HISTORIC SITES
1000 5th Avenue
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The first public zap by the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) occurred on April 13, 1970, in front of the Metropolitan… Learn More
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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
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67 Wall Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission
On September 25, 1972, the Gay Activists Alliance zapped the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission to protest its… Learn More
HISTORIC SITES
1 Centre Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York City Marriage Bureau
New York’s City Clerk Herman Katz became incensed over the publicity of a same-sex “illegal marriage” at the Church of… Learn More
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130 West 42nd Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at Fidelifacts of Greater New York
On January 18, 1971, the Gay Activists Alliance zap at Fidelifacts of Greater New York, in Times Square, highlighted that… Learn More
HISTORIC SITES
1260 Avenue of the Americas
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at Radio City Music Hall
The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) zapped a presidential campaign fundraiser for Mayor John V. Lindsay on January 25, 1972, after… Learn More
EVENT RECAP
June 25, 2020 | 6:30PM to 7:30PM50 YEARS of PRIDE: Celebrating New York City’s First Pride March
HISTORIC SITES
7 East 7th Street
Picket at the Great Hall, Cooper Union, Second-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
On December 2, 1964, the second-ever public demonstration for gay rights in the United States – and the first to… Learn More
HISTORIC SITES
39 Whitehall Street
Picket in Front of U.S. Army Building, First-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
On September 19, 1964, the very first public demonstration for gay rights in the United States took place outside the… Learn More
HISTORIC SITES
208 & 210 East 13th Street
Emma Goldman Residence & “Mother Earth” Office
Anarchist leader and immigrant Emma Goldman was the first prominent figure and ally in the United States to publicly speak… Learn More
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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
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206 Thompson Street
Portofino
Portofino, an Italian restaurant in the South Village that was frequented on Friday evenings by lesbians, was the meeting place… Learn More
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80 Fifth Avenue
National Gay Task Force Headquarters
The National Gay Task Force (later National Gay and Lesbian Task Force), the first national gay rights organization, had its… Learn More
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181-189 Second Avenue
Louis N. Jaffe Art Theater
The Louis N. Jaffe Art Theater, a former Yiddish theater, was the location of the Mafia-controlled 181 Club (1945-53), known… Learn More
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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
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1634 Broadway
Winter Garden Theater
Opened in 1911, the Winter Garden Theater has staged multiple productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including Vincente Minnelli,… Learn More
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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
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500 25th Street
Green-Wood Cemetery
Many LGBT individuals are buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, one of the most beautiful landscapes in America.
Here one can… Learn More
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2 Hylan Boulevard
Alice Austen House
Pioneering female photographer Alice Austen grew up in her family’s home where she later lived with schoolteacher Gertrude Tate, her… Learn More
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29 Washington Square West
Eleanor Roosevelt Residence
Between 1942 and 1949, this 16-story apartment building on MacDougal Street and Waverly Place was the New York City residence… Learn More
