Project Update
May 13, 2016
Visiting SAGE Center Harlem
This afternoon we met with members of SAGE Center Harlem who shared their memories of historic sites in the community.HISTORIC SITES
645-647 Broadway
David Mancuso Residence / The Loft
From Valentine’s Day 1970 to June 1974, the Loft, one of the most influential underground house parties, operated out of… Learn More
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135-139 West 31st Street
Father Mychal F. Judge at St. Francis of Assisi Church & Friary
Father Mychal F. Judge was a Catholic priest at St. Francis of Assisi Church and lived in its friary from… Learn More
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City Hall Park
Gay Activists Alliance Actions at City Hall
The Gay Activists Alliance held a number of zaps and other actions in City Hall Park from 1970 to 1975… Learn More
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70 East 10th Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zaps at Saul Sharison Residence
On September 30 and October 3, 1971, the Gay Activists Alliance zapped the apartment building of Saul Sharison, chair of… Learn More
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180 Christopher Street
Gay Activists Alliance Community Demonstration / Zap at Christopher’s End
A large “Community Demonstration to Protest Syndicate Domination and Police Harassment of Gays” on Saturday night July 24, 1971, was… Learn More
EVENT RECAP
May 18, 2020 | 6:15PM to 7:30PM#DamesAtHome: Virtual celebration of Caffe Cino and the Birthplace of Gay Theater
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70 Beach Street
Park Villa II
Located in the former Liberty Theatre, Park Villa II (later On Stage), was a popular dance club during the 1980s… Learn More
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3202 Kossuth Avenue
Ronald I. Jacobowitz Residence
Bronx gay rights activist Ronald I. Jacobowitz, who lived in this apartment building from 1986 to 1994, co-founded Gay Men… Learn More
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141 Montague Street
Brooklyn Heights Press Offices
In July 1966, the homophobic policies of The Brooklyn Heights Press, then headquartered in this building, were the focus of… Learn More
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215-223 West 49th Street
Ambassador Theater
Opened in 1921, the Ambassador Theater has staged multiple productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including Mulatto by Langston… Learn More
Press Coverage
May 28, 2019
Preserving Walt Whitman’s Clinton Hill house: Poet’s 200th birthday improves odds
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170 West 130th Street
National Headquarters for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Beginning in the 1920s, this Harlem rowhouse was home to a number of important Black social and political organizations.
Most notably,… Learn More
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881 Seventh Avenue
Carnegie Hall: Studio Towers
The Studio Towers apartments were constructed atop Carnegie Hall from 1894 to 1897, a few years after the famed performance… Learn More
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43rd Street & Skillman Avenue
St. Pat’s for All Parade
In 2000, the inaugural St. Pat’s for All Parade took place in the historically Irish neighborhoods of Sunnyside and Woodside,… Learn More
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46-09 31st Avenue
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
From October 1995 until at least December 1999, Queens/SAGE, a social services and support group for LGBT senior citizens (unaffiliated… Learn More
EVENT RECAP
October 23, 2018 | 6:30pmCaffe Cino: Off-Off Broadway and On the National Register
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77th Street & Broadway
Guillermo Vasquez Corner
Guillermo Vasquez was a leading gay rights, AIDS, and Latino community activist in Queens who emigrated from Colombia in 1972.
Seventeen… Learn More
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Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Picket at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Fourth-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
On April 18, 1965, the fourth-ever gay rights demonstration in the United States – and the third in New York… Learn More
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215 West 92nd Street
Joan Nestle Residence
From 1974 to 2002, apartment 13A in this Upper West Side building was the residence of Joan Nestle, an influential… Learn More
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768 Fifth Avenue
The Plaza
The Oak Room in the famed Plaza Hotel off Central Park was a discreet meeting place for gay… Learn More
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99 Ryerson Street
Walt Whitman Residence
Walt Whitman and his family lived in this house when the first edition of his epochal first collection of poems,… Learn More
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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
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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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2 Fifth Avenue
Larry Kramer Residence / Edie Windsor & Dr. Thea Clara Spyer Residence
Author, playwright, and pioneering activist Larry Kramer resided in this Greenwich Village apartment for over three decades, until… Learn More
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103-17 115th Street
Frank Kameny Childhood Residence
Renowned gay rights pioneer Franklin (“Frank”) E. Kameny grew up in this semi-detached brick house from 1925 to 1948.
Kameny, who… Learn More
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208 West 13th Street
LGBT Community Center
Since 1983, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center has served as a vital support system for hundreds… Learn More
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Wall Street & Broadway / 11 Wall Street
ACT UP Demonstrations on Wall Street
Formed in New York City in 1987, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (more commonly known as ACT UP) brought… Learn More
