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Contents:

• NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA
• GAY STREET
• GREENWICH VILLAGE, STORIED HOME OF BOHEMIA AND GAY HISTORY
•  NEW YORK LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK
• BUILDG: 14 GAY STREET
• GREENWICH VILLAGE, AMERI’S FIRST GAYBORHOOD

NEW YORK GAY DISTRICT: CHELSEA

New York is a mag for gays, wh the LGBT muny reprentg an timated 500, 000 people. Wh such a robt muny, 's clear that New York's populatn is one of the most gay-iendly the world.

Ined, there are plenty of gay plac throughout the cy. It's here where the gay civil rights movement started after the rt 1969. Dpe this history, 's Chelsea that holds the torch as the gayt neighborhood New York.

GAY STREET

Gay bars Chelsea. If you fancy venturg outsi of Chelsea, don't dispair, there are many more gay bars New York. Disver the Metropolan Communy Church of New York (446 Wt 36th St) which serv as the church for the LGBT muny, and where gays n get married.

The name of Gay Street is very ftg to the nature and history of Greenwich Village, New York’s most famo home to the LGBTQ+ muny.

Jt around the rner, on Christopher Street, stands the Stonewall Natnal Monument, the se of the legendary rts that changed the world, revolutnizg the gay liberatn movement and leadg to the first Pri para. In fact, the rerds go back to the gay old tim before the word “gay” had s current nnotatn.

GREENWICH VILLAGE, STORIED HOME OF BOHEMIA AND GAY HISTORY

Evintly, was already named Gay Street by 1827, possibly after a member of the Gay fay who lived the neighborhood. Even if they notice the name on the sign, most people would assume that mt be named after Greenwich Village’s gay muny, simple as that and nothg more. June New York means gay pri month and many people n’t wa to celebrate at the Gay Pri Para NYC – even if was a virtual event durg Covid!

Every year thoands of travelers e to New York to celebrate the gay pri events New York. Today has evolved to Gay pris all over the world.

Where to go after the Gay Pri Para NYC? The ma highlight is Saturday’s Gay Pri Para NYC on 26th Street and 5th Avenue.

 NEW YORK LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

The Gay Pri Para NYC is the ma event and the symbol of the Gay Pri here New York. The Gay Pri Para NYC fish Wt Village, om where more than an timate of 2 Milln people will head over to different after para party lotns.

Gay pri NYC is lorful, eaky and so much fun. One of the biggt parti after the Gay Pri Para NYC is the Pri Island Ftival startg om 2 pm until 10 pm. You uld also jo lol bars after the gay pri para Chelsea.

Its entanglements of wdg streets, fyg the cy grid, clu remnants of w paths and property l om when the area was a sprawl of Dutch, then English, Village as a historilly gay neighborhood has long been a source of lol pri, but seemed mostly unremarkable to me and to my childhood iends who were native Villagers bee was simply another fact of daily life. By the 1970s, the neighborhood’s gay epicenter had shifted toward Christopher Street, the olst street the Village, s irregular route tracg the borr of what had been the Brish admiral Peter Warren’s Colonial-era long ago I asked Andrew Dolkart, an archectural historian at Columbia Universy, to nstct an L. MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Andrew, durg the summer of 1969, police raid a bar at 51-53 Christopher Street lled the Stonewall DOLKART In the 1960s, the Stonewall Inn was a Mafia-ntrolled bar, as were almost all gay and lbian bars, bee the State Liquor Authory creed that the mere prence of a homosexual a bar nstuted disorrly nduct.

NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK

That’s why the Natnal Register listg clus the Stonewall buildg, Christopher Park, and all of the streets around , as far east as Sixth register a sense nods to the Village at large as a gay gay history go back at least to the early 20th century, when Greenwich Village was beg a bohemian pal. Shortly after, the gay bar that took over adopted the old name and kept the exterr signage. When we advoted for the cy to signate Stonewall a landmark, I remember a guy speakg up at a public hearg, sayg he was favor of signatn, but that we should not fet that Stonewall was fact a dreary as Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian history, has put , Stonewall “sound the rally for the movement, ” leadg to the foundg of anizatns like the Gay Liberatn Front, the Gay Activists Alliance, and the Radilbians.

BUILDG: 14 GAY STREET

The Christopher Street Liberatn Day march, on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall, beme the annual Pri Para, which now happens dozens of wt of Stonewall, I also want to pot out 59 Christopher Street, a buildg that hoed the last headquarters of the New York Cy chapter of the Mattache Society, an early natnal gay rights anizatn — at the time the phrase was “homophile anizatn” — found Los Angel 1950.

Then Rodwell moved to Christopher to make more nspicuo and central to the gay muny. It beme a send home for many gay people. Alison Bechl said that she me to the shop as a young lbian, not sure what she wanted to do wh her life, and saw all the gay and lbian ic books, and that spired her to bee a graphic novelist.

ImageJuli’, at the rner of Waverly and Wt 10th Street, is one of the olst gay bars the DeZonOne of the olst gay bars New the mid-60s the Mattache Society cid to challenge the New York State Liquor Authory policy that a bar uld be closed down if knowgly served a homosexual. Dick Lesch, the Mattache Society print; Rodwell, the bookstore owner, who was s vice print; and John Timmons, another society member, cid to go to bars along wh newspaper reporters, announce they were gay, ask for a drk, and wa to be nied.

GREENWICH VILLAGE, AMERI’S FIRST GAYBORHOOD

Marks Place that had a sign: “If you are gay, please go away.

I remember that Howard Johnson’ sat down, asked to see the manager, said “We’re homosexuals, ” and then orred drks. ImageIn 1966, a bartenr at Juli’ bar refg to serve members of the Mattache Society, a gay rights W.

Stewart’s was a popular cha of the era and this branch beme a famo hnt for a flamboyantly gay and lbian crowd, performg for tourists who would sometim stand three or four people ep, starg through the wdows. ImageThe narrowt hoe the Village, 75 1/2 Bedford, center, is jt about ne feet DeZonAnd around the rner om 75½ Bedford is the Cherry Lane Theater, a former brewery on Commerce Street, which over the years beme closely associated wh gay playwrights like Edward Albee.