New York City has one of the largest LGBT populations in the world and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, author of Frommer's New York City of $ 90 a Day, writes that the city has "one of the world's largest, hardest, and strongest" LGBT "communities" and "Gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, multi-storey buildings and Broadway theaters. "LGBT America in New York City is the largest significant margin that identifies itself l esbian, g ay, b the reksgender iseksual community and t in the United States, and the 1969 Stonewall Riot in Greenwich Village is widely regarded as the origin of modern gays. In 2005, New York City was home to about 272,493 homosexual and gay sexual individuals who identified themselves. In the New York City metropolitan area is estimated to have 568,903 GLB residents identifying themselves. Meanwhile, New York City is also home to the largest transgender population in the United States, estimated at 25,000 by 2016.
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History as a gay metropolis
Charles Kaiser, author of The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in the United States, writes that in the post-World War II era, "New York City became a literal gay metropolis for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from within and without America States: the place they choose to learn how to live openly, honestly and unabashedly. "
Stonewall Inn
The Stonewall Inn, located at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, along with several other places in the city, is owned by the criminal family of Genovese. In 1966, three Mafia members invested $ 3,500 to turn Stonewall Inn into a gay bar, after which it became a restaurant and nightclub for heterosexuals. Once a week, a police officer will collect a cash envelope in return; Stonewall Inn does not have a liquor license. There was no running water behind the bar - the glass used was run through the tub and immediately reused. There was no fire exit, and the toilet ran consistently. Although bars are not used for prostitution, drug sales and other "cash transactions" occur. It is the only bar for gay men in New York City where dancing is allowed; dancing is the main draw since the re-opening as a gay club.
Visitors to the Stonewall Inn in 1969 were greeted by a bouncer who checked them through the peephole at the door. The legal drinking age is 18 years, and to avoid unconsciously allowing undercover cop (called "Lily Law", "Alice Blue Gown" or "Betty Badge"), visitors should be recognized by the doorman, or gay. The entry fee on weekends is $ 3, where the customer receives two tickets that can be redeemed for two drinks. Coaches are asked to sign their names in a book to prove that the bar is a "bottle club" personally, but rarely sign their real names. There are two dance floors at Stonewall; the interior is painted black, making it very dark inside, with a pulsating gel lamp or black light. If the police are visible, ordinary white lights are turned on, indicating that everyone should stop dancing or touching. Behind the bar is a smaller space frequented by " queens "; it's one of two bars where a sissy man who wears makeup and teases their hair (though wearing men's clothes) can leave. Only a few transvestites, or men with obstacles, were allowed in by the guards. Customers are "98 percent male" but some lesbians sometimes come to the bar. Younger homeless young men, who sleep in Christopher Park nearby, often try to get in so that customers will buy them drinks. Client age ranges between upper teens and early thirties, and racial mixes are distributed evenly among white, black, and Hispanic customers. Because even the mix of people, its location, and the attraction of dancing, the Stonewall Inn is known by many as the "gay boutique" in the city. "
Police attack gay bars often happen, on average once a month for each bar. Many bars store extra liquor in the secret panel behind bars, or in cars on the lower blocks, to facilitate starting business as soon as possible if alcohol is confiscated. The bar management usually knows about the previous raids because of tip-off cops, and the raids occur quite early in the night so business can start after the police finish. During normal attacks, the lights are turned on, and customers are lined up and their identity cards checked. Those without an identity or full dress were arrested; others are allowed to leave. Some men, including the protracted ones, use their concept cards as identification. The women were asked to wear three pieces of feminine clothing, and would be arrested if they did not wear them. Employees and bar management are also usually arrested. The period before June 28, 1969, was marked by the frequent raids of local bars - including attacks on the Stonewall Inn on Tuesday before the riot - and the closing of Checkerboard, Tele-Star, and two other clubs in Greenwich Village.
On June 23, 2015, Stonewall Inn was the first landmark in New York City to be recognized by the New York City Landmark Conservation Commission based on its status in LGBT history, and on June 24, 2016, the Stonewall National Monument was named the first US National Monument dedicated to the rights movement LGBTQ.
Stonewall riot
Police stormed
At 1:20 am on Saturday, June 28, 1969, four plainclothes officers in dark suits, two uniformed patrol officers, and Detective Charles Smythe and Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine arrived at the Stonewall Inn double doors and announced "Police! We take the place!" Stonewall's employees do not remember being told that the raid happened that night, as was his habit. According to Duberman (p.194), there are rumors that that might happen, but because it's much slower than the general attack, Stonewall's management thinks the tip is not accurate. A few days after the attack, one of the bar owners complained that the tipoff never came, and that the attack was ordered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, who declined that no stamps on liquor bottles, suggesting alcohol is bootlegged.
Historian David Carter presents information indicating that Stonewall Mafia owners and managers are extorting wealthier customers, especially those working in the Financial District. They seem to make more money from blackmail than from the sale of liquor at the bar. Carter concluded that when the police were unable to accept bribes from extortion and the theft of negotiable bonds (facilitated by pressing Wall Street gay customers), they decided to permanently close the Stonewall Inn. Two undercover female police officers and two undercover cops had entered the bar last night to collect visual evidence, as the Public Moral Squad waits outside for a signal. Once inside, they asked for help from Sixth Precinct using a pay phone in the bar. The music is turned off and the main light is turned on. About 205 people were in the bar that night. A coach who has never experienced a police attack is confused. Some who realized what was happening started running for the doors and windows in the bathroom, but the police banned the door. As Michael Fader remembers,
Everything happens so fast that you are not caught. Suddenly there was a policeman there and we were told to all go in line and order our identity ready to be taken out of the bar.
The attack did not go as planned. The standard procedure is to accompany the patrons, check their identification, and ask the female police officers to bring customers dressed as women to the bathroom to verify their gender, where every man dressed as a woman will be arrested. Those who dressed like ladies that night refused to go with the officers. The queue men began refusing to produce their identification. The police decided to bring everyone present to the police station, after separating the cross-dressing in a room behind the bar. Maria Ritter, then known as Steve in his family, recalled, "My biggest fear is that I will be arrested, my second greatest fear is that my photo will be in the newspaper or in the television report with my mother's clothes!" Both patrons and police recalled that discomfort spread very quickly, triggered by police who began attacking lesbians by "feeling some of them inappropriately" while searching them.
Transgender contribution
The transgender community in New York City played an important role in fighting for LGBT equality during the Stonewall Riot period and thereafter. However, until the Stonewall riots, the community felt marginalized and ignored by the gay community. Over the next few decades and especially since the beginning of the 21st century, the transgender community of New York City has grown in size and prominence, reaching about 25,000 by 2016.
State of New York official LGBT monument
On June 25, 2017, New York City Pride March Day celebrations, New York City Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that artist Anthony Goicolea had been selected to design the first official monument to LGBT individuals assigned by the State of New York - instead to Stonewall National Monument commissioned by the US federal government. The State Monument is planned to be built at Hudson River Park in Manhattan, near the seafront Hudson wharf that has served as a significant historical symbol of New York's role as a meeting place and a safe haven for the LGBT community.
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Demography and economy
Population and concentration
The city of New York is thought to have been home to more than 270,000 gay and bisexual individuals who identify themselves, higher than the combined San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Economic influence
Lonely Planet New York City states that from demographics, LGBT populations of cities have "one of the largest disposable income", including professionals including doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, financiers and journalists, as well as is in the entertainment industry, fashion design, and realty. In contrast, New York City is also a very popular LGBT destination, and the city is actively a place for LGBTQ tourism.
Gay Village
Manhattan
Chelsea in Manhattan has become a focal point of gay socialization. Christopher Street area in the West Village Village section of Greenwich Village in Manhattan is the historic center of gay life in New York City and continues to be a cultural center for LGBT experiences. The East Village/Lower East Side area of ​​Manhattan is also a gayborhood. Hell's Kitchen and Morningside Heights is an additional Manhattan neighborhood that has developed a significant LGBT presence.
Greenwich Village
The Manhattan Greenwich Village and Harlem neighborhoods were home to a large homosexual population after World War I, when men and women who served in the military took advantage of the opportunity to settle in big cities. The gay and lesbian pockets, described by a newspaper story as "short haired woman and long-haired man", developed a different subculture over the next two decades. Prohibition inadvertently benefits gay establishments, since drinking alcohol is driven underground along with other behaviors that are considered immoral. New York City passed legislation against homosexuality in public and private business, but because alcohol was in great demand, speakeasies and impromptu stances were numerous and in the meantime the authorities were not able to supervise them all.
As urban gay bohemia
The social oppression of the 1950s resulted in a cultural revolution in Greenwich Village. A group of poets, later named Beat poems, wrote about the evils of social organization at the time, glorifying anarchy, medicine, and hedonistic pleasures for unquestioned social obedience, consumerism, and closed minds. Among them, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs - both Greenwich Village residents - also wrote frankly and honestly about homosexuality. Their writings attract the sympathy of liberal-minded people, as well as homosexuals seeking community.
Strife in 1960
In the early 1960s, a campaign to remove New York City's gay bars was fully enforced on the orders of Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who was concerned about the city's image in preparation for the 1964 World Exposition. The city lifted liquor licenses from bars, and undercover police officers work to trap as many homosexual men as possible. The trap usually consists of an undercover officer who finds a man in a bar or a public park, engaging him in conversation; if the talks lead to the possibility that they might go together - or the officer bought him a drink - he was arrested on demand. One story in the New York Post described the arrest in the gym locker room, where the clerk grabbed his crotch, groaned, and a man asked if he was okay to be arrested. Some lawyers will defend such unwanted cases, and some of the lawyers kick back their fees to the arresting officer.
Mattachine community managed to get newly elected Mayor John Lindsay to end a police trap campaign in New York City. They have a more difficult time with the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA). While there is no law prohibiting homosexual service, the court allows the SLA policy to approve and revoke liquor licenses for businesses that may become "irregular". Despite the high gay and lesbian populations called Greenwich Village homes, very few places exist, other than bars, where they can gather openly without being harassed or captured. In 1966, New York Mattachine held a "sip-in" at a Greenwich Village bar called Julius, frequented by gay men, to describe the homosexual discrimination encountered.
None of the bars frequented by gays and lesbians were owned by gay people in the 1960s. Almost all of them are owned and controlled by organized crime, which treats customers badly, dilutes liquor, and excessively drinks. However, they also paid off the police to prevent frequent raids.
Modern history
Greenwich Village contains the world's oldest gay and lesbian bookstore, the Oscar Wilde Bookshop, founded in 1967 but permanently closed in 2009 on the grounds of a recession and the rise of online booksellers. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & amp; Transgender Community Center - best known simply as "Center" - has occupied the former Food & amp; Maritime Trades High School at 208 West 13th Street since 1984. In 2006, Village was the scene of an attack involving seven lesbians and a straight man who sparked considerable media attention, with strong statements both defending and attacking the parties. In June 2015, thousands of people gathered in front of the Stonewall Inn to celebrate a decision by the US Supreme Court confirming same-sex marriage in all fifty US states, while in June 2016, thousands gathered together in an effort to slaughter the Orlando Pulse Nightclub. In February 2017, thousands of people protested at the Stonewall National Monument against the proposed policy of US president Donald J. Trump's administration affecting both LGBTQ individuals and international immigrants, including those holding the crossroads of these identities.
Chelsea
Chelsea is one of the most gay neighborhoods in New York City. In the 1990s, many gay people moved to the Chelsea neighborhood of the Greenwich Village neighborhood as a cheaper alternative; after this move, house prices at Chelsea have increased dramatically to rival West Village Village Greenwich area.
Hell's Kitchen
The same gentrification phenomenon in Greenwich Village that created gay orientation in Chelsea in turn gave birth to a new gay mecca in the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in West Side of Midtown Manhattan downtown, or north, at Chelsea, when gentrification has taken place. Chelsea itself. The Metropolitan Community Church of New York, directed to the LGBT community, is located in Hell's Kitchen.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is home to many same-sex couples. Same-sex marriage in New York is legalized on June 24, 2011 and authorized to begin 30 days thereafter. The Park Slope environment pioneered the popularity of Brooklyn among lesbians, and Prospect Heights has an LGBT housing presence. Many settlements have become home to the LGBT community.
Queens
Astoria features emerging LGBT presence. Queens is also a destination for LGBT individuals who out of expensive housing in Brooklyn.
NYC LGBT Project Historic Site
The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project charts the history of LGBT NYC, the environment by the environment; placing LGBT history of the city in a geographical context. Its interactive map shows important environmental sites for the history of NYC LGBT in areas such as art, literature, and social justice, in addition to important meeting rooms, such as bars, clubs and community centers.
Elsewhere in the New York City metropolitan area
As the LGBTQ community has achieved higher socioeconomic status and greater political influence for decades, it has moved beyond the New York City limits and spread throughout the New York City metropolitan area. Westchester County in particular has spawned several gay villages simultaneously with hipster villages, especially in Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown. Fire Island is the largest gay enclave on Long Island, followed by The Hamptons. Gayborhoods also appear across the Hudson River from Manhattan in the state of New Jersey, USA, in Asbury Park, Maplewood, Montclair, and Lambertville.
Politics
Politics in New York City is especially liberal. Rosenberg and Dunford argue that this political point of view is historically "generally beneficial to the gay community".
In New York City, the New York City Republican political government is active against LGBT voters. LGBT voters were 3.4% of New York City voters in 1989.
In the mid-1970s, LGBT participation in New York City politics began. At the election of Mayor of New York City 1977, Edward Koch was the preferred candidate; There is speculation that Koch is secretly a homosexual. However, Koch was associated with religious leaders who opposed homosexuality and did not pass the LGBT civil rights bill, and therefore in 1981, Frank Barbaro became a favored candidate by LGBT political groups. In 1985 the selection of Koch's mayor almost had no support; Donald P. Haider-Markel, author of the Gay and Lesbian Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook, wrote that "the action on AIDS Koch appears to be inadequate". At the 1989 mayoral election, David Dinkins received support from the LGBT community. Since then, every mayor has received support from the LGBT community, including Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg.
Jimmy Van Bramer, Majority Leader of the New York City Council in 2017, is a gay politician from Queens who has served on the City Council for over six years. Van Bramer is one of seven LGBT members open from the New York City Council in 2017, with Rosie Mendez, Corey Johnson, Ritchie Torres, James Vacca, Daniel Dromm and Carlos Menchaca. Christine Quinn served as Chairman of the New York City Council between 2006 and 2013. Carlos Menchaca is also the first Mexican member of the New York City Council to be elected in November 2013.
Institution
New York City published his book LGBTQ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & amp; Queer Service and Resource Guide .
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & amp; The Transgender Community Center is located on West 13th Street in West Village, Lower Manhattan.
Service & amp; Advocacy for Elders GLBT (SAGE) is the largest and oldest organization in the country dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. SAGE is located at 305 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor of NYC, NY 10001. SAGE has grown throughout New York City, with additional centers now located in Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.
The Bronx Arts and Dance Academy is a New York performing arts and performance workshop located in The Bronx. Founded in 1998 by Arthur Aviles, dancer and choreographer who performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Charles Rice-Gonzales, a writer, LGBT activist and publicist. Focuses on works that explore the Latino and LGBTQ cultural margins. Courses in BAAD! consisting of dancers, LGBTQ visual artists, women, and color artists.
Public Service Bureau - Queer Division (BGSQD) is a strange cultural center, bookstore, and event space hosted by The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & amp; Transgender Community Center in New York City.
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (LLM) is located in Manhattan.
Lambda Legal is headquartered in New York City.
The Lesbian Herstory Archives is located in a townhouse in Brooklyn. It has 12,000 photos, over 11,000 books, 1,300 regular titles, and 600 videos. There are also thousands of other miscellaneous items.
The Bronx Community Pride Center was previously located in the Bronx. The city government has funded non-profit organizations. Lisa Winters, who headed the agency from 2004 to 2010, had stolen $ 143,000 from the agency; he was finally fired. He was convicted of stealing funds and abusing someone else's credit cards. In April 2013 he received prison sentences of two concurrent periods, two to six years each. Winters washing led to the closing of the agency.
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New York City Pride March
The annual pride of New York City March crosses south of Fifth Avenue and ends at Greenwich Village. The New York City Pride March rival Sao Paulo Gay Pride Parade as the world's largest pride parade, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of street viewers every June. The march passed the Stonewall Inn site on Christopher Street, the scene of the 1969 police raid that launched the modern LGBT rights movement.
Parades, rallies, PrideFest (festivals), and Dance on the Pier are Pride Week's premier event in New York City's LGBT Pride Week. Since 1984, Heritage of Pride (HOP) has been a proud producer and organizer in New York City.
History of the New York City Pride parade
On Saturday morning, June 28, 1969, gay individuals (LGBT) rioted following a police strike at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on 53 Christopher Street, in West Village of Lower Manhattan. This unrest and further protests and riots over the following nights were a pivotal moment in the modern LGBT Rights Movement and the drive to organize LGBT pride parades on a much larger public scale.
On November 2, 1969, Craig Rodwell, his colleague Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Linda Rhodes proposed the first pride march to be held in New York City by resolution at the Eastern Conference Regional Organization Homophile (ERCHO) in Philadelphia.
In order for the Annual Reminder, to be more relevant, reach more people, and embrace the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are involved - that our fundamental human rights-are transferred in both time and location.
We propose that a demonstration be held every year on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstration at Christopher Street and this demonstration is called CHRISTOPHER LIREATION DAY. No rules of clothing or age should be made for this demonstration.
We also propose that we contact the Homophile organization across the country and suggest that they hold parallel demonstrations on that day. We propose national support.
All ERCHO meeting attendees in Philadelphia voted for a rally except the Mattachine Society of New York, which abstained. Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) attended the meeting and sat as guests of the Rodwell Group, the Homofil Youth Movement in the Environment (HYMN).
The meeting to organize the parade began in early January at Rodwell's apartment at 350 Bleecker Street. Initially there was difficulty getting some of New York's main organizations such as Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) to send representatives. Craig Rodwell and colleagues Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael Brown, Marty Nixon, and Foster Gunnison from Mattachine form the core group of CSLD Umbrella Committee (CSLDUC). For the initial funding, Gunnison serve as treasurer and seek donations from organizations and sponsors national homophile, while Sargeant asking for donations via a mailing list of customers from Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop and Nixon worked to get financial support from the GLF in his position as treasurer for the organization. Other mainstays of the organizing committee is Judy Miller, Jack Waluska, Steve Gerrie, and Brenda Howard of the GLF. To believe that the more people who will line up on Sunday, and to mark the date of commencement of the Stonewall uprising, CSLDUC schedule a date for the first march for Sunday, June 28, 1970. With Dick Leitsch replacement as president Mattachine NY by "Michael Kotis" in April 1970 , the opposition to the march by Mattachine ended.
Brenda Howard is known as "Mother of Pride" , for her work in co-ordinating the parade. Howard also derived the idea for a series of week-long events around Pride Day that became the birthplace of the annual LGBT Pride celebrations that are now being held around the world every June. In addition, Howard along with fellow LGBT activist Robert A. Martin (aka Donny the Punk) and L. Craig Schoonmaker are credited with popularizing the word "Pride" to describe these celebrations. As LGBT rights activist Tom Limoncelli said, "Next time someone asks why LGBT Pride is lined up there or why [LGBT] Moon Pride is June telling them 'A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thinks it should be.'"
Christopher's Day of Liberation Day on June 28, 1970 marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with the assembly at Christopher Street and the first LGBT Pride parade in US history, covering 51 blocks to Central Park. The parade took less than half the scheduled time due to excitement, but also because of vigilance about walking through the city with banners and gay signs. Although the parade permit was delivered just two hours before the start of the march, the demonstrators faced little resistance from the audience. The New York Times reported (on the front page) that the demonstrators took the entire road for about 15 city blocks. Reporting by The Village Voice is positive, describing "the upcoming resistance that emerged from a police raid on the Stonewall Inn a year ago".
The New York City Pride 2017 parade is the first in its history to be broadcast and live.
Media
LGBT publications include Gay City News , GO , and MetroSource .
Out FM is a LGBT radio talk show.
Mantan publikasi termasuk Gaysweek , The New York Blade , Next , dan New York Native .
The film Paris is Burning documenting the contribution of gay, bisexual and trans-New York culture mostly from Harlem Ã,; especially colors that come from mostly black or latino backgrounds. Most of the documentary centers around drag culture. Members of the African American and Latin American communities in the 80s created dances like vowel terms and were created like 'reading' and 'throwing shade'.
LGBTQ-copyright features of New York City
New York City hosts various LGBTQ-rights gazette annually. Here is a list of some of the galas that feature a celebrity presence:
- October 2004, Empire State Pride Agenda - Kimberly Guilfoyle
- March 2010, amfAR, AIDS Research Foundation - Ricky Martin, Kylie Minogue
- February 2017, Human Rights Campaign - Meryl Streep, Seth Meyers
Education
The New York City Department of Education operates Harvey Milk High School in Manhattan; it serves but is not limited to LGBT students.
Religion
The Congregation of Beit Simchat Torah ("CBST") is a Jewish synagogue located in Manhattan. Founded in 1973 and describes itself as the world's largest LGBT synagogue. The Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCCNY) in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan is affiliated with the Metropolitan Community Church worldwide.
Recreation
Heritage of Pride or NYC Pride host LGBT community events such as LGBT Pride March. The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & amp; The Transgender Film Festival is held in the city. MIX NYC organizes other LGBT film festivals. The Fresh Fruit Festival showcases the works of LGBT artists.
Every month, the company New York Gallery Tours offers a LGBT gallery tour.
Historically, St. Petersburg Day Parade Patrick does not permit LGBT groups to publicly participate. However, organizers announced that by 2015 the first LGBT group will be allowed to own an ornamental vehicle.
New York City Black Pride is held annually in August.
The Rainbow Book Fair, the largest LGBT book event in the US, is held annually each Spring in New York City.
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