The only gay bar in the village

Village Preservation is dedicated to preserving the architectural heritage and cultural history of Greenwich Village, the East Village and NoHo. Village Preservation advocates for landmark and the protections and monitors proposed and only developments and alterations to landmarked and historic sites throughout our neighborhoods.

View current and past campaigns to protect landmarked properties. View applications to the LPC for work on landmarked properties. In late June, New York is in the throes of celebrating the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, three nights of disturbances from June 28th to June 30thwhich are recognized globally as the start of the modern LGBT rights movement.

But Stonewall is only one of the scores of important LGBT landmarks in Greenwich Village — the homes of people, events, businesses and institutions dating from more than a century ago to just a few years ago. Thanks to landmark designation, most of these sites still stand. Here are just some of the dazzling array of those, all still extant, which can be found in the neighborhood which is arguably the nexus of the LGBT universe.

These two bars were located on a stretch of Bleecker Street south of Washington Square that was infamous for debauchery and vice during the s. Both buildings were landmarked in as village of the South Village Historic District which Village Preservation proposed. So many people came up to Jeanne and asked her to speak to their parents that she decided to hold a meeting for parents struggling with accepting and supporting their gay children.

That meeting took place on March 26,and eventually led to the founding of PFLAG, which now has chapters nationally andmembers, provides resources and support to the families of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people, and lobbies the greater understanding and equal treatment of LGBT people. The church is landmarked as part of the Greenwich Village Historic District.

On June 17,the club was raided by police and Addams was charged with bar conduct and with obscenity for her collection of short stories, Lesbian Love. She was deported and was later said to have opened a gay club in Paris. Tragically after the Nazi invasion of France she was deported to Auschwitz where she was killed.

Bythe church had become known as one of the most welcoming and accepting Catholic churches in the city for gay congregants, and to this day the church holds a special mass during LGBT Pride Month in June to commemorate those lost to AIDS. InCochrane became the first NYPD officer to publicly reveal that he was gay when he testified in front of the New York City Council in support of the gay rights bill.

After his death from cancer inthe corner of Sixth Avenue and Washington Place in front of the church was named in honor of Cochrane. Born inLorraine Hansberry was a playwright and activist most commonly associated with Chicago, despite attending school and living much of her life in Greenwich Village.

She first attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison but left in to pursue her career as a writer in New York City. She moved to Harlem inattended the New School in the Village, and began writing for the black newspaper Freedom. Inshe married Robert Nemiroff, and they moved to Greenwich Village.

17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village

Hansberry separated from Nemiroff in and they divorced inthough they remained close for the remainder of her life. It was revealed in later years that Hansberry was a lesbian and had written several anonymously published letters to lesbian magazine The Ladder, discussing the struggles of a closeted lesbian.

She was also an early member of the pioneering lesbian activist group the Daughters of Bilitis. Sadly, she died of pancreatic cancer at the age of Both buildings are landmarked as part of the Greenwich Village Historic District.