📸 1️⃣ City Hall c. 2006 2️⃣ (L-R) R. Paul Martin, Steve Krotz, Jim Owles, and Arnie Kantrowitz, 1971, by Rich Wandel, courtesy LGBT Community Center Archive 3️⃣ GAA banner at City Hall, 1973, by Diana Davies, courtesy NYPL
Exterior of City Hall, c. 2006
(Left to right) R. Paul Martin, Steve Krotz, Jim Owles, and Arnie Kantrowitz at the Candlelight March to City Hall, held by GAA, Daughters of Bilitis, Radicalesbians, and Mattachine Society New York, June 1971. Photo by Rich Wandel. Courtesy of the LGBT Community Center Archive
Gay Activists Alliance banner at the demonstration at City Hall, April 1973. Photo by Diana Davies. Courtesy of The New York Public Library
In March 1970, Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) held its first picket at NY City Hall. 30+ members tried entering the building to meet Mayor John Lindsay over his failure to take a public stance against police harassment.
Learn more: bit.ly/gaa-cityhall
A 1998 flyer announcing the opening of the new facility noted that it was NYC's only health care center primarily serving the LGBT community and those living with HIV/AIDS. Read more via link in bio and at nyclgbtsites.org.
With the goal of becoming a primary care facility, CHP purchased, renovated and opened at 356 West 18th Street in March 1998. CHP then became the Michael Callen-Audre Lorde Community Health Center, named after singer and AIDS activist Michael Callen and Audre Lorde.
Courtesy Callen-Lorde
Courtesy Callen-Lorde
Courtesy Callen-Lorde
In response to the AIDS epidemic, the Community Health Project (CHP) formed in 1983 as a result of a merger between the St. Mark’s Community Clinic and the Gay Men’s Health Project. 📸 Courtesy @callen-lorde.org
More: bit.ly/callenlordel...
📸☝️ 1️⃣ Flamingo patrons, lc. 1974-81. © Josemar Ribeiro. Courtesy of the Michael Fesco Papers, NYU Fales Library & Special Collections 2️⃣ Michael Fesco and Norma Jean at Flamingo, c. 1974-81. Credit same as 1 3️⃣ Flamingo interiors, c. 1974-81. Source same as image 1 4️⃣ Exterior of 599 Broadway, c. 2017
Flamingo patrons, lc. 1974-1981. © Josemar Ribeiro. Courtesy of the Michael Fesco Papers, NYU Fales Library & Special Collections
Michael Fesco and Norma Jean at Flamingo, c. 1974-1981
Flamingo interiors, c. 1974-1981
Exterior of 599 Broadway, c. 2017
Flamingo became an instant gathering place for a new breed of gays who had just emerged: liberated, extremely sexual, devoted to and knowledgeable about current music, and confident of his/her role in NYC." — Felice Picano, “Bye Bye Big Bird,” Soho News, 1981
More: bit.ly/flamingo-lgbtq
“IT’S GREAT TO BE OUT AND PROUD.” Olympic diving legend Greg Louganis — born January 29, 1960 — came out publicly as gay in a pre-recorded welcome message shown at the opening ceremonies of Gay Games IV in June 1994, held at Columbia University’s Wien Stadium.
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Bayard Rustin and James Baldwin
This #BlackHistoryMonth, celebrate the stories and legacies of individuals at the intersection of the Black and #LGBTQ experiences. With the Project website as your guide, explore extant sites across the five boroughs that connect us to their lives.
More: bit.ly/filter-poc
📸☝️ Courtesy of Rick Landman
Original plans to include separate markers for specific groups of victims were scrapped, leading to a multi-year advocacy effort by the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah to successfully have the markers inscribed in 2012.
In 1997, a permanent memorial to the approximately 6 million Jews systematically murdered by the Nazis and the roughly 5 million non-Jewish victims was unveiled in Holocaust Memorial Park at the edge of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn (pictured). #HolocaustRemembranceDay
📸 Amanda leads a Pride-themed tour of Greenwich Village for New York Road Runners 4/4
The sole and founding staff member of #NYCLGBTQSites, she has been at the fore of NYC site-based heritage work and has consulted nationally.
Her appointment to the Latinos in Heritage Conservation board is a much-deserved confirmation of her commitment to amplifying diverse American stories. 3/4
Amanda is passionate about the connection of history to place. Across her work in municipal government, the private sector, and for nonprofits, Amanda has championed underrepresented histories. 2/4
Please join our co-directors in congratulating executive director Amanda Davis on being named to the Board of Directors for @latinoheritageus.bsky.social, the leading nonprofit dedicated to preserving Latinx places, stories, and cultural heritage in the US. 1/4
📸 1️⃣ Elisabeth Marbury in ball costume, 1905. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York 2️⃣ Exterior of 122 East 17th Street, Manhattan 3️⃣ 122 East 17th Street, c. 1900. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York
Elisabeth Marbury in ball costume, 1905. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York
Exterior of 122 East 17th Street, Manhattan
122 East 17th Street, c. 1900. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York
On January 22 1933, Elisabeth Marbury, a leading and pioneering female theatrical agent and producer, died. Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe (often credited as America’s first professional interior designer) were a celebrated lesbian power couple of Victorian New York.
More: bit.ly/marbury-dewo...
📸 1️⃣ Earl Hall, c. 2016; 2️⃣ Gay dance ad. Courtesy of Columbia University; 3️⃣ Earl Hall, c. 1905, Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York; 4️⃣ Project team at the March 2018 ceremony to unveil Earl Hall's National Register plaque.
In Jan 2018 our team successfully listed Columbia's Earl Hall on the NY State Register — significant on its own *and also* the first step towards the site being recognized and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (which came shortly after, in March 2018).
More: bit.ly/earl-hall
A biracial singer, male impersonator, activist, and bouncer, can you name the self-described “babysitter of my people” who called the storied Chelsea Hotel (22 West 23rd Street) home and was born #OnThisDate December 24, 1920?
Inset photo by JEB (Joan E. Biren)
Tony Pastor’s Downtown / Gay Community Center, 130 West 3rd Street
The Gay Liberation Front formed in 1969 after Stonewall, as did Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries in 1970.
These groups started the utopian Gay Community Center, located at 130 West 3rd Street in Manhattan.
More: bit.ly/gay-communit...
📸 Courtesy NYPL
A biracial singer, male impersonator, activist, and bouncer, can you name the self-described “babysitter of my people” who called the storied Chelsea Hotel (22 West 23rd Street) home and was born #OnThisDate December 24, 1920?
Inset photo by JEB (Joan E. Biren)
📸☝️ 1️⃣ Exterior of 1446 First Avenue on the Upper East Side, c. 2020 2️⃣ Arthur Bell. Photo by Rich Wandel. Courtesy of The New York Public Library 3️⃣ Some of the GAA founders, courtesy of Fred Orlansky 3/3
The focus of GAA was to be exclusively "the liberation of gay people." A radical, activist, non-violent gay rights organization, it was to operate democratically under Robert’s Rules of Order, and would not endorse political candidates. Read more at nyclgbtsites.org. 2/3
Arthur Bell. Photo by Rich Wandel. Courtesy of The New York Public Library
Exterior of 1446 First Avenue on the Upper East Side, c. 2020
The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was officially founded in December 1969, after a number of activists left the earlier-formed Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in order to form an organization that concentrated solely on gay and lesbian issues. 1/3
More: bit.ly/1446firstave
📸☝️ 1️⃣ Amato Opera Theater, c. 1951-1959. Courtesy of Donna Florio 2️⃣ 159 Bleecker Street, c. 2016, via CinemaTreasures.com 3️⃣ 159 Bleecker Street, 2023
Amato Opera Theater, c. 1951-1959. Courtesy of Donna Florio
159 Bleecker Street, c. 2016, via CinemaTreasures.com
159 Bleecker Street, 2023
Thank you to all who joined the Project last night for our final virtual program of the year — "'Homosexuals Are Different': Mattachine Society & LGBTQ Rights in the 1950s."
Full recording will be available on YouTube soon — subscribe now! 👇
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📸☝️ Advertisement for the Mattachine Society of New York with the headline “Homosexuals *Are* Different”
#DYK the first effective LGBTQ rights movement in the US began nearly 20 years before Stonewall with the founding of the Mattachine Society in 1951?
Join us 12/10 for “Homosexuals Are Different: Mattachine Society & LGBTQ Rights in the 1950s."
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