The Williams Building, 689-93 Mission St, was the national headquarters of the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis House of Walt Whitman from 1884 till deathġ05 West Main Street was The Downtowner, a gay bar, from 1975 to 1989 Jennie Hodgers, woman soldier who served in Union army, is buried at Sunny Slope CemeteryĮpiscopal church that hosted the first LGBT advocacy group in Missouri First recognized National Historic Landmark and National Monument. SE, Washington, DC, was the Phase 1, a bar for lesbian womenġ824 Half St., SW, Washington, DC, was the Pier 9 Bar, a disco for gay men In 1962, Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) bought apartment 9J in Building 7 of the Penn South Complex, West Chelsea, Manhattanĥ25 8th St. NW, Washington, DC, was the Nob Hill, a bar for African American gay men Home of civil rights advocate Pauli Murrayġ101 Kenyon St. Home of poet James Merrill and his partner David Noyes Jackson Julius’ Bar is the oldest gay bar in New York City and one of the oldest bars in the city in continuous operation Settlement house co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr Represented themes are also gay and lesbian rights Gittings' house was at 236 S 21st Street. House of the Furies Collective, a lesbian feminist separatist collective active from 1971 to 1973Īpartment of Henry Gerber, who founded the first gay rights organization.Ī section of Locust Street, Philadelphia, is named "Barbara Gittings Way" in Gittings' memoir. In 1985 a protest took place at this location with AIDS activists chaining themselves to the door of the building, asking for an increase in funding for AIDS-related research, social services, and medical care The Beaux Arts Cocktail Lounge was a club for gay men from 1947 to 1955 The Student Homophile League was the first gay student organization in the US, founded at Columbia University in 1966.Įdificio Comunidad de Orgullo Gay de Puerto Ricoįounded in 1974, also known as "Casa Orgulllo", meeting place for the first LGBT organization in Puerto Rico NW, Washington, DC, was the Clubhouse of the Metropolitan Capitolites, a social club for African American LGBTQ Washingtonians SE, Washington, DC, was the Cinema Follies, adult film theater for gay menġ296 Upshur St. Oldest continually-operating gay summer theaterģ7 L St. Gridley House, 37 Charlton Street, was Marianne Moore's childhood home
Lenient sentencing following his assassination in 1978 led to the White Night riots. Home and studio of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to win an election. The Castro Camera and the Harvey Milk Residence Oldest house in the gay town of Cherry Grove where Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's Historic sites Nameīirthplace of photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952) and later of her partner Gertrude Tate The National Park Service is amid an effort to chronicle LGBT sites across the nation, and have identified almost 400 of interest. They represent the achievements and struggles of the community and provide context to understand these events and people. It includes sites that are recognized at the federal, state, county, or municipal level as important to the history of the LGBT civil rights movement. The following is a list of LGBT historic places in the United States.