy Havranek/HuffPostTransy Hoe was a transgenr llective operated by Rty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodw om 1995 to provid shelter for trans and genr-nonnformg people need, served as a center for trans activism and was the last rince of pneerg LGBT rights activist Sylvia Rivera. For over a century, the Greenwich Village Hudson River wateront, cludg the Christopher Street Pier at Wt 10th Street, has been a statn for the LGBT muny that has evolved om a place for cisg and sex for gay men to an important safe haven for a margalized queer muny — mostly queer homels youths of lor.
10 UNR-THE-RADAR GAY HISTORY S NYC
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While here, Hansberry lived parallel liv: one as the celebrated playwright of “A Rais the Sun, ” the first play by a black woman to appear on Broadway, and the other as a woman who privately explored her homosexualy through her wrg, relatnships and social circle. On April 21, 1966, a sip- was anized by members of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s earlit gay rights anizatns, to challenge the State Liquor Authory’s discrimatory policy of revokg the licens of bars that served known or spected gay men and lbians. In that time, Lor was a prolific and fluential wrer, -found Kchen Table: Women of Color Prs and spoke at the 1979 Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.
NYC LANDMARKS SIX S ASSOCIATED WH GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The s are Audre Lor Rince, Caffe Co, LGBT Communy Center, Jam Baldw Rince, Women’s Liberatn Center, Gay Activists Alliance Firehoe. * gay landmarks nyc *
Six s regnized for their important role gay rights history and activism, cludg the home of wrer Jam Baldw and a rtrant that beme a groundbreakg theater venue, won official cy landmarks stat today followg a well-timed vote by the Landmarks Prervatn missn's signatn cid wh WorldPri New York Cy, a monthlong celebratn of LGBTQ culture and history, as well as the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg, which is creded wh galvanizg the gay rights movement. A "Village Prervatn"), which began lobbyg the missn five years ago to landmark LGBTQ s Lower Manhattan, begng wh the cy's most famo gay cultural se, the Stonewall Inn. "Collectively they tell a narrative of pre-imposed Stonewall life, and the impact that the muny has had on culture, activism, polics and life New York Cy, " Ken Ltbar, a historic prervatn nsultant who is one of the group's project directors, told Wednday, the anizatn is planng to release a walkg tour app, where people n vis the s and read about their is the list of the six s along wh brief scriptns of their signifince to the gay rights movement: 137 Wt 71st Street (Courty of NYC LGBT Historic S Project)137 Wt 71st Street: Jam Baldw rince.
From 1971 to 1974, this former firehoe between Sprg and Prce served as the headquarters for the Gay Activists Alliance, nsired the most fluential gay liberatn polil activist anizatn the U.
LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
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The buildg was home to New York Cy’s “first gay muny center” and the meetg spac for emergg anizatns and groups like the Gay Men’s Health Project, Lbian Femist Liberatn, and the Catholic group Digny. The Center hosted meetgs by femist social service groups, women’s polil mte, and lbian activist anizatns, cludg the Lbian Femist Liberatn, which broke off om the Gay Activists Alliance 1972. A former school, the buildg is currently the home of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center, which provis tn, programs, servic and advocy for LGBT rights.
THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
NYC gay bar Juli' — the cy's olst — is signated a landmark for s role LGBTQ+ history and the muny's fight for rights" emprop="scriptn * gay landmarks nyc *
Durg the 1980s, the buildg was the headquarters for the Coaln for Lbian and Gay Rights, which fought for the passage of the 1986 ban on discrimatn agast sexual orientatn. A wi swath of other groups met at the center, cludg Gay and Lbian Youth, the Lbian Swchboard, Digny/New York, Asian Lbians of the East Coast, Harvey Milk High School, Salsa Soul Sisters, Survivors of Transsexualy Anonymo, and the Genr Inty Project. Origally a ffee shop and art exhibn space, Caffe Co durg the 1960s beme a venue for poetry readgs and experimental theater that clud the work of gay men.
NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
Our groundbreakg work documents historic plac nnected to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people New York Cy and tells the often untold story of their fluence on Amerin history and culture. First tablished 1966, the Black Cat Tavern was a popular gay bar Los Angel known for beg one of the first plac to hoe the rts prottg police harassment of LGBTQ people — takg place two years before the famed Stonewall rts. Listed as a US Natnal Historic Landmark, this home Chigo was origally the home of Henry Gerber, the founr of the Society for Human Rights — the first Amerin anizatn workg for gay rights.
Not only that, but that same year, along wh other members of the anizatn, the first gay perdil US history lled Friendship and Freedom was created. Though the society end only a year later due to police raids and tense scty, this first gay rights anizatn is now nsired an credibly important part of history.
Known as New York Cy’s olst ntuoly operatg gay bar, Juli was opened 1840 and began attractg gay patrons the 1950s — although the management staff refed to acknowledge their prence. In fact, acrdg to the Natnal Park Service, the Kameny Hoe “served as a meetg place, archiv, rmal unselg center, headquarters of the Mattache Society, and a safe haven for visg gay and lbian activists. ” Some time after movg to the home, Kameny found the Mattache Society, which later beme a trailblazg LGBTQ rights anizatn — and eventually helped overturn the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s fn of homosexualy as a mental illns.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
Loted on Christopher Street the Wt Village, the Gay Liberatn Monument, ma by Amerin artist Gee Segal, was dited on June 23, 1992, to the events that occurred at the Stonewall Inn s earlier.
The Parks Department says, "the rult is specific, evotive, and unrstated, showg the public fort and eedom to which the gay liberatn movement aspired. In 1966, members of the Mattache Society anized a prott at the bar agast an existg liquor law that prohibed the sale of alhol to disorrly groups, which (explibly) clud gay people. That prott eventually led to the overturng of those laws, and is subsequently seen as a landmark moment towards tablishg other gay bars across the cy.
The group foced on promotg gay rights through tn and peaceful means the subsequent years, but adopted more aggrsive tactics after the Stonewall rts. One of the pneers of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat, Frank Kameny grew up this hoe Richmond, Queens, and graduated om the Richmond Hill High School 1941. The Archiv grew out of the Stonewall Rts and subsequently out of the Gay Amic Unn, when several women the group felt wasn't properly addrsg issu of sexism wh the gay muny.