Foursquare City Guide: Informally known as the “Mayor of Castro Street”, Harvey Milk was omnipresent in the Castro once he opened Castro Camera at 575 Castro Street in 1973.
Foursquare City Guide: The shop was first owned and operated by Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician to be voted into public office. Originally opened in 1972, the building served as Milk’s office and residence.
Foursquare City Guide: Twin Peaks Tavern's floor to ceiling windows display all of the frivolities and fun happening inside. Rather than create another hideaway, the owners flaunted their pride and that of their patrons.
Foursquare City Guide: The park, a memorial to the LGBT men and women who suffered at the hands of the Nazi regime, is a reminder of the devastating effect that discrimination has on humanity.
Foursquare City Guide: GLIDE ministers formed the ecumenical Council on Religion and the Homosexual in 1964 and stood up to police who raided a dance benefitting the organization in 1965.
Museu de História · Castro · 14 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: On display are the pantsuits that Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon wore to their wedding when they became the first couple to wed when the state's high court legalized same-sex marriage in California.
Foursquare City Guide: June was chosen for LGBT Pride Month to commemorate the riots held by members of the LGBT community against a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn in New York City on June 28, 1969.
101 Avenue A (btwn 6th & 7th St.), Nova Iorque, NY
Casa Noturna · East Village · 46 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: This fixture of NYC nightlife in the late 70s and 80s was one of the first nightclubs to highlight drag culture. It featured performances by Madonna, Nirvana, and RuPaul.
7th Ave & Greenwich Ave (W 12th St.), Nova Iorque, NY
Parque · West Village · 7 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: This is a little park in the heart of the West Village. The AIDS epidemic deeply affected the NYC gay community in the 1980's. A memorial was created in this park to honor those who passed away.
208 W 13th St (btwn 7th Ave. & Greenwich St.), Nova Iorque, NY
Centro Comunitário · West Village · 33 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: This is a very active NYC LGBT community center. Check out their awesome events! While you are there, also take a look at the bathroom mural by Keith Haring.
Museu de História · University Village - Little Italy · 20 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: In 1889, Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr. Jane Addams was a U.S. Social Justice pioneer, an author, and a champion for those who lived on the margins of society.
Local Histórico e Tombado · Old Town Triangle · 2 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: This stone front row house was the home of gay rights pioneer Henry Gerber. In 1924, Gerber founded the first known homosexual rights organization in the U.S., the Society for Human Rights.
5635 S Indiana Ave (btw 56th St. & 57th St.), Chicago, IL
Parque · Washington Park · 2 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun was the first Broadway play written by a Black woman. She was the first Black playwright to win a NY Critics' Circle Award and a member of The Daughters of Bilitis.
3909 W Sunset Blvd (at Hyperion Ave), Los Angeles, CA
Restaurante Americano · Silver Lake · 39 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: Two years before Stonewall, The Black Cat was raided by police. Two patrons were so enraged they began The Advocate, a publication for the gay population of LA and the largest LGBT magazine.
Trilha de Caminhada · Silver Lake · 4 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: Harry Hay lived in a house adjacent to the stairs when he founded the Mattachine society in 1950, one of the first gay rights organizations in the U.S.
520 Chestnut St (btwn S 5th & S 6th Sts), Filadélfia, PA
Local Histórico e Tombado · Center City East · 203 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: Beginning in 1965, LGBT groups would picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to inform and remind the American people that LGBT people did not enjoy basic civil rights protections.
Foursquare City Guide: Dr. Kameny, LGBT activist and co-founder of the Mattachine Society, helped to overturn sodomy laws in the 1960s and eliminate homosexuality as a mental illness from the DSM.
Praça · Northwest Washington · 268 dicas e avaliações
Foursquare City Guide: October 14, 1979 - The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights takes place. It draws an estimated 75,000 to 125,000 individuals marching for LGBT rights.