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“Harlem Pride, Inc. is honoring history with a new photo that recreates an iconic moment in LGBTQ, NYC, and American history: the April 21,1966 ‘Sip-In’ at Julius’ bar, in Greenwich Village. “The original image by Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah captures the moment that four gay activists with the Mattachine Society, one of the […]
“While Stonewall is widely considered the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement in the U.S., a lesser-known protest inside a Greenwich Village bar three years earlier helped lay critical groundwork for what would follow … Today, historians and advocates increasingly recognize the ‘sip-in’ as a key pre-Stonewall milestone. According to the New York City […]
“The Stonewall National Monument … [is] among 11 sites on this year’s annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States compiled by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. “The 2026 list, announced Wednesday, marks America’s 250th anniversary with the foundational principle that everyone is created equal as the theme, said Carol […]
The Art Newspaper covers the announcement of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “11 Most Endangered historic Places,” which includes Stonewall National Monument. Read the full article, here.
“Even with its Pride flag restored, New York City’s iconic Stonewall National Monument has been put on an endangered list of historic national places. “Not even its designation as the first U.S. national monument — and the only unit of the National Park Service — dedicated to LGBTQ history is enough to spare it from […]
“The 11 sites [include] the Stonewall National Monument – which is the country’s first LGBTQ National Monument – in New York City …” Read the full article, here. Photo: New York City officials reinstall a Pride flag at Stonewall National Monument following its removal by the US National Parks Service. Photo: Timothy A. Clary / […]
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States. Read the full article, here. Photo: People attend a ceremony where New York City officials re-raised the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village. Source: AFP/Getty, via The Independent.
The Manhattan site’s inclusion on the annual preservation list comes amid Trump’s increasing efforts to control the narrative surrounding LGBTQ+ history. Photo: At the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, the Trans Pride flag is seen on the “Gay Liberation” sculpture by George Segal. (photo Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic)
“A cheer rang out in Julius’ Bar on the evening of Tuesday, April 21, as New York City’s oldest continuously-operating gay bar commemorated the 60th anniversary of what is considered one of, if not the first, documented acts of civil disobedience in the modern movement for LGBTQ rights. “On the same night in 1966 — […]
Cross-publication of original reporting by The Forward, available here. Read the article on Haaretz.com. Photos: Exterior of the site of Eve Adams’ former tearoom, 129 MacDougal Street, in (l) 1939 and (r) 2016.
