Today, it has grown to become the largest LGBT multi-service organization on the East Coast and the second largest in the world. It served as various schools for over a century and was sold to the Lesbian & Gay Services Center, Inc. The building that houses the community center is a beautiful brick Italianate structure that was originally built in the third quarter of the 19th century as Public School 16. The center celebrates diversity and advocates for justice and opportunity. The LGBT Community Center has been a home and resource hub for the LGBT community in New York City since its founding in 1983. It was originally established in 1867 and by the 1950’s was attracting gay patrons. Located just a block away from the famous Stonewall Inn, Julius’ is often called the oldest continuously operating gay bar in New York City.
National Monument, the first in the country dedicated to the LGBT rights movement, on June 24, 2016.
We also got Stonewall landmarked by the City of New York in 2015, the first site ever designated based upon LGBT history, and was part of a broad coalition which got Stonewall named a U.S. Stonewall Inn was the very first site ever listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its connection to LGBT history in 1999 that application was co-sponsored by Village Preservation. The riots that followed over the course of three days are widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the modern gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights movement in the United States. In the early morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, dozens of gay men, lesbians, and transgendered people, many of them people of color, resisted a routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn.