240 Centre Street
Gay Activists Alliance Protest at New York City Police Headquarters
1446 First Avenue
Founding of the Gay Activists Alliance at the Arthur Bell Residence
1335 Sixth Avenue
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the Inner Circle Dinner at the New York Hilton Hotel
67 Wall Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission
120 East 56th Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York Republican State Committee Headquarters
March 1, 2023
A proposed Prospect Park development could eliminate important LGBT historic site, advocates say
West 42nd Street (between Eighth Avenue & Broadway)
Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Liberation Front, and Radicalesbians Demonstration Against Police Harassment at Times Square
110 Livingston Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York City Board of Education
20 Sites
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
June 16, 2020 | 6:30PM to 7:30PM
ZAP!: A Virtual Tour of Post-Stonewall Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Actions
September 27, 2023 | 6 PM
Building Stonewall: Past, Present & Future, with Build Out Alliance
March 9, 2020
Forgotten but pivotal moment in gay-rights movement took place 50 years ago in NYC
March 2, 2023
Proposal to restore Prospect Park’s Vale faces criticism from LGBTQ+ advocates
350 Bleecker Street
Alma Routsong & Elizabeth Deran Residence / Arnie Kantrowitz Residence / Craig Rodwell Residence
April 26, 2022
PHOTOS: Plaque Unveiled at Julius’ Bar, Commemorating History-Making Act of Civil Disobedience
West 43rd Street (Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues)
Anti-Police Brutality Protest in Response to the Blue’s Bar Raids
March 30, 2023 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
“Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo,” with author Michael Schiavi
May 28, 2019
These Six NYC LGBTQ Historical Sites Are Being Considered for Landmark Designation
July 20, 2023
VIDEO: NYC Pride Grand Marshal reflects on being one of nation’s first gay rights activists
September 16, 2019
James Baldwin’s Home Is Now a Nationally Registered Historic Place
May 28, 2019
6 New York City LGBTQ landmarks might be created to keep the city’s queer history alive
June 16, 2021
Pride Month: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project ‘Making An Invisible History Visible’
September 29, 2017
New Historic Walking Tour at Stonewall National Monument Launches Today, Connecting the Public with LGBT History
20 Sites
Homophobia & Transphobia
...by forming organizations and protesting, picketing, and demonstrating across the city. A separate theme, Gay Activists Alliance, covers the numerous “zaps” that GAA organized to fight homophobia in the 1970s.... Learn More
April 6, 2019 | 1:00pm-5:00pm
Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation, at Columbia’s Earl Hall
24 Sites
Activism Outside Manhattan
...curated theme features the residences of LGBT activists, from community organizers, such as Bronx resident Ronald I. Jacobowitz and trans activists Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin in Brooklyn, to... Learn More
Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
Picket at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, Fourth-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
June 26, 2018
Place and Community: An Interview with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
June 23, 2020
“Marching for Pride: The Basics,” Fact Sheet for Pride March Anniversary, Released
October 17, 2023
‘Herstory’ walking tour highlights historic lesbian sites in the Village
November 22, 2022
Brooklyn Gets First LGBTQ+ Landmark With Designation of Lesbian Herstory Archives
April 26, 2022
Photos: John Cameron Mitchell & More Acknowledge Julius’ Significance to LGBT Activism & History
14 Sites
Transgender History
New York City has been home to a number of influential transgender activists who helped advance gay and trans equality, even as they had to fight for their own inclusion... Learn More
August 15, 2018
Elmhurst corner co-named for Latino activist added to interactive map of historic LGBT sites
220 West 43rd Street
New York Area Council of the Mattachine Society, Inc. at Avlon Studios
September 21, 2021
Women’s Liberation Center listed to National Register of Historic Places
June 22, 2021 | 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Saving 99 Ryerson: The Peculiar Problem of Landmarking Brooklyn’s Earliest LGBT Site
August 18, 2022 | 12pm - 1pm
Exploring History and Advocacy at the People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park
April 1, 2024
Trans Lives Matter: Celebrating international Transgender Day of Visibility with the MTA’s help
26 Sites
Hispanic Heritage
...increased in the 1960s and 1970s. Cuban-born Tony Segura, perhaps the earliest notable figure of this group, was among the most significant activists of the burgeoning LGBT rights movement in... Learn More
June 2, 2021
Residence of Lorraine Hansberry Listed to National Register of Historic Places
7 East 7th Street
Picket at the Great Hall, Cooper Union, Second-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
Grand Central Parkway & 78th Avenue
Demonstration Against LGBT Harassment in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Tree Grove
21 Sites
City of Immigrants
...city’s history and culture as entrepreneurs, artists, writers, and activists. This collection highlights sites associated with LGBT people who arrived in New York from all over the world during the... Learn More
June 25, 2020 | 6:30PM to 7:30PM
50 YEARS of PRIDE: Celebrating New York City’s First Pride March
April 21, 2020 | 6:00PM to 8:00PM
#StayHomeSipIn: Music, Cocktails & Conversation for the Julius’ “Sip-In”
September 28, 2019 | 1:00pm-2:30pm
OPEN Finance: Tour of the LGBT History of Greenwich Village
May 5, 2019
Project Consults on Upcoming Exhibition Highlighting LGBTQ Nightlife and Activism
April 14, 2019 | 2:00pm-4:00pm
“Stonewall 50” Tour of Greenwich Village, with the Municipal Art Society
18 Sites
1970s Lesbian Activism & Community
Lesbian rights activists in New York City worked to gain a voice, equal rights, and recognition within the Gay Liberation and Women’s Liberation movements, which emerged almost simultaneously in the... Learn More
April 6, 2018
An Urgent Effort to Document New York’s LGBTQ History Before It Disappears
11 Sites
The AIDS Crisis
...New York in the 1980s to raise awareness and fight for an end to the disease. This curated collection includes the residences of influential AIDS activists and artists, venues where... Learn More
11 Sites
Influential Black New Yorkers
This curated collection focuses on the former residences of influential “in the life” African-American writers, performers, and activists, most of whom were associated with Harlem, a neighborhood that has been... Learn More
April 10, 2024