The History of Greenwich Village's Gay Street - CySignal

Contents:

• TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS GREENWICH VILLAGE (NEW YORK CY)SEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS GREENWICH VILLAGE
• GREENWICH VILLAGE, STORIED HOME OF BOHEMIA AND GAY HISTORY
• GAY NEW YORK CY
• STONEWALL INN, FAMO GREENWICH VILLAGE GAY BAR, BEG NSIRED FOR LANDMARK STAT BY NYC
• THE HISTORY OF GREENWICH VILLAGE’S GAY STREET
• Y, THERE’S A NEW GAY BAR GREENWICH VILLAGE

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The first meetg of what me to be the anizatn now known as PFLAG — Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays — took place at what is now known as the Church of the Village, at 13th Street and 7th Avenue, then known as the Metropolan-Duane Uned Methodist Church.

In June of 1972, Jeanne Manford, a schoolteacher om Queens, marched the Christopher Street Liberatn March, the precursor of today’s LGBT Pri Para, wh her gay son Morty to show support for her child.

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So many people me up to Jeanne and asked her to speak to their parents that she cid to hold a meetg for parents stgglg wh acceptg and supportg their gay children. That meetg took place on March 26, 1973, and eventually led to the foundg of PFLAG, which now has 400 chapters natnally and 200, 000 members, provis rourc and support to the fai of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr people, and lobbi for greater unrstandg and equal treatment of LGBT people.

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But In 1982, the first meetg of the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL)–now a 2, 000 member anizatn wh 36 chapters across the untry reprentg LGBTQ persons law enforcement and crimal jtice profsns–was held the basement.

THE HISTORY OF GREENWICH VILLAGE’S GAY STREET

By 1982, the church had bee known as one of the most welg and acceptg Catholic church the cy for gay ngregants, and to this day the church holds a special mass durg LGBT Pri Month June to memorate those lost to AIDS.

Y, THERE’S A NEW GAY BAR GREENWICH VILLAGE

In 1981, Cochrane beme the first NYPD officer to publicly reveal that he was gay when he ttified ont of the New York Cy Council support of the gay rights bill. Cochrane’s public claratn was historic and directly followed ttimony by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Associatn opposg the legislatn, which clud the assertn that there were no gay police officers the NYPD.

Though Cochrane’s ttimony received a standg ovatn om supporters and he reportedly receivg a posive rponse om fellow officers to his g out, the gay rights bill was feated and did not bee law until 1986. The empty firehoe soon beme the home of boistero parti, meetgs, and polil anizg when the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the most highly fluential LGBT groups of the post-Stonewall era, took over the space 1971.