By the Force of Our Presence: Highlights from the Lesbian Herstory Archives is curated by the Lesbian Herstory Archives Graphics Committee-Elvis Bakaitis, Flavia Rando, Ashley-Luisa Santangelo and Saskia Scheffer-and coordinated by the Center for Women’s History. Mellon Foundation predoctoral fellow in women’s history. Stonewall 50 at New-York Historical Society is collaboratively curated by Rebecca Klassen, New-York Historical assistant curator of material culture, and from the Center for Women’s History, Jeanne Gardner Gutierrez, curatorial scholar in women’s history, and Rachel Corbman, Andrew W. The exhibition begins with gay bars in the 1950s and 1960s continues through the rise of the gay liberation movement and the emergence of LGBTQ clubs as places of community activism. Serving as oases of expression, resilience, and resistance, LGBTQ bars, clubs, and nightlife spaces were hard-won in the face of policing, unfavorable public policies, and Mafia control. Letting Loose and Fighting Back: LGBTQ Nightlife Before and After Stonewall highlights the ways in which nightlife has been critical in shaping LGBTQ identity, building community, developing political awareness, and fostering genres of creative expression that have influenced popular culture worldwide. A grassroots organization established in 1974 in response to the widespread erasure of lesbian lives and voices, the Lesbian Herstory Archives houses the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians.The exhibition features photographs, books and manuscripts, periodicals, posters, flyers, and clothes.Ī special installation, Say It Loud, Out and Proud: Fifty Years of Pride, features imagery from New York City Pride marches and other LGBTQ protests from the 1960s to the present day, as well as a timeline of milestones and objects from LGBTQ history. Stonewall 50 at New-York Historical Society features two exhibitions and a special installation, as well as public programs for all ages.īy the Force of Our Presence: Highlights from the Lesbian Herstory Archives, curated by the Lesbian Herstory Archives Graphics Committee, highlights community-building, organization, and networking within the LGBTQ movement with a focus on the contributions of lesbians and queer women. This year Pride Island (formerly known as the Dance on the Pier) will move a little further uptown to a new location in Hell’s Kitchen at Pier 97, at 57th Street and the West Side Highway. What began as a commemoration quickly became one of the first steps in the broader gay rights movement in the United States.Īctivists Kay Tobin and Diana Davies were there to capture the very first parade and photograph those who bravely stepped out of the closet and into the streets.New-York Historical Society commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and the dawn of the gay liberation movement this summer, as New York City welcomes WorldPride, the largest Pride celebration in the world. One of the biggest parties after the Gay Pride Parade NYC is the Pride Island Festival starting from 2 pm until 10 pm. Only a year after the Stonewall Riots, in which patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, fought back against a police raid, the march was organized by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee to commemorate the riots.
Each years events commemorate the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 the beginning of the modern Gay Rights movement.
This spectacle marked the world’s very first Gay Pride March. Heritage of Pride is the non profit organization that plans and produces New York Citys official LBGTQIA+ Pride events each year. Marchers reportedly took up 15 city blocks. We don’t overpopulate,” and later hosting a sit-in in Sheep Meadow. Holding colorful signs, thousands of people gathered in Sheridan Square before walking along the Avenue of the Americas. Crews were cleaning up a large mess of trash left at a New York City park following Sunday's chaotic Pride event where at least eight people were arrested. On June 29, 1970, the headline of The New York Times’ front page read: “Thousands of Homosexuals Hold a Protest Rally in Central Park.”