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Minimum Age:
21+Doors Open:
6:00 PMShow Time:
9:00 PMDescription:
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation presents:
From Beebo Brinker to the Daughters of Bilitis: Lesbian Life in Greenwich Village Before Stonewall
A Lecture with Marcia Gallo
Reservations Required
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the LGBT Center, the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and Outhistory.org.
GVSHP’s programs are generously funded by: the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Council Member Rosie Mendez, and State Senator Tom Duane and Assembly Member Deborah Glick through the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Support is also provided by the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and GVSHP members.
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From Beebo Brinker to the Daughters of Bilitis
Wildly popular fictional as well as real-life gay women made Greenwich Village the place to see-and-be-seen for lesbians in the mid- to late 1950s. But in addition to the nightclubs, restaurants, bookstores and theaters that welcomed them, the Village also provided a home base for now-legendary activists with the first lesbian rights group in the U.S., the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Come join us in a discussion of how Greenwich Village influenced DOB -- and the Daughters influenced Greenwich Village -- before the famous Christopher Street gay liberation riots of 1969.