LGBTQ History in the East Village (walking tour)

Join experts from the award-winning NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project for an LGBTQ walking tour of the East Village. Learn how the neighborhood, shaped by economic forces, became home to some of the most influential LGBTQ artists, writers, activists, and clubs beginning in the 1950s.

Historically part of the Lower East Side, the East Village became a counter-cultural and avant-garde haven that included many LGBTQ figures, from poet Allen Ginsberg to drag queen Ethyl Eichelberger. Its affordable housing drew the likes of young lesbian activist Ellen Broidy, co-planner of the first NYC Pride March (1970), and gay “musical host” David Mancuso, whose egalitarian underground house parties influenced the city’s club scene, including the Saint.

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This 90-minute walking tour will begin in front of architect Louis Sullivan’s Bayard-Condict Building, 67 Bleecker Street (pictured). Rain or shine.

Events are funded, in part, by grants from the New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and New York City Tourism Foundation.