The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project is a scholarly initiative and educational resource that officially began in August 2015 and is based on over 30 years of research and advocacy.

The goal of the project is to broaden people’s knowledge of LGBT history beyond Stonewall and to place that history in a geographical context -- through interactive mapping, we are celebrating sites that are important to LGBT history as well as those that illustrate the community’s influence on America.

The NYC LGBT Sites Project hopes to inspire the LGBT community and youth, who are often not taught their own history in school. Now more than ever it is important to raise public awareness about the community’s contributions to American history as well as the struggles it has faced in achieving acceptance and equality under the law. Our project encourages you to take a second look at the physical places you pass every day and to appreciate a history that, until our initiative, has largely been invisible.