Tag: LGBTQ
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Precinct Meeting – Focus on The Rise in Crime
Kioka Jackson, the president of the 25th Precinct’s Community Council writes: Good Afternoon Neighbors and Friends,I hope you all are doing great. I wanted to invite you to join us IN PERSON for our February 2022 meeting. I have been getting a multitude of calls and emails about the current events in and around our neighborhood…
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Mt. Morris Bathhouse
The Mount Morris Bathhouse (also sometimes called) the Mount Morris Turkish Baths, was located at 28 East 125th Street. Built in 1889-90 by C. Abbott French & Co., the structure was designed as a blend of two popular styles at the time, neo-Grec and Queen Anne. The bathhouse was the first commercial tenant of the…
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Black Wall Street Festival
3 short plays in Harlem’s first annual Black Wall Street (theater) Festival: Celebrate a Black-Owned Harlem Gay Bar with Poster House In honor of Pride month, Poster House is thrilled to partner with Alibi Lounge in Harlem, one of the last Black-owned gay bars in NYC, for an evening of cocktails & design activities that are sure…
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New Supportive Housing Projects Coming to East Harlem
Developers unveiled plans this week for a 10-story building housing LGBTQ youth and a 15-story building for formerly incarcerated people. Story Nick Garber, Patch Staff Nov 19, 2020 4:36 pm ET|Updated Nov 19, 2020 6:42 pm ET Two new supportive housing developments are coming to East Harlem. Supportive housing is more than just an apartment or room, it’s a…
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Mail In Your Vote and Honor Wesley A. Williams
The image (above) from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is of Wesley A. Williams, a Black mail carrier/driver from 1915. Wesley was photographed under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, a notoriously racist American President who re:segregated the Post Office (from Vox – https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist): Easily the worst part of Wilson’s record as president…
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High Times and Hot Times in Homo Harlem, 1920-1990
Historian Michael Henry Adams leads a virtual tour of Lesbian and Gay life in the historic African American cultural capital, where we’ll meet personalities living and lost and see landmarks long gone and still standing that illuminate the a fabled part of New York. Past and Present LGBTQ+ Harlemites have played a leading role in…
