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• NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK
• JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK
• NYC’S GAY HISTORY WT VILLAGE
• TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS WT VILLAGE (NEW YORK CY)GAY CLUBS & BARS WT VILLAGE
• GAY RIGHTS MONUMENT IN THE WT VILLAGE GETS RTORATN WORK
• TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE

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

Photograph: Bertie ChengThis historic neighborhood is home to some of New York's bt and longt-standg LGBT and gay barsThe morn gay rights movement got s start Manhattan's Wt Village 1969, at the mafia-owned dive the Stonewall Inn. (In fact, Stonewall isn't even the neighborhood's olst gay hnt; that honor go to Juli's.) Gay bars here tend to veer toward the divey si, and that's jt fe by . RECOMMENDED: Fd more thgs to do the Wt VillageBt gay bars the Wt Village10.

The MonsterA dance floor, a show-tune-playg pianist and baret acts add up to the ultimate gay package at this long-standg hnt. PiecWhat uld be gayer than a queer bar on Christopher Street? The Stonewall InnThe birthplace of gay liberatn says “Y!” to empowerment and “Hell, y!” to go-go boys.

JuliEstablished 1862, this is New York’s olst operatg gay bar. CubbyholeCubbyhole is one of the Village’s more ftive and hetero-iendly gay-and-lbian bars. You bet.Bt gay bars NYCThe bt gay bars NYCNYC is home to so many LGBT drkeri, the optns n be staggerg—but 's really hard to go wrong.

JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK

While the gay scene has largely migrated north, the Wt Village played a pivotal role the gay-rights movement, and many shops, bars and rtrants along Christopher Street om Sheridan Square to the Hudson River pier are out, loud and proud, cludg the historic Stonewall Inn. The bars clud are steeped history for their gay rights advocy, cludg Stonewall Inn and the olst gay bar the cy — Juli' out what's happeng Wt Villagewh ee, real-time updat om is the full list of the Wt Village bars clud. Juli' Bar is the olst gay bar New York Cy.

The Wt Village waterg hole was the se of the 1969 rts that helped lnch the gay rights movement the Uned Stat. Hangar Bar is a gay bar that pris self on the diversy of s crowd. Skip to ma ntentSoHo-Ltle Italy, NYChelsea, NYGramercy-Murray Hill, NYEast Village, NYTribe-FiDi, NYHoboken, NJLower East Si-Chatown, NYMidtown-Hell's Kchen, NYBrooklyn Heights-DUMBO, NYBrooklyn, NYNew YorkTop Natnal NewsSee All CommuniWEST VILLAGE, NY — Juli' Bar the Wt Village, nsired the longt-nng gay bar the cy, was officially ma a New York Cy landmark on buildg at 159 W.

Was signated a landmark for the role played advancg the rights of gay and lbian New Yorkers, the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn explaed a news release. “As a gay man who enjoys untls eedoms that were unimagable their time, I owe enormo bt to the activists who ma Juli’ Bar the se of their prott.

NYC’S GAY HISTORY WT VILLAGE

In the early morng of Saturday, June 28, 1969, dozens of gay men, lbians, and transgenred people, many of them people of lor, risted a route police raid on the Stonewall Inn. The rts that followed over the urse of three days are wily nsired to be the sgle most important event leadg to the morn gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights movement the Uned Stat. Loted jt a block away om the famo Stonewall Inn, Juli’ is often lled the olst ntuoly operatg gay bar New York Cy.

TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS WT VILLAGE (NEW YORK CY)GAY CLUBS & BARS WT VILLAGE

It was origally tablished 1867 and by the 1950’s was attractg gay patrons. Gay activists are nied service at a 1966 Sip In at Juli’.

On April 21, 1966, members of the New York chapter of the Mattache Society staged a “Sip-In” and that helped tablish the right of homosexuals to be served licensed premis New York. The first meetg of what me to be the anizatn now known as PFLAG, Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays, took place here 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.

GAY RIGHTS MONUMENT IN THE WT VILLAGE GETS RTORATN WORK

Jeanne Manford, center, wh her son, Morty Manford, left, at the Christopher Street Liberatn March 1973, the precursor to today’s Annual Gay Pri March. In June of 1972, Jeanne Manford, a school teacher 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.

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, and 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. The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center, 208 Wt 13th Street.

It served as var schools for over a century and was sold to the Lbian & Gay Servic Center, Inc. Other anizatns that have been loted here (or got their starts here) clu SAGE (Senr Actn a Gay Environment), the Metropolan Communy Church (a LGBT ngregatn), the AIDS activist group ACT UP, and GLAAD (Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn).

TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE

Juli’, one of New York’s olst gay bars, is on track to bee a cy landmark. Birthplace of the morn gay rights movement and home to the narrowt hoe NYC, the Wt Village is steeped fascatg history. As the birthplace of the gay liberatn movement, Stonewall Inn—a Natnal Historic Landmark—is a mt see; the gay tavern/bar is loted the heart of the Wt Village on Christopher Street, jt outsi the Christopher Street subway statn of the 1 Le.

The bar was raid by police on June 28, 1969, which sparked the begng of the gay rights movement. Nearby Christopher Park featur real-life sculptur of gay upl, memoratg the 1969 Stonewall Rebelln.