Greenwich Village

Loss may damage one person or bring him nirvana. People have their decisions of their life which show various results. The way people treat the relationship between the environments and themselves foreshadows their ends. Being a profound topic, many authors put theme of loss in their story recipes. In “Gwilan’s Harp” written by Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Washwoman” by Isaac Singer, and “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry, the main characters all experience different extent of loss. The authors reveal to…

1969. In the 1920s, gay people were very much present during the time of the prohibition in artist and dance communities, particularly in urban areas such as San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, New Orleans’ French Quarter, and New York’s Harlem and Greenwich Village. They cruised at speak-easys and were frequently sexworkers. During this period, if one was found out, one was not accepted. It was common to be imprisoned or committed to a psychiatric institution if found out. More broadly, gay and…

Based on the events of the 1969 Stonewall riots is the film, Stonewall. The movie focusses on fictional Danny Irvine, a gay Caucasian youth who leaves his conservative Indiana countryside for New York City. In the weeks leading up to the riot, he meets and befriends a group of LGBTQ youth. Danny is shown the rough lifestyle of theft and hustling of these street kids as well as the realities of police raids and the brutality of their bigotry. In the process, he learns more about LGBTQ culture…

James Baldwin 's "Sonny's Blues" is the narrative of a youthful jazz performer (Sonny) from Harlem, NY who gets dependent on heroin, is captured for utilizing and offering medications, and comes back to his adolescence neighborhood after his discharge from jail. He moves in with his more established sibling (the story's storyteller) and his sibling's family. The two siblings kind of reconnect following an exceptionally tense couple of weeks amid which both endeavor to manage their outrage…

Children," The Crisis, August 1915, 185. DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Lynn Dumenil. Through women's eyes: an American history with documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016. Goldman, Emma. “Woman Suffrage.” Anarchism and Other Essays, 1910. In Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman, edited by Mary Jane Treacy, 117-120.4. New York: Norton, 2015. Kearney, Belle, “The South and Woman Suffrage.” Woman’s Journal, April 4, 1903. In Aileen S. Kraditor, edited Up From the…

Dwight Eisenhower presented Executive Order 10450. This proposed that gay people were a risk to the companies that they worked for and were categorized with alcoholics and neurotic individuals. In August of 1966, Riot commences in a gay bar in Greenwich Village that will…

Same Sex Should Be Legal On June 26th, 2015, gay marriage became legal in all 50 states in the United States. Years leading up to the decision of making gay marriage legal throughout all the US, many states had already accepted it and made it a law saying it was legal or rejected it. Same sex marriage should be legal because anyone who resides in the United States should have the right to marry whatever sex they please and have it be recognized by the United States Government. Before the same…

A small classroom at the basement of The New School building on Greenwich Village turned into a space for a group of college students who are passionate about musical theater. The discussion was the word on everybody’s lips on Broadway this season: diversity. The class, Musical Theater and Race, was led by Dan Dinero, a theater scholar and director who won Best Director at The Fresh Fruit Festival for his work on “The Austerity of Hope”. Discussions ranging from the underlying racial tension on…

as is if it was a form of PTSD. In his last essay Stranger in the Village is about when James re-calls the time he lived in a village in Switzerland. He remembers when he first arrived that most people have never encountered a black man before and they were fascinated by his skin complexion. The village he lived in was completely isolated; it was surrounded by mountains and only housed about 600 villagers. Since it was a small village everyone knew who James was. He liked this place very much;…

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States declared same-sex marriage legal in all fifty states. This momentous ruling took place two days before the forty-sixth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent confrontations and demonstrations by gay men and lesbians in New York City from June 28 to July 3, 1969. These riots were a turning point in history for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community in the United States and…