Brooklyn gays
This Pride Month, Brooklyn Org is spotlighting 7 nonprofits committed to local LGBTQ+ communities. These organizations not only provide crucial services but also advocate for and celebrate the diversity of the queer community, which is as vast as our borough itself. Did you know that charitable giving to LGBTQ+ organizations more than doubled from , but still, less than $1 per every $ donated to charity goes to support LGBTQ+ organizations?
This Pride and beyond, explore organizations in your control backyard who are led by and serve queer communities:
1. The Brooklyn Ghost Project
The Brooklyn Ghost Project focuses on G.H.O.S.T. &#; which stands for Guiding and Helping Others Survive Transition. As a Black, trans-led organization, they provide awareness, support, empowerment, and visibility to trans and non-binary people of color throughout their transitions.
2. Brooklyn Community Pride Center (BKO Partner)
Brooklyn Community Pride Center advances lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer liberation by celebrating, commemorating, and convening LGBTQ+ Brooklynites throu
Brooklyn Heights
overview
Brooklyn Heights became known as a center of gay life beginning in the s. This collection highlights the neighborhood’s LGBT history through residences of notable LGBT figures, gay cruising areas, and sites of political activism.
While much of New York City’s known LGBT history and life centers on Manhattan, we are currently working on adding more sites throughout Brooklyn to our website. If you have a suggestion, please fill out our online form.
This theme was made achievable by the Modern York State Council on the Arts with the sustain of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and a grant from Con Edison.
Header Photo
Gay Alliance of Brooklyn flyer, c. Courtesy of the Gay Alliance of Brooklyn records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The Modern York Public Library.
The cool, hip Brooklyn borough of NYC is also one of the most queer places in NYC with something for everyone—no matter where you fit on the LGBTQ spectrum. Check out this guide to the best of LGBT Brooklyn bars, clubs, restaurants, and LGBTQ-friendly hotels & cool things to do
With over two million people living in the borough, Brooklyn is Novel York City’s most populated part of the city—but strangely, a lot of visitors and many Manhattanites don’t recognize much about it. Brooklyn’s big culture and attitude is reflected in its diversity of people, cuisine, and even languages. Many of the distinct Brooklyn neighborhoods (and that’s including Ridgewood in Queens) are recognized as ethnic enclaves, hubs of a particular culture.
Brooklyn is easily accessible from Manhattan, most famously from the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, though there are subways and other bridges connecting Brooklyn to the other NYC boroughs. Because of its unique location in close proximity to Manhattan, and its many distinct cultures, however, Brooklyn has blossomed as i
History
Following Stonewall, several activist gay organizations were established in Recent York, notably the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance, all in Manhattan. Soon, groups in other boroughs organized, including the Gay Alliance of Brooklyn (GAB), which was an offshoot of the GAA and active from The GAB held its early meetings in the sanctuary of the Spencer Memorial Church in Brooklyn Heights.
Gay Alliance of Brooklyn, broadside,
At its peak, the group had a membership of over GAB sponsored political discussions, took part in gay community events, lobbied local politicians and newspapers, held weekly Tuesday night meetings, and established committees that included Arts and Crafts, Community Relations, Dance, Legal, Goods and Services, Membership and Orientation, Political, Social, and Talk Groups. Monthly dances were held at the Spencer Church and, after the church closed in late , at the nearby Hotel Bossert at 98 Montague Street. Although the membership was primarily men, lesbian members sponsored a