A report on New York City, Manhattan and LGBT culture in New York City

The location of the Stonewall Inn in relation to Greenwich Village
New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York"
The layout of the Stonewall Inn, 1969
Fort George and the City of New York c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Harbor.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.
Peter Minuit, early 1600s
Gay Street, at the corner of Waverly Place, in Greenwich Village
The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.
Pieter Schaghen's 1626 letter saying Manhattan was purchased for 60 guilders.
Pre-Dyke March assembly (2019) in Manhattan
Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
The Castello Plan showing the Dutch city of New Amsterdam in 1660, at the southern tip of Manhattan
Manila-born supermodel Geena Rocero takes the stage at a TED conference in Manhattan to come out as transgender on International Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2014. New York City is home to the world's largest transgender population, estimated at 50,000 in 2018.
The current 5 boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. Bronx was in Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had 6 towns, one of which was Brooklyn, New York City is shown by hatching in southern New York County on the island of Manhattan, and Richmond County on Staten Island.
Washington's statue in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, where in 1789 he was sworn in as first U.S. president
The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, is the only museum in the world dedicated to artwork portraying the LGBTQ experience.
A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.
Manhattan in 1873. The Brooklyn Bridge was under construction from 1870 until 1883
The entrance to Harvey Milk High School
Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900
The "Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York", commonly known as the Viele Map, was created by Egbert Ludovicus Viele in 1865
Metropolitan Community Church of New York
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement
Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900
United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Manhattan personified, early 20th century
The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center
V-J Day in Times Square in Times Square, 1945
Flooding on Avenue C caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012
Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017
Satellite image of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson River to the west, the Harlem River to the north, the East River to the east, and New York Harbor to the south, with rectangular Central Park prominently visible. Roosevelt Island, in the East River, belongs to Manhattan.
Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900
Location of Manhattan (red) within New York City (remainder yellow)
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was used in both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fair, with the Unisphere as the centerpiece of the latter and which remains today.
Manhattan schist outcropping in Central Park
The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.
Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan, of New York City, and of New York State, that is surrounded by New Jersey waters
View of The Pond and Midtown Manhattan from the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, in 2019
The Empire State Building in the foreground looking southward from the top of Rockefeller Center, with One World Trade Center in the background, at sunset. The Midtown South Community Council acts as a civic caretaker for much of the neighborhood between the skyscrapers of Midtown and Lower Manhattan.
California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
Central Park in autumn
A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:
The Estonian House, the main center of Estonian culture amongst Estonian Americans
The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan
A. T. Stewart in 1870, 9th Street, Manhattan
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.
Many tall buildings have setbacks on their facade due to the 1916 Zoning Resolution. This is exemplified at Park Avenue and 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan.
The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.
The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018.
Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, seen from Brooklyn
The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.
The Flatiron District is the center and birthplace of Silicon Alley
The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West
Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a major cultural venue in Manhattan, it also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million
Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.
The New York Times headquarters, 620 Eighth Avenue
The I Love New York logo, designed by Milton Glaser in 1977
Butler Library at Columbia University, with its notable architectural design
Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.
Stuyvesant High School, in Tribeca
Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America
New York Public Library Main Branch at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood
The scene at Manhattan's 2015 LGBT Pride March. The annual event rivals the sister São Paulo event as the world's largest pride parade, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.
Madison Square Garden is home to the Rangers and Knicks, and hosts some Liberty games
Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)
The Skating Pond in Central Park, 1862
The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.
Manhattan Municipal Building
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street
James Farley Post Office
The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020
A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Tenement houses in 1936
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.
At the time of its construction, London Terrace in Chelsea was the largest apartment building in the world
Smorgasburg opened in 2011 as an open-air food market and is part of the Brooklyn Flea.
Grand Central Terminal is a National Historic Landmark.
As of 2012, the city had about 6,000 hybrid taxis (shown) in service, the largest number of any city in North America.
Ferries departing Battery Park City and helicopters flying above Manhattan
New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.
The Staten Island Ferry, seen from the Battery, crosses Upper New York Bay, providing free public transportation between Staten Island and Manhattan.
The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.
The Brooklyn Bridge to the right and the Manhattan Bridge towards the left, are two of the three bridges that connect Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn over the East River.
Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City
Eighth Avenue, looking northward ("Uptown"), in the rain; most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration
New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.
Tourists looking westward at sunset to observe the July 12, 2016 Manhattanhenge
The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.
Ferry service departing Battery Park City towards New Jersey, see from Paulus Hook
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.
Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city.
8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). Most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration.
The George Washington Bridge, connecting Upper Manhattan (background) from Fort Lee, New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.
The growing skyline of Long Island City, Queens (background),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/nyc-s-fastest-growing-neighborhood-gets-180-million-investment|title=NYC's Fastest-Growing Neighborhood Gets $180 Million Investment|first=Henry|last=Goldman|date=October 30, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg L.P|access-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017
The Grand Concourse in the Bronx, foreground, with Manhattan in the background in February 2018
St. George, Staten Island as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island
The Asia gate entrance to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. New York City is home to nearly 3 million Latino Americans, the largest Hispanic population of any city outside Latin America and Spain.
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan including Wall Street, the world's principal financial center

Manhattan, known regionally as The City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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New York City has one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the world and the most prominent.

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The five boroughs—Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), Manhattan (New York County), the Bronx (Bronx County), and Staten Island (Richmond County)—were created when local governments were consolidated into a single municipal entity in 1898.

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The New York metropolitan area has an estimated 756,000 LGBTQ+ residents - the most in the United States, including the largest transgender population in the United States, estimated at 50,000 in 2018, concentrated in Manhattan and Queens.

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In 2022, the LGBT community in New York City became the epicenter of the monkeypox outbreak in the Western Hemisphere.

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Chelsea is one of several Manhattan neighborhoods with large gay populations and has become a center of both the international art industry and New York's nightlife.

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New York (state)

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State in the Northeastern United States.

State in the Northeastern United States.

New York was dominated by Iroquoian (purple) and Algonquian (pink) tribes.
New Amsterdam, present-day Lower Manhattan, 1660
New York and neighboring provinces, by Claude Joseph Sauthier, 1777
British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga in 1777
1800 map of New York from Low's Encyclopaedia
The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York, in 1839
Flight 175 hitting the South Tower on September11, 2001
Flooding on AvenueC in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy
New York is bordered by six U.S. states, two Great Lakes, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
Enveloped by the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound, New York City and Long Island alone are home to about eleven million residents conjointly.
Lake-effect snow is a major contributor to heavy snowfall totals in western New York, including the Tug Hill region.
Two major state parks (in green) are the Adirondack Park (north) and the Catskill Park (south).
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals.
The African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan
Map of the counties in New York
New York population distribution map. New York's population is primarily concentrated in the Greater New York area, including New York City and Long Island.
The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement
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The main laboratory building of the IBM Watson Research Center is located in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, hub of the Broadway theater district, a media center, and one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections
"I Love New York"
CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the largest container ship to enter the Port of New York and New Jersey as of September7, 2017
Harris Hall of the City College of New York, a public college of the City University of New York
Butler Library at Columbia University
University of Rochester
South campus of the University at Buffalo, the flagship of the State University of New York
The New York City Subway is one of the world's busiest, serving more than five million passengers per average weekday.
Grand Central Terminal in New York City
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
The New York State Capitol in Albany
New York State Court of Appeals
Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, New York's U.S. Senators
Kathy Hochul (D), the 57th Governor of New York
Yankee Stadium in The Bronx
Koppen climate of New York

It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City.

Much of New York's boundaries are in water, as is true for New York City: four of its five boroughs are situated on three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island; Staten Island; and Long Island, which contains Brooklyn and Queens at its western end.

LGBT travel guide Queer in the World states, "The fabulosity of Gay New York is unrivaled on Earth, and queer culture seeps into every corner of its five boroughs"; LGBT advocate and entertainer Madonna stated metaphorically, “Anyways, not only is New York City the best place in the world because of the queer people here.

Gay liberation demonstration in 1970

Gay liberation

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Social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride.

Social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride.

Gay liberation demonstration in 1970
Lower-case lambda, first used in 1970 as a symbol representing gay rights
Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) during one of its street theatre performances in London
Two members of the anticapitalist Homosexual Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente de Liberación Homosexual, FLH) from Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1971

The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, was the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, and became the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement, and the subsequent gay liberation movement.

Although the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York are popularly remembered as the spark that produced a new movement, the origins predate these iconic events.