September 29, 2017
New Historic Walking Tour at Stonewall National Monument Launches Today, Connecting the Public with LGBT History
September 29, 2017
20-site Greenwich Village walking tour conveys Stonewall uprising’s pivotal history
April 15, 2019
Leaders in LGBTQ History Documentation, Interpretation, and Outreach Create Stonewall 50 Factsheet
June 23, 2020
“Marching for Pride: The Basics,” Fact Sheet for Pride March Anniversary, Released
October 17, 2023
‘Herstory’ walking tour highlights historic lesbian sites in the Village
April 24, 2023 | 12:30 PM
Leslie Feinberg: Linking NYC and Ithaca, NY, with Cornell University
June 22, 2021 | 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Saving 99 Ryerson: The Peculiar Problem of Landmarking Brooklyn’s Earliest LGBT Site
June 26, 2018
Place and Community: An Interview with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
November 5, 2018
Groundbreaking Study to Identify and Evaluate Historic LGBT Sites in NYC
May 14, 2019 | 6:00pm-7:30pm
Upper West Side PRIDE: Walking in LGBTQ Footsteps, beyond Stonewall
June 16, 2021
Pride Month: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project ‘Making An Invisible History Visible’
February 15, 2019 | 7:00pm-10:00pm
“Queer Quiz Show” with Making Gay History at New York Public Library
September 29, 2017
Download, Print and Explore Greenwich Village with the New Self-Guided Walking Tour
226-236 West 46th Street
Richard Rodgers Theater (originally Chanin’s 46th Street Theater)
May 28, 2019
Preserving Walt Whitman’s Clinton Hill house: Poet’s 200th birthday improves odds
November 6, 2022
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project honored with award for ‘making a once invisible history visible’
April 26, 2022
PHOTOS: Plaque Unveiled at Julius’ Bar, Commemorating History-Making Act of Civil Disobedience
March 24, 2021 | 6:30PM to 7:30PM
MAKING A KILLING: 34th Anniversary of ACT UP’s First Protest
June 7, 2016 | 7:00 - 8:30 P.M.
Making the Invisible Visible: Documenting NYC’s LGBT Cultural Heritage
June 28, 2022
Queer Landmarks Are Everywhere—and This Group Is Working to Keep Them In Plain Sight
124-130 West 43rd Street
Stephen Sondheim Theater (originally Henry Miller’s Theater)
1335 Sixth Avenue
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the Inner Circle Dinner at the New York Hilton Hotel
181-189 Second Avenue
Peter Hujar Residence & Studio / David Wojnarowicz Residence & Studio
170 West 130th Street
National Headquarters for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
November 26, 2019
Artist Georgia O’Keeffe and Writer Patricia Highsmith Added to Project Website
November 26, 2019
Manhattan Residences of Georgia O’Keeffe and Patricia Highsmith Published
April 6, 2018
An Urgent Effort to Document New York’s LGBTQ History Before It Disappears
350 Bleecker Street
Alma Routsong & Elizabeth Deran Residence / Arnie Kantrowitz Residence / Craig Rodwell Residence
February 28, 2019
Threat to Club Langston Underscores Risks to LGBT-Dedicated Venues in Brooklyn
August 18, 2022 | 12pm - 1pm
Exploring History and Advocacy at the People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park
Grand Central Parkway & 78th Avenue
Demonstration Against LGBT Harassment in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Tree Grove
January 16, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8 PM
WONDROUS TRANSFORMATIONS: Dr. Harry Benjamin & Transgender Medicine
16 East 8th Street
Founding of the New York Area Council of the Mattachine Society, Inc. at the Sam Morford Residence
220 West 43rd Street
New York Area Council of the Mattachine Society, Inc. at Avlon Studios
March 26, 2024
Awareness Campaign to Take Over Christopher Street Station for International Transgender Day of Visibility
April 1, 2024
Bernie Wagenblast, out trans ‘voice of the subway,’ rolls out podcast and visibility campaign
171 West 12th Street
Marion Dickerman & Nancy Cook Residence / Molly Dewson & Polly Porter Residence
11 Sites
Influential Black New Yorkers
...home to a significant portion of the Black LGBT community since the 1920s. These individuals spent all or part of their lives working during a racially segregated and homophobic era;... Learn More
November 3, 2017
Caffe Cino Recommended for State and National Registers of Historic Places
September 16, 2019
James Baldwin’s Home Is Now a Nationally Registered Historic Place
April 6, 2019 | 1:00pm-5:00pm
Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation, at Columbia’s Earl Hall
March 9, 2020
Forgotten but pivotal moment in gay-rights movement took place 50 years ago in NYC
September 28, 2019 | 1:00pm-2:30pm
OPEN Finance: Tour of the LGBT History of Greenwich Village
June 27, 2019 | 6:00pm-7:30pm
Tour & Toast in Celebration of Stonewall 50: Walk with the Experts Documenting the City’s LGBT History
June 24, 2019 | 6:00pm-7:30pm
Tour & Toast in Celebration of Stonewall 50: Walk with the Experts Documenting the City’s LGBT History
June 6, 2019 | 6:00pm-7:30pm
Tour & Toast in Celebration of Stonewall 50: Walk with the Experts Documenting the City’s LGBT History
May 18, 2020 | 6:15PM to 7:30PM
#DamesAtHome: Virtual celebration of Caffe Cino and the Birthplace of Gay Theater
May 28, 2019
A Gay Theater and James Baldwin’s N.Y. Apartment May Get Landmark Protection
2 Fifth Avenue
Larry Kramer Residence / Edie Windsor & Dr. Thea Clara Spyer Residence
8 Sites
Jackson Heights
...life centers on Manhattan, we are currently working on adding more sites throughout Queens to our website. If you have a suggestion, please fill out our online form. This theme... Learn More
11 Sites
Brooklyn Heights
...and sites of political activism. While much of New York City’s known LGBT history and life centers on Manhattan, we are currently working on adding more sites throughout Brooklyn to... Learn More
7 Sites
The Bronx
...we are currently working on adding more Bronx sites to our website. If you have a suggestion, please fill out our online form. This theme was made possible by the... Learn More
12 Sites
Staten Island
...Manhattan, we are currently working on adding more Staten Island sites to our website. If you have a suggestion, please fill out our online form. This theme was made possible... Learn More
15 Sites
Village Pride Tour
...Stonewall, all of which are included in a walking tour brochure that we produced in collaboration with the National Parks Conservation Association. See the overall map of Greenwich Village for... Learn More
1446 First Avenue
Founding of the Gay Activists Alliance at the Arthur Bell Residence
March 14, 2018
Earl Hall at Columbia University Listed on National Register of Historic Places
June 29, 2017
National Historic Designation of Staten Island’s Alice Austen House to Include LGBTQ Status
14 Sites
Jewish New York
...1881. LGBT Jewish New Yorkers featured in this curated theme mostly descended from working-class immigrant families and made a profound impact on the American arts scene, LGBT activism, and religious... Learn More
April 13, 2016
“Three Homosexuals in Search of a Drink”: The 50th Anniversary of the Sip-In at Julius’
13 Sites
Lesbian Life Before Stonewall
From Lillian Wald’s founding of a public health facility for the poor, to Berenice Abbott’s photographs of a changing city, to Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun,... Learn More
11 Sites
National Register Listings
...call out LGBT history. We are pleased to be working with the New York State Historic Preservation Office to ensure that the LGBT community’s contributions to American history are recognized... Learn More
West 42nd Street (between Eighth Avenue & Broadway)
Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Liberation Front, and Radicalesbians Demonstration Against Police Harassment at Times Square
135-139 West 31st Street
Father Mychal F. Judge at St. Francis of Assisi Church & Friary
7 East 7th Street
Picket at the Great Hall, Cooper Union, Second-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
4 St. Mark's Place
Tempo Playhouse / Key Theater / New Bowery Theater / Bridge Theater
39 Whitehall Street
Picket in Front of U.S. Army Building, First-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
April 26, 2018