The tour will begin with Henry Street Settlement, where you will learn about founder Lillian Wald’s intentional community of women, and will end at Bluestockings Cooperative, a Lower East Side queer and trans worker-owned bookstore. In between, every tour is different! Frequent stops include monuments of queer creativity and cruising, 20th century watering holes, and the homes of icons like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Martin Wong, and Alvin Baltrop.
Tours are led by Henry Street’s public historian Katie Vogel, Natalie Hill, Salonee Bhaman, Daniel Walber, erin reid, and Jimmy Fay. The exact starting location will be confirmed via email ahead of your tour date. Tours are available only to the first 20 registrants. Tickets are $20 each. Five free tickets are available for each tour on a first come, first served basis.