Historic West Village LGBTQ+ bar and National Monument, birthplace of the modern gay rights movement.

The Victorian cottage home of pioneering photographer Alice Austen (1866–1952), one of America's earliest known lesbian photographers. Now a museum on Staten Island, it celebrates her life and work and was designated a National Historic Landmark in recognition of her LGBTQ+ significance.

The world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians, housed since 1993 in a Park Slope brownstone. The Archives preserve over 20,000 books, thousands of periodicals, photographs, and personal papers — all freely accessible to the public without academic gatekeeping.

An LGBTQ+ bookshop and community space tucked inside the LGBT Community Center on West 13th Street. BGSQD stocks queer fiction, theory, zines, and art books alongside hosting readings, signings, and community events.

The National History Archive housed within the LGBT Community Center on West 13th Street, preserving photographs, publications, organizational records, and personal papers documenting New York's LGBTQ+ history. Open to researchers and the public as a free resource.

New York's longest-running queer experimental film festival, presenting challenging and boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema since 1987. MIX NYC champions avant-garde, narrative, and documentary work that falls outside mainstream distribution, with a particular emphasis on emerging and international queer filmmakers.

An annual outdoor drag festival revived in New York, originally staged in Tompkins Square Park from 1984 and now held on Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport. Wigstock celebrates drag culture in all its extravagance and has been a landmark event in NYC queer nightlife history since its founding by Lady Bunny.

National Park Service site honoring the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.

An annual film festival in New York City celebrating kink-positive and sex-forward cinema, showcasing shorts, features, and documentaries that explore sexuality and desire outside the mainstream. CineKink has run since 2003 and draws an open-minded, queer-inclusive audience.

The original 1967 location of the first LGBTQ+ bookshop in the United States, opened by Craig Rodwell at 291 Mercer Street before relocating to Christopher Street in 1973. The site is now commemorated as a landmark in New York's LGBTQ+ history, predating the Stonewall Uprising.

The historic 2019 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, which brought WorldPride to New York City for the first time. The events drew an estimated five million people to NYC, including world leaders and delegations from over 90 countries, making it the largest LGBTQ+ gathering in history.

New York's largest LGBTQ+ film and media nonprofit presenting year-round screenings.

Chelsea is a major Manhattan LGBTQ+ hub with bars, community institutions, and longstanding queer cultural history.

Hell's Kitchen is one of NYC's core LGBTQ+ nightlife districts with many bars, clubs, and queer-owned businesses.

West Village and Christopher Street are central to New York LGBTQ+ history, nightlife, and community identity.

Major New York LGBTQ+ community center in Manhattan offering support services, cultural programming, and advocacy.

An annual queer zines fair held at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, presenting independently published LGBTQ+ zines, artist books, and ephemera from creators across the country. The fair is a highlight of New York's queer publishing and DIY arts calendar.

An annual protest march held in New York City each June as an alternative to the corporate NYC Pride March, organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition since 2019. The Queer Liberation March is unpermitted, free of floats and sponsors, and marches without police escort, centring the radical roots of LGBTQ+ resistance.

A small triangular park in Greenwich Village directly across from the Stonewall Inn, featuring the "Gay Liberation" sculpture by George Segal. Christopher Park is an enduring symbol of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and the LGBTQ+ rights movement it sparked.

The world's first dedicated LGBTQ+ art museum, founded in SoHo in 1987 to collect, preserve, and exhibit art that reflects queer experience. Leslie-Lohman presents rotating exhibitions across painting, photography, and works on paper by emerging and established LGBTQ+ artists.