LGBTQ History of East Greenwich Village - Pride Month Walking Tour - NYC

Join Out Professionals Members and friends to explore the rich LGBTQ history of the East Village.

Discover the unique story the East Village played in the LGBTQ Equality and counterculture movements. Often overlooked, the East Village holds its own as the birthplace of a unique lifestyle that created new concepts of culture that resonate across the world to this day.

• See the concert venue where the "pansy balls" of the 1920s were held
• See the site of Pfaff's Beer Cellar, where Walt Whitman read the homoerotic Calamus poems to his "Bohemian" friends
• See the place where Lady Bunny started Wigstock
• Hear about the legendary St. Mark's Baths and the Saint nightclub.

This rarely given tour can be combined with the tour of the Central Greenwich Village on Saturday, June 15, for additional savings.

What's Up?

We recommend that you allow two hours for this comprehensive tour and not book plans immediately after. Our tour begins at 12:30 PM sharp, rain or shine, in front of Barnes & Noble (33 East 17th Street). Subway: 4/5/6, L. N/Q/R/W to Union Square. The tour ends at Broadway and Bleecker St, near the B/D/F or 4/5/6 trains.

Double-Feature LGBTQ History Tour

Combine this tour with the LGBTQ History of Greenwich Village tour earlier the same afternoon and save $10. Learn about the times and protests before the Stonewall Rebellion, see Oscar Wilde and Eleanor Roosevelt lived, see the site of radical lesbian Eve Adams' legendary tea house and hear how she was deported to her native Poland to die at the hands of the Nazis. There's much more to the village than the Stonewall Inn you all know...

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Our Art Historian and Tour Guide: The Always Engaging Professor Andrew Lear

A four-time winner of the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Andrew Lear has taught art history and Classics at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU. Lear is the founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, the first company to offer tours focused on LGBT history, and the winner of the Travel Industry’s 2016 Travvy Award for best-escorted tour operator, LGBT; and the Luxury Travel Guide’s 2016 LGBT Tour Operator of the Year. in 2021, Lear founded WeWereThere.org, an educational nonprofit dedicated to raising public awareness of LGBTQ histories and stories.