Woodlawn Cemetery and the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project celebrate Pride Month with a special trolley tour illuminating LGBT permanent residents who have made a lasting impact on American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Join us as we share stories about love, loss, and relationships on our annual tour. We’ll visit the final resting places of Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, illustrator Joseph Leyendecker, theatrical agent Elisabeth Marbury, and photographer George Platt Lynes. Patricia Cronin’s well-known sculpture “Memorial to a Marriage” is a highlight of this tour. The tour will be co-led by Andrew Dolkart, co-director of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, and Susan Olsen, Director of Historical Services at Woodlawn Cemetery.

SOLD OUT. A second tour has been added at 2:00 PM — register here.

This in-person walking tour, led by experts at the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, highlights historic places that help contextualize the landmark 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn. Starting at Christopher Park, across from Stonewall, learn about the long-standing oppressive practices which led to the game-changing uprising. Stops along the tour will also highlight locations that have been especially impactful on the lives of LGBT people, including the starting point of the first-ever NYC Pride March (in 1970), popular gay and lesbian bars such as the Duchess and the Snake Pit, and places connected to the Mattachine Society (NYC’s first gay rights group), the Gay Activists Alliance, Radicalesbians, and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR). The tour will end at Julius’, site of the historic 1966 “Sip-In.”

The tour will last approximately 1 ½ hours and will take place rain or shine.

Advance registration required — $30 general admission; $20 student, with proof of student ID.

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Funded, in part, by grants from Consolidated Edison, New York Community Trust, and the New York City Tourism Foundation.

This in-person walking tour, led by experts at the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, highlights historic places associated with 20th century LGBT life and activism in and around Washington Square Park. We’ll visit the block of MacDougal Street, just south of Washington Square, that was once the cultural and social center of the Village’s bohemian set. We’ll also explore sites of activism and community, including the former homes of Larry Kramer, Edie Windsor, and Lorraine Hansberry, meeting places of the Salsa Soul Sisters and Gay Liberation Front, and performance spaces of the Spiderwoman Theater, co-founded by Muriel Miguel, and the Judson Poets Theater, one of the earliest Off-Off-Broadway theater groups. The tour will end in the West Village in the vicinity of Stonewall.

The tour will last approximately 1 ½ hours and will take place rain or shine.

Advance registration required — $30 general admission; $20 student, with proof of student ID.

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Funded, in part, by grants from Consolidated Edison, New York Community Trust, and the New York City Tourism Foundation.

Explore Pride beyond Stonewall and Greenwich Village! Guides from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project will make their way uptown for a special Upper West Side in-person walking tour, from Central Park to Riverside Park. Beginning at the Abraham Lincoln statue in front of the New-York Historical Society, this walk will visit historic sites such as the residences of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin and the Cuban-born 1950s gay rights activist Tony Segura; the Ansonia, which once housed the legendary Continental Baths; and The Dakota, once home to composer Leonard Bernstein, among others, and a prime example of the neighborhood’s long-standing connection to the performing arts. The tour will end at the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument in Riverside Park, at 72nd Street.

The tour will last approximately 1 ½ hours and will take place rain or shine.

Advance registration required — $30 general admission; $20 student, with proof of student ID.

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Funded, in part, by grants from Consolidated Edison, New York Community Trust, and the New York City Tourism Foundation.

Where did LGBT Hollywood stars like Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift get their start? Where were plays by Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and Tony Kushner premiered? And where did Lorraine Hansberry make African American theater history with her landmark 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun? Join co-director Jay Shockley, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project’s resident theater guru, for a virtual tour of the Broadway Theater District, ahead of the 2023 Tony Awards!

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The theater constitutes one of the city’s primary creative and economic forces, and the LGBT community has had a significant and disproportionate impact on the Broadway stage. This included the contributions of major LGBT performers, playwrights, directors, composers, lyricists, librettists, choreographers, and set, costume and lighting designers who created many of Broadway’s most iconic shows. Despite the New York Legislature-enacted Wales Padlock Law (1927) that made it illegal for theaters to show plays that featured gay and lesbian characters through 1967, some productions managed to get around this restriction and some became stage classics.

This talk highlights a fascinating history of Broadway, and the theaters themselves, seen through the lens of the LGBT community, beginning in the early 20th century.

Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village became known as a gay meeting place and cruising area from the late 19th century through the 1960s. Following the Stonewall uprising of 1969, it became a space associated with LGBT activism. Join the Project and Jeffry Iovannone for a survey of historical events that took place in the Park, as well as significant locations — former residences, bars and spaces for community gathering — in the surrounding neighborhood.

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Green-Wood Cemetery and the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project celebrate illuminating LGBTQ+ permanent residents who have made a lasting impact on American history and culture. Along the way you will visit the graves of “It’s Raining Men” co-writer, Paul Jabara; sculptor of the “Angel of the Waters” sculpture atop Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain, Emma Stebbins; and activists and founders of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, Drs. Emery Hetrick and Damien Martin, among others.

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Join our NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project co-director Andrew Dolkart for a virtual walk, in-the-field, discussing LGBT historic sites in Greenwich Village for Municipal Arts Society‘s 2023 Janes Walk events. Our 20-minute Instagram Live tour will explore Greenwich Village — sites of rallies and gatherings as well as bars and gathering places, and former residences of notable individuals. Learn about the LGBT presence in the Bohemian Village and hear about the places and people of the pre- and post-Stonewall LGBT civil rights movement and their lasting impact on American culture.

Follow the Project on Instagram and watch the live broadcast at @nyclgbtsites.

Our virtual tour anticipates ending at the NYC AIDS Memorial, pictured.

Trans lesbian activist and writer Leslie Feinberg is the subject of a new digital exhibition by friend of the Project, Jeff Iovannone. “Leslie Feinberg’s Buffalo,” organized via Cornell University’s Department of City and Regional Planning, documents and spatially maps historic sites represented in Feinberg’s award-winning novel, Stone Butch Blues, originally published in Ithaca, New York by Firebrand Books in 1993. Join Project co-director, Ken Lustbader, and Jeff Iovannone *live* on Instagram on Monday, April 24th, at 12:30PM EST as they discuss Feinberg’s legacy in Ithaca as well as New York City, and the important work of documenting place-based history.

More on the exhibition: Though often not read as such, Stone Butch Blues is a particularly spatial and geographic work. Feinberg based many of the novel’s locations, events, and characters on her own lived experiences coming of age in the factories and bars of Buffalo, New York. Stone Butch Blues can, therefore, be read as a map of Buffalo’s queer history, and Leslie Feinberg’s Buffalo makes apparent a geography hidden just beneath the surface of Feinberg’s text. The exhibition was made possible with funding from the Kermit C. & Janice I. Parsons Scholarship from Cornell University’s Department of City and Regional Planning.

Did you shop at Womanbooks? We’re sounding a “call for memories” from former customers and supporters with an informal memory-sharing meetup and recording session outside the former location of what was the second feminist bookstore in New York City. All are invited to meet Project manager Amanda Davis and our communications team outside 201 West 92nd Street where we’ll record (lo-fi on iPhones) your recollections of this important community space. Swing by for 10 minutes, say hi, share your story!

Open from 1975 to 1987, Womanbooks sold books written, published, and printed by women, many of which could not be found in mainstream bookstores, including many titles on lesbianism and female sexuality. The bookstore doubled as a women’s center where women could gather regardless of sexuality, race, or political affiliation.