June 23, 2020
“Marching for Pride: The Basics,” Fact Sheet for Pride March Anniversary, Released
220 West 43rd Street
New York Area Council of the Mattachine Society, Inc. at Avlon Studios
April 15, 2019
Leaders in LGBTQ History Documentation, Interpretation, and Outreach Create Stonewall 50 Factsheet
September 21, 2021
Women’s Liberation Center listed to National Register of Historic Places
March 26, 2024
Awareness Campaign to Take Over Christopher Street Station for International Transgender Day of Visibility
1446 First Avenue
Founding of the Gay Activists Alliance at the Arthur Bell Residence
April 6, 2018
An Urgent Effort to Document New York’s LGBTQ History Before It Disappears
November 5, 2018
Groundbreaking Study to Identify and Evaluate Historic LGBT Sites in NYC
April 10, 2019
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project Receives a 2019 Excellence in Preservation Award
149-155 Christopher Street
Village AIDS Memorial at St. Veronica’s Roman Catholic Church
April 26, 2022
PHOTOS: Plaque Unveiled at Julius’ Bar, Commemorating History-Making Act of Civil Disobedience
September 29, 2017
New Historic Walking Tour at Stonewall National Monument Launches Today, Connecting the Public with LGBT History
June 2, 2021
Interactive map reveals lesser-known landmarks in Queens’ LGBTQ rights movement June 29, 2020
16 East 8th Street
Founding of the New York Area Council of the Mattachine Society, Inc. at the Sam Morford Residence
November 21, 2022
WATCH: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project Receives Prestigious Trustees’ Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation
170 West 130th Street
National Headquarters for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
June 26, 2018
Place and Community: An Interview with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
April 26, 2018
PHOTOS: LGBT advocates honor 52nd Anniversary of historic “Sip-In” with trailblazer Dick Leitsch and advocate/influencer Adam Eli
March 14, 2018
Earl Hall at Columbia University Listed on National Register of Historic Places
17 Sites
Communities of Color
...collection highlights public spaces predominantly associated with LGBT people of color, with a notable concentration in the long-time Black mecca of Harlem. Please contact us at [email protected] if you know... Learn More
May 28, 2019
These Six NYC LGBTQ Historical Sites Are Being Considered for Landmark Designation
November 6, 2022
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project honored with award for ‘making a once invisible history visible’
135-139 West 31st Street
Father Mychal F. Judge at St. Francis of Assisi Church & Friary
350 Bleecker Street
Alma Routsong & Elizabeth Deran Residence / Arnie Kantrowitz Residence / Craig Rodwell Residence
October 12, 2018
Celebrate LGBTQ History Month with this interactive map of historic N.Y.C. sites
March 9, 2020
Forgotten but pivotal moment in gay-rights movement took place 50 years ago in NYC
August 15, 2018
Elmhurst corner co-named for Latino activist added to interactive map of historic LGBT sites
2 Fifth Avenue
Larry Kramer Residence / Edie Windsor & Dr. Thea Clara Spyer Residence
November 22, 2022
Brooklyn Gets First LGBTQ+ Landmark With Designation of Lesbian Herstory Archives
May 28, 2019
6 New York City LGBTQ landmarks might be created to keep the city’s queer history alive
March 1, 2019
With Bum Bum Bar Closed, Only Three Lesbian Bars Remain in New York City
23 Beekman Place
Katharine Cornell & Guthrie McClintic Residence / Paul Rudolph Residence
May 14, 2018
Project takes NYC’s LGBT history out of the closet, and into the spotlight
February 28, 2019
Threat to Club Langston Underscores Risks to LGBT-Dedicated Venues in Brooklyn
November 17, 2022
Testimony in Support of the Proposed Designation of the Julius’ Bar Building as a New York City Landmark
October 16, 2017
“Why We Are Marching:” Remembering the October 1979 March on Washington
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
October 17, 2023
‘Herstory’ walking tour highlights historic lesbian sites in the Village
March 1, 2023
A proposed Prospect Park development could eliminate important LGBT historic site, advocates say
24 Sites
Activism Outside Manhattan
...for LGBT rights in New York City. Activists living in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island formed community groups and organized pride marches and protests to counter homophobia and... Learn More
June 28, 2022
Queer Landmarks Are Everywhere—and This Group Is Working to Keep Them In Plain Sight
July 12, 2022 | 6:30PM - 7:30PM
The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
20 Sites
Gay Activists Alliance
...the first LGBT group formed right after Stonewall. Focused exclusively on “the liberation of gay people,” GAA became the most influential American gay liberation activist organization in the early 1970s.... Learn More
181-189 Second Avenue
Peter Hujar Residence & Studio / David Wojnarowicz Residence & Studio
39 Whitehall Street
Picket in Front of U.S. Army Building, First-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
7 East 7th Street
Picket at the Great Hall, Cooper Union, Second-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
Picket at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, Fourth-Ever U.S. Gay Rights Protest
September 16, 2019
James Baldwin’s Home Is Now a Nationally Registered Historic Place
January 16, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8 PM
WONDROUS TRANSFORMATIONS: Dr. Harry Benjamin & Transgender Medicine
February 5, 2024
Dozens of NYC’s LGBTQ historic sites in the spotlight for Black History Month
April 14, 2019 | 2:00pm-4:00pm
“Stonewall 50” Tour of Greenwich Village, with the Municipal Art Society
April 6, 2019 | 1:00pm-5:00pm
Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation, at Columbia’s Earl Hall
February 15, 2019 | 7:00pm-10:00pm
“Queer Quiz Show” with Making Gay History at New York Public Library
October 12, 2018
Celebrate LGBT History Month With a Special Trolley Tour of Green-Wood Cemetery
October 19, 2017
Call for Papers: Co-director to guest edit scholarly journal’s LGBTQ heritage edition
May 28, 2019
A Gay Theater and James Baldwin’s N.Y. Apartment May Get Landmark Protection
August 18, 2022 | 12pm - 1pm
Exploring History and Advocacy at the People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park
April 26, 2022
Photos: John Cameron Mitchell & More Acknowledge Julius’ Significance to LGBT Activism & History
June 22, 2021 | 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Saving 99 Ryerson: The Peculiar Problem of Landmarking Brooklyn’s Earliest LGBT Site
June 16, 2021
Pride Month: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project ‘Making An Invisible History Visible’
June 29, 2021 | 6:00PM to 7:30PM
From the Queen City to the Big Apple: LGBTQ Historical Connections in WNY and NYC
June 2, 2021
Residence of Lorraine Hansberry Listed to National Register of Historic Places
June 25, 2020 | 6:30PM to 7:30PM
50 YEARS of PRIDE: Celebrating New York City’s First Pride March
12 Sites
Why We March
Since the late 1960s, LGBT New Yorkers have organized marches of various kinds to promote pride and visibility, protest against exclusion and discrimination. and unite as a community in public... Learn More
170 Central Park West
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman (Lord Cornbury), New-York Historical Society
1335 Sixth Avenue
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the Inner Circle Dinner at the New York Hilton Hotel
Grand Central Parkway & 78th Avenue
Demonstration Against LGBT Harassment in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Tree Grove
March 8, 2016
Bayard Rustin Residence Listed on the National Register of Historic Places!
June 7, 2016 | 7:00 - 8:30 P.M.
Making the Invisible Visible: Documenting NYC’s LGBT Cultural Heritage
April 12, 2016 | 6:30 - 8:00 P.M.
“Three Homosexuals in Search of a Drink”: The 50th Anniversary of the Sip-In at Julius’
June 16, 2015
Sites of Resistance: Mapping LGBTQ History with New York City Preservationists
11 Sites
The AIDS Crisis
...end to the disease. This curated collection includes the residences of influential AIDS activists and artists, venues where fundraising events were held, and meeting and demonstration locations of AIDS organizations.... Learn More
18 Sites
1970s Lesbian Activism & Community
...continuing that association into the following decades. Also included is the NYC Dyke March, which, while started in the 1990s, connects back to the early days of organized lesbian-focused activism.... Learn More
21 Sites
City of Immigrants
...from all over the world during the 19th and 20th centuries. It also includes still-operating institutions and organizations that were founded by American-born LGBT New Yorkers to assist immigrant populations.... Learn More