Upper West Side PRIDE Walking Tour
with NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
Wednesday, June 25th 6:00-7:30pm
Live and In-Person Walking Tour!
Celebrate Pride Month with NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and LANDMARK WEST! on a stroll of the iconic Central Park West, from Columbus Circle to the American Museum of Natural History. We'll uncover the LGBTQ history of The Dakota dating back to its construction in the 1880s, and highlight artists -- from James Dean to Leonard Bernstein -- who have called the Upper West Side home. The tour will include sites of post-Stonewall protest connected to Lesbian Feminist Liberation and the Gay Activists Alliance, two leading activist groups of the 1970s.
We'll also look at important spaces of community, including the site of a Gay Be-In in Central Park, where thousands of LGBTQ people marked the end of NYC's very first Pride March, in 1970.
This is an approximately 90-minute walking tour.
All registrants will have use of a whisper-technology over-ear listening device.
Tour meeting location is included in the receipt. Rain or shine.
Photo by Diana Davies, via New York Public Library
The proceeds of this tour are split 50/50 to support both the:
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project -- Celebrating 10 Years! &
LANDMARK WEST! -- Celebrating 40 Years!
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Amanda Davis is the Project Manager for the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, and is an experienced architectural historian. On behalf of the Project, she has spoken to various audiences at the city, state, and national levels, and authored the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Caffe Cino.
In 2018, she was named to the National Trust of Historic Preservation's inaugural "40 Under 40: People Saving Places" list, in recognition of her efforts to help tell America's full history.
Amanda has previously worked at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (Village Preservation), Architectural Resources Group (in LA), the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, and the Central Park Conservancy. She holds a BA in Architectural History from UVA and an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University.
