Christopher Street

Book Editors

Adam Nathaniel Furman, Joshua Mardell

Type

Book Contribution

Publication Date

2022

Book Title

Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories

Publisher

RIBA Publishing

Pages

172-173

Description

Not far from the intersection of Christopher and Gay streets in Greenwich Village, New York City, sits the nondescript Stonewall Inn, the site of the Stonewall Riots (1969), an event that helped to set in motion Gay Liberation and the LGBTQIA+ Pride Movement. It was in the post Second World War era, however, that the combination of growing American subcultures (including the Beat Generation, hippies/anti-Vietnam War protestors and the queer coffeehouse set, including writers James Baldwin and Truman Capote and playwright Edward Albee) and a turn towards social justice and Civil Rights, set the stage for dramatic social progress in the LGBTQ+ community in the United States and beyond. The Stonewall Inn was a Mafia-run establishment located at 51-53 Christopher Street. Today in Christopher Park, directly in front of the reopened Stonewall Inn, stands the Gay Liberation Monument by George Segal.

ISBN

9781003297499

Published Citation

Edgecomb, Sean F. “Christopher Street,” Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stores. Routledge with the Royal Institute of British Architecture, 2022, pp. 172-173.

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