WALKING TOUR: Upper West Side

Celebrate Pride Month with NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project and LANDMARK WEST! on a stroll of the iconic Central Park West, from Columbus Circle to the American Museum of Natural History. We’ll uncover the LGBTQ history of The Dakota dating back to its construction in the 1880s, and highlight artists — from James Dean to Leonard Bernstein — who have called the Upper West Side home. The tour will include sites of post-Stonewall protest connected to Lesbian Feminist Liberation and the Gay Activists Alliance, two leading activist groups of the 1970s. We’ll also look at important spaces of community, including the site of a Gay Be-In in Central Park, where thousands of LGBTQ people marked the end of NYC’s very first Pride March, in 1970.

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This is an approximately 90-minute walking tour. All registrants will have use of a whisper-technology over-ear listening device. Tour meeting location is included in registration confirmation. Rain or shine. Proceeds of this tour are split equally to support both the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project (Celebrating 10 Years!) and LANDMARK WEST! (Celebrating 40 Years!).

Photo by Diana Davies, via New York Public Library.