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The Center defended the move, stating that it "provides space for a variety of LGBT voices in our community to engage in conversations on a range of topics." [ 16 ] At the beginning of June 2011, the Center decided to place a "moratorium" on renting space to "groups that organize around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
GAPIMNY (formerly Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York) is an all-volunteer-run organization that provides a range of social, educational, and cultural programming for queer and transgender people who are Asian and/or Pacific Islander in the New York City metropolitan area to support each other. The organization's community building ...
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, [28] and on June 24, 2016, the Stonewall National Monument was named the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to the LGBTQ-rights movement. [8]
Brooklyn Community Pride Center was the first LGBTQ+ center in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.As of 2020, it remains the only LGBTQ+ center there. [1] [2]Erin Drinkwater served as executive director of the center from 2012 through 2014. [3]
Heritage of Pride (HOP), doing business as NYC Pride, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that plans and produces the official New York City LGBTQIA+ Pride Week events each June. [1] HOP began working on the events in 1984, taking on the work previously done by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee organizers of the first NYC Pride ...
The Ali Forney Center (AFC), based in New York City, is the largest LGBT community center helping LGBTQ homeless youth in the United States. [1] The AFC both manages and develops transitional housing for its clients. [2] AFC helps approximately 2,000 youth clients each year, primarily between sixteen and twenty-four years old. [3]
The mission of the New York Area Bisexual Network is to facilitate the development of a cohesive bisexual community in the New York Area. [1] The network promotes bisexual visibility , works to protect the bisexual community from discrimination and biphobia and assists and empowers the individual community members, their families and friends to ...
In 1985, with funding from the New York City Department of Education, HMI established the Harvey Milk High School, the first high school in the United States that specifically catered to LGBT students. [3] HMI directly managed the school until 2002/3, when it became a fully accredited public school managed by the New York Department of Education.