Inic Wt Village Gay Bar Begs Road To Landmark Stat | Wt Village, NY Patch

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• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK
• INIC WT VILLAGE GAY BAR BEGS ROAD TO LANDMARK STAT
• JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK
• LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

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

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 .

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

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.

INIC WT VILLAGE GAY BAR BEGS ROAD TO LANDMARK STAT

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. Earlier this month, the LPC held a public hearg where several ttified support of landmarkg the six buildgs — which highlight the history of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny and the LGBT rights movement. Fd out what's happeng Wt Villagewh ee, real-time updat om theatre was born Cafe Cno, which beme a haven for gay playwrights.

" In 2014, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Prervatn proposed landmarkg two of the s: the LGBT Communy Center and the Gay Activists Alliance Firehoe.

" The six buildgs that were landmarked clu: Gay Activists Alliance Firehoe at 99 Wooster St. SoHo: The GAA ed this buildg as s headquarters the early 1970s and is nsired the cy's "first gay muny center. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center at 208 W.

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

The Wt Village: Known as the birthplace of off-off-broadway theatre, this ffee shop served as a venue where gay playwrights uld portray LGBT stori theatril productns om 1958 to Baldw Rince at 137 W. He was known for his says and civil rights activism, and spok about his sexualy at a fom held by the gay and anti-racism group Black and Whe Men Together Lor Rince at 207 St. Turn left onto Greenwich Avenue and make another quick left onto Christopher Street, the heart of New York Cy’s gay rights movements durg the 1960s and 1970s.

While many of Manhattan’s gay hot spots have moved to the north to Chelsea and Hell's Kchen, Christopher Street is still the home of many gay bars and loung. 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. 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.

LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART

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. 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.

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.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

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.