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Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Marguerite Thompson Zorach
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When she first met fellow art student William Zorach, he “couldn’t believe such a nice girl could paint such wild pictures.”
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Greenwich Village Historic District’s reputation for dynamism can be attributed to its history of emerging artists and writers as well as the political unrest and activism of its inhabitants. With the rise of the counterculture movement during the 1960s, Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park became a hub for writers and musicians. In 1969, LGB residents of Greenwich Village pushed back against police harassment at the Stonewall Inn.
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The Bayard Rustin Residence is significant as the most important resource associated with Bayard Rustin (1912- 1987), a person of great importance in American political and social history. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Rustin lived a peripatetic life as a social activist and organizer, living intermittently in a number of different homes. In 1962, Rustin purchased apartment 9J in Building 7 of the new Penn South Complex in the West Chelsea section of Manhattan.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Type-C Japanese Midget Submarine
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In front of the T. Stell Newman Visitor Center at War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam stands the last Type-C Japanese midget submarine in existence.
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The James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut is nationally significant for its close, forty-one-year association with James Ingram Merrill (1926-95), one of his generation's most acclaimed poets---considered peerless among his contemporaries who were writing in meter and rhyme.
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The Japanese YWCA, also known as the Issei Women's Building, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. The property is being recognized for its association to the history of Japanese American Issei (first generation) women, the African American Civil Rights movement, and the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights movement.
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When Jane Addams penned Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes, she presented her life story as inextricably tied to her work in running a settlement house. Addams was born into an affluent family in Illinois, but comfort and leisure did not suit her. After spending much of her early life searching for outlets for progressive work, Addams became a reformer.
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Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2020, All Souls Church, Unitarian has a rich architectural and social history. From the Civil War when it sought to define itself by its anti-slavery agenda, to more firmly establishing itself as a church with a social justice agenda during the civil rights era and finally to embracing its role as a “Welcoming Congregation,” All Souls has been in the forefront of the city and nation’s social issues.
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The Church of the Holy Apostles in New York was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 for architectural significance. In January 2020, the site was amended with additional documentation to highlight the social significance the church had with the LGBTQ community throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Slowe-Burrill House, a National Historic Landmark, was home to Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill, Washington, DC's most prominent lesbian couple. Living together from 1922 to 1937, they built a legacy as educators and activists in the Black community. Slowe, a tennis champion and Howard University’s first Dean of Women, and Burrill, a Harlem Renaissance playwright, exemplified the intersection of professional achievements and queer identity.
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Darcelle XV listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2020 as one of only two known drag clubs open prior to 1970 in the United States with an owner who performed (and is still performing!) as part of the company.
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Earl Hall, located on the campus of Columbia University in the New York City borough of Manhattan in New York, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. Earl Hall is significant for its early and significant association with Columbia’s LGBT community. Columbia University was the first university in the United States to have a gay student group – the Student Homophile League -- founded in 1966 and officially recognized by the university in 1967.
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Edificio Comunidad de Orgullo Gay de Puerto Rico, commonly known as “Casa Orgulllo,” served as the meeting hall for the first official gay/lesbian organization established in Puerto Rico. Founded in 1974, Comunidad de Orgullo Gay was the first organized attempt to confront social, political and legal discrimination against the local LGBTQ community.
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The Baldwin Residence is significant for its association with American author and activist James Baldwin. He owned this house and used it as his primary American home from 1965-1987. Baldwin made important contributions to American literature and social history. As a gay Black author, civil rights activist, and social commentator, he shaped discussions about race and sexuality. He was active in literary, political, and social circles, influencing all of them.
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The Lorraine Hansberry residence, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, is nationally significant for its association with the pioneering Black lesbian playwright, writer, and activist Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965). Hansberry resided in a third-floor apartment in the building from 1953 to 1960, the period in which she created her most important work, the Raisin in the Sun.
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Normandale Field, a softball-specific ballfield in Portland, Oregon, was created in 1945, improved in 1947 and completed in 1948. The field was “hailed in the press as the most modern softball field in the country.” For people who lived in Portland during this time and who identified as LGBTQ+, women’s softball games at the field became an event and place to socialize with other queer women in Portland.
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Learn about Bayard Rustin and his contribution to the Civil Rights Movement.
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Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, The Women’s Liberation Center (WLC) in New York is nationally significant as one of the first and most influential women’s advocacy centers, a resource type specific to the 1970s and early 1980s that was of pivotal importance in championing female empowerment and social equity in the United States.
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St. Elizabeths Hospital, formerly known as the Government Hospital for the Insane, was the first federally-funded mental hospital in the country. In 1852, Congress established the Government Hospital for the Insane on 350-acres overlooking the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington. It would become an international model for psychiatric hospital design and a prominent center for mental health research during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The Congressional Cemetery stands out for its beauty and its famous interments. There are perhaps more early historical figures buried within this unique "American Westminster Abbey" than in any other cemetery in the country. Within the gates of Congressional Cemetery, notable burials serve as touchstones sending visitors back into key episodes of America’s past by memorializing its actors.