"I'm standing across the street from Stonewall in Sheridan Square. Here I was, an 18-year-old kid living at the YMCA in a $6-a-night room with no job, no prospects for the future, no real place to ...

The sit-in at Dewey's, which occurred at a Philadelphia restaurant in the spring of 1965, is not as well known as the Stonewall riots, but it deserves wider recognition. On the evening of Sunday, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- If there's a notable event in Philadelphia's LGBTQ+ community, Mark Segal is there. "Today we're celebrating my good friend Jeff Guaracino," he said after stepping off a stage ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama created the first national monument to gay rights on Friday, designating the site of the Stonewall riots in Manhattan where the modern gay rights movement took ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village bar where resistance to a police raid sparked the modern gay rights movement, was made a city landmark Tuesday, the first time a site has been ...

The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, an award-winning initiative committed to documenting and presenting historic sites connected to the LGBT community throughout New York City, has announced the ...

They didn't set out to change history; they weren't the first LGBT Americans to mobilize against bias. Yet the June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, ...

Thursday marks the first day of Pride Week and what better place to celebrate than in NYC? The streets are steeped in over a hundred years of LGBT history, but besides the Stonewall Inn, many people ...

Understanding where we come from and where we've been is an important part of telling the human story. For LGBTQ+ people, those stories are often lost to time because of stigma, fear and shame. "Our ...

Like the song that goes, “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair,” I often tell my friends, half-jokingly, “If you are coming to New York, do three things: Meet ...