ABOUT US

From dim bars to private salons, public parks to popular performance venues, and historic landmarks,  lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people have found community, built shared identity, and influenced culture through place. The history of LGBTQ+ rights, oppression, activism, community, and culture is embedded in many kinds of places, making them a powerful tool for teaching, understanding one’s self, and building connections. These sites often reflect the resilience and visibility celebrated at historic gay pride events and today’s broader LGBTQ+ Pride commemorations.

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In recognition that LGBTQ+ cultural heritage goes far beyond the work of historic preservation, the LGBTQ+ Heritage Alliance invites public historians, architects, planners, landscape architects, archivists, curators, community advocates, and anyone with interest to join us in identifying, documenting, and interpreting sites with importance to LGBTQ+ history and culture.

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The Alliance formed out of a recommendation from the 2023 LGBTQ+ Historic Sites Focus Group, which inventoried projects and people furthering awareness of LGBTQ+ cultural heritage through the documentation and preservation of historic sites.

 

Commissioned by the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, the LGBTQ+ Historic Sites Survey Report recorded and quantified LGBTQ+ place-based efforts across the nation. The report identified the need for a centralized network where people can connect, facilitate conversations, share skills and challenges, develop partnerships, and protect cultural heritage associated with LGBTQ+ place-based history.