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• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MONUMENT IN THE WT VILLAGE GETS RTORATN WORK
• WT VILLAGE COALN WANTS CHRISTOPHER STREET TO BE MA GAY RIGHTS LANDMARK
• WT VIL BLOCK COULD BE NAMED FOR COUPLE WHO WON GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS
• SUN 4/24: GAY HISTORY WALKG TOUR OF THE WT VILLAGE
• NYC’S GAY HISTORY WT VILLAGE
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT MONUMENT AT WT VILLAGE PARK GETS A TOUCH-UP
• NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK

NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

The Wt Village bar Juli' was the se of a 1966 "sip-" prott, when activists monstrated agast the closure of bars that served gay people.

New York Cy's olst gay bar, Juli' Manhattan, is officially a landmark.

In 1966, Juli' was the se of a "sip-, " when three activists protted the closure of bars that served gay people. WEST VILLAGE, NY — An inic gay rights monument the Wt Village was rtored on Thursday as part of a cywi nservatn program om the NYC Parks "Gay Liberatn" figur, which s Christopher Park on 204 W.

GAY RIGHTS MONUMENT IN THE WT VILLAGE GETS RTORATN WORK

The rts are nsired the begng of the morn Gay Rights was an Amerin pater and sculptor who grew up the out what's happeng Wt Villagewh ee, real-time updat om 2016, Christopher Park was feralized and the monument beme the first U. Crowds gathered, screamed and embraced Sheridan Square near the Stonewall Inn, where the gay-rights movement began more than 40 years ago. Gay and lbian bars the neighborhood were packed wh patrons, and the neighborhood had the feel of jubilant celebratn.

VioMore than 1, 000 supporters of same-sex marriage gathered at the Stonewall Inn, a birthplace of the gay rights movement New York's Wt Village neighborhood, to celebrate the bill's passage. Qun, the cy’s hight-rankg openly gay official, said after passage: “I really n’t really scribe what this feels like, but is one of the bt feelgs I have ever had my life.

” The passage of the bill cid wh the annual Gay Pri weekend, which draws thoands of people om around the untry and will culmate on Sunday wh a para down Fifth Avenue Lower Manhattan. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Christopher Street Manhattan is home to the Stonewall Inn -- the bar where the 1969 rts occurred, largely viewed as the begng of the gay rights movement.

WT VILLAGE COALN WANTS CHRISTOPHER STREET TO BE MA GAY RIGHTS LANDMARK

Now, the head of the Wt Village Coaln wants the street turned to the cy's first gay rights landmark, WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported. Robert Ziegler told Diamond he wants the cy's Landmarks Prervatn Commissn to signate the Wt Village street a gay rights landmark, plete wh a walk of fame siar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

It would have pk triangl honorg those who have supported gay rights. The pk triangle was the symbol the Nazis ed to intify homosexuals.

WT VIL BLOCK COULD BE NAMED FOR COUPLE WHO WON GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS

Ziegler said Christopher Street has lost gay tourists to other parts of the cy and other areas like Philalphia, Chigo, and San Francis - all home to so-lled "gayborhoods. "This is where they gay movement began, so should have been the first one, but we'll get done, " Ziegler said.

SUN 4/24: GAY HISTORY WALKG TOUR OF THE 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.

NYC’S GAY HISTORY 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’.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT MONUMENT AT WT VILLAGE PARK GETS A TOUCH-UP

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. 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.

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

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). 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.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK

(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 .