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This curated collection highlights the many ways in which LGBT people have helped shape the built environment of New York City, from sculptor Emma Stebbins’s iconic Angel of the Waters statue in Central Park to the architectural designs of Philip Johnson and Paul Rudolph.

Other sites associated with public art and design include the murals of Keith Haring, works by visual artists such as Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz on the piers along the Greenwich Village waterfront, and the restoration of many sections of Central Park by landscape architects Philip N. Winslow and Bruce Kelly.

Gay men and lesbians have been particularly influential in the historic preservation movement, though ironically the preservation of LGBT historic sites is still rarely discussed in the profession; if you know of sites associated with significant LGBT preservationists please let us know.

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