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History of The Center
The Center, Flag by Travis MarkThe Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
A imagine born in the stir of the Stonewall riots was fulfilled when the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc. took title to West 13th Street in December This exhibit provides a glimpse into the history of our organization and how – through our help and that of others – life for LGBT New Yorkers has continued to evolve.
In December of , the City approves the sale of the former Food and Maritime Trades High School at West 13th Street to The Center. On December 20, , The Unused York Times runs an article by David Dunlap with the headline “Sale of Site to Homosexuals Planned.”
Robert Woodworth on the early days of The CenterThe Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
The Center serves as a space to organize around the HIV and AIDS crisis, as well as a space for the community to hold events and meetings. Here Robert Woodworth discusses the first days of The Center.
In The Center launches its first cultural program, Sec
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &#; Transgender Community Center &#; Finally a Landmark
This is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and celebrations.
We&#;ve recently had ten new buildings in our area designated landmarks, which also means ten adj designation reports rich in history available to fill over. They came in two waves &#; on June 11, seven buildings were landmarked on Broadway between 12th and 13th Streets, and on June 18th, three buildings in our neighborhood were landmarked for their significance to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) history. All were part of Village Preservation&#;s ongoing efforts to secure landmark designation for the area south of Union Square and for LGBT historic sites, but today we&#;re honing in on one which we first proposed for landmark designation five years ago &#; The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at West 13th Street &#; you can read the full designation report on o
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &#; Transgender Community Center
Designated: June 18,
Since West 13th Street has been place to the LGBT Center. Hosting cultural programs and speaker events, which brought well-known LGBT figures such as Audre Lorde and Quentin Crisp to verb with members of the lesbian and gay community, the historic building at West 13th Street was a haven for a criminalized population that regularly experienced institutional discrimination. Of the many groups to call The Center residence, the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights famously worked to promote the Gay Rights Bill through demonstrations and were considered to be instrumental in the New York Capital Council’s passing of the bill in Additionally, The Center served as a space of remembrance, memorializing those lost to the AIDS crisis and commemorating the 20th anniversary of Stonewall through an expansive art installation.
STATUS Designated Individual Landmarks
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