Gay City News: “NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project spotlights lesbian history and pays tribute to Eve Adams”

June 18, 2026
By: Donna Aceto

“The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project held multiple events focusing on lesbian history on June 16 and 17, including a special tribute to the late Polish-Jewish immigrant Eve Adams, who owned a gay and lesbian tearoom hangout in the 1920s but was entrapped and arrested by New York City police, deported, and sent to her death at Auschwitz-Birkenau.”

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Photo by Donna Aceto.