530 Sixth Avenue / 69 West 14th Street
Gay Liberation Front at Alternate U.
After the Stonewall rebellion in June 1969, the first LGBT activist organization formed was the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), in... Learn More
West 42nd Street (between Eighth Avenue & Broadway)
Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Liberation Front, and Radicalesbians Demonstration Against Police Harassment at Times Square
A peaceful Times Square protest over recent increased police harassment against the LGBT community in the Greenwich Village and Times... Learn More
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Gay Activists Alliance
The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was formed in December 1969 by Jim Owles, Marty Robinson, Arthur Evans, Arthur Bell, and others, who became disaffected by the Gay Liberation Front (GLF),... Learn More
99 Wooster Street
Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse
The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) formed in December 1969 and became the most influential American gay liberation political activist organization in... Learn More
296 Ninth Avenue
Church of the Holy Apostles
From 1969 to 1974, the Church of the Holy Apostles in Chelsea was one of the most important meeting places... Learn More
135 & 133 West 4th Street
Washington Square United Methodist Church & Parish House
The congregation of this former church was led by the pioneering, openly gay Reverend Paul M. Abels from 1973 to... Learn More
247 West 11th Street
Liberation House
In 1972, friends Leonard Ebreo and Alice Bloch co-founded Liberation House, an early post-Stonewall community center that provided health services... Learn More
1 Sheridan Square
Café Society / Ridiculous Theatrical Company
Café Society, what has been billed as New York’s first integrated club, featured many of the jazz giants and singers... Learn More
Washington Place, west of Sixth Avenue
NYC Pride March
New York City’s first ever Pride March was held on Sunday, June 28, 1970 (the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall... Learn More
99 Clinton Street
Gay Alliance of Brooklyn at Spencer Memorial Church
The Gay Alliance of Brooklyn was one of the first gay civil rights organizations established in New York City outside... Learn More
135 Charles Street
6th Police Precinct Station House
Following the March 1970 police raid on the Snake Pit, a nearby gay bar, 167 gay men were arrested and... Learn More
130 Stuyvesant Place
Richmond College
Housed in this office building, Richmond College, a division of the CUNY system that later became the St. George campus... Learn More
333 West 17th Street
Lavender Menace Action at Second Congress to Unite Women
“Lavender Menace” was an action led by Radicalesbians, with women from the Gay Liberation Front and several feminist organizations, at... Learn More
338 East 6th Street
Ellen Broidy & Linda Rhodes Residence / Rita Mae Brown Residence
From about 1967 to 1971, activists and then-partners Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes rented a fifth floor apartment at 338... Learn More
120 East 56th Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York Republican State Committee Headquarters
A Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) zap at the headquarters of the New York Republican State Committee in Midtown on June... Learn More
141 Prince Street
Daughters of Bilitis Center
The Daughters of Bilitis Center was the first exclusively lesbian center in New York City and one of the first... Learn More
2 Park Avenue
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at Harper’s Magazine Offices
The Gay Activists Alliance held a zap in the form of an all-day sit-in of Harper’s Magazine’s offices on October 27,... Learn More
65 Court Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York City Board of Examiners
The Gay Activists Alliance zapped the Board of Examiners, the agency responsible for the licensing of teachers, in downtown Brooklyn... Learn More
143-147 West 11th Street
St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan
Beginning in the early 1980s, under the leadership of the Sisters of Charity, an organization within the Catholic Church, St.... Learn More
Grand Central Parkway & 78th Avenue
Demonstration Against LGBT Harassment in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Tree Grove
In June 1969, a week before the Stonewall uprising, a group of local Queens residents formed a “vigilante committee” to... Learn More
1446 First Avenue
Founding of the Gay Activists Alliance at the Arthur Bell Residence
The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was officially founded in December 1969, after a number of activists left the earlier Gay... Learn More
June 16, 2020 | 6:30PM to 7:30PM
ZAP!: A Virtual Tour of Post-Stonewall Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Actions
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
May 28, 2019
A Gay Theater and James Baldwin’s N.Y. Apartment May Get Landmark Protection
April 14, 2019 | 2:00pm-4:00pm
“Stonewall 50” Tour of Greenwich Village, with the Municipal Art Society
October 12, 2018
Celebrate LGBTQ History Month with this interactive map of historic N.Y.C. sites
April 26, 2018
PHOTOS: LGBT advocates honor 52nd Anniversary of historic “Sip-In” with trailblazer Dick Leitsch and advocate/influencer Adam Eli
April 6, 2018
An Urgent Effort to Document New York’s LGBTQ History Before It Disappears
September 29, 2017