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Christopher Street, the Glossary

Christopher Street is a street in the West Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.^[1]

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Amy Sedaris

Amy Louise Sedaris (born March 29, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and writer.

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Anaïs Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.

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Bar (establishment)

A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is an establishment retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks.

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Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American sitcom television series set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th Street in Greenwich Village (Lower Manhattan).

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Ben M. Hall

Ben M. Hall (1921-1970) was an American author and theater historian.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bleecker Street

Bleecker Street is an east–west street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Christopher Street and Bleecker Street are streets in Manhattan.

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Bob Balaban

Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer and writer.

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Boroughs of New York City

The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City.

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Bowery Boys (gang)

The Bowery Boys (vernacular Bowery Bhoys) were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish criminal gang based in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City in the early-mid-19th century.

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Charles Street (Manhattan)

Charles Street is a street in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Christopher Street and Charles Street (Manhattan) are streets in Manhattan.

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Christopher Street (magazine)

Christopher Street was an American gay-oriented magazine published in New York City, New York, by Charles Ortleb.

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Christopher Street Day

Christopher Street Day (CSD) is an annual European LGBTQ+ celebration and demonstration held in various cities across Europe for the rights of LGBTQ+ people, and against discrimination and exclusion.

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Christopher Street Pier

The Christopher Street Pier is a group of piers in Hudson River Park on the Hudson River waterfront of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, numbered 42, 45, 46, and 51.

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Christopher Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)

The Christopher Street station was an express station on the demolished IRT Ninth Avenue Line in Manhattan in New York City.

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Christopher Street station (PATH)

Christopher Street station is a station on the PATH system.

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Christopher Street–Stonewall station

The Christopher Street–Stonewall station, formerly known as Christopher Street–Sheridan Square, is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.

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Church of St. Luke in the Fields

The Church of St.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Culper Ring

The Culper Ring was a network of spies active during the American Revolutionary War, organized by Major Benjamin Tallmadge and General George Washington in 1778 during the British occupation of New York City.

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David "Fathead" Newman

David "Fathead" Newman (February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009) was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist, who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on seminal 1950s and early 1960s recordings by Ray Charles.

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Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer.

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Dick Francis (illustrator)

Dick Francis is an artist best known for his Galaxy Science Fiction illustrations during the 1950s and 1960s.

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E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

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Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie.

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Eva Amurri

Eva Amurri (born March 15, 1985) is an American actress.

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Gay liberation

The gay liberation movement was a social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s in the Western world, that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride.

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Gay Liberation Monument

The Gay Liberation Monument is part of the Stonewall National Monument, which commemorates the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Christopher Street and Gay Liberation Monument are Stonewall National Monument.

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Gay Street (Manhattan)

Gay Street is a short, angled street that marks off one block of Greenwich Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Christopher Street and Gay Street (Manhattan) are streets in Manhattan.

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George Segal (artist)

George Segal (November 26, 1924 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the pop art movement.

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Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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Greenwich Avenue

Greenwich Avenue, formerly Greenwich Lane, is a southeast-northwest avenue located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Christopher Street and Greenwich Avenue are streets in Manhattan.

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Harlan Ellison

Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality.

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Hess triangle

The Hess triangle is a triangular tile mosaic set in a sidewalk in New York City's West Village neighborhood at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.

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Hudson Street (Manhattan)

Hudson Street is a north–south oriented street in the New York City borough of Manhattan running from Tribeca to the south, through Hudson Square and Greenwich Village, to the Meatpacking District. Christopher Street and Hudson Street (Manhattan) are streets in Manhattan.

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IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line

The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line) is a New York City Subway line.

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IRT Ninth Avenue Line

The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City.

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James Coco

James Emil Coco (March 21, 1930 – February 25, 1987) was an American stage and screen actor.

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Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.

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Kettle of Fish (bar)

Kettle of Fish is a historic bar in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.

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Lambda Literary Foundation

The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocate for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve their legacies, and affirm the value of LGBTQ stories and lives.

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Landscape painting

Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

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Le Tigre

Le Tigre (French for "The Tiger") is an American art punk and riot grrrl band formed by Kathleen Hanna (of Bikini Kill), Johanna Fateman and Sadie Benning in 1998 in New York City.

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Le Tigre (album)

Le Tigre is the debut studio album of American music trio Le Tigre.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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LGBT pride

LGBT pride (also known as gay pride or simply pride) is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group.

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LGBT rights by country or territory

Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality.

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Linda Solomon

Linda Solomon (born May 10, 1937, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American music critic and editor.

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Lindsay Price

Lindsay Jaylyn Price Stone (born December 6, 1976) is an American actress and singer.

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List of national monuments of the United States

The United States has 133 protected areas known as national monuments.

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List of numbered streets in Manhattan

The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. Christopher Street and List of numbered streets in Manhattan are streets in Manhattan.

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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician and songwriter.

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Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York City, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough of New York City.

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Lucille Lortel Theatre

The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse at 121 Christopher Street in Manhattan's West Village.

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Luigi Lucioni

Luigi Lucioni (born Giuseppe Luigi Carlo Benevenuto Lucioni; November 4, 1900 – July 22, 1988) was an Italian American painter known for his still lifes, landscapes, and portraits.

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MacDougal Street

MacDougal Street is a one-way street in the Greenwich Village and SoHo neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. Christopher Street and MacDougal Street are streets in Manhattan.

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Malnate

Malnate is a comune (municipality) in the province of Varese, in the Italian region of Lombardy.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Marshall W. Mason

Marshall W. Mason (born February 24, 1940) is an American theater director, educator, and writer.

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New York (album)

New York is the fifteenth solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in January 1989 by Sire Records.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the New York City agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue is an American police procedural television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan.

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NYPD Blue season 7

The seventh season of NYPD Blue premiered on ABC on January 11, 2000, and concluded on May 23, 2000.

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Off-Broadway

An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Oscar Wilde Bookshop

The Oscar Wilde Bookshop was a bookstore located in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood that focused on LGBT works.

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PATH (rail system)

The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system in the northeastern New Jersey cities of Newark, Harrison, Jersey City, and Hoboken, as well as Lower and Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter known both for his solo work and his collaboration with Art Garfunkel.

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Peter MacNicol

Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954) is an American actor.

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Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer)

Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Warren, KB (10 March 1703 – 29 July 1752) was an Anglo-Irish naval officer and politician who sat in the British House of Commons representing the constituency of Westminster from 1747 to 1752.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor.

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Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Portrait

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant.

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Preacher (comics)

Preacher is an American comic book series published from 1995 to 2000 by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics.

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Queercore

Queercore (or homocore) is a cultural/social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of the punk subculture and a music genre that comes from punk rock.

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Rear Window

Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder.

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René Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation.

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Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War

"René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War" is a ballad written and sung by Paul Simon.

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Robert F. Wagner Jr.

Robert Ferdinand Wagner II (April 20, 1910 – February 12, 1991) was an American diplomat and politician who served three terms as the mayor of New York City from 1954 through 1965.

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Rosemary Harris

Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English actress.

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Sally Kirkland

Sally Kirkland (born October 31, 1941) is an American film, television and stage actress and producer.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sexual fetishism

Sexual fetishism or erotic fetishism is a sexual fixation on a nonliving object or body part.

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Sing Sing

Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York, United States.

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Sixth Avenue

Sixth Avenue, also known as Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown". Christopher Street and Sixth Avenue are streets in Manhattan.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Still life

A still life (still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then.

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Stonewall Inn

The Stonewall Inn (also known as Stonewall) is a gay bar and recreational tavern at 53 Christopher Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Christopher Street and Stonewall Inn are Stonewall National Monument.

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Stonewall National Monument

Stonewall National Monument is a U.S. national monument in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Stonewall riots

The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

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Theodore Edwin White (born February 4, 1938) is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, as well as a music critic.

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The Gaslight Cafe

The Gaslight Cafe was a coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

The Marvelous Mrs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.

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Vincent Canadé

Vincent Canadé (1879 – 1961) was an American artist, born in San Giorgio Albanese, Italy.

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Weehawken, New Jersey

Weehawken is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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West Side Highway

The Joe DiMaggio Highway, commonly called the West Side Highway and formerly the Miller Highway, is a mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A), running from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. Christopher Street and West Side Highway are streets in Manhattan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Street

Also known as Christopher St., Christopher Street (Manhattan), Christopher Street, Manhattan.

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See also

Stonewall National Monument

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