Greenwich Village

street homeless people, and anybody that needed help at that time. STAR was the first group focused on homeless trans youth in New York City. The largest problem for trans youth was shelter. The first STAR house was a trailer truck located in Greenwich Village. It is reported that over two dozen STAR youth lived together in the trailer. Rivera and Johnson decided to get a permanent home at 213 Second Ave after a truck driver removed the trailer from the premises. Together, they fed the people,…

The Trinity Vermin By Nelly Bly started out to see if the Trinity corporation really was cheating people out of their money for the facilities they got and the price that they paid for them each week. By chance the first one she visited was No. 4 Grand Street. All the houses on the street were small red brick houses that took on a respectable appearance. Except for the one at the very end of the street it was a small dilapidated frame two-story and attic. This was the Trinity house. The front…

Gould, a penniless and unemployable man who came to the city in 1916, and barely got by for thirty-five years. Gould is portrayed as a homeless character that spends most of his time in Minetta Tavern, a restaurant located at the heart of the Greenwich Village on 113 Macdougal Street. Joe Gould depicts an aspiring writer who is alienated from every social circle possible due to his status as a beggar. Connecting this conception to a concept discussed in class is the portrayal and perspective on…

In Greenwich Village, June 28th, 1969 at 1:20 on a Saturday morning there was a police raid on a popular gay bar; in itself this was far from an uncommon occurrence however the riots that followed were. The raid led to six days of what became known as the Stonewall Riots. The Riots were credited with being the event that commenced the LGBT+ movement. They were the event that ‘catapulted the issue of sexual liberation out of the dark ages and into a new era,’ , but while the Riots were…

The first movie, How We Got Gay, the title says it all. How we got gay tells the powerful story of the struggle for gay rights, from the 40’s and 50’s to the present day. It talks about the secret lives gay people were forced to live, at a time when homosexuality was illegal and police harassment had become a fact of life. What was interesting was that the documentary explored what life was like for gay people at a time when homosexuality was seen as a mental illness, and to be openly gay was…

from pneumonia in Greenwich Village, New York, crafting a beautiful painting was Joanna's number one priority. Her roommate, an aspiring artist named Sue, persuaded Joanna to continue painting after resting for weeks, an idea Joanna had no qualms with. Both Joanna and Sue lived in the top of a three-story brick building at the beginning of winter with paint and no shortage of inspiration. Joanna had so much inspiration that she couldn't think of where to start. Greenwich Village had many…

Riots The Stonewall Riots were protests about gay rights and the beginning of the gay rights movement. It refers to the violent raids and arrests on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village at the Stonewall Inn (“White House…” par. 1). It happened June 28, 1969, in New York. It took place at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Most who protested were LGBT people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender). They all protested for the privileges of LGBT people. The Stonewall Riots took place in…

“Robert downey Jr Born in New York City on April 4th, 1965, Robert Downey Jr. began acting as a young child. “Despite his active drug and alcohol addiction, Downey Jr. made a name for himself as a young actor in the mid- to late ‘80s. After a season in the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” Downeys growing success was married by the years of his struggle with drug abuse by his father. Eventually downey decide to turn his life around and he warned a resurgence of critical and popular acclaim and is…

clear oppression faced along the way. On the cold Saturday of June 24th, 1978, marchers, gay, lesbian and transgender alike assembled in Taylor Square in Sydney. The concept of the march was heavily influenced by the Stonewall Riot in Greenwich Village, New York, which marked the modern era “homosexual liberation”. During the 1970’s, members of the gay community were forced to live the concept of a “double life” for coming out could have detrimental repurcussions, Many who came…

an experimental program developed by the (AFSC). This program allowed black students from the South could attend integrated high schools in the North, She chose the AFSC program. Davis attended Elisabeth Irwin High School, located on the edge of Greenwich…