HISTORIC SITES
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
HISTORIC SITES
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
EVENT RECAP
September 28, 2019 | 1:00pm-2:30pmOPEN Finance: Tour of the LGBT History of Greenwich Village
From Washington Square to Stonewall: A Walk Through the LGBT History of Greenwich Village. Join OPEN Finance and the experts... Learn More
Project Update
July 30, 2019
Our History Has Been Erased
LGBT history was made at Alternate U. On July 24, 1969, the first meeting of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) took place at Alternate U., a free counterculture and leftist organizing center located at 69 West 14th Street and Sixth Avenue. The significance of this site cannot be overstated: GLF Learn MorePress Coverage
May 28, 2019
A Gay Theater and James Baldwin’s N.Y. Apartment May Get Landmark Protection
HISTORIC SITES
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
EVENT RECAP
April 14, 2019 | 2:00pm-4:00pm“Stonewall 50” Tour of Greenwich Village, with the Municipal Art Society
Press Coverage
October 12, 2018
Celebrate LGBTQ History Month with this interactive map of historic N.Y.C. sites
HISTORIC SITES
53 West 19th Street
Gianni’s
Gianni’s was a popular, Mafia-run lesbian bar open from 1966 until 1975.
After it closed, three other lesbian bars, Casa Maria,… Learn More
HISTORIC SITES
149 West 14th Street
Kooky’s
Kooky’s, also known as Kooky’s Cocktail Lounge, was a lesbian bar that operated from 1965 to 1973.
After the Stonewall uprising… Learn More
Press Coverage
April 6, 2018
An Urgent Effort to Document New York’s LGBTQ History Before It Disappears
HISTORIC SITES
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
HISTORIC SITES
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
Project Update
September 29, 2017
New Historic Walking Tour at Stonewall National Monument Launches Today, Connecting the Public with LGBT History
HISTORIC SITES
130 West 3rd Street
Tony Pastor’s Downtown / Gay Community Center
Tony Pastor’s Downtown, in business from 1939 to 1967, was a mob-backed club with a mixed clientele but popular with… Learn More
HISTORIC SITES
215 West 10th Street
Snake Pit
In 1970, less than a year after Stonewall, the police raided the Snake Pit bar and detained many people at… Learn More
HISTORIC SITES
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
HISTORIC SITES
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
HISTORIC SITES
51-53 Christopher Street
Stonewall Inn
From June 28 to July 3, 1969, LGBT patrons of the Stonewall Inn and members of the local community took… Learn More
HISTORIC SITES
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
HISTORIC SITES
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
