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• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER (LGBT)
• LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART

THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS

Established 1983, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center has grown to bee the largt LGBT multi-service anizatn on the East Coast and send largt LGBT muny center the world. Ined, The Center was the the birthplace of anizatns such as the AIDS activist group ACT UP and the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), the prcipal anizatn batg homophobia and stereotypg of gays the media.

In January 2016, the Commissn and The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center lnched a shared effort to te New Yorkers about the history and rights of the transgenr muny. Sce 1983, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center has served as a val support system for hundreds of thoands of people.

By the time the Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center was tablished here 1983, the buildg had operated unr a number of different nam, the last beg the Food and Marime High School. After rentg space here, the Center – sce renamed the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center – bought the cy-owned buildg 1984. Some signifint anizatns clu the Metropolan Communy Church of New York, here om 1983 to 1994; Men of All Colors Together (MACT; origally Black and Whe Men Together); Gay and Lbian Youth; the Lbian Swchboard; Digny/New York, a Catholic gay and lbian anizatn; Asian Lbians of the East Coast (ALOEC); Harvey Milk High School; South Asian Lbian and Gay Associatn (SALGA); Salsa Soul Sisters; and Senr Actn a Gay Environment (SAGE; now Servic & Advocy for GLBT Elrs), which met here for over 20 years.

THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER (LGBT)

Other anizatns found at the Center were the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (now known as GLAAD) 1985; Other Countri 1986, a llective of Black gay male wrers named honor of Jam Baldw‘s Another Country (the group was the succsor to Blackheart Collective); Las Buenas Amigas 1987, a Lata lbian group; Queer Natn 1990; and the Lbian Avengers 1992. The Coaln for Lbian and Gay Rights, a tenant, was the leadg muny anizatn to promote the gay rights bill, which was approved by the New York Cy Council 1986. 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.

Gay-Owned Bs. No other neighborhood New York Cy (and perhaps, the untry) holds as much historil and cultural signifince for s role the gay liberatn movement as Greenwich Village. Ed data sets, cludg cens data and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Chamber of Commerce’s public list of LGBT-owned bs, to velop an algorhm that intified the amount of LGBTQ bars, venu, social servic, muny anizatns, and var groups wh neighborhoods.

Dpe havg homophobic and transphobic vlence the area recent years, Jackson Heights Queens was regnized sce is home to the send largt pri para the cy and has plenty of grassroots anizatns that are workg to crease acceptance the muny. Hell’s Kchen and Chelsea offer the most “tradnal” gay bars and clubs, where visors n check out venu wh hunky shirtls bartenrs, a mostly-gay-male clientele, and thumpg hs gog late to the night. Highlights of the neighborhoods clu Indtry, which many claim is New York’s bt gay bar.

LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART

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