Some non-gay, non-bar sights include the cute little wooden house at 121 Charles Street and the very handsome one at 17 Grove Street and the Twin Sisters on Commerce Street. Highlights include Keith Haring mural “Once Upon a Time” at The LGBTQ Center the long-gone waterfront bars named Ramrod, Kellers and Sneakers bottoms up at four gay bars and lesbian bars in the West Village New York City’s AIDS Memorial and the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park. Get to know what the biggest threats to today’s gay bar culture are.
Learn about the bar where a gay protest resulted in an important NYS court decision three years prior to Stonewall. Hear tell why the Village waterfront bars welcomed the rougher side of gay life. Discover who the woman was who opened the first non-mob-controlled lesbian nightclub, and how she has been immortalized. Learn from veterans of Ty’s, Stonewall and Julius’ as tell us about their bars’ place in history. Join us as we tip back our glasses at four historic gay bars and lesbian bars, on a lively and entertaining tour of New York City’s most storied neighborhood, Greenwich Village. During this three-hour bar crawl, learn why bars have played such an outsized role in gay life. Since at least the end of the 19th century bar culture has loomed large in the gay community. 17 Grove Street, one of the oldest wood-frame houses in The Village.
