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Stonewall National Monument is a 7.7-acre (3.1 ha) U.S. national monument in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York City. [2] The designated area includes the Stonewall Inn, the 0.19-acre (8,300 sq ft; 770 m 2) Christopher Park, and nearby streets including Christopher Street, the site of the Stonewall riots of June 28, 1969, widely regarded as the ...
Plans to open the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center were revealed Thursday by Pride Live, a social advocacy and community engagement organization for the LGBTQ community. Set to become ...
The Stonewall Visitor Center will be located at the same site of the June 1969 uprising that is largely credited as a turning point in the modern gay rights movement.
The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement. [42] [6] [43] Greenwich Village again became important to the bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the Beat Generation focused its energies there.
The first National Park Service visitor center focused on teaching LGBTQ history will open right next door to New York City’s historic Stonewall Inn.
Stonewall was both the first LGBT cultural site ever added to the NRHP [167] [169] and the first official New York City landmark to be designated specifically based on its LGBT cultural significance. [291] [292] In addition, the Stonewall National Monument was the first U.S. national monument designated around an LGBT historic site.
On June 23, 2015, the Stonewall Inn was the first landmark in New York City to be recognized by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on the basis of its status in LGBT history, [18] and on June 24, 2016, the Stonewall National Monument was named the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to the LGBTQ-rights movement. [19]
The partnership comes ahead of the June 28 opening the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York City. The Visitor Center, which commemorates the Stonewall Rebellion and other ...